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

Just like last year, this thread is an information sharing thread for individuals taking the CAM (century a month) Challenge in 2008.

Note that because we are getting a late start on 2008 and some who might otherwise want to take the challenge may miss January, it is OK for such people to to double up centuries in one month of their choosing (meaning 12 centuries in 11 months) in order to catch up. Purists may object, but in the immortal words of Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea - "Whatever."

CENTURY FAQ:




What Counts?

Any formally organized/sponsored ride that is billed as a century, even if the ride organizers were too lame to get the total mileage up to 100. If you feel you need to do parking lot repeats to make up the deficit then have at it, but don't feel obligated
Any informal or solo ride that totals 100 miles
This is self reported. I am not going to second guess whether you completed a century or whether your Garmin was working properly that day There is no money at stake here.:D

PLEASE, DO NOT REPLY TO POSTS OR POST ANYTHING OTHER THAN YOUR DATA.

Please post the data for your century/month as follows:

Date of Ride:
Type of Ride: (group ride or solo ride)
Name of organized ride or route:
Actual Mileage:
Ride Time:
Total Time:
Avg. Speed:
Altitude Climbed: (if available, either by route map, or cycling computer)
Weather conditions:
Synopsis of Ride: (please be respectful as you never know who might read this)

Remember, even if you don't make all twelve, please still post your data for as many months as you can - all centuries are an accomplishment! So, although this is a challenge, it is in the spirit of camaraderie! Double centuries count, but only as a single century. Metric centuries will be scorned without mercy.

Below is the official list that is based on the 2008 CAM Poll thread. If those of you who are planning to go stealth this year, or are on the fence want to join the fun please let me know. If you do not see your name or century months updated, please PM me, and I will update your info. Thank you!

RIDERS WHO ARE TAKING THE CHALLENGE:

badfishgood 1/12
ckeizer77 12/12
cjbruin 1/12
Entropy906 5/12
DaveSANYYZ 3/12
Indolent58 11/12
JimmyNH 1/12
jsigone 1/12
KINGS HOCKEY 12/12
magicant 1/12
merckx89 6/12
merider1 1/12
RideMore 4/12
SanDiegoCyclist 6/12
Scootcore 2/12
scvroadie 0/12
Shnuddy 7/12
Shprung 3/12
Turtle 1 2/12
vtecrparts 0/12
WhiteCarbonDude 12/12
umd 52/52

REMEMBER: YOU HAVE TO FILE A RIDE REPORT IN THIS THREAD TO GET CREDIT

Date of Ride: Jan 12, 2008
Type of Ride: Organized
Name of organized ride or route: Stagecoach Century
Actual Mileage: 102
Ride Time: 7:01
Total Time: 8:30
Avg. Speed: 14+
Altitude Climbed: 4300
Weather conditions: Cool in morning, excellent throughout the day
Synopsis of Ride: Shadow Tours addressed all the complaints about the route and cue sheet from las year. I suffered through this with asthma but was glad to have gone. Only a few SoCal BFer representing this year.

Date of Ride: Jan 11 2008
Type of Ride: two of us
Name of organized ride or route: N/A pasadena to acton
Actual Mileage:102
Ride Time: 5:52
Total Time: Little over 6 hours
Avg. Speed: 17.3
Altitude Climbed: i would guess something like 4000ish feet
Weather conditions: Beautiful day. Clear, sunny, warmed up nicely


What if we have two in one month?

Date of Ride: Jan 12, 2008
Type of Ride: Organized
Name of organized ride or route: Stagecoach Century
Actual Mileage: 100.22
Ride Time: 7:05:01
Total Time: 8:30
Avg. Speed: 14.1
Altitude Climbed: 4432
Weather conditions: Acceptably cool; no shivering; no overheating issues
Synopsis of Ride: Much better than my last year's SC ride. Took a while to get back to it being the first ride in 4 weeks. Worse part turns out to be 2 large bruises on the butt that took 2 days to recover.

If you have 2+ in one month, I say you post them all. The Czar will figure out when to apply his 2in1 deal.

If you have 2+ in one month, I say you post them all. The Czar will figure out when to apply his 2in1 deal.

Post them all, but the 2in1 deal applies only to those who miss January. :rolleyes:

Date of Ride:January 12, 2008
Type of Ride: Group
Name of organized ride or route: Stagecoach Centruy
Actual Mileage:102
Ride Time: 6:50
Total Time: 8:30
Avg. Speed: 14.9
Altitude Climbed: 4300 (actually, my Garmin said 4975, but I'll go with the group)
Weather conditions: Chilly in the morning (late start though so it wasn't too bad) and the evening, gorgeous in between.
Synopsis of Ride: I had a great time, my husband not so much. Full report posted on the thread.

Date of Ride: Jan, 12
Type of Ride: OCW Saturday Century (http://www.caltriplecrown.com/EMailLists.htm#satcentury)
Actual Mileage: 93
Ride Time: 5:30
Total Time: 6:15
Avg. Speed: 16.9
Altitude Climbed: 2779
Weather conditions: Cold, Fog AM, Avg. temp 62 low of 45
Synopsis of Ride: Started in Anaheim at my home rode to the start 16 miles away in Irvine. The route heads north through Orange and Anaheim Hills then out through Corona to Tom's Farms. It's an out and back route so on the return I just headed home to Anaheim.

Date of Ride: Jan, 12
Type of Ride: OCW Saturday Century (http://www.caltriplecrown.com/EMailLists.htm#satcentury)
Actual Mileage: 93

Dan (indolent58)

We need some clarification of what counts as a century. Do the rides have to be a minimum of 100 miles. If an organization puts on a ride and calls it a century, and the mileage is less than a hundred do we count it?

I really don't care, but I'm interested. Last year on Solvang, some friends and I did a twist to the ride that gave us an additional 1500 feet of climbing and we ended up with 96.6 miles on the route. I didn't count the ride.

Dan (indolent58)

We need some clarification of what counts as a century. Do the rides have to be a minimum of 100 miles. If an organization puts on a ride and calls it a century, and the mileage is less than a hundred do we count it?

I really don't care, but I'm interested. Last year on Solvang, some friends and I did a twist to the ride that gave us an additional 1500 feet of climbing and we ended up with 96.6 miles on the route. I didn't count the ride.

See the addition to the OP above.

See the addition to the OP above.

Thanks for clarifying, I agree with 100%

Date of Ride:Jan 12th 2008
Type of Ride: Group, Organized
Name of organized ride or route:Stagecoach Century
Actual Mileage:101.43
Ride Time:5:42
Total Time:6:37
Avg. Speed:15.36
Altitude Climbed: 4184 (Garmin 305)
Weather conditions:Pleasantly cool to Perfectly Warm
Synopsis of Ride: A lot of fun

I have a quick question. I have 4 centuries scheduled in May, but none in June. is that ok?

Corey Keizer
Share the Road
http://15rides.blogspot.com (http://15rides.blogspot.com/)

I have a quick question. I have 4 centuries scheduled in May, but none in June. is that ok?


Ahem...Century A Month? :p :)

Ahem...Century A Month? :p :)

Haha. Well, the Ojai Century falls on May 31st this year! What's a kid to do?:)

Date of Ride: Jan 12, 2008
Type of Ride: Organized
Name of organized ride or route: PCH Randos 200K
Actual Mileage:125.64 (Route Slip 127)
Ride Time: 8:02
Total Time: 8:50
Avg. Speed: 15.4
Altitude Climbed: 2587 per Blackburn Delphi (1800 per website)
Weather conditions: Beautiful day. Cool start, clear, sunny, warmed up nicely, a little breezy.
Synopsis of Ride:Was a nice ride along the coast. Sort of Grand Tour and Cool Breeze routes combined. All controls were manned not the usual Brevet style riding

Date of Ride: Jan 19, 2008
Type of Ride: Solo
Name of organized ride or route: n/a
Actual Mileage:101
Ride Time: 6
Total Time: 7
Avg. Speed: 16 something
Altitude Climbed: 2,900
Weather conditions: My first century. Yesterday was a beautiful day. No wind in the morning, very little wind in the afternoon. The route was along the beach path 2/5s of the way, navigation of the beach path wasn't fun in the afternoon. The route was basically: Hermosa to Brentwood, Brentwood to PV, PV to Brentwood, Brentwood to Hermosa. I was fine being solo the first 2/3s of the ride, the last 1/3 wasn't fun.

Date of Ride: Jan 19, 2008
Type of Ride: solo
Name of organized ride or route: home to Baldy Village and back
Actual Mileage:101
Ride Time:7:44
Total Time:10:01
Avg. Speed:13
Altitude Climbed: 7502 per Garmin
Weather conditions: 62.6 avg. winds calm
Synopsis of Ride: My first century, never been to the village so I thought that'd be fun. I was hurting on the way up, mainly cause I ran out of fluids and gels about half way up. It took a LONG time to finally get to the restaurant. Had 3 cups of coffee, 3 glasses of water, a bacon burger, potato skins, and a slice of apple pie al la mode. Took GRR to GMR back and was feeling much better after food and rest. Started getting dark on me for the last 15 miles or so and of course I didn't bring my light. Got home fine and super tired.

Date of Ride: Jan 19, 2008
Type of Ride: Mixed group/solo
Name of organized ride or route: Echelon Saturday Ride
Actual Mileage: 102.78 (63.47 group/39.31 solo)
Ride Time: 5:38:41 (3:18:48 group/2:20:27 solo)
Total Time: 9:21:08
Avg. Speed: 18.2 (19.16 group/16.79 solo)
Altitude Climbed: 5,980 (Edge 305, reported by MotionBased (http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/4814598))
Weather conditions: Light breeze through the morning, Windy in the late afternoon/evening
Synopsis of Ride: The usual saturday morning club 'A' ride, with an small group extending out to Refugio/'Circle Bar B'. I was pushing the pace up a little higher than usual in the group and almost bridged a huge gap on the run up to the Glen Annie sprint after Bill took off with another guy (that I didn't know). I held off the group and came in third behind them. After Refugio, we cruised back to and through Goleta and [Bill, Sean, and I] hung out at Peet's for nearly 2 hours with Carlos. I continuied on my way at an easy crusing pace to the end of Padaro (just outside of Carpinteria), and looped back towards Summerland, stopping to pick up dinner for me and Kim at Cafe Luna. Stopped at her office for a while and had dinner with her, then continued on to FasTrak to investigate TT frame options. Finally arrived at home at dusk, which is good since I didn't have any lights...

Date of Ride: Jan, 26
Type of Ride: SFVBC Saturday extended renovate
Actual Mileage: 97.2
Total Time: 7:30
Avg. Speed: 16.0
Altitude Climbed: ~5000
Weather conditions: 44 - 58, dry day after after 5 days of non-stop rain; road are wet and mudi in parts.
Synopsis of Ride: From home (encino) to CSun; SFVBC had no real route. We started the Wed. ride to west lake. Then, some left some added to create a new group. To hidden valley, Simi, back via Box Canyon, Valley circle, and back to Encino.

Date of Ride: 2/1/2008
Type of Ride: solo
Name of organized ride or route: My house (Rancho Penasquitos) to San Onofre
Actual Mileage:100.4
Ride Time: 10:55
Total Time:8:02
Avg. Speed:12.5
Altitude Climbed: maybe 1000ft. Flat ride!
Weather conditions: cloudy, cool. Tailwind going north, headwind going south. Very unusual
Synopsis of Ride: This was my first century in 16 years. (That tells you something about my age). First fifty miles seemed rather easy; that might have been related to the tailwind. :) Took everything I had to finish. Got to the end after sunset. First long ride on my brand new Specialized Roubaix

Date of Ride: 2/2/08
Type of Ride: group ride
Name of organized ride or route: BF TDSB
Actual Mileage: 113.3
Ride Time: 7:35
Total Time: 6:32
Avg. Speed: Overall 14.9, Moving 17.4
Altitude Climbed: 7026
Weather conditions: Cold to cool with a headwind
Synopsis of Ride: First century this year. For more see TDSB Ride report.

Date of Ride: Feb 02
Type of Ride: Solo/Group
Name of organized ride: OCW Lake Mathews Century(modified from home)
Actual Mileage: 105
Ride Time: 06:49
Total Time: 07:56
Avg. Speed: 15.4
Altitude Climbed: 4023
Weather conditions: Cold. Cloudy Wind SE 5-10mph Avg. temp 55 low 46 high 66
Synopsis of Ride: Since this ride passes by my home I start there and ride to the start in Irvine a 17 mile warm up. There was a nice size group for this ride, about 25 riders. Chuck Bramwell is the ride leader and there are always plenty of seasoned Triple Crown riders in the group. I wasn't having a good day as this was my first ride in three weeks due to Pneumonia. So I was dropped by the fast group and rode most of the day solo. This ride goes through Anaheim Hills, Corona, and Riverside to Lake Mathews. It's a dog leg out and back course with plenty of urban traffic but still a nice course.

Date of Ride: 2/2/08
Type of Ride: group ride
Name of organized ride or route: BF TDSB
Actual Mileage: 114.8(including distance to start and the ride home)
Ride Time: 7:49
Total Time: 9:00
Avg. Speed: 14.7
Altitude Climbed: 6975
Weather conditions: Cold to cool with a headwind
Synopsis of Ride: First century this year. For more see TDSB Ride report.

I wasn't going to do this because January was already blown. But with Indolent's 2 for 1 deal, I'm good to go!



Date of Ride: Ground Hog's Day, 2008
Type of Ride: Group ride
Name of organized ride or route: BF Tour a Santa Barbara (sorry, tour "de" Santa Barbara just isn't accurate)
Actual Mileage: 106
Ride Time: 7:16
Total Time: 8:30
Avg. Speed: 14.7
Altitude Climbed: 6925
Weather conditions: Cold to cool with a headwind
Synopsis of Ride: First century this year. For more see TDSB Ride report

Good work!

Date of Ride: February 9th, 2008
Type of Ride: organized Century plus warm up and cool down
Name of organized ride or route: Tour de Palm Springs
Actual Mileage: 108 not counting 10 mile cool down
Ride Time: 5:13 Century in 4:40
Total Time: 5:30 century in 4:55
Avg. Speed: 21.76
Altitude Climbed: 3000 or something
Weather conditions: Started nice, warmed up to a little bit uncomfortable
Synopsis of Ride: Amazing Century, look for ride report to follow

Date of Ride: Feb 09, 2008 (http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/4941473)
Type of Ride: Mixed group/solo; double metric
Name of organized ride or route: Echelon Saturday Ride, then to Thousand Oaks
Actual Mileage: 128.64
Ride Time: 7:28:21
Total Time: 9:30:46
Avg. Speed: 17.2
Altitude Climbed: 8,743 (Edge 305, reported by MotionBased)
Weather conditions: Warm; slight tailwind late in the ride
Synopsis of Ride: The usual saturday morning club 'A' ride. I was pushing the pace up a again but didn't want to put in huge effort since I knew I was going to be riding out to Thousand Oaks. I ended up pulling a good portion of the ride, and too much of the run up Glen Annie and was too tired to contest the sprint, but managed to hold onto the lead group of 6 or so. Continuing on, I stopped at the Daily Grind (the start of the ride to talk to a few guys about club membership, then on to Hazards to replace my cleats. Ran into two random guys as I was riding along the beach and they stayed with me to Summerland, where I stopped at Cafe Luna for a smoothie. Next stop was a market in Ojai, where I got some more FRS and some tangerines. Didn't stop again until Thousand Oaks, where I hit up Jamba Juice before wandering over to Kim's parents house. I should add that climbing Balcom on my new bike in the 39x26 was pretty brutal.

I have another century planned tomorrow if I'm not too tired after Worlds. Does it count if its two rides in the same day separated by a few hours? Well I guess I already have my feb century, and for my century-a-week I already said it does, so...

Date of Ride: February 9, 2008
Type of Ride: Group ride
Name of organized ride or route: Tour de Palm Springs
Actual Mileage: 102.4
Ride Time: 7.45
Total Time: 10:10
Avg. Speed: 13.2
Altitude Climbed: 3500 ft.
Weather conditions: Cool in the morning, warming to 80 degrees, sunny, clear, no wind
Synopsis of Ride: Well organized ride, most climbing at the beginning of the ride, but mostly flat the rest of the way.

Date of Ride: Feb 10th
Type of Ride: Group
Name of organized ride or route: Biek Forums Pie Century
Actual Mileage:95.6
Ride Time:6h34min
Total Time: about 9 hrs
Avg. Speed: 14.55mph
Altitude Climbed: 9k+ feet
Weather conditions: Sunny and warm w/ some head winds in areas
Synopsis of Ride: Was another great BF ride. Started at Harrahs then tackle Palomar Mt for a warm up. From there everything seemed shorter though that alone was half the climbing. I felt good today, not riding all week due to sickness paid off well today. I was pretty full of energy today, felt strong on the climbs and even stronger on the flat/rollers. I pulled the group and tried to set a pace where I wouldn't drop anyone as I battled the headwinds up front. The laid it all on the table on the last climb at mile 85ish. After that I just cruised back to the cars. Palomar from taco shop to store was 1h 45min, still not close to my goal. All in all a great day on the bike:D

Date of Ride: Feb 10, 2008 (part 1 (http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/4952882), part 2 (http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/4952883))
Type of Ride: Mixed group/solo
Name of organized ride or route: "Sunday Worlds", then lots of wandering; later a recovery ride
Actual Mileage: 103.31
Ride Time: 6:19:29
Total Time: 7:43:41
Avg. Speed: 16.3
Altitude Climbed: 7,077 (Edge 305, reported by MotionBased)
Weather conditions: Warm; windless
Synopsis of Ride:

1) I left a little early for the worlds ride, and did some extra APS/old coast hwy before meeting at the bath house. Tired from yesterday, I got dropped on goob but after some rest managed to catch back a few people before regrouping at the top of Bates. On the way back to town, I felt pretty good and tried to bridge up to a small break, but died about halfway and and ultimately got swallowed back into the group. Approaching the spring, I had a hard time hanging on but managed not to pop, although I was pretty much DFL. After hanging out at Northstar for a while, rode around with Carlos and then wandered solo through Hope Ranch to the bike path, where I ran into Denise & Anna and we tooled around for a while before I headed home.

2) I lounged around at home for a little while, then took off for another short recovery ride. I wandered around an area north of Foothill I had never ridden before (but drove around last week to a Superbowl party), then connected through to Tunnel Road and Las Canoas past Skofield park, and over the riviera to the beach and up state to home.

Date of Ride: Feb 10th
Type of Ride: Solo
Actual Mileage:100.6
Ride Time:6:34
Total Time: about 7:00
Avg. Speed: 15.3 mph
Altitude Climbed: 1893 (hey, it's the desert :))
Weather conditions: A little chilly early on, warming up nicely.
Synopsis of Ride: Couldn't make the Tour of PS, so figured I'd get my ride done this weekend anyway. Couldn't ask for a nicer day. Rode this one completely solo, did my regular figure eight loop around the desert.

Date of Ride: Feb 10th
Type of Ride: Group
Name of organized ride or route: BF Pie Ride
Actual Mileage: 95.19
Ride Time: 7h14m55s
Total Time: ~9hrs
Avg Speed: 13.1 mph
Altitude Climbed: 8704 ft
Weather conditions: Cool at start, then sunny and warm/hot
Synopsis of Ride: Great ride and great group! Thanks Tiff for SAG'ing. My first Pie Ride and the Julian pie tastes really good! :D

Date of Ride: Feb 9th 2008
Type of Ride: Group/Organized
Name of organized ride or route: Tour De Palm Springs
Actual Mileage: 112 (10 miles to and from event)
Ride Time: 4:58.11
Total Time: ~5:40
Avg Speed: 20.5 mph
Altitude Climbed: 3144 ft (According to Garmin)
Weather conditions: Mild to Warm
Synopsis of Ride: Great ride, Great Pace. Thanks a million to the Santiago Cycling guys and the Tandem train for letting me tag along!

Date of Ride: Feb 10th
Type of Ride: Group
Name of organized ride or route: Bike Forums Pie Century
Actual Mileage:95.6
Ride Time:?
Total Time: about 9 hrs
Avg. Speed: Slower than the rest
Altitude Climbed: 9k+ feet

A great ride with great people. Thanks to Tiff for providing much needed SAG support. My 2nd Pie ride. I sucked much less on the 1st one. My climbing mojo was on sabbatical for this ride, but I did make it. Glad to see Matt, Mel and Phil make the drive down to join us.

Date of Ride: Feb 9th 2008
Type of Ride: Organized
Name of organized ride or route: Tour De Palm Springs
Actual Mileage: 110 (Extra miles around La Quinta)
Ride Time: 5:00
Total Time: 5:52
Avg Speed: 20.5 mph
Altitude Climbed: 3150 ft
Weather conditions: Avg temp 74, low 50, high 93
Synopsis of Ride: This was a first. 5 Tandem pace line from my club. It was a blast flying down Dillon Rd. I saw Travis from Vegas out there, he hung with us for awhile. Corey, it was fun having you there. I also rode with Kevin Walsh (2007 RAAM Team N.U.B.S.) he rides like a tandem pushing a 53x11 on the flats.

Date of Ride: Feb 9, 2008
Type of Ride: Organized
Name of organized ride or route: Tour de Palm Springs
Actual Mileage: 100
Ride Time: 5:09
Total Time: around 7:00
Avg. Speed: 19.4
Altitude Climbed: around 3000 ft
Weather conditions: Perfect – high 40s at the start, low 80s at the finish.
Synopsis of Ride: Good ride, well organized, great volunteers. I hope the next recipient of the charity money will be the city of Palm Springs, or Indio, or whoever owns that shítty section of the road before the third SAG stop, so they can fix it. Until then, I'll ride elsewhere.

Date of Ride: Feb 2, 2008
Type of Ride: Organized
Name of organized ride or route: PCH Randos 300K
Actual Mileage:187.2 (Route Slip 186.6)
Ride Time: 13.55
Total Time: 15.46
Avg. Speed: 13.7
Altitude Climbed: Don't recall (7200 per website)
Weather conditions: Cold start, nice day. Nice view around Lake Casitas,
Synopsis of Ride:Was a nice ride along the coast. Sort of Grand Tour and Cool Breeze routes combined.

Date of Ride: Feb 9, 2008
Type of Ride: Organized
Name of organized ride or route: Tour De Palm Springs
Actual Mileage:104.4 (Route Slip 101.9)
Ride Time: 6:19
Total Time: 7:30
Avg. Speed: 15.9
Altitude Climbed: 3042 per Blackburn Delphi
Weather conditions: Warm day
Synopsis of Ride:Nice ride with a friend and my wife, she was doing this with her Team in Training Group.
This is my 2nd Century of the month

Date of Ride: Feb 16, 2008
Type of Ride: Organized
Name of organized ride or route: Butterfield Double Century
Actual Mileage:196.64 (missed Green Lantern with others so it added a couple extra miles)
Ride Time: 13:59
Total Time: 15:27
Avg. Speed: 14.0
Altitude Climbed: 9637 per Blackburn Delphi (6900 per website changed to 8500)
Weather conditions: Cool start at 5:30 warmed up nice but cold again in Trabaco Cyn
My Century plus this month

Date of Ride: 02/09/08
Type of Ride: group ride
Name of organized ride or route: Palm Springs Century
Actual Mileage: 102, +a mile each way to the hotel
Ride Time: 6:21
Total Time: 7:30 7:15am -2:45pm
Avg. Speed: 16 mph
Altitude Climbed: 3,500 (reported by a friend's Garmin)
Weather conditions: clear, 50-75 fahrenheit, light afternoon breeze

Synopsis of Ride: First century, did better than expected on mph, just took longer than anticipated. I was lucky to hook up with another similar rider, we just worked well together! No difficulties & food and hydration were good; I have ideas on tweaking techniques for better performance.
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Date of Ride: 02/18/08
Type of Ride: group ride / solo ride
Name of organized ride or route: SFVBC Tour to Two Topanga Tops Ride#740
Actual Mileage: 104.94
Ride Time: 6:48
Total Time: 9 hours!! 8am-5pm
Avg. Speed: 15.4
Altitude Climbed: about 5000, as estimated by a rider partner
Weather conditions: clear, 50-70 fahrenheit, minor south headwind in the Valley

Synopsis of Ride: At the ride start several riders expressed an interest in a longer ride; it was decided to go from the Calabasas ride break to Westlake and return to CSUN via Simi Valley/ Santa Susanna. Climbing through the Topangas was more consistent than I expected. Recent focus on cadence is paying off...:) The hills and grades to Simi took more out of me. Thankfully our pack leaders chose a very moderate pace and us noobs in the back kept in sight, at least. Can you say regroup?

As we approached CSUN with about 70 miles (and no more hills!), I was feeling really good and just wanted to keep going! Looped around Devonshire/Woodley/Burbank to Ventura and called home: "Want to join me for an 18 mile ride? 'Cause that's what I need to have a 100 mile total today..." "See you when you get home". Ventura/Valley Circle/Lake Chatsworth/Plummer/Corbin/Sherman Way/Wilbur/HOME. It just happened! I left my last remaining ride partner, Mark (on the Orca), at Woodley and Saticoy; the rest was solo. I'm glad I pack food and bottle refills!
Rode the '91 Trek instead of the '85 De Rosa; sore in different places. Fit check!

Tremble all you tricycles and baby carriages: I'm gonna catch you one of these days...

So when do i get credit for my second century (post #25)?

Date of Ride: Feb 23, 2008 (http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/5030407)
Type of Ride: 70% group, 30% solo
Name of organized ride or route: Lake Castias Loop with Tour of California KOM (#2)
Actual Mileage: 100.18
Ride Time: 5:29:27
Total Time: 8:07:27
Avg. Speed: 16.7
Altitude Climbed: 5,468 (Edge 305, reported by MotionBased)
Weather conditions: Cold, windy, and slightly wet
Synopsis of Ride: Met an Echelon group at ROCO and did a "casual pace" out to the second KOM (Casitas Pass). We stayed mostly together to the climb but then the group fell apart behind me. I had my 1D & 70-200 in a backpack which weighed me down quite a bit. After the race came through, Sean took my camera to try to get more pictures of the race, and I Rode around the lake with Anne, Carol, and Mark. When I got back to Goleta, I decided to extend the ride to make a full 100. Had to do a few laps of my neighborhood at the end to get the last 1.5 miles. Next is Baker to Death Valley on 3/1. Race + warmup & cooldown will likely be over 100 miles.

Date of Ride: March 1, 2008
Type of Ride: group/solo
Name of organized ride or route: B2B BF ride (72) + ride to and from home (33)
Actual Mileage: 105
Ride Time: 6:46
Total Time: 8:07
Avg. Speed: 15.4
Altitude Climbed: 3,269 per Garmin
Weather conditions: colder and wetter than expected, low to mid 50's and drizzle
Synopsis of Ride: My 2nd century ever, still figuring out the nutrition thing but had a great time despite being tired, wet, and cold.

Date of Ride: March 1, 2008
Type of Ride: group
Name of organized ride or route: B2B BF ride (72) + ride to and from Rose Bowl
Actual Mileage: 98.5 + ~2 (forgot to start my computer)
Ride Time: 6:20:57
Total Time: ~8.5 hrs
Avg. Speed: 15.5 mph
Altitude Climbed: 2162 ft
Weather conditions: cold and wet
Synopsis of Ride: Nice ride with the BF SoCal group again although it rained during the ride. My first time riding on the SGRT. Had lunch with ME & roadfix at mile 87 before returning to start (Rose Bowl).

Date of Ride: March 1, 2008
Type of Ride: group
Name of organized ride or route: B2B BF ride (72) + ride to and from Rose Bowl
Actual Mileage: 100.25
Ride Time: 6:20:57
Total Time: ~8.5 hrs
Avg. Speed: 15.5 mph
Altitude Climbed: 2162 ft
Weather conditions: cold and wet
Synopsis of Ride: Another back to the beach, only I'm not in the shape I need to be to hammer with the men. It wiped me out at the end, but I loved it. Weather was not ideal and rode back in rain the last 15 miles. Great group, though, and a nice ride

Date of Ride: 3/1/08
Type of Ride: Organized Double
Name of organized ride or route: Death Valley Spring Double
Actual Mileage: 197.31
Ride Time: 12:33
Total Time: 13:19
Avg. Speed: 15.8
Altitude Climbed: 9000 ft per ride description
Weather conditions: Windy, warm, windy
Synopsis of Ride: see report thread

Date of Ride: March 1, 2008
Type of Ride: Solo
Name of organized ride or route: Santiago Cyn, Shady Cyn, Back Bay, PCH, SART, Kean Coffee
Actual Mileage: 100.61 mi
Ride Time: 6:44
Total Time: 7:15
Avg. Speed: 14.9 mph
Altitude Climbed: 4,492 ft
Weather conditions: 50's, foggy, some drizzle
Synopsis of Ride: Coming soon....

Date of Ride: March 1, 2008
Type of Ride: OCRR Organized Century
Name of organized ride or route: Hilly / Painful / Sadistic Double Metric :eek:
Actual Mileage: 108 mi.
Ride Time: 6:54
Total Time: 9:25
Avg. Speed: 13.8
Altitude Climbed: 7,420 ft.
Weather conditions: Cold, windy, rained on three times, mist more often
Synopsis of Ride: One climb followed by the next, and the next. Orange and Riverside Counties.

Date of Ride: 03/08/08
Type of Ride: group ride
Name of organized ride or route: Solvang Century
Actual Mileage: 103.4, as quoted from the ride slip
Ride Time: 5:54
Total Time: 7:04 7:08am -2:12pm
Avg. Speed: 17.5 mph
Altitude Climbed: 5,000 (website quote)
Weather conditions: clear, 43-75 fahrenheit, breezes and gusts starting mid-morning

Synopsis of Ride:
Check the Solvang ride report for the long drawn out version!
COLD in the morning with damp fog. Cleared to a beautiful day with gusty winds requiring seeking shelter behind unsuspecting forward riders! saved energy for the last 1/4 of the ride: Foxen canyon is work! Rode alone, monitored my pace and pushed myself a bit: got rewarded with a 10% average increase, on a course with 50% more climbing and w-i-n-d!

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
Ride Time: 06:33
Total Time: 08:05
Avg. Speed: 15.93
Altitude Climbed: 7618 (http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh314/shellenbarger/Butterfield%20Double%202008/Mt%20Baldy%20Century%200308/080308.jpg)
Weather conditions: Clear sunny Avg temp 69.6 winds 10-20 from the south
Synopsis of Ride: I started my ride from home, I love this route, I can ride from my doorstep to the Mount Baldy Village and back and be home by 3:13. I met up with the OCW group in Anaheim Hills and we were off at 7:35am. Shprung (http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh314/shellenbarger/Butterfield%20Double%202008/Mt%20Baldy%20Century%200308/DSC05567.jpg) was there with his great attitude and I met felt1 (http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh314/shellenbarger/Butterfield%20Double%202008/Mt%20Baldy%20Century%200308/DSC05553.jpg) at the Chino Hills water stop. It was nice to have some BF support on one of "my" local rides. I stayed with Dan(Cat2 racer) untill GMR where he dropped me so I took some pictures of the group as they caught up. I stayed with felt1 for a bit then chased Shprung for some photo ops (http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh314/shellenbarger/Butterfield%20Double%202008/Mt%20Baldy%20Century%200308/DSC05557.jpg). On GRR I took off again and caught up with a friend (http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh314/shellenbarger/Butterfield%20Double%202008/Mt%20Baldy%20Century%200308/DSC05565.jpg) from my club who started at the base of GMR for his first time climbing up there. When I got to the village I passed on going up to the ski lifts as I had pushed hard getting there and felt like I had already been there. So I flew down the mountain and got home in 2:45 from the village.

note: this was a ride in two parts. I'm counting it for century-a-week credit, but not century-a-month...

Date of Ride: Mar 9, 2008 (part 1 (http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/5136319), part 2 (http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/5136321))
Type of Ride: Mixed group/solo (about 30% group)
Name of organized ride or route: "Sunday Worlds", then lots of wandering; later a recovery ride
Actual Mileage: 114.52
Ride Time: 6:33:55
Total Time: 8:29:22
Avg. Speed: 17.4
Altitude Climbed: 6,172 (Edge 305, reported by MotionBased)
Weather conditions: Warm; windy in afternoon
Synopsis of Ride:

1) I left a little early for the worlds ride, and did some extra APS/old coast hwy before meeting at the bath house. There was some construction on 192 just past the high school and we diverted through a parking lot, which the people near the front decided was a good place to attack. The group shattered and I spend a while chasing back on, finally getting in and settled a little bit before the turn to goob. But tired from the effort, I had a hard time when the pace accelerated as a few riders went off the front to bridge up to another group ahead and when we hit the real climb I didn't have much left. Spent the rest of the time to the reground, but never caught anyone. One guy got me from behind and we worked together a little bit but he fell off on the rise before the regroup. On the way back enough people were yelling to "neutralize" the construction zone, that we kept it all together. When we approached the sprint, I didn't try to mix it up but felt pretty good and was able to move up the line and finish a lot closer to the front than usual. Maybe it was the aero wheels :) Did the usual Northstar hangout (I'm always surprised how much time we spend there), then rolled out with a few guys. They all peeled off one-by-one until it was just me and Javier on the bike path. We talked a bit about the Time outlet moving (he works at their warehouse), and then he turned off too. Kim was going to be working on a project with her extension classmates at Borders so I cruised on over in that direction. Was a bit early so rode a ways to Panino and picked up food for later before heading pack. Hung out for a few minutes, then back home to rest.

2) I lounged around at home for a little while, watched a movie (Training Day), then took off for another short recovery ride. I had a plan, but threw it out the window when I saw some other cyclists going another way. I thought maybe I'd have someone to cruise with but they were going to slow so I just blew by. Rode back to the bike path and headed downtown to the beach. Saw Carol waiting at the light when I went past State St. so I stopped and waited for her. We chatted for a while until I turned off to go up to Mountain Drive. There was a guy that went blowing past us while we were cruising at about 18-19mph but then just held station about 100 feet in front. I told Carol I wanted to go shoot past him but decided to hold back until our paths diverged. As we approached her turn, I accelerated to about 30, bridging up to him and then leaving him behind in rather dramatic fashion. Later I caught up with him again as I was cruising back up State St. Rode out to Borders again to see Kim, then back to "old town" Goleta to pick up dinner and finally over to the hot tub at the gym.