NoRacer

My impression was that he was pointing out the street that it is on:

HC203

In any case I don't think I need to go out to Reisterstown Rd. when I can scoot up the road here a couple miles. I was on Greenspring Valley Rd. last week and it's a no go except to jump from Stevenson to Park Heights. I sound like a wuss complaining about busy roads but actually enjoy riding with traffic in a more urban setting, where the cars are slowed by lights, like when I used to commute down to Hampden.

Rode up and down Charles St yesterday on the fixie to check out the peace rally. Lots of fun, usually use the fixed at Montebello, felt good on the hills, going down on a fixed is weird though spinning really fast, braking not an option. Going up was fun though, no choice but to push with only one gear.
Only 9.5 miles but about 900 feet.

Hey NoRacer, was exchanging e-mails with my friend Bennett from VA, we met in Montana last year and have done some touring in VA etc. Don't know if you remember him, says he rode with you on a couple DC Rand rides, last New Year's Day ride and another. He busted up his shoulder early summer on that DC Rand Appalachain adventure, crashed into Crista and Chuck, surgery and a long recovery ensued, he's slowly getting back on the bike.
He may be at the Seagull, that's how your name came up, as I saw your post on that forum and your speed from last year.

Any organized rides this weekend, or anybody getting a ride together?

NoRacer

I remember Bennett. He and I got off-cue on the New Year's Day ride, but we finally caught the group at the next rest stop. I wasn't there for the mis-adventure with Crista and Chuck.

As far as this weekend is concerned, I think Josh and I are still on for our ride to New Freedom this Sunday. Feel free to join us. We'll probably meet at the Park and Ride just off of the east side of the Back River bridge. My legs are still a bit fried from the running and cycling I've been doing, so I'm only up for an easy to medium paced ride.

HC203

My son has his first day of fall baseball on Sunday, probably do this early morning ride downtown with neighborhood group. Hope to get out tomorrow early for some miles. Thanks for the invite, I'm sure your moderate pace is my max pace.

joshandlauri

yes we're still a go

J.Lockdown

So I did a PPTC group ride today (first one with this particular group, and a large group). It was out in Poolsville MD and was about 42 miles. Wanted to see if any other members were out their, cause I did not get a chance to meet everyone?

Anyway the route was nice, and actually their was a bike race going on so we got to see the main pack of them. It was a good group, about 6 of us broke off fairly early on and stayed together for most of the ride. Towards the end I broke off from the group and caught up to a rider that left early from the rest stop. She was very nice, and cool person to talk with as we road the remaining 10 miles. I was vary happy with the ride, great weather, great people, and I preformed great.

4 people told me I should be riding in the A class groups since I was blowing up hills and flying down the flats. It was a good confidence booster cause I have not had a lot of chances to ride in larger groups. But the slower pace was nice and relaxing, good way to start the day.

So how was everyone elses ride today?

joshandlauri

Just me and noracer again? all these people in baltimore and no takers?

NoRacer

Yeah, if anyone else is interested, please feel free to join us. There's no cue sheet, but that's because this will be a "no drop" ride. We'll make sure that you get back to the Park & Ride in Essex.

So, what time do you want to meet, Josh?

NoRacer

Josh, unless you post something different, I'll meet you at the Park & Ride by 6:30am. See ya then.

joshandlauri

see ya there

derath

I'd love to join you guys sometime. But first off, I know I am not nearly fast enough yet. But mostly it would be an hour drive to get to where you start, which would make for a very early morning

-D

HC203

I'll join you guys one of these days, but Sunday is full of kid taxi service, fall baseball, etc. It's going to be steamy so I hope you guys are okay.

I did my ride yesterday, 50 miles from my place near Towson up to O Ridge to Cuba to Stringtown to Cedar Ridge to Yeoho to Mt. Carmel back to Cedar Ridge and to Stringtown, basically tracing back to home, about 3300 feet according to my GPS. Won't even list speed, but only stopped for 20 minutes and I'm trying to eat as little as possible. My goal is to lose twenty by Dec 31.
On my return I found that my rear brake pad was rubbing slightly. Been having trouble with this wheel, two broken spokes in a month, one last week 29 miles into that century, rode the rest of the way with it tweaked. I think I'm just going to rebuild the damned thing.
Ave hr around 145
Max 171
kcal around 3300


Did my five mile run/walk on Friday, more running this time. The cycling muscles aren't getting along with the running muscles-yet.

joshandlauri

yeah, I'll let noracer tell the story, but I'm ok. Nice long ride, maybe one day we can all skip work and ride,that away it doesn't take from family time, I don't know how well that works for everyone else.

veloellen

Did SHE GOT BIKE today - the 40 (more like 42) mile route. Besides being quite warm, it was a great ride, well supported and had a nice turnout. Saw MANY riders on the road that were not part of the ride. Well, gotta make dinner for the gang.
Ellen

NoRacer

My horror story is here:

https://bimactive.com/ba/journal/post/10783/17275

By the way, Josh, I was down 6 pounds from this morning's weigh-in. That's a lot of water!

I need one of those water recycling suits from the book/movie(s) Dune.

joshandlauri

hope you feel better soon, Thanks again for the ride.

Also am i reading this right that we did nearly 6000 feet of climbing

Route:--Elev. Avg:514 ftLocation:Martin, MDElev. Gain:+19 ftDate:09/14/08Up/Downhill:[+5980/-5961]Time:06:24 AMDifficulty:5.0 / 5.0 Weather:Mostly Cloudy 84 F temp; 79% humidity 93 F heat index; winds SE 8Performance
Distance:88.71 milesTime:5:20:07Speed:16.6 mphPace:3' 37 /miCalories:3985

NoRacer

That's what the GPS measured. Typically, the iBike comes in lower. It's too bad I lost what data I did have after losing the battery cap.

I am feeling better, but my voice is still sounding different--a indicator for me that I'm still not fully hydrated. My weight this morning was 155 pounds. Before the ride, I was at 160.8.

I'm taking some time off of the bike. Work is going to be stressful the next week or so. I need to control what stressors I can.

HC203

Ain't no shame in bagging it before full blown dehydration sets in, especially considering your experience with that. I can have a hard time staying hydrated and ever since doing this Death Valley Camp ride in Feb where I fought through cramps doing a 5000 foot climb, crawling up a hill, and then peeing the darkest, scariest pee ever, I take a bunch of Hammer Endurolytes, like two an hour, seems to help. We were melting at the baseball game yesterday, sweating profusely, and that's standing still. I was going to run but took the day off considering the humidity and especially the air quality. Way to go guys, had to be a tough one.

NoRacer

Thanks, Harry. Yes, I do have a history of not being able to stay hydrated in high humidity/high heat situations. I -really- need to do something different. I've been wanting to pick up some Endurolytes, but never seem to do it.

Josh seemed in great shape. I was thinking to myself that he should be the one wearing a Team BBC kit, not me. Hopefully, next year, he'll be giving it a try. He'll get to wear one of the black kits.

HC203

You can always just go to hammernutrition.com and order a bunch. I think Mt. Washington carries them as well. I can tell when sweat is cascading out of my helmet that I need to get some salt, otherwise I'm pouring it in and it's just leaking out. Sucks getting leg cramps, and by then it's too late.
You guys are way faster than me but hopefully I'll be successful in my weight loss and can actually race next season. I can avg 18mph at Montebello no problem but when the road turns up I lose my average.
Maybe I'll see you guys at Seagull, Teacher Bob says a bunch of bbc guys usually meet up. I may be using a fixie.

Looks like a great design. Link doesn't seem to work. Do you have a larger image? Couldn't find it on the team site.

joshandlauri

any bigger pics of the kit or a link?

god, the wife will have a field day when I wear that.

NoRacer

Harry, you are on the team. You can get access to the Team BBC listserv. Contact Gary about the details. If you see Teacher Bob at Montebello, he may be able to guide you as well.

Anyway, the picture came from communications across the listserv.



As requested [served up via my photobucket account]:

HC203

Thanks Noracer, I met Gary early in the season and was on the listserv for a while. I'm determined to at least try racing next year, maybe try this cyclocross thing in the off.

NoRacer

So, anyone else riding the PPTC Century (aka, Historic Backroads Century) on Sunday?

I signed up online by the 12th, so I could get a t-shirt this time (3rd year in a row).

greaterbrown

Harry, I think that there's a cyclocross race in Druid Hill this sunday. Not sure where in the park it is. Chris Auer from Joe's is one of the organizers. I've been super busy lately, but I'll likely check it out early. Starts at 9AM