Originally Posted by
CliftonGK1
Most of the 200k rides the Seattle Randos put on are between 6500 and 8500' of climbing, but because the time frame for a brevet is so long, you can ride at a comfortable pace as opposed to a hilly club/organized century, where they expect the "slow" people to be coming in at 7 hours. (YMMV) There were a couple organized century rides here last year where I rode 20 miles to the start, rode the hilly century and arrived to see them pulling down the tents and packing up at 8 hours post-start, and then rode home thinking "well, that's just rude."
THe hill rides around here allow about 11 hours. I know cause my friend did it, took 11 hours and was the latern rouge!
...........But I know hwat you mean. The first time the Tour De Palmsprings was held, it include a whole lot more hill climbing than today's easy version of the ride.
Gina nd I did hte century on the tandem. About 60 miles in, the organizers were telling the riders that they coud eliminate the last section into the hills by cutting across town to the finish. Heck, we paid for the century so we kept going into towards and into the hills. I knew we were in trouble when the crowd turned from a group of about 50 to 3 bikes!
We finished in 8 hours but were just about the last bike in out of the 200 or so!
Tents were down, food was gone, and a group of about 5 riders looking at each other wondering what had happened! Our postride meal went from a chicken dinner to M&M's (no peanuts)!
I think it would be cool to do the bevet rando stuff but they dont have that stuff around here that I know of. Maybe they do down the road but the hotel scene gets expensive. Done some rides in Arizona but 7 hour drives (14 total) gets expensive after a few years. I'd have to sell my bike to continue!
