Just submitted my qualifying ride write-up for Ride the Lobster and
wanted to share my experience and some photos. Jim (munivision), John
Bain, Carol Bricker (as support) and I have decided to be on a team and
we just finished our qualifying rides over the weekend. I can't wait
for RTL, it's gonna be a blast!
DAY 1:
Jim, John and I started out our qualifying ride at about 12:30 PM,
meeting at Jim's work in Mission Viejo. The first part of the trail was
great as it followed a river and was fairly smooth and very peaceful.
We came to Aliso Woods & Canyon and decided to do some fire road for
about 5 miles or so. We then continued on a bike path that was on the
road where we started to do some ups and downs. We made it to our half
way point and took a little snack break. Turned around and repeated
everything but the dirt road.
We split from John on the way back as he was on a 29" while Jim and I
were on Cokers. He had a cold and felt he was always last trying to
keep up which wears you down both physically & mentally. He finished
the ride by himself and said it felt much better not having to play
catch up. Overall it was a nice beautiful sunny day and the perfect
temperature for Day 1! I was a little worried as to how I'd do as I
haven't ridden a Coker or more than 15 miles in 10 years since Ride
Across MN but I did just fine and wasn't in too much pain. I even did
some 1 footing, wheel walking and hand wheel walking! 🙂 Overall we did
74.7 Km, ascended 1184.15 meters and descended 1189.33 meters all in
about 6 1/2 hours!!
DAY 2:
On Saturday we decided to do a nice long beach ride from Redondo Beach
up the coast to Malibu and back along the beach bike path. It was a
beautiful sunny day with perfect temperatures! John had decided to do
his own ride as he has a 29" and didn't want to keep us Cokers behind.
So it was Terry, Jim and I that started out on the bike path. The trail
was wonderful with great scenery the entire time (in more ways than
one!). We stopped in Venice Beach for 5 minutes to watch a street
performer do a back flip on a pogo stick, then continued on and ate
under the Santa Monica Pier. Made it to the end of the bike path (close
to Malibu) and turned around.
We stopped by Venice Mt. on the way back and met up with John Long, Don
and another guy. They were playing around with Don's new 24" KH Shlumpf
which was awesome! Made it to Hermosa Pier and took a little break to
walk down to the end of it. The end was near, we could practically see
it! After riding 73.45 Km, ascending 738.84 meters, descending 737.62
meters in about 7 hours, we were finished and qualified for RTL! Yes I
was in some pain after both days of riding, but not nearly as bad as I
though it might be!
I'm too lazy right now to actually post any pictures or video's from
the rides but you can find them all 'here' (http://tinyurl.com/28cbht).
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unicycle6869
Jamey (formaly tuna6869)
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