jfmckenna

Get ready to suffer the Roan Groan. The finish climb is 9 miles this year with the addition to the top from previous years. Good luck to those attending. Should be a nice day for it.

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wanders

My kin is from Greenville, TN. Some guys here are planning on doing the Roan Moan. The cookie ride version.

Creatre

I'm in town this weekend for that race. Roan Groan was brutal this morning. Luckily it was a pretty short race overall, so was pretty well rested for the climb. Got 3rd in the cat4s and surprised myself how fast our group flew up the mountain.

Resting up now for the time trial. Short, but that is going to be a lot of suffering on an already sufferfest day!

jfmckenna

Yea that was brutal. There were three teams attacking right out of the neutral zone start and then on and on till a break got away. I was on my own just watching for the right moves. I think like you said it is a short race and so it almost always comes down to the finish climb. But even so, a 57 mile race, 30 mile ride back and then a TT later in the day comes to about 100 miles for the day... I'm cooked.

veloboy971

Wish I'd logged in. I'm here, sitting in the hotel before heading out to the crit. It looks like its gonna be a tough one.

Man I wish I'd have sat in yesterday totally until the Roan Groan climb as I used too much energy before it and cracked about half way up. TT was painful and that straigthaway into the wind after the hill was way linger than I thought it would be! Don't know how I finished but I did 8:05, so I feel like it'll be pretty decent.

veloboy971

Hey were you in the group of about 10 of us that rode back? I wish I'd have know about that I prob would have suggesged ti my teammates we park half way so we didn't have to ride so far back!

jfmckenna

No I wasn't. I had to sit in the ambulance at top for about 20 minutes to get the feeling back in my hands before I descended once down the mountain I was fine. I stuck cardboard under my jersey to fend off the cold. It was in the upper 30's up there and 70 deg. back down at the bottom... crazy.

I rode most of the way back alone till I caught one guy who was kind enough to pull me all the way back into that head wind. The ride back otherwise is really not so bad it's almost all down hill and at least you keep spinning after that hard finish climb. But yeah I was looking for a ride back if I could have gotten one.

jfmckenna

You did the TT in 8:05??? Damn that's super fast. I was shot for that. 9:15 for me I was happy to just finish the crit in the bunch today. Good race all around, fun weekend.

rkwaki

One of my boys won the 50+ omnium. Heard it was a great race with some big guns in the P/1/2 - maybe next year I'll have to attend (that would be a 170 pound race weight goal).

Creatre

I did a 8:59 in the TT on a road bike. I killed the first half, thinking it was flat and I could use momentum on the second half. Uh, not so much, slight uphill into the headwind and I cracked hard. My fault for not checking out the course in person. And I'm definitely bringing the TT bike next year.

I DNF'd the crit. I can't corner worth a shiz, and that course was a nightmare for me. I got a solid 10 minute interval in, then decided to pack up and get an early start home.

I got enough points to get to Cat 3 from the RR, so successful weekend.

jfmckenna

Yeah I didn't bother bringing my TT bike for a 3 mile TT but with that wind it could have helped just a bit. I did just the opposite and climbed poorly and then went real hard on the false flat section. None the less I went as hard as my heart and lungs would let me... just a bad day. I LOVE technical crit courses, just flow like water. Tubulars help

BTW congrats on the 3rd place that's a good ride in a big field too. I got 4th as a 4 in that race years ago and now I just watch as people ride away from me

grolby

I did the Harpeth River Ride century instead of driving out to Johnson City for this. Glad I did, too! I think 100 fast training miles was probably better for me. But who knows, maybe I'll take this on next year. If I can get past the 4+ hour drive, anyway. It does sound like a nice race.

rkwaki

Hey we might head out for around 75ish miles Sunday morning (6 am) with ~5000 feet of climbing leaving from west side of Murfreesboro into Bradyville - interested?

grolby

Thanks, but I'm way too lazy to leave West Nashville early enough to get there before 6. If you like early, you should try the GSD ride sometime on Saturday mornings.

rkwaki

What ride is that?

grolby

This one! Currently operating on variation #3, 6:00 AM 12 South Nashville, 7:10 Franklin. It's the ride I can drag my ass out of bed at 5:15 AM for on the weekend. Sunday is for sleeping in.

rkwaki

Oh that is the ride with Chocolate (also known as Chicago Jacques)...
Can't do it for a few weeks but maybe after the week of the 19th.

grolby

That's the one. I've never heard anyone call him that before, though...

rkwaki

Call him chocolate and watch the reaction. Who's he racing for this year? Harpeth or did he go back to xXx?

mollusk

I know VB. He is hella fast.

And he knows a bunch of guys from Gainesville (Florida) even faster, but he is getting there. (OK, most of them have left recently, but he knows who they are.)

grolby

Harpeth - we're teammates (in different cats, natch). xXx is defunct, at least so far as I know.