what did you just say?

It made no sense to me but sure sounded saucy, you animal!

116 miles. 7500' of climbing. The Park Ridge Ride in the middle. Felt good on the PR Ride, spent much of the ride at the front animating it or chasing, just missed the move a mile from the end where Kenny L. launched (he's one of the fastest Cat 2's in NJ, one of the leaders in the NJ TT Cup Series), but almost did get the wheel, finished in the second group maybe 5 seconds back. Not too much pain today, a little tweak in my upper back @ the end. Good ride.

That was my token 'century' for 2010. I do it once a year to demonstrate to myself how utterly pointless it is.

Mission accomplished.

We know.

If that's all you want why not do a metric century and save time?

Because I'm not in friggin Quebec, that's why.

Never mind. Just babble soccer idiocy and see how much he tolerates before he can't take it any more and drops you.

Huh? I didn't realize Charlotte was all that hilly.

Correct.

I'm out on the Casa CAD deck, enjoying the scenic vista and the warm breezes as the Mets/Yankees game audio wafts in from the TV in the kitchen. 116 miles in my bike weenie legs.

Man, if it gets better than this, I'll never find out about it, my life is too pathetic.

i can't even do that. I don't normally follow football outside of the international big tournaments.

holy moly, this denmark cameroon match is on fire!

This was an organized, supported, casual group ride, right? Not a race, so why "animate" anything?

pcad...state RR championship today. I think I finished top 15 (3 man break stuck till the end). Where does that put me on the fred-----> Road nazi scale of this thread?

Why would you care?

If you were a True Road Nazi, you wouldn't be caught dead on this Fred, er um I mean thread.

The Park Ridge Ride is a fast group ride comprised of Road Nazis and Freds, they turn up the gas enough to de-Fred the ride by the time you're on the last 10 miles, it's essentially a pick up road race. I ride down from here and incorporate that 25 mile ride into my longer 80-110 mile ride.

have you ever ridden a bike in south florida? when the group told me the rest of the ride would be flat, i was expecting _______________ that. what i got was more rollers. a 5 foot bump in the road is difficult for me, and today I just jumped in with a group that wanted to hammer it all and I am no where near ready for that. It's in the country around kannopolis too, not in the actual city of charlotte. It's no mountain, but it feels like it to me. Maybe if I had a few more months of this I could start telling stories like some of our other, younger, more enthusiastic members. ::cough:: razor::cough,cough::

and damn my massive quads for snapping that chain. I think the chain just wigged out from the constant strain of actual elevation change.

Supported group ride? Where?

You know what I need more than drinks and snacks is a couple good domestiques so if I get gapped I can charge back and catch the peloton.

Gravity is hard.

so i was checking out the garmin data, one portion had a 18% grade. so far thats the hardest i've seen while scanning through it. the hardest grade at home is 3%

Mt. Doom has three sections that exceed 15%, one that's about 17%. I hit that mile long climb daily. Today @ mile 116. That sucked. Actually there was so much climbing (7500') on today's ride that Mt. Doom didn't seem so bad. I was just tired and a little hot at the end.

That must be amazing. Today we had one that hit 18 briefly and one at 12% for a bit longer. I've never experience a climb like that and for me it was intense. I was trying my hardest to hang on to the lead group but once I fell back a bit I felt much better and started to have fun. 1650 ft over 35 miles. 1650 ft is my 200-250 mile week.

I think I'll convert my TT bike into a road bike. Oh wait, that would be silly.

He's riding and posting from his iphone simultaneously, it's the only way to do it

hey velo

how long did you hold on for this time? 2 miles?

incorrect.

Oh. My. God. 79 solo miles. I swear that the 3 mile two percent grade on the way back was not there the first time. It's not steep, but if you try to coast, you slow. No shade. That was awful, but a good ride none the less. Got far enough that once I saw farms and pick 'em up trucks I turned around.

Now I'm enjoying a cream soda and ordered pizza. My mom got home and saw me passed out on my bed while still wearing my kit.