Southern California - BF/So Cal 2008 C-A-M Challenge - Data Only

Date of Ride: March 8th 2008
Type of Ride: Group/Organized
Name of organized ride or route: Solvang Century
Actual Mileage:101.45
Ride Time: 5:42
Total Time:6:15
Avg. Speed:18.7
Altitude Climbed: 4633 (Garmin 305)
Weather conditions:Sunny, Warm, Windy
Synopsis of Ride:Awesomely Bonkalicious and incredibly Beautiful. I was feeling good in the morning and was lucky enough to run into some friends who let me tag along with their tandem group. It was fast, windy and I took a few too many turns at the front. As usual I neglected to eat or drink properly in the first 60 miles resulting in me popping at about mile 75.

Date of Ride: March 1st 2008
Type of Ride: Group
Name of organized ride or route: B2B Century Option
Actual Mileage:101.12
Ride Time: 6:18
Total Time:7:42
Avg. Speed:16.0(moving)
Altitude Climbed: 2400 (Garmin 305)
Weather conditions:wet, overcast, and awesome!!!
Synopsis of Ride: good yet somewhat boring ride with super cool group of people. theres just no way to make the SGRT interesting....

Date of Ride: March 1, 2008
Type of Ride: Organized
Name of organized ride or route: Death Valley Century / Double Century
Actual Mileage:150 (Route Slip 200 Didn't complete the last loop)
Ride Time: 12:19
Total Time: 13:20
Avg. Speed: 11.8
Altitude Climbed: 8053 per Blackburn Delphi (9000 per website for total ride)
Weather conditions: Windy, Headwinds
Synopsis of Ride: Started out nice, became windy, on the return no tail wind...crosswind, then strong headwinds coming into Furnace Creek. Wasn't going to make the time cutoff at Stovepipe so I called it a day.



Date of Ride: March 15, 2008
Type of Ride: Organized
Name of organized ride or route: 400 km Brevet to Arivaca
Actual Mileage:258.8 (Route Slip 255.5)
Ride Time: 19:15
Total Time: 21:25
Avg. Speed: 13.4
Altitude Climbed: 4390 per Blackburn Delphi (4610 per website)
Weather conditions: Beautiful day. A little breeze in the morning that picked up a bit, had a bit of a tail wind on part of the return, strong headwind the last 20+ miles
Synopsis of Ride: Nice ride. Good support by the RBA. Nice views in Saguaro National Park this time of year. Also saw some Hot Air Ballons coming down near the beginning. My furtherest ride.

Date of Ride: Mar 22, 2008 (http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/5217576)
Type of Ride: Mostly group
Name of organized ride or route: Saturday ROCO
Actual Mileage: 103.92
Ride Time: 5:33:38
Total Time: 6:03:18
Avg. Speed: 18.7
Altitude Climbed: 7,478 (Edge 305, reported by MotionBased)
Weather conditions: Warm; calm
Synopsis of Ride:

Hooked up with the Saturday ROCO group, rode out to Lake Casitas, and then headed up to Ojai and a few miles of the 33. I fell of the group as soon as the climb got steep (but not before some others), then turned around when I saw them coming back down. Back in SB, rode through Hope Ranch after a quick stop for water with Marco and Croykey. Marco is helping me train and wanted me to get in some hard hill efforts after a long hard day in the saddle. I had a hard time getting over threshold...

Date of Ride: Mar 22, 2008
Type of Ride: Solo
Name of organized ride or route: Never mind
Actual Mileage: 100.3
Ride Time: 7:15
Total Time: 8:30
Avg. Speed: 14
Altitude Climbed:6,500
Weather conditions: low-80's
Synopsis of Ride:

Alleged SD North County Century morphed in to a solo ride. Never felt good the whole ride, but what must be done must be done.

inventing my own rules: I was off the bike Feb (Dr. order) so I will consider March 2 Centuries as CAM if I take the first century and 'apply' it to Feb.
First Century with WhiteCarbonDude as he mention in his post:Date of Ride: 03/08/08
Type of Ride: Group
Name of organized ride or route: OCW Mount Baldy Century (http://www.caltriplecrown.com/centuries/mountbaldy.htm)
Actual Mileage: 104.4
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March:
Date of Ride: 03/22/08
Type of Ride: Group
Name of organized ride or route: Big T (http://www.shprung.com/sfvbc/?ride=420) SFVBC # 420
Actual Mileage: 100.0
Ride Time: 06:33
Total Time: 07:40
Avg. Speed: 15.2
Altitude Climbed: 6684
Weather conditions: First day of spring ~80
Synopsis of Ride: Started from home to CSUN. Rode with group of 12 SFVBC up foothill to AC (regroup at red-box; I was one of the slow climbers) Left on Upper Big-T to Angel Forest Highway for a rest stop with Apple pie and Ice-cream (a welcomed 1,000cal bost). R. big-T canyon Rd to foot hill > back at CSUN. Ending with a ride home to a perfect 100.0 miles.

Date of Ride: March 22, 2008
Type of Ride: sole
Name of organized ride or route: Circle ride from my house (Ranch Penasquitos-San Diego)
Actual Mileage: 100.2
Ride Time: 8:10
Total Time: 11:00
Avg. Speed: 12.2
Altitude Climbed: About 2800 feet.
Weather conditions: Perfect: cool in the morning, sunny, warm
Synopsis of Ride: The plan was to do five 20 mile circles around my house. I could stop in for breaks and food every time around. After third time, I was tired the same route, and road out the coast and back for my final 35-miles. This ride is mostly all suburban streets, with some bike path along the way.

Date of Ride: March 23, 2008
Type of Ride: solo
Name of organized ride or route: Same old desert loop
Actual Mileage: 101.1
Ride Time: 6:52
Total Time: 7:35
Avg. Speed: 14.7
Altitude Climbed: 2,219 according to Garmin
Weather conditions: Nice, cool morning, warming up to mid-80s by the time I finished. Light wind.
Synopsis of Ride: Wanted to get my century in this weekend, so decided Easter was the perfect day for it. Light traffic, good weather and no family obligations. I did this one completely solo, no hubby for part of it, so did at my own (slow) pace and totally enjoyed it. I've had so many things going on this month that my longest ride had been about 40, so I was afraid this would be tough. Well, it was tough, but in a good way. :)

Another ride in two parts for my century-a-week. I already got a single-shot 100+ mile in for March yesterday, so its ok.

Date of Ride: Mar 23, 2008 (part 1 (http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/5227044), part 2 (http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/5229732))
Type of Ride: Mixed
Name of organized ride or route: "Sunday Worlds", then hill work with Bill; later a recovery ride with Kim
Actual Mileage: 100.07 (69.40, 30.67)
Ride Time: 6:56:33 (4:07:03, 2:49:30)
Total Time: 8:40:43 (4:46:01, 3:54:42)
Avg. Speed: 14.4 (16.9, 10.9)
Altitude Climbed: 7781 (5712, 2069)
Weather conditions: Warm; calm
Synopsis of Ride:

1) I left very early for the worlds ride, and all around the mission & riviera hills before going to the bath house. Several pros including Aaron Olson showed up and the pace was brutal, at least to me and after my hard efforts yesterday. At the construction on the 192 past the high school, we went through the surrounding neighborhood, which was good for a little break, but the pace resumed on the other side and I fell off by the fire station & lyons club park. I was close enough to watch everybody turn up goob, but I just continued on straight to the 150 with a few others and did bates instead. Most everyone else from our little group stopped at the regroup spot or fell off, so it ended up being me and one other. I ended up pulling him all the way to bates and partway up, and then he just rode around me and left me to come in second... The way back was not as fast but still hard. After Northstar, I rode some more hills per Mark's advice and tried to get in some hard efforts but was pretty exhausted and Bill easily rode away from me. I spent about 15 min in Z1, 1:15 each in Z2, Z3, & Z4, and 8 min in Z5 for an avg of 138 and a max of 182.

2) I lounged around at home for a little while, watched some of the F1 race, then took off for a ride with Kim, also serving as a recovery ride... We rode downtown to Beachbreak, but it was closed so we went to Sambos for lunch. Then we rode out to Montecito, up to Mountain Drive, and back on foothill. Kim had a few incidents, but it was a fun ride and I got some good recovery in, feeling much better now than before. I spent about an hour each in Z1 & Z2, 5 min in Z3, and 45s in Z4 for an avg HR of 102, and a max of 158, compared to 138 earlier and 145 yesterday.

I tried to take a picture of us together, this is the best I could do...
http://www.photoscene.com/kimandsteve/images/2484.jpg

Date of Ride: March 29, 2008
Type of Ride: Organized Double Century
Name of organized ride or route: Solvang Spring Double
Ride Time: 9:26
Total Time: 9:50
Avg. Speed: 19.8
Altitude Climbed: 9500 accorcing to Motionbased but that seems about 2000 feet too much

Ride report in Solvang Spring Double thread.

Date of Ride: April 5, 2008 (http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/5322698)
Type of Ride: Mostly group (30% solo)
Name of organized ride or route: Echelon Solvang Ride from Santa Barbara
Actual Mileage: 101.48
Ride Time: 5:55:32
Total Time: 7:48:41
Avg. Speed: 17.1
Altitude Climbed: 7,679 (Edge 305, reported by MotionBased)
Weather conditions: Warm; somewhat windy
Synopsis of Ride: Rode up to Solvang to meet the 70-mile Echelon ride on a modified Solvang Century route. Santa Rosa Road, Harris Grade, 135 to Los Alamos, Alisos Canyon to Foxen Canyon, and Ballard Canyon back to Solvang. Lunch at El Rancho Marketplace and met Kim and we drove to a show. There was a lot more stopping than I would have liked, but thats what happens when you are in a group. We regrouped a lot.

Date of Ride: April 5, 2008
Type of Ride: Organized
Name of organized ride or route: Spring Stagecoach Century
Actual Mileage: 100
Ride Time: 7:00
Total Time: 7:30
Avg. Speed: 14.3
Altitude Climbed: 5,355 according to Garmin
Weather conditions: WINDY, which actually kept the weather pretty cool, until the last couple hours.
Synopsis of Ride: The wind was brutal. Headwind, crosswind and finally (thank goodness!) a tailwind. Great support on the course, as Shadow Tours always provides. But it really all comes back to the wind.

Date of Ride: 04/05/08
Type of Ride: SFVBC group ride
Name of organized ride or route: #235 Poppy Tour from Valencia (and then some)
Actual Mileage: 99.2
Ride Time: 6:32
Total Time: 7:42
Avg. Speed: 15.2 mph
Altitude Climbed: 6,600 (Garmin report)
Weather conditions: clear, 53-65 fahrenheit, gusty wind starting mid-morning

Synopsis of Ride:
Beautiful chill morning; no great pace for first leg (lack of sleep/ caffeine mismanagement) Steady climb past DWP hydroelectric plants and Castaic dam generating station. First peak was just enough incentive to keep going. Better after first ride break; riding past Lake Elizabeth was nice but gusty. More climbing up and over to Lancaster where the poppys are bloomin' everywhere! Eastbound we have a great taiwind; 35MPH w/o pedaling! Poppy reserve in full bloom. Just a brief stop (to smell the flowers?) and more eastbound with southern jogs ( _W _I _N _D) back up and over to Lake E. On to Bouquet Canyon via Spunky Canyon; nice break at a local market and on to the final leg. More windy sections and a great spin down and around Bouquet reservoir. Then pace yourself for wind and flattish ride back to cars in Valencia. On the way back home I lapped Balboa park in the SFV to round out the ride.

Date of Ride: April 1, 2008
Type of Ride: Group ride
Name of organized ride or route: Douglas, AZ to Lordsburg, NM (with PacTour--Lon Haldeman)
Actual Mileage: 100.0
Ride Time: 6:00
Total Time: 7:05
Avg. Speed: 16.66
Altitude Climbed: Maybe 1000 feet
Weather conditions: Sunny with awesome tailwinds
Synopsis of Ride: I rode this century as part of a one-week ride with Pactour. We did over 600 miles in seven days. We also did one other century, but won't post that. We had awesome winds behind us all day. Many places I was cruising along at 25-28 mph. This is probably the fastest century that I will ever do. Usually, I am at 13-14 mph.

Date of Ride: April 12, 2008
Type of Ride: Organized
Name of organized ride or route: Mulholland Challenge
Actual Mileage: 108
Ride Time: 10hrs :eek:
Total Time: 11:55 :eek::eek:
Avg. Speed: 11 mpg :eek::eek::eek:
Altitude Climbed:12,000
Weather conditions: Hot - mid 90's -low 100's for the last 2/3rds of the ride
Synopsis of Ride: Miserable, but misery loves company. It was good to see so many BFers suffering with me :rolleyes:.

Date of Ride: April 13, 2008
Type of Ride: Solo
Name of organized ride or route: Ojai to SB and back w/ some extra
Actual Mileage: 102.2
Ride Time: 5:15
Total Time: 5:20
Avg. Speed: 19.2
Altitude Climbed: something like 6-7000
Weather conditions: Hot - mid 90's -low 100's for the last 2/3rds of the ride
Synopsis of Ride: Missed a race start time, so I figured it would be a shame to waste a 2 day taper and hit it hard. Can't move my legs now.

Date of Ride: April 12, 2008
Type of Ride: Organized
Name of organized ride or route: Mulholland Challenge
Actual Mileage: 112 (Motionbased says 112 but my Powertap says 110)
Ride Time: 7:10
Total Time: 7:59
Avg. Speed: 14.0 (15.1 moving)
Altitude Climbed:13400 (Motionbased)
Weather conditions: Hot and nice
Synopsis of Ride: Two flat tires. One a blown front on a tight downhill turn. Lost my nerve and a little motivation after that.

Date of Ride: 4/12/08
Type of Ride: Group
Name of organized ride or route: Mulholland Challenge
Actual Mileage:121.14 (took a wrong turn, got lost.)
Ride Time:8:57
Total Time:10:20
Avg. Speed:13.5
Altitude Climbed: 13,102 (again, got lost added some extra climbing)
Weather conditions:Hotter than anything I've encountered this year.
Synopsis of Ride: This was an incredible ride, I had a great time on this ride despite getting lost and the heat. I thought it was great with all the climbing and descending and the views and the ocean. It was awesome.

Date of Ride: 04/12
Type of Ride: KOM Stage 1 (http://www.planetultra.com/KOM/index.html)
Name of organized ride or route: Mulholland Challenge
Actual Mileage: 109.57
Ride Time: 07:08:40
Total Time: 07:53:14
Avg. Speed: 15.34
Altitude Climbed: 11809 (VDO MC1.0+) <--always under advertised
Weather conditions: Hot Hot Hot! Morning temp 45 on Las Virgenes, Avg temp 84, Temps over 100 after mile 90 on Stunt Rd
Synopsis of Ride: http://www.planetultra.com/MulChallenge/index.htm
le suck ride report HERE. (http://www.bikeforums.net/showpost.php?p=6516854&postcount=325)

Date of Ride: 4/14/08
Type of Ride: Solo
Name of organized ride or route: Pasadena to La Tuna canyon to glenoaks to foothill to sierra highway, to something to palmdale to Peablossom highway to angeles forest to angeles crest to pasadena.
Actual Mileage:116.67 (did not expect it to be this long)
Ride Time:7:28:02
Total Time:~8:00
Avg. Speed:15.6
Altitude Climbed: 7000 according to mapmyride.com
Weather conditions:Hotter than anything I've encountered this year.
Synopsis of Ride: Wanted to do about 80 miles, turned into 120. I am dead.

Date of Ride: April 13, 2008
Type of Ride: Bike Leg of Triathlon
Name of organized ride or route: Ironman Arizona
Actual Mileage: 112 mi
Ride Time: 6:47:19
Total Time: 6:47:19
Avg. Speed: 16.5 mph
Altitude Climbed: 1,651 ft
Weather conditions: 95F, windy
Synopsis of Ride: Hot & Windy but I had a great time.

Date of Ride: Apr 26, 2008 (part 1 (http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/5499752), part 2 (http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/5504014))
Type of Ride: Mixed
Name of organized ride or route: "Saturday ROCO", then around Lake Casitas; later a moderate spin around Goleta
Actual Mileage: 100.46 (84.44, 16.02)
Ride Time: 5:11:28 (4:15:26, 0:56:02)
Total Time: 5:46:50 (4:50:34, 0:56:16)
Avg. Speed: 19.4 (19.8, 17.2)
Altitude Climbed: 5331 (4733, 598)
Weather conditions: Hot; calm
Synopsis of Ride:

1) Since I had skipped out on Punchbowl I figured I had to get some good training in, so I did the ROCO ride instead of the Echelon ride, and went around the lake and back up the coast. I had never been up the coast with that group, but heard stories about the pace and was wondering what I was getting myself into. I was holding on just barely on some stretches of PCH and the 101, and when we hit Bates I just watched them ride away. I caught up with Ben at the top when we hit the 150 and he towed me most of the way back to the group. The pace never really “settled” like worlds does on the way back through Summerland, so when the group charged up Ortega Hill I took the opportunity and shortcut them on the bike path. I thought I would come out just ahead of right in the middle of them, but I hit full gas and manged to get out way ahead, enabling me and one other guy to easily make it past San Ysidro before the group caught up with us.

2) I did chores around the house all day, then got out right as the sun was going down for an easy spin around town to dial in my race setup for sunday's crit. Edit: I admit I made this ride just a little longer than I may have otherwise just to get over 100 :P

Date of Ride: 5/10/08
Type of Ride: Sanctioned Group Ride
Name of organized ride or route: Cruisin' the Conejo
Actual Mileage:100.90 (according to Garmin 305)
Ride Time: 5:54
Total Time: 7:03
Avg. Speed: 17.1
Altitude Climbed: 5901 ft. (according to Garmin 305
Weather conditions: Overcast most of the day, cool and nice with the sun coming out around noon
Synopsis of Ride: Cruisin' is always a great ride. It's a great part of town through some great roads during a great time of the year. Yesterday was no exception. The day started off cool and overcast, but not cold. The sun came out as I rolled into the Camarillo Valley. It warmed up through the afternoon, but was never too hot. It was a great ride.

Date of Ride: 5/3/08
Type of Ride: Organized Ride
Name of organized ride or route: Wine Country Century
Actual Mileage:135
Ride Time: ? didn't look
Total Time: ? didn't look
Avg. Speed: 14.1
Altitude Climbed: 7271 ft.
Weather conditions: Cold in the morning, but sun broke out about 1 hour into the ride. Wasn't too hot, but still sunny, so almost perfect riding conditions.
Synopsis of Ride: Wine Country ... need I say more? Did the double metric, which in my opinion, is the only one to do (they had 35, metric, 100, double metric). It takes you out to Coleman Valley, and amazing view along the coast. Tour the wine country through Sonoma Valley, through Healdsburg and Alexander Valley. Terrific support.

Century for April
Date of Ride: April 19, 2008
Type of Ride: Organized
Name of organized ride or route: PCH Randos 400K
Actual Mileage:250
Ride Time: 18:25
Total Time: 21:42
Synopsis of Ride: Nice coastal ride

Date of Ride: May 17, 2008
Type of Ride: (group ride or solo ride) solo
Name of organized ride or route: Around North County
Actual Mileage: 100.0
Ride Time: 8.5
Total Time: 11:45
Avg. Speed: 12.0
Altitude Climbed: Don't know, maybe 3000 feet
Weather conditions: Hot and hardly any wind
Synopsis of Ride: Started from my home in Rancho Penasquitos, went to the coast, through Rancho Santa Fe, San Elijo Hills, Rancho Bernardo, Poway, back to the Coast. Part of the route was the Encinitias Ride, so I had some company along the way.

Date of Ride: May 16
Type of Ride: Group Ride
Name of organized ride or route: San Diego Century
Actual Mileage: 104.9
Ride Time: 7:19
Total Time: 8:30
Avg. Speed: 14.3
Altitude Climbed: 5,989 (by Garmin)
Weather conditions: HOT, HOT, HOT! Around 100 back in toward Ramona and Poway, very little wind in that area, what wind there was was also HOT! And that 100 is measured in the shade! :twitchy:
Synopsis of Ride: Started out about 6:30 with a group of us from the desert. Weather was great for about the first 2 hours, then as we got inland and started climbing it started heating up. I have a cold as well, so this was a very tough ride for me. Never have I seen so many people just hang around the SAG stops, enjoying the shade. Plenty of food and drink and most importantly, ice, at those stops this year. When we finally started heading back toward the coast, the breeze cooled down considerably. All in all, a nice ride (I can say that now that it's over :D)

Date of Ride: May 10, 2008
Type of Ride: Mixed
Name of organized ride or route: Echelon Ride, El Capitan, Pancake Ride, Neigborhood spinning
Actual Mileage: 100.84
Ride Time: 6:15:35
Total Time: 8:35:47
Avg. Speed: 16.1
Altitude Climbed: 5,348 (Edge 305, reported by SportTracks)
Weather conditions: Cold in the morning, warmer throughout the day
Synopsis of Ride: Intended to take it easy before a race on Sunday but got caught up in group dynamics and ended up going harder at times. Went out to El Capitan also for some reason. After returning home, went out again with Kim for our weekly "Pancake Ride". In the evening I did a bunch of laps around the neighborhood to dial in my TCR after swapping out the crankset, and prepping my Tarmac for the race. I admit I did a few extra laps to tick over 100 miles, since I was so close.

Note that this makes 10 now for the year. The last one didn't seem to get counted.

Next weekend I'll be doing back-to-back centuries for our club's "county ride". I can almost write the report now... It was cold and foggy when we started, but clear and getting warmer after going over the pass and dropping into the valley. We regrouped a bunch and had lunch at the Fess Parker Winery. We had a nice paceline going down Foxen and then regrouped again after waiting for a bit at the top of Tempesquet. After a nice descent, we turned onto the 166 and had a tailwind push us the rest of the way into the Buckhorn. Much nicer than the headwind we had last October. Sunday we started out pretty mellow but the pace picked up after turning onto the 33 and the group broke apart before regrouping at the Ozena fire station. We all cruised up the climb to Pine Mountain summit (5000 feet) and regrouped again at the top. We tried to stay together on the rollers along the top but the group broke up again and we did a final regroup at the turnout to Rose Valley. The 12 mile descent to Ojai is breathtaking, and my favorite part of the ride, and although there were some minor regroups along the way it was mostly small groups from this point to the end at Peets, where I had a nice refreshing Green Tea Freddo.

May Century
Date of Ride: May 10, 2008
Type of Ride: Organized
Name of organized ride or route: Crusin the Conejo Century
Actual Mileage:101
Ride Time: 7:37
Total Time: about 8:30
Avg. Speed: 13.3
Altitude Climbed: 6610 per Blackburn Delphi (6000 per website)
Weather conditions: Cool an overcast to start sun came out later...never to cold or to hot.
Synopsis of Ride:Had a nice ride with my wife and her friend, with some nice views after some climbing...had some fun decents.

Date of Ride: May 24, 2008
Type of Ride: Organized
Name of organized ride or route: San Diego Randos Brevet 200K Rancho Cucamonga to Hemet and back
Actual Mileage:127
Ride Time: 9.02
Total Time: 10.40
Avg. Speed: 14.1
Altitude Climbed: 3367 per Blackburn Delphi
Weather conditions: Chance of rain 40%. Rain in the air all day...a few sprinkles but nothing to get you wet. Turned out to be cool but nice.
Synopsis of Ride:Rode with my wife. This is the furthest distance she has ridden. This is a fun ride, some of the streets you have seen on the Hemet Double Century. Being a Brevet you are on your own but plenty of places to get what you need.

Date of Ride: May 24, 2008
Type of Ride: Group
Name of organized ride or route: Echelon County Ride, Day 1: Santa Barbara to New Cuyama
Actual Mileage: 113.29
Ride Time: 6:05:53
Total Time: 6:52:25
Avg. Speed: 18.6
Altitude Climbed: 6,343 (Edge 305, reported by SportTracks)
Weather conditions: raining, cold, windy

Synopsis of Ride: It was cold and wet when we started, but clear and getting warmer after going over the pass and dropping into the valley. We regrouped a bunch and had lunch at the Fess Parker Winery. We had a nice paceline going down Foxen, but when we turned onto Tepesquet, the road was washed out so we had to detour around through Sisquoc. After we crossed the river and turned off Foxen, the headwind was brutal. We took it fairly easy up the climb at first, but near the end it was just me, Mark and John, and I took off a few corners from the top. We regrouped at the top of Tepesquet and had some food, then did the descent, my favorite part of the day. I was rocking out on my ipod to a techno mix of a Sarah McLachlan song. Another regroup at the bottom, then we turned onto the 166 with mixed winds (mostly cross) the rest of the way into the Buckhorn. Kim pulled the train for the first 15 miles or so, then Mark and I pulled a bunch with Kim mixed in some more. About 10 miles from Cuyama, I was pulling and Kim came from behind me and flew off the front; I jumped on his wheel and a minute or so later I realized that only Mark came with me and nobody else was in sight. We rotated for a while but the pace and effort was high and after a few minutes I was just holding on. When we got to New Cuyama, Mark and I went to the Buckhorn, and Kim went back to collect Jane. We didn't know how long it would take for Mondo to come with out stuff, so we walked over the store to get some calories. As we were coming out, we saw everyone else streaming in.

Date of Ride: May 25, 2008
Type of Ride: Group
Name of organized ride or route: Echelon County Ride, Day 2: New Cuyama to Santa Barbara
Actual Mileage: 102.88
Ride Time: 5:40:49
Total Time: 6:25:13
Avg. Speed: 18.1
Altitude Climbed: 4,633 (Edge 305, reported by SportTracks)
Weather conditions: raining, cold, windy

Synopsis of Ride: It was raining when we woke up, and we were in no hurry to get started, hoping that it would clear or at least stop coming down before we rolled out. Unfortunately, it did not, so we started out pretty mellow and mostly stayed together to the Ozena fire station. Kim, Jane, and Shawn (sp?) started early up the climb and the rest of us rolled out a few minutes later. After a little warmup, I kicked up my effort to a high tempo and rode away from everyone, eventually catching Shawn, and then Kim and Jane before reaching Pine Mountain summit (5000 feet). I know that Kim wanted to take off after me (and he could have kicked my ass), but he restrained himself and stayed with Jane. The 12 mile descent from the Rose Valley turnout to Ojai is breathtaking, and my favorite part of the ride, especially with Kim pulling us all down. There was a moment of confusion as we hit some road construction and had to all stop very suddenly for a one-way traffic control; 40-0 in a very short amount of time. We stopped in Ojai for burgers, and then rolled back into town around Lake Casitas.

I'm at 12 now

I'm at 12 now

Yes you are. :rolleyes:

Yes you are. :rolleyes:

Just 40 more to go. I'm thinking this was a stupid idea :p

Date of Ride: May 2, 2008
Type of Ride: Mixed (group for the first 30, 2 of us for the next 70
Name of organized ride or route: Barry Wolfe group ride to montrose route
Actual Mileage: 100.09
Ride Time: 5:31
Total Time: 5:52
Avg. Speed: 18.1
Altitude Climbed: ~3500 I would guess
Weather conditions: 50-70 blue/gray skies

Synopsis: Started out riding to the group ride which is about 10 miles solo. Met up with them and rode that for 30miles or so then on my way back home I met up with another friend and decided to ride with him for a while. Turns out he was doing another 45 so I ended with about 95. Rode out a little father and then around the block a few times to complete. Had to stop at a 7-11 at mile 85 because I ran out of food (was not planning a ride this long), but other than that, no stops and a great ride.

Date of Ride: May 26, 2008
Type of Ride: Group
Name of organized ride or route: Santa Paula Loop
Actual Mileage: 110.83
Ride Time: 6:42:24
Total Time: 7:52:09
Avg. Speed: 16.5
Altitude Climbed: 7,128 (Edge 305, reported by MotionBased)
Weather conditions: warm, slightly windy

Synopsis of Ride: Thought I might be tired from the back-to-back 100+ mile days on Saturday and Sunday so headed out from home not sure what group I would join. Felt good so met up with an earlier group going for a long ride to Santa Paula. Didn't bring enough food, apparently still not recovered from the other rides, and ended up buying a lot of food along the way. Still felt ok on the climbs out of Casitas, but started to feel really fatiguied as I approached Montecito, and by the time I got home it was all I could do to crawl into bed.

Date of Ride: May 24, 2008
Type of Ride: Organized Double Century
Name of organized ride or route: Heartbreak Double Century
Actual Distance: 116.11 (Ultra-FAIL)
Ride Time: 7:20
Total Time: 7:41
Avg. Speed: 15.1
Altitude Climbed: 10700 from Motionbased
Weather conditions: damp, cold, windy

Synopsis of Ride:

It was cold and miserable and I wasn't quite dressed enough for it. My left knee bothers me in cold weather so I turned around after Frazier Park and rode home in shame. Let's never speak of this ride again. :mad:

This one won't count, but... oh well

Date of Ride: May 24th
Type of Ride: Sanctioned Group
Name of organized ride or route: Heartbreak Hundred
Actual Mileage: 100.4 (Garmin 305)
Ride Time: 6:32
Total Time: 6:48
Avg. Speed: 15.5
Altitude Climbed: 8844 (Garmin 305)
Weather conditions: Between the high 30's and mid 50's. Windy.
Synopsis of Ride: Awesome, Altitude-y, Windy, Coldish. I rode with some awesome folks and had a great time.

Just 40 more to go. I'm thinking this was a stupid idea :p

Not a stupid idea! A great idea! I wish I had set that goal this year. Keep up the good work!

Finally my May century!

Date of Ride: May 31st
Type of Ride: Solo/Group
Name of organized ride or route: Modified Oceanside OCW Saturday Century from home
Actual Mileage: 100.3
Ride Time: 5:38
Total Time: 6:44
Avg. Speed: 17.7
Altitude Climbed: 3517
Weather conditions: Temps 59-86, winds-calm
Synopsis of Ride: Started from home for a 15 mile time trial to the start in Irvine to meet up the Chuck Bramwell and Co. I rode in the front most of the time and at the Carl's Jr in San Clemente I had 50 miles and decided to turn around for another 50 mile time trial. All in all a good day in the saddle.
http://www.bikeforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=72990&d=1212445101

Date of Ride: June 6
Type of Ride: Solo
Name of organized ride or route: My regular desert loops--only so many directions you can go out here.
Actual Mileage: 100.1
Ride Time: 6:30
Total Time: 7:20
Avg. Speed: 15.4
Altitude Climbed: About 2,200
Weather conditions: Started early enough that the weather was not an issue. Cool in the early morning, warming up by the time I finished. Very little wind.
Synopsis of Ride: I only had Friday off from work this week, so I figured I may as well get in my June century (I like going for it early just in case...). Started out about 5:30 am to try and beat the heat. There was hardly any wind. This is good, since it seems like the wind has been blowing constantly all spring! Was able to keep a nice steady pace. The weather was getting pretty warm by the time I finished. Probably around 100 degrees.

Date of Ride: June 7th
Type of Ride: Sanctioned Group Ride
Name of organized ride or route: Ride Around the Bear
Actual Mileage:101.18
Ride Time:6.32
Total Time:7.26
Avg. Speed:15.5
Altitude Climbed: 9003
Weather conditions: Pleasantly Warm
Synopsis of Ride: Great, except for the fact that I lost my Camera.

Date of Ride: June 7, 2008 (http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/episode/view.do?episodePk.pkValue=5917228)
Type of Ride: Mostly group (30% solo)
Name of organized ride or route: Echelon Solvang Ride from Santa Barbara
Actual Mileage: 101.17
Ride Time: 5:49:10
Total Time: 7:24:43
Avg. Speed: 17.4
Altitude Climbed: 8,002 (Edge 305, reported by MotionBased)
Weather conditions: Warm; somewhat windy
Synopsis of Ride: Rode up to Solvang to meet the 70-mile Echelon ride on a modified Solvang Century route. Santa Rosa Road, Harris Grade, 135 to Los Alamos, Alisos Canyon to Foxen Canyon, and Ballard Canyon back to Solvang. Lunch at El Rancho Marketplace and then got driven home by Scott. There was a lot more stopping than I would have liked, but thats what happens when you are in a group. We regrouped a lot. Note, I did basically the same ride back in April.

June Century
Date of Ride: June 8, 2008
Type of Ride: The wife and I
Name of organized ride or route: Yorba Linda to beach, south and back
Actual Mileage:103
Ride Time: 6.56
Total Time: 8:18
Avg. Speed: 15.0
Altitude Climbed:4120 per Blackburn Delphi
Weather conditions: Beautiful day. Cool start, sun came out, warmed up nicely.
Synopsis of Ride:Was a nice ride mostly along the coast. Rode from Yorba Linda Park down the SART to PCH south to Cristianitos Rd and back.

Date of Ride: June 28, 2008
Type of Ride: Organized
Name of organized ride or route: Grand Tour 200 Lowland
Actual Mileage:199.27
Ride Time: 13:17
Total Time: 15:20
Avg. Speed: 14.9
Altitude Climbed:5377 per Blackburn Delphi
Weather conditions: Nice day, warmed up but not to bad, head wind heading to Rincon but tailwind coming back
Synopsis of Ride:Rode with a friend and my wife, it was her first double, she did great.

Date of Ride: June 21, 2008
Type of Ride: Organized
Name of organized ride or route: 300K brevet SD to HB and back
Actual Mileage:176.34
Ride Time: 12:06
Total Time: 14:50
Avg. Speed: 14.5
Altitude Climbed: 4960 per Blackburn Delphi
Weather conditions: Nice summer day, temp in the high 80's
Synopsis of Ride:Nice coastal route, rode with friends and made some new ones. Brevet riders seem to be social

Date of Ride: June 14, 2008
Type of Ride: Mixed
Name of organized ride or route: Lake Casitas Loop & Pancake Ride
Actual Mileage: 125.73
Ride Time: 6:54:55
Total Time: 8:20:29
Avg. Speed: 18.2
Altitude Climbed: 6,010 (Edge 305, reported by SportTracks)
Weather conditions: Foggy in the morning, warm in the afternoon

Did the lake ride from ROCO in the morning. It was a good sized group and we averaged I think nearly 21mph for the loop around the lake. Two people got flats so we had to stop and wait for them. Some people started rolling off before the first was done and someone from that group got the second flat, so not everyone from the first group that stayed back waited for the second group... The whole ride from door to door was 19.8mph with 33:00 stopped time including the flats.

After returning home, went out again with Kim for our weekly "Pancake Ride". After breakfast we rode out to the edge of carp and then she stopped at her office to work for the rest of the day, and I rode home.

To help keep count, this is number 15

Date of Ride: June 15, 2008
Type of Ride: Mixed
Name of organized ride or route: Lake Casitas Loop & Pancake Ride
Actual Mileage: 104.45
Ride Time: 6:37:05
Total Time: 8:19:47
Avg. Speed: 15.8
Altitude Climbed: 5,277 (Edge 305, reported by SportTracks)
Weather conditions: Overcast in the morning, warm in the afternoon

Did Worlds in the morning. Ended up skipping Goob; I nearly changed my mind but it was too late. Ended up riding away from the group that went straight and was the first up Bates by several minutes. Of course had the obligatory stop at Northstar for drinks and conversation.

After returning home, went out again with Kim for another "Pancake Ride". After breakfast she wanted to see the Worlds route, so I had to do it all over again with her... On the way back, she stopped at her office to work for the rest of the day again, and I rode home.

To help keep count, this is number 16

Date of Ride: June 24, 2008
Type of Ride: Mostly with others
Name of organized ride or route: 7AM & 8AM roco rides, noon hammerfest, and climbing with Seth
Actual Mileage: 118.67
Ride Time: 6:41:50
Total Time: ?
Avg. Speed: 17.7
Altitude Climbed: 8,629 (Edge 305, reported by SportTracks)
Weather conditions: warm

Rode out for the 7AM roco ride, expecting to go around Lake Casitas. Turns out they only do that on Thursday--on Tuesday they do a warmup and meet the 8AM roco ride, which does the Worlds route. I led the charge up "the wall" on Goob, but took it easy up Bates. Nearly won the polo field sprint on an early flyer, but was reeled in by a local pro and he launced someone around me right before the sign.

Then met teammates for the noon "hammerfest" in Goleta, known jokingly as the "Goleta P/1/2" road race. Many of the hammers were missing and it was more mellow than usual, but I was still tired from the morning and stupidly tried to answer a call from Kim after I was dropped and wasn't able to jump back on after the turnaround. doh.

Met another teammate, a climbing freak genetic mutant, in the evening after work and we did Old San Marcos and Painted Cave. We caught up with another guy at the top of Old San Marcos and we ended up also doing Stagecoach twice. All-in-all, a very hard day.

To help keep count, this is number 17

Date of Ride: June 28, 2008
Type of Ride: Mixed
Name of organized ride or route: Grand Tour Highland Double Century
Actual Mileage: 197.81
Ride Time: 10:46:42
Total Time: 12:43:48
Avg. Speed: 18.4
Altitude Climbed: 7,890 (Edge 305, reported by SportTracks)
Weather conditions: warm to hot

I'll edit this with a full report later, but the short of it was that I missed Eric (who I rode with last year) in the parking lot by 2 minutes, then had to fix my cleats and it was 6:15 when I started, so I was chasing most of the way. I rode 80 miles by myself until I ran into Eric at the third stop in Moorpark. I rode with him and a few others until he flatted in Santa Paula, and then with Shprung and DScott (his first double) for about half of the climb out of Santa Paula until I accidentally rolled away from them. A little later I was still kinda crusing, still thinking in my mind I would soft-pedal at the top and wait for them, when I get passed by guy like I was standing still. This was the first person all day to catch me from behind, so I thought what-the-heck and jumped on his wheel. He and his riding partner and I pacelined down the 150 after the summit until I lost them on the descent down the Denison Grade. I found them at the lunch stop in Ojai and then we rode together the rest of the way. It's a good thing too because I was having massive issues with cramping--both my stomach (which happens not infrequently), and my legs (which has never happened before). There were a few times on PCH in Malibu where my legs completely locked up and I had to stop and get off the bike and massage them until I could move them again. I had a few goals for the ride, I met some of them and not others. I wanted to do sub-11 hour riding time and sub-12 hour total time. I did 10:46 riding time, so less than 11 hours (yay!), but 12:43 total (boo). Both much faster than last year. Two flats, cramping, and waiting for others contributed to the total time overrun. When it was clear than I wasn't going to be done in under 12 hours, I set a goal in Carpinteria (60 miles out) of finishing before 7PM. We rolled in at 6:59, so yay again!

By my rules, double centuries count for two centuries in the century-a-week accounting.
To help keep count, this is number 19

The year is almost half over and I'm 36% of the way there. So, a little behind, but I will likely do more long rides training for Everest Challenge, and at the end of the year as base. Note that I'm not doing these rides for my century a week specifically, I just like doing them. I know I should work more on my high intensity training, but I am doing that too and still getting faster and stronger, although maybe not as quickly as I would otherwise. I'm still riding a lot less than last year and I've been cut my mileage leading up to races.

Date of Ride: June 29
Type of Ride: Solo
Name of organized ride or route: La Jolla to Dana Point and back
Actual Mileage:113
Ride Time: 7:30
Avg. Speed: 15
Altitude Climbed: 4000 per altimeter - mostly rollers
Weather conditions: Overcast starting out - sunny from mid-morning on. Constant headwind for 55 miles going north. The wind died down some in the PM but I still had some tailwind.
Synopsis of Ride:Last chance for a June century. A nice uneventful ride. I visited my brother briefly in Dana Point and went to check out Revo Cycles which is billed as a bike shop/espresso bar. Nice bike shop, but as an espresso bar it is the fail. No food (empty display case), no one manning the espresso bar, no customers drinking anything. I had lunch at a taco shop instead.

This one won't count either...

Date of Ride: June 28th
Type of Ride: Sanctioned Group Ride
Name of organized ride or route: L.A. Wheelman Double Metric
Actual Mileage:128.44 (Got Lost...again)
Ride Time:7.32
Total Time:7.52
Avg. Speed:16.0
Altitude Climbed: 7223 (Garmin 305)
Weather conditions: Pleasantly Warm
Synopsis of Ride: Awesome, except for getting lost and having to use Balcom Canyon to get back on track. It was nice and cool in the A.M. and started to get a little warm as we rolled up on 12:00. By that time though we we're making our way back to the beach so it was never too bad. It was unusually humid though. I rode with some great riders and we kept the pace strong.