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Old 07-29-13, 05:44 AM
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Originally Posted by JimF22003
Yeeps! Glad to hear you're OK.

I've done that ride three times before. Almost did it this year, but decided to skip it to ride my own ride just over the ridge from where you were on Skyline Drive and down into Madison/Syria/Sperryville.

Heal up quick!

I figured either you probably have ridden that one. It was a decent turnout. There might have been 75 doing the century?? Very unusual route profile for me. I'm not used to roller after roller after roller. There were spaced together so tightly and weren't all that long so it was very hard to sustain any momentum. Also a good number of stair step climbs. Climb a couple hundred yards, ease off and then climb a couple hundred more.......sets of 4-5 steps at times. Roads were certainly not that busy and lots of farmland. One of the profiles I saw indicated that there was 49 miles of climbing so no wonder if felt like you were either going up or going down.
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