Badger_South wrote:
:: On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 07:37:15 -0400, "Roger Zoul"
:: <[email hidden]> wrote:
::
::: What's the total amount of elevation gain?
:::
::: Why not just ride the entire thing, Badge? If you get someone to
::: drive the car along or just plan to wait on you at certain points
::: along the way, I bet you could complete it.
:::
::: Who wants to drive any of the 100 miles when you can bike it 🙂
:::
::: Go for it, man!
::
:: What about 'unknown college town...getting lost...and, uh, being
:: taken in by generous co-eds' did you fail to follow, big guy? lol.
That's why I'm pushing you, dude! 🙂
::
:: Actually I was planning on this as an 'orienteering' expedition,
:: since the route is unlikely to still be marked, and there won't be
:: any other bikers to follow. I'm unexperienced in following cue
:: sheets while riding - it's not like in rally road driving where you
:: have a navigator and driver, heh-heh. Sure if you're riding with the
:: group, you get lost now and then and stop and check the map...but no
:: reason to -plan- on getting lost.
If this is a yearly ride, the route will be marked on the roads. You just
follow them. I never look at cue sheets while I riding, though I do take
one with me just in case.
::
:: But on your advice, it might be that I could explore that
:: option...say scope out the cue sheets and get a rough idea on where
:: I'm going - it's a complex course - and maybe ride the 50 mile loop,
:: which is part of the Century.
Microsoft Streets and Trips, 2005 version. You can lay the entire route out
ahead of time and print expanded maps with extra details. So if you should
get held prisoner by generous co-eds we'll know where NOT to come looking.
::
:: The thing is I don't want to actually ride the course before the
:: group ride, b/c you want some of the 'suffering-breakthrough' to
:: occur to you. IOW, you take on something that's over your head and
:: then get there, but not without some training and preparation.
Well, I'm not convinced it makes a whole lot of different if you ride in a
group or not as terms of the accomplishment. Certainly, it is way more fun
to ride in a group.
::
:: It's possible that we could turn this into a two-day event. IOW,
:: scope out parts of it, then stay in a cheap motel and spend the
:: night plotting and orienteering, then ride the 50 mile route the
:: next day.
That works!
::
:: What I lack in skill, and guts, I try to make up by planning, hehe.
:: I did that extensively when I ran the 10K and 10 miler races, though
:: some of them were tough enough, but well supported like Lynchburg
:: that I wanted the 'full experience', so didn't recon. it. Most of my
:: 10K races I ran at least once before the race, but those were races,
:: man, not group rides like this.
I ain't know racer. I watch them on TV.
When is this again?
You and your brother should come to Charleston SC on December 4 for the
Festavelo de Charleston. There is a metric and a real century on that day.
As it is flat (I hope), it should be an easy 100 miles. If I blow this one,
I'm giving up bicycling.
::
:: -B
::
:::
:::
::: Badger_South wrote:
::::: Should be a fun weekend. I just got my cue sheets for the 2005
::::: Shenandoah Valley Century, and nothing at -all- to do this
::::: weekend. It suddenly occurred to me 'training ride on the SVC
::::: route'! Never too early to do a training ride on the course.
::::: After all, would the maillot jaune leave any detail unchecked;
::::: any hill unpunished? (Yes my friends, the hills no longer punish
::::: us, for we are getting Hill Legs. Hopefully after this ride we
::::: will have another kind of legs. ;-D )
:::::
::::: Actually, it will be more like 'drive over mountains to unknown
::::: small college town, and get lost and be taken in by generous
::::: co-eds.'
:::::
::::: Oh, what was I saying. Century. This is supposed to be moderately
::::: up and down, but no mountains. Thus the 'Valley' part. Any
::::: century with 'gentle, valley, or flat' in it and I'm there. If
::::: you look at the profile, below, you might wonder just what kind
::::: of valley this is...!
:::::
::::: We'll probably drive parts of the route, but, after all, who
::::: really wants to drive the entire 100 miles, even in a car..?
:::::
::::: So I have the elevation map, the cue sheet and the right shoes and
::::: matching helmet.
:::::
::::: http://www.people.virginia.edu/~slj/svc.htm
:::::
::::: -B
::::: It's all about the accessories.
