Originally Posted by
Rick@OCRR
Good job sticking with it John, esp. with Nina as your directer sportiff! Is this pretty much the same course as the Heartbreak Century that Planet Ultra put on?
I rode that one, and it did seem more diffucult than it should have for that little bit (relatively speaking) of climbing. Maybe it's the wind.
Rick / OCRR
Yes, Rick, the same route, just starts a little further up the road. LA Wheelmen have done it for decades. It was run by Kermit, and they stopped doing it when he got sick. He had MRSA and almost didn't make it. He seems O.K. now except the infection damaged the bones in his hip, and now he needs a hip replacement. He was at the lunch stop talking to everyone and seemed upbeat.
He's on a walker.
Here's Stan in Pine Mountain
Rest at the top of Heartbreak Hill.
