Great Lakes - HHH Training...........

Looks like the weather could get interesting after noon tomorrow. http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/vacationplanner/hourbyhour/53572?begHour=7&begDay=167
Hills and rain now that sounds like fun.

Sucky McSuckles.

Just imagine if it had been in it's drops...
*Psimet, diligently working on his material, yearning the that elusive cycling crowd to show up at Zanies*

Looks like the weather could get interesting after noon tomorrow. http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/vacationplanner/hourbyhour/53572?begHour=7&begDay=167
Hills and rain now that sounds like fun.
No fearmongering here, please.

Sucky McSuckles.
*Still working... *

Looks like the weather could get interesting after noon tomorrow. http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/vacationplanner/hourbyhour/53572?begHour=7&begDay=167
Hills and rain now that sounds like fun.

You got 5 hours to finish, suck it up 200K people. ;)

*Still working... *
<thump...thump...thump>

Is this thing on??

<thump...thump...thump>

Is this thing on??
Note to self.... bring headphones for the car ride up to HHH....

No fearmongering here, please.

I've got nothing else to do. :D I already have my stuff set for tomorrow, and the kids are wasting time playing Nintendo.

Note to self.... bring headphones for the car ride up to HHH....

you shouldnt wear headphones while driving!?@!

later.

You got 5 hours to finish, suck it up 200K people. ;)

Pffft. Just because some slowpoke was the first finisher in 6:30 last year doesn't mean the course is hard. I expect at least one person to wrap up the 200K ride by 1:00 PM.


by making use of the sag wagon

You could be there with us mr short fused hyper boy. Burn a little of that energy off, ya know? :D

Bull ****!

I'm not ready for that sort of thing...maybe next summer :o

Ask shemp, i'm not that hyper, and when he forced me to ride 23mph for long stretches i kept my fuse unlit...really, ask him! :)

I picked up my packet, loaded the bike and gear and have everything ready to go. I'll see the rest of you crazy people at the top around 6:20 AM. Look for a black Schwinn bearing #990 (too bad it wasn't a little higher or I'd wear it upside down :p)

Well,
After months of building this event up in my head it turned out to be every bit as hard as I suspected and then some. I know to some this was just a weekend ride, but to me it was the culmination of a year spent dropping 55 lbs and getting my fat ass back in shape. I finished and more importantly to me, I didn't quit. I was all set to stop about a mile into the final climb up Mounds Road and walk up, but after about 100 yards of pushing the bike something snapped in my pea sized brain and I remounted my bike and pushed on. It took every bit I had but I didn't stop again until I passed under the finish line. Final time was 4:51 and taking away the time spent at the rest stops my actual ride time came in at 4 1/2 hours. I was emotional at the end of it and actually started to cry. It was a brutal way to spend 4 1/2 hours of a beautiful Saturday morning but in its own perverted way it felt real good too.

I'll try to get a detailed ride report once my thighs stop cramping time I sit down for more than thirty minutes but the results far and away blew my expectations out of the water. I was aiming to finish between 3:45 and 4:15 PM so imagine my surprise when I crossed the line around 3:30 PM. My on-the-bike time was 7:40 which means I almost averaged 16.0 MPH over 124 miles. :eek:

Maybe the Dairyland Dare isn't so hard after all ... ;)