Originally Posted by
Porter20
Thanks for all your stories. I wanted to do this ride, but it conflicted with the Wheels for Meals century. You probably saw some of us or at least our rest stop at your first turn. I am impressed by the turnout - 243 riders; wow! I am planning on doing the 3rd ride in 2 weeks. From riding up Ceasers Head in the past, I found it to be challenging. It has some steep parts, but it's biggest thing is the length. You are looking at climbing 2000 ft in 6 miles, so it just keeps going & going. Plus it has mileage signs to remind you have far you have gone (or not gone). The fun thing is the 35 miles to get out there & the 35 miles to get back there. I hope the weather is better in couple weeks. At least not too humid or raining / hail.
My training is coming along, but we'll see how it goes up to the real date. My original plan was to continue my 2X weekly commuting (43 miles RT, 1700 total climb), a 30 mile ride on Saturdays, and on Sundays, I'd do this:
April -
80 long ride (Did it - 86 total, 3000 feet total)
50 miler - did a 60 mile/2400 foot total
60 miler (5000 feet) - got rained out - did 1 hour on the trainer, but that was it.
first 100 miler (relatively flat - 3500 feet overall)
The plan for May was:
2nd 100 miler - I'll be doing a 60 mile/5000 foot ride instead
50 miles (6000 feet) - I'll be doing a 73 mile, 6000 feet ride
3rd 100 miler - I'll do the same 100 miler as before. Alternately, I could do a repeat of the 73 miler, or do the Mt. Weather/Blue Mountain ride - it's a 68 mile/5000 foot ride.
From there, it's only the weekend of June 2nd - should I taper to Mitchell ride, or try to get one more big one in?
So, there are 2 100 milers, and 3+ 50-70 mile, 5000 foot climb rides.I'm hoping this is enough to get me up the mountain in June. I really don't care how long it takes me - other than beating 12 hours.