psycholist wrote:
|| Roger,
||
|| I believe you and I said a passing hello to each other at about 7:35
|| yesterday morning (without either of us knowing who the other was).
|| You described yourself to me before the Tigerville ride and it just
|| came back to me now. Were you parked on the north end of the square
|| near the Mexican restaurant? I always park up there in the lot
|| behind that restaurant 'cuz that's where the bathrooms are and, as
|| I've established in prior posts, I'm an old fart.

Figures! I don't remember the Mexican restaurant, but I was parked very
near the bathrooms in that lot that sort of forms a loop around some
building and exits on E. Queen. It has been a while since I've been on the
square in Pendleton (I used to live very near there, too).

||
|| Sorry it didn't occur to me at the time who you were.
||

No problemo. I kinda figured you'd be out there and going fast

|| I wonder where Rick got his info on the elevation gain? That sounds
|| like the figure I've heard in prior years. He changed the route a
|| good bit this year thanks to WalMart. I think he added a few rather
|| substantial hills up there on Hwy. 11.

Yeah, I think I'll ask him. I didn't realize until yesterday that the route
had changed due to Walmart. That might explain why some of the mileage
numbers on the cue sheets were a bit off, by my count anyway.


||
|| As for the lead group zipping past and seeming to cut it close, most
|| of those guys have some serious bike skills. What I really find
|| funny is the racer dudes who seem to have to pee every 5 minutes and
|| who have to show off how they can do it while they're still riding
|| along with the group. It hasn't happened yet, but I'm sure one of
|| these days one of them will go down holding ... themself ... and
|| they'll probably take out some poor innocent.

Thanks for telling me this....I'd hate to be drafting one of these dudes
while he's taking a wiz...I'll slow way down in the future! Funny thing --
when I spotted them coming up on me in my mirror I immediately sped up...I
wanted to hold them off for as long as possible and make them work to catch
me / daydream mode off /

||
|| Bob C.
||
|| "Roger Zoul" wrote in message
|| ...
||| pam_in_sc wrote:
||||| Hey Roger--did you have a good ride? I did the 62 and had a
||||| wonderful time. It took me 5 1/1 hours, but I did stop and eat a
||||| hamburger, as I got a fairly late start (about 8:45) and I don't
||||| do well if I postpone lunch too late. I kept looking for you to
||||| pass
||||| me in the area where the 100 had rejoined the 62. I was actually
||||| surprised there weren't more riders--I heard about 250. My ride
||||| account is on my blog at: http://deeplanguage.blogspot.com/
|||
||| Hi Pam! I was wondering about you. I left out at 8 am because I
||| had a date planned for later that evening and needed to get home
||| and get ready and stuff.
|||
||| All was going great until about mile 50 or so. I started noticing
||| cramps. Then, at about mile 80, back at the rest stop where the 66
||| and 100 split, I quit. The cramps were just too much for me to
||| continue. Right before getting to the rest stop I had to get off
||| the bike due to the cramps -- in both legs, too. At that point, I
||| had done about 4380 feet of elevation gain, out of about 5500
||| according to Richard Hare. I thought about perhaps trying to
||| continue, but it would have been unfair to the volunteers for me to
||| be fooling around out there.
|||
||| So, I got about 80 miles and 4380 feet of climbing. The elevation
||| gain is the most I've done yet, by about 1100 feet or so. I've only
||| been over 80 once, too (last week). All in all, I knew I was
||| shooting, and I guess I over-reached.
|||
||| So I sagged twice this year - once at the Tigerville BBQ Trek (I
||| could have avoided that one) and one this one! I started riding
||| last September. I completed the NAMI (35 miles) and Tour De Paws
||| (metric), though.
|||
||| I never saw those 250 people though. I got dropped by the peloton
||| after about 1.5 hours into my ride. Those guys flew by when I was
||| going around 18 mph or so. They were cutting so close I could not
||| help but wonder if there knew who there were zooming by (a noob!).
||| I could have took out a bunch of folks with domino action! Others
||| started catching up at the other rest stops, but I would have guess
||| about 150 or so. Some of them recognized me from other rides,
||| since I'm always wearing my hi-vis green socks! I'm hard not to
||| notice
|||
||| BTW, I'm still hurting. I was cramping all yesterday evening, too.