Southern California - Tour de Poway prep ride -- Sept 10

Anyone doing any SD rides, or should I plan on the SDBC ride on Saturday, followed by the Da Luz Century (http://sandiegocenturyriders.com/_wsn/page2.html) on Sunday? I figure I can get 2 centuries in before the Poway one if I want to kill myself. :)

Hi Extort,

Can you provide more info on these rides? Length, time etc.



there is the standard MS Start Line training ride on Sunday as well... starts at Park Place (Michelson and the San Diego Creek)

Saturday there is a group that is going to Solano Beach.

Sure thing! Just be prepared for our semi-slowness, though :D .
Slow suits me. Anything more would be like work.;)

Hi Extort, Can you provide more info on these rides? Length, time etc.

Leave Park Place (where I met everyone for Baldy) at 8AM for a short little 25 mile ride to Crystal Cove and back. However, once at Crystal Cove (mile 13) I generally take the experienced riders and head off to do some more difficult terrain and end up with 40-60 miles.

On Sunday, Melissa will probably do a sorta-early (7:30am) OC ride. With the academic quarter starting soon, we both need to get home and get a solid half-day of work in on Sunday. The ride will surely be some Newport Coast/PCH combination again. If anyone's interested in coming along, or meeting along the way, just let me know...
I'm interested...

I'm interested...

Right on! I'll chat with Melissa and figure out the details. Plan on pretty early, though, around 7:30. We gotta get back relatively early....

On Sunday, Melissa will probably do a sorta-early (7:30am) OC ride. With the academic quarter starting soon, we both need to get home and get a solid half-day of work in on Sunday. The ride will surely be some Newport Coast/PCH combination again. If anyone's interested in coming along, or meeting along the way, just let me know...

I'd like to ride with you guys! No, really I do! You probably can't tell by all of the rides I've been backing out of lately. So, it's on my calendar. I look forward to riding with you.

I'd like to ride with you guys! No, really I do! You probably can't tell by all of the rides I've been backing out of lately. So, it's on my calendar. I look forward to riding with you.

Right on! I totally forgot to talk to M about this, but will tonight. Plan on 7:30-ish. Chimivee and misterdna are interested too.

More on this later....

I'd like to ride with you guys! No, really I do! You probably can't tell by all of the rides I've been backing out of lately. So, it's on my calendar. I look forward to riding with you.

OK, let's meet at Bonita Creek park (see post #1 of this thread for a map) Sunday at 7:30am. Roll at 7:45am. We'll just go down to PCH, head north then decide on return route. Melissa and I need to get back pretty quick -- you all can always continue on or whatever if we need to bail.

Who's in?

Hi mateo44. Any interest in joining in the BCI ride instead? It would be great to have a few BF members there. The ride starts at 9AM and usually finishes around 12 or 12:30.


OK, let's meet at Bonita Creek park (see post #1 of this thread for a map) Sunday at 7:30am. Roll at 7:45am. We'll just go down to PCH, head north then decide on return route. Melissa and I need to get back pretty quick -- you all can always continue on or whatever if we need to bail.

Who's in?

OK, let's meet at Bonita Creek park (see post #1 of this thread for a map) Sunday at 7:30am. Roll at 7:45am. We'll just go down to PCH, head north then decide on return route. Melissa and I need to get back pretty quick -- you all can always continue on or whatever if we need to bail.

Who's in?

I'm in! :D

I'm in.

Quick ride? Does that mean no coffee? Or food?

Quick ride? Does that mean no coffee? Or food?


lol! what's wrong with a RIDE without all the stops for food? :rolleyes: :D :p

I might join you all if I don't have a Sunday study date. I'm finding it hard to ride solo since there's so many group rides nowadays. They're so much more fun than solo rides.

Quick ride? Does that mean no coffee? Or food?

Of course not! :D

We're just looking to be home around noon-ish. But that's somewhat flexible....

ALERT: There's also the BCI ride (see post #160, above), which also sounds really fun (thanks for the invite, NDG). However, I'm kinda leaning toward the mellower PCH ride, and I don't want to abandon the group that says their coming along. Unless there's a groundswell of support for joining the BCI ride. Opinions?

Of course not. Just an alternate possibility for the group as a whole if you guys happen to be interested. :)
If not, no problema. Cheers.


I don't want to abandon the group that says their coming along. Unless there's a groundswell of support for joining the BCI ride. Opinions?

There is also the MS ride that I am going to be doing.... so there are plenty of options...

I mean, we cannot get together EVERY weekend (unfortunately) because many of us have prior obligations. Now that we are planning rides on here, people will be able to show up more often as time goes by...

I mean, we cannot get together EVERY weekend

uhm.... why not?????????????????

There is also the MS ride that I am going to be doing.... so there are plenty of options...

I mean, we cannot get together EVERY weekend (unfortunately) because many of us have prior obligations. Now that we are planning rides on here, people will be able to show up more often as time goes by...

Sure we can. Drop the obligations! (says the girl who's flaked on the last two rides because of obligations) :D

uhm.... why not?????????????????


Sure we can. Drop the obligations! (says the girl who's flaked on the last two rides because of obligations) :D


ladies, ladies.... please.

most of us have obligations that they have been planning for months (to complete those New (http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=158467)Year's (http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=226932) goals (http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=165103)) and we cannot stop now. However, as we are coming to the end ;) of the 'biking season' and more rides are being planned here we will be seeing each other weekly very soon.

Think about this with anticipation.....

However, as we are coming to the end ;) of the 'biking season'

What?!!!! END of the biking season? That is pure blasphemy! I mean, since when does it end? I ride year round, mister, and, yes, I was one of the nuts who finished the Solvang hail-sleet-rain-lightening Century this past March. You take that back. Tsk-tsk-tsk...
;)

Unfortunately, there seems to be a contingent of ride planners that believe that November to January is a biking dead zone in this state... (wimpy, fair weather riders are getting fat during this time of year)

Now, the feelings from being one of the joyous finishers of THAT Solvang ride should keep you warm for the next several years. I was up there two weeks later for the double and got rained on for 45 miles. I tried to emulate Gene Kelly because I had my headphones blasting great tunes and I wanted to just smile and sing. Everybody passing in cars look at you like you are nuts, but you were wet inside of 20 minutes no matter how well you dressed and could only stay warm by continuing the journey so you might as well laugh and be happy.

Unfortunately, there seems to be a contingent of ride planners that believe that November to January is a biking dead zone in this state... (wimpy, fair weather riders are getting fat during this time of year)

Now, the feelings from being one of the joyous finishers of THAT Solvang ride should keep you warm for the next several years. I was up there two weeks later for the double and got rained on for 45 miles. I tried to emulate Gene Kelly because I had my headphones blasting great tunes and I wanted to just smile and sing. Everybody passing in cars look at you like you are nuts, but you were wet inside of 20 minutes no matter how well you dressed and could only stay warm by continuing the journey so you might as well laugh and be happy.


not me! i ride year round! i just bundle up! my first organized ride in in january (two that month, actually!)

i get disgusted when my ride calendar is blank for nov and dec! (at least this year we have 2 november rides planned!)

oh.... and i got all my fatness in "prime bike season"!

I was up there two weeks later for the double and got rained on for 45 miles.

Did you finish the Solvang double? A friend of mine rode that but bailed after about 60 miles. He's a crazy (um...I mean...enthusiastic) double rider and even he had had enough with the rain. That was supposed to be my first double but I backed out. My butt was still thawing from the Solvang Century 2 weeks prior to the double. ;)

oh.... and i got all my fatness in "prime bike season"!

You and me both, sister...although, judging from your photos, you're nowhere near fat! I like to say I'm pleasantly-pudgy and that I'm using the fat storages on my ass as fuel. Who needs E-gel when you have thigh "bags?"
;)

Did you finish the Solvang double? A friend of mine rode that but bailed after about 60 miles. He's a crazy (um...I mean...enthusiastic) double rider and even he had had enough with the rain. That was supposed to be my first double but I backed out. My butt was still thawing from the Solvang Century 2 weeks prior to the double. ;)

15.5 hours total time, but my riding time was 2 hours less than 2005 (11.5 versus 13.5)! I had three flats, my buddy had five, and we changed his front tire. Pretty fun day as there was a nice tailwind taking us home and even Drum Canyon wasn't that bad. It stopped raining just before we got to Morro Bay but had started when we exited Foxen Canyon. The afternoon was wonderful with the sun coming out to warm all of us up.

I was still sick as a dog for a week after that ride. My boss actually brings it up every time he knows that I am going for an event, 'You better not get sick this time' :lol:

15.5 hours total time:
Not too shabby (this coming from a girl who took 17.5 hours to finish her first double - and it was the LOWland, mind you...very little, if any, climbing!).
;)

15.5 hours total time, but my riding time was 2 hours less than 2005 (11.5 versus 13.5)! I had three flats, my buddy had five, and we changed his front tire. Pretty fun day as there was a nice tailwind taking us home and even Drum Canyon wasn't that bad. It stopped raining just before we got to Morro Bay but had started when we exited Foxen Canyon. The afternoon was wonderful with the sun coming out to warm all of us up.

I was still sick as a dog for a week after that ride. My boss actually brings it up every time he knows that I am going for an event, 'You better not get sick this time' :lol:

Ahhh I almost forgot about that rainy day. I ended up having a great ride as well. Only one flat but I do remember Drum being easy. The earlier rain must have made us tougher!!!

The earlier rain must have made us tougher!!!

That is very true. I remember sitting at rest stop #2 watching rain sheeting across the parking lot and thinking that I either quit now, or get back onto the bike right then and head off because I was freezing and I wanted to be warm.

Many people probably hung it up right there, but they only had to endure another 10 miles of rain to be done with it.... too bad they did not know that, or I am sure that they would have all been on the bikes in a flash!

That is very true. I remember sitting at rest stop #2 watching rain sheeting across the parking lot and thinking that I either quit now, or get back onto the bike right then and head off because I was freezing and I wanted to be warm.

Many people probably hung it up right there, but they only had to endure another 10 miles of rain to be done with it.... too bad they did not know that, or I am sure that they would have all been on the bikes in a flash!

You are exactly right, once leaving rest stop 2 it really got quite nice!! I was amazed how hard it was raining at the stop though.