Southern California - BF/So Cal 2007 C-A-M Challenge - Data Only

Date of Ride: October 28, 2007
Type of Ride: BF Ride
Name of organized ride or route: Thomsons Turn as You Go Century
Actual Mileage: 105.70
Ride Time: 6:55
Total Time: I just don't know
Avg. Speed: 15 and change-mph
Altitude Climbed: close to 6,000
Weather conditions: Perfect. Sunny, breezy, no smoke.
Synopsis of Ride: Jim, Steve, Ron, Jason and I rode from Ventura to Santa Barbara with Jim providing the tour. Great ride, perfect day!

Date of Ride: October 28, 2007
Type of Ride: BF Ride
Name of organized ride or route: Thomsons Turn as You Go Century
Actual Mileage: 105.70
Ride Time: 6:55
Total Time: I just don't know
Avg. Speed: 15 and change-mph
Altitude Climbed: close to 6,000
Weather conditions: Perfect. Sunny, breezy, no smoke.
Synopsis of Ride: Jim, Steve, Ron, Jason and I rode from Ventura to Santa Barbara with Jim providing the tour. Great ride, perfect day!

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Date of Ride: October 28, 2007
Type of Ride: BF Ride
Name of organized ride or route: Thomsons Turn as You Go Century
Actual Mileage: 105.70
Ride Time: 6:55
Total Time: I just don't know
Avg. Speed: 15 and change-mph
Altitude Climbed: close to 6,000
Weather conditions: Perfect. Sunny, breezy, no smoke.
Synopsis of Ride: Jim, Steve, Ron, Jason and I rode from Ventura to Santa Barbara with Jim providing the tour. Great ride, perfect day!

Ditto. Let me remind you all that it really helps to put in good miles between centuries. Keeps the pain away.

Date of ride: Sunday, June 3, 2007
Type of ride: Organized
Name of organized ride: America's Most Beautiful Ride, Ride around Lake Tahoe
Actual mileage: 100.8
Ride time: 6:10
Total time: 7:30
Average speed: 16.1
Altitude climbed: 4,140
Weather conditions: Typical Lake Tahoe Day, cool in the morning, clear & sunny all day and no wind.
Synopsis of ride: This a national event for Team In Training (Leukemia & Lymphoma Society). Of the he 300 riders that do the ride, at least 2/3 are TNT riders. My wife was a mentor for this ride. Rode by myself most of the ride, rode with their fast group the last 1/3 of the ride. Stopped a few times to get pictures of the wife and her group. Lake Tahoe is a beautiful ride, everyone should do it at least once. But be prepared to either start early or pass a lot of TNT riders on the road. I really enjoyed the ride, will have to do again, next time my wife and I will get to ride it together.

Date of ride: Augst 18, 2007
Type of ride: Organized
Name of organized ride: Cool Breeze
Actual mileage: 102.3
Ride time: 6:56
Total time: 8:30
Average speed: 14.7
Altitude climbed: 3,840
Weather conditions: A lot of people were concerned about the smoke from the Zaca fire. It was no problem. The weather was typical Santa Barbara perfect.
Synopsis of ride: This was my wife's 3rd century, she did great. She just needed a little help with the climbs and that slowed us down. This was my first century 4 years ago, and I have done it ever since, one of my favorite centuries.

Date of ride: Sunday - September 23, 2007
Type of ride: Organized - LA Wheelmen
Name of organized ride: Grand Tour Lite (DM)
Actual mileage: 121.25
Ride time: 8:03
Total time: 10:30
Average speed: 15.0
Altitude climbed: 6,040
Weather conditions: Great day, a little cool in the morning and warm on the climbs. Some headwinds going across the coastal plain, but lighter than usual.
Synopsis of ride: Started this ride with friends from Santa Clarita. Ride was going great until John (LAbaby) crashed on the descent of 23 going into Westlake. We put him in a vehicle, and and then rode & met him at the closest urgent care facility, where he was transferred to Kaiser. He broke his shoulder in 8 places and it required surgery. He is still recovering now. Needless to say this altered our route, instead of dropping down Potero we went through TO and hooked back up with the ride in Moorpark, where we joined the BF crew. Rode the rest of the ride with them. Good times and great fun. Its amazing with the detours caused by the accident we still ended up with basically the same mileage and climbing.

Date of ride: October 6, 2007
Type of ride: Organized - Community of North Fork
Name of organized ride: Grizzly Century
Actual mileage: 104.31
Ride time: 8:20
Total time: 10:00
Average speed: 12.5
Altitude climbed: 10,500
Weather conditions: Cold, really COLD, 34 degrees at the start, it never got above 50 the whole day, and the snow line was just below 7000 ft. The sun was out the whole day with no winds.
Synopsis of ride: The ride this year had a route change due to snow & ice on one of the passes. So instead of being a loop, it was an out an back. Part of the loop that we missed was a 15 mile 4,500 ft decline on new pavement. Aside from the route changes this was an incredible ride, very few vehicles on the road, and half of those were SAG vehicles. No stop signs or lights. I love the Death Ride but I think this ride is even more beautiful. This ride is put on by the community of North Fork, and this was the best supported ride I have ever been on. They even had sushi at the SAG stops, along with lots of other goodies. This is the first time I have done this ride. A few friends told me I would not be disappointed and I was not. For a challenging scenic epic century, this is a MUST DO RIDE

Date of ride: Nov. 10
Type of ride: SFVBC
Name of organized ride: Fall Foliage Loop+
Actual mileage: 107
Ride time: 6:07
Altitude climbed: ~6k
Weather conditions: Almost perfect. No clouds, cool and crisp, only a little headwind on the descent.
Synopsis of ride: Turned into a bit of a hammerfest in parts, but otherwise terrific scenery, great group, and fun all around.

Date of ride: Nov. 10
Type of ride: Organized Century
Name of organized ride: Solvang's Finest Century
Actual mileage: 100.5
Ride time: :roflmao:
Altitude climbed: 5,000 + change
Weather conditions: Beautiful, a bit cool, puffy clouds, way too windy!
Synopsis of ride: Put on by Planet Ultra. Great route, very scenic, great company, but I had one of my worst ride days for the year. I was truly hurting by mile 70 and dying by mile 90, but I finished. :D

Date of ride: Nov. 10
Type of ride: Organized Century
Name of organized ride: Solvang's Finest Century
Actual mileage: 100.5
Ride time: :roflmao:
Altitude climbed: 5,000 + change
Weather conditions: Beautiful, a bit cool, puffy clouds, way too windy!
Synopsis of ride: Put on by Planet Ultra. Great route, very scenic, great company, but I had one of my worst ride days for the year. I was truly hurting by mile 70 and dying by mile 90, but I finished. :D

Same as above but I felt fine. Sucka!

Date of Ride: November 11, 2007
Type of Ride: Solo
Actual Mileage: 101.3
Ride Time: 6:19:06
Total Time: 6:50
Avg. Speed: 16 mph
Altitude Climbed: 2463
Weather conditions: Finally a cool day here in the desert! High around 75, cloud cover after around 11 am. Perfect!
Synopsis of Ride: What can I say...another solo ride in the desert. Although my hubby came along for about 60, which was nice. Had to miss out on Solvang, but wanted November's century early, before the holidays start to make everything crazy.

Date of ride: Nov. 10
Type of ride: Organized Century
Name of organized ride: Solvang's Finest Century
Actual mileage: 100.5
Ave Speed:14.1 mph
Ride time: 7 hours 5 min.
Total time: FOREVER........
Altitude climbed: 5200
Weather conditions: not to cold, but very, very windy...
Synopsis of ride: Great Company, beautiful route. time wise and the way I was feeling, this was a BAD day.... I was dragging all day........

Date of ride: Nov. 10
Type of ride: Organized Century
Name of organized ride: Solvang's Finest Century
Actual mileage: 100.5
Ave Speed:14.1 mph
Ride time: 7 hours 5 min.
Total time: FOREVER........
Altitude climbed: 5200
Weather conditions: not to cold, but very, very windy...
Synopsis of ride: good times, good company. best part was bombing down drum so fast that my saddlebag opened up a bit and my little chain breaker made a break(HA!) for it......

Date of ride: Nov. 24
Type of ride: BF Ride
Name of organized ride: Not Quite Baldy, definitely not Lite with a "plus"
Actual mileage: 102 (or thereabouts)
Avg Speed: no clue
Ride time: Dunno
Total time: Not sure
Altitude climbed: Not as much as I planned to
Weather conditions: Warm, then cold, then warm, then cold, then hot.
Synopsis of ride: Rode with Scootcore from my place in Glendale to meet everyone at Encanto. I knew it was a bad sign when my front derailleur cable snapped about 1/2 a mile into the ride. Because of the cable issue, I had to ride home and switch bikes (with no mount for the Garmin, hence the lack of data). Got on the road for real about 6am, which worked out better than planned. The heavy ass touring bike with lights and all (and not maintained for a ride for the last 6 months) - made the ride a bit more of a challenge than I needed, considering my lack of recent conditioning. Got to Encanto, met with the group and started toward GMR. You can find more details on that portion in the ride reports. Turned around at the junction with GRR - I'd say it was because of the wind, but I was just struggling with the touring bike up those hills. Rode back to Encanto with a group who also cut things short. Rode with Scoot back to my place, then I went to the LA River path to tack on another 18 miles to get over 100 - 9 on the river path, 7 in a loop around up Trash Truck hill plus the distance to and from my place.

Not a pretty way to get to a century, but I finished it.

Date of ride: Nov 24, 2007
Type of ride: BF Ride, semi-organized
Name of organized ride: Baldy Challenge. Route slip here:

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=356289

Actual mileage: 103 and change
Ride time: long
Total time: longer
Altitude climbed: 6000'-8500' depending on route (the group split).
Weather conditions: Significant temperature swings. Very annoying.
Synopsis: Weather was a bit tricky, but great ride, overall.

Date of ride: 11/24/07
Type of ride: BF Ride
Name of organized ride:Baldy Challenge
Actual mileage:105.24
Ride time: 7:59:11
Total time:10:00
Altitude climbed:
Weather conditions:warm in the sun and on climbs, cold in the shade and on the descents. Windy.
Synopsis:Great group but it was a long ride. I was done at 50 miles. Spent the ride home thinking about food.

Date of Ride:November 25, 2007
Type of Ride: Solo Century
Name of organized ride or route: To the Valley and Beyond
Actual Mileage: 100.2 Miles
Ride Time: Approx 6 Hours 30 Minutes
Altitude Climbed: 4827 Feet
Weather conditions: Cold and windy. Approx 65 degrees.
Synopsis of Ride: Wasn't intending to do a century today however the weather was nice and cool and I was enjoying the ride. Started in Westlake Village and headed into Simi Valley. Climbed Santa Susana Pass. Descended into the San Fernando Valley and headed towards Reseda. Down Reseda Blvd with a quick stop at some of my favorite bike shops. Continued on through the Valley and into Calabasas, up Mulholland back to Westlake where I met up with the local CVC group that was doing a ride through Hidden Valley. A trip into Hidden Valley and back home. My mileage was a tad under 100 miles so I climbed some hills in my neighborhood to finish off my century.

Date of ride: November 17, 2007
Type of ride: Organized - PBAA
Name of organized ride: El Tour de Tucson
Actual mileage: 109
Ride time: 5:23
Total time: 5:56
Average speed: 20.2 ride time (18.4 total time)
Altitude climbed: 2,900
Weather conditions: Great day, perfect Tucson weather, cool in the morning, never really too warm. A few lite headwinds here & there.
Synopsis of ride: Rode this ride with a few people from BikeJournal.com. Was trying for and set a new personal best. This is a timed event, everyone has timing chips on a strap around their ankles. There are two dry river crossings that you have to cross carrying your bike, SAG stops every 8-10 miles, intersections are controlled by the police. This is an epic ride, everyone should do this ride at least once. Read a full accounting of this ride at: http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=363008&page=4 post #94

Date of ride: Dec 1, 2007
Type of ride: Tour de Francis
Actual mileage: 100
Ride time: 6:16
Altitude climbed: 9500
Weather conditions: Low 40's most of the day. Mix of sun and clouds.
Synopsis of ride: Francis puts on a great ride, and the Adobo crew is the best. In fact, all the clubs who attended were incredibly friendly. The route is quite nice, as well, with beautiful mts and lake views.

Date of Ride: December 8, 2007
Type of Ride: Century
Name of organized ride or route: XMAS Century - A week early
Actual Mileage: 105 Miles
Ride Time: Approx 7 Hours 19 Minutes
Altitude Climbed: 6561 Feet
Weather conditions: Cold and windy. Approx 55 degrees.
Synopsis of Ride: I had told a few friends about the Planet Ultra XMAS Century and they wanted to ride it. Planet Ultra re-scheduled their century this year to next week. Since of of the group is out of town next week we decided to ride it today anyhow. Cool brisk weather with a bit of wind but beautiful conditions. We did a leisurely pace and enjoyed the scenery.

I end the year with 10 out of 12 rides. Missed 6 weeks (June 29-Aug 24) of riding due to my near death injury. All in all a great year other than the accident in June.

Date of Ride: 11/17/07
Type of Ride:GROUP
Name of organized ride or route: TOUR DE TUCSON
Actual Mileage:109
Ride Time: ETERNITY
Total Time: X2 ^
Avg. Speed: SLOW
Altitude Climbed: N/A
Weather conditions: GREAT WEATHER EXCEPT FOR THE CHILL IN THE MORNING AIR.
Synopsis of Ride: GREAT RIDE - ROLLING FOR TIME NEXT YEAR.

Date of Ride: 12/9/07
Type of Ride: GROUP
Name of organized ride or route: TOUR OF LAKE MEAD
Actual Mileage: 102
Ride Time: 7.15
Total Time: 8.30
Avg. Speed: ?
Altitude Climbed: LIL OVER 8000
Weather conditions: FREEZING AT START - WARMED UP BY HILL NUMBER 2 :)
Synopsis of Ride: BEAUTIFUL SCENERY - GLAD TO HAVE FINISHED MY C-A-M YIPPEE!!!

Date of Ride: Dec. 15, 2007
Type of Ride: Solo
Name of organized ride or route: T to tha motherf'in A
Actual Mileage: 101
Ride Time: 7:45
Total Time: 8:30
Altitude Climbed: 7900 ft.
Weather conditions: 40 degrees to start, warmed up a bit until I started climbing Big T. Upper Big T had snow and ice on the road. And not just a little! Coming down Angeles Crest was frigid (the guys going down who weren't bundled up like I was must have been hating life). Other than that, beautiful clear day, though

Synopsis of Ride: Let's see. The ride was tougher than I had any right doing with the lack of conditioning I've had lately. But I did it anyway. Rode from home over to Foothill and up Big Tujunga. Took Angeles Forest to Hidden Springs and took a little break at the cafe. Continued on to Upper Big T. Beautiful and relatively quiet, only a few motorcycles every now and then. About 2/3rds of the way to Angeles Crest, I saw a little patch of snow. Then more, then all over the sides of the road. Near the top there was ice all over the road. Wasn't too bad, since the road is so rough and the ice was in the crevices. But I still rode very slowly up the hill (BECAUSE OF THE ICE!! Really!) and hit Angeles Crest. Stopped at Red Box and saw the snow topped mountains in the distance, which was very cool.

After coming down Angeles Crest and heading home, I was still about 30 miles shy of a century, so I rode over to Dodger Stadium and back, then did a couple laps on the bike path since that's all I had left in me (the climb to Elysian Park finished me off).

Date of Ride: December 15, 2007
Type of Ride: Solo
Actual Mileage: 100.8
Ride Time: 6:30
Total Time: 7:15
Avg. Speed: 15.5 mph
Altitude Climbed: 1995 (sorry, it is a flat desert out here!
Weather conditions: I laugh when I look at my November century where I was thankful to have a cool day. Today it was 35 degrees at the start, slowly warming up to the low sixties. Beautiful though!
Synopsis of Ride: Stayed in the east end of the valley, heading way out into nowhere land. Nice, though. Very little traffic. My husband rode for about 70, finished on my own as usual. Happy to have December in! :D

Date of ride: December 15, 2007
Type of ride: Organized - Planet Ultra
Name of organized ride: Planet Ultra Christmas Century
Actual mileage: 101
Ride time: 6:40
Total time: 7:55
Average speed: 15.2 ride time
Altitude climbed: 5,620
Weather conditions: Great day, weather was perfect, cold in the morning, never really too warm. Some headwinds on the coastal plain.
Synopsis of ride: It was just the perfect day for a ride, the company was great, Irene from Santa Clarita Velo, a few bike forum friends, and some of the SFVBC. It was a good strong pace most of the day, not a drop dead pace, which I'm sure some of the riders could have accomplished. This being Planet Ultra's Christmas ride with minimal support, we decided to stop at Neptune's Net for a little chowder, and a soft drink.

Date of ride: December 15th
Type of ride: Organized
Name of organized ride: Planet Ultra Christmas Century
Actual mileage:104 (Missed the turn to Encinial)
Ride time: 7 hours
Total time: ALL DAY!!
Average speed:14.3 mph
Altitude climbed: 5800
Weather conditions: Cool @ first for just a little while, then turned out to be a beautiful day!
Synopsis of ride: Great route, Great Company!

Date of ride: December 16, 2007
Type of ride: BF
Name of organized ride: Burrito Century
Actual mileage: 102
Ride time: ? Never reset my computer
Total time: ?
Average speed: ?
Altitude climbed: Some
Weather conditions: Cooold in the morning. Warmed up to brisk later in the day.
Synopsis of ride: 2007 CAM is done! Lots of fun. Met some new BFers. Unfortunately the Amtrak Fiasco prevented the planned burrito dinner in Irvine for the whole group but David, Jason and I were part of the six who went on the 5:20 train, so we ate at El Chollo in everyone's honor. :D

Date of ride: December 16, 2007
Type of ride: BF
Name of organized ride: 2nd Annual Burrito Century
Actual mileage: 102.55
Ride time: 6hours 23 minutes
Total time: very long day due to waiting for the train...got home at 8:30pm. Damn Amtrak!!!! :mad:
Average speed: 16
Altitude climbed: ~3800 feet
Weather conditions: Cooold in the morning. Warmed up to brisk later in the day. I was cold basically all day.
Synopsis of ride: Great ride...but the best part of the ride was the people!!!! Many laughs shared....good stories told. Just a fun day!!!! CAM 2007 is complete. Glad we did it!!!!:D

Mateo44 (by proxy)

Date of ride: 12/16/07
Type of ride: BF ride
Name of organized ride: Burrito Century
Actual mileage: ~100 (computer shut down at the beginning)
Ride time: see above
Total time: ~9 hours
Average speed:
Altitude climbed:
Weather conditions: Cold enough to make my jaw hurt in the morning. Nice after 9.
Synopsis of ride: Fun.

Date of ride: December 16, 2007
Type of ride: BF
Name of organized ride: Burrito Century
Actual mileage: 102
Ride time: ? Never reset my computer
Total time: ?
Average speed: ?
Altitude climbed: Some
Weather conditions: Cooold in the morning. Warmed up to brisk later in the day.
Synopsis of ride: 2007 CAM is done! Lots of fun. Met some new BFers. Unfortunately the Amtrak Fiasco prevented the planned burrito dinner in Irvine for the whole group but David, Jason and I were part of the six who went on the 5:20 train, so we ate at El Chollo in everyone's honor. :D

I was there too. Didn't complete CAM. 12 centuries, but spread over 9 months. Oh well.

I was there too. Didn't complete CAM. 12 centuries, but spread over 9 months. Oh well.

Mel and I were there too. Great ride!

12/12 for the CAM challenge, I might add!

Hope someone posts a list of the 12/12 riders that completed the challenge. A lil congrats is in order!:D

Date of Ride: Saturday, December 29, 2007
Type of Ride: BF member organized
Name of organized ride or route: Waddling, Wounded and Whining Century
Actual Mileage:100.0 (no joke - actual mileage on the dot! Proof in Report Thread)
Ride Time: I think I grew my wisdom teeth back in the time it took to ride this :p
Total Time: Quite asking damnit! It was started in daylight and ended in daylight. That is all.
Avg. Speed: Huh?
Altitude Climbed: 3,000 something
Weather conditions: Cold all day, but beautiful skies and nice air!
Synopsis of Ride: Summed up in Ride Report Thread. (I'll put link later)

I did it!!! I finished CAM!!!! Woohoo!!! :D

Date of Ride: Saturday, December 22, 2007
Type of Ride: BF member organized
Name of organized ride or route: Desperado Century
Actual Mileage:95.14
Ride Time: 06:37
Total Time: 08:33
Avg. Speed: who knows.....
Altitude Climbed: 5800
Weather conditions: Cold all day, but beautiful skies and nice air!
Synopsis of Ride: awesome ride but i HATE stop lights! climb to chantry was awesome!