Travelers rest, SC. Most of ride was in NC though. Steven Brake
Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone ----- Reply message ----- From: "Kinnie Pruden" <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: [COWs] Sat ride Date: Sat, Oct 27, 2012 6:24 pm Steven, that sounds like a great ride with fantastic results! Congrats! BTW where was that again? kp From: Kim Benson <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2012 6:01 PM Subject: Re: [COWs] Sat ride Whoa!! Awesome ride and report! That's a thigh buster for sure, great job! Sent from my iPhone On Oct 27, 2012, at 5:43 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: I also ment to say that there were a lot of leaves on the road. I lost traction at point and almost crashed. Thank the Lord I was able to recover. There were also a lot of blown tires do to over heating rim's. Gotta feather those breaks. Idk. Anyway. Great day on the bike. Steven Brake Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone ----- Reply message ----- From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Subject: [COWs] Sat ride Date: Sat, Oct 27, 2012 5:30 pm I finished the Grand Fondo. 80 miles and 8200 feet of climbing. I finished in 5 hours and 57 mile of ride time. Longer for the sag stops. I didn't spend much time at the stops. Had three big climbs. First was Skyuka a cat 1 climb 1813 feet in 4 miles 8.7% avg grade. Saw some 18% here and there. Howard Gap cat 2 climb, 1.4 miles 824 feet with a 11.4% avg grade!!!!! No switch backs just straight up. I had to weave back and forth across the road to make it up. Had some 20% for very short spots on that one. The last climb was Green River Cove cat 5 climb 2.4 miles with 971 feet only 7.5%.. Got very steep at the top I had to stand for the switch backs half way up.. I was getting very tired at this point. Many people saged in and a lot walk the climbs. I was able to ride all of them. Never walked the course. There were times my back was killing me and I had to stretch it out. Great ride and was very professionally done. I got to meet Chris Carmicheal and spend some time with him. Most of route was closed to traffic and had ride marshals and sheriffs blocking traffic at all intersections. Down hills were very fast and technical. Wind keep speed down on some of them. I hit 41.4 mph as a max. Would have done more but the wind was really blowing hard. I did the whole thing solo. I couldn't seem to find a group I fit in with. I did see spend some time with some old friends from Carmicheal. I had a great time but I'm very very tired. Lucas, I don't know how u do it. Last 10 miles I was give slam out and need food badly. They gave out a new BMC bike to the winner and cash money to the top riders. No I didn't even come close. Will send Garmin report when I get home. Steven Brake Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone ----- Reply message ----- From: "Jim Davis" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Subject: [COWs] Sat ride Date: Sat, Oct 27, 2012 1:09 pm Four brave souls, Doc, Weatherman, Bob L and I left DD shortly after 7:30 determined to spit in the face of Sandy and steal a ride. One third Belgian with winds ene steady 15 gusting over 20. Hwy 58, bend of the river, s. Halifax through elm city. Weatherman and Bob did most of the head wind work. Heading in on s. Halifax, 301 and lake Wilson, wheeeeee! Great day to be on the bike. Birdman Sent from my iPad -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CyclistsOfWilson-COWs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. 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