The following is Mary Gersema's ride report, posted with her permission. -Jeff ... My Sexy Randonneur Lifestyle Cascade 1200K, Washington State July 2, 2006 ...
Great report, Jeff. It began to stir memories of past rides and imaginings of future ones, until the end, when I saw riders much stronger than I just make the ...
David Bundrick
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Jul 5, 2006 2:02 pm
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As always, a nice report Jeff. Congrats. It's interesting to read some else's impressions of this ride after having done it myself. It definitely sounds...
Haynes, Davy
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Jul 5, 2006 2:23 pm
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... Bearing in mind the ride format (semi-mandatory overnight stops), I would not read too much into the time cut-offs for this ride. We spent a *lot* of time...
In '05 I thought the ride was quite challenging, and that was without getting lost or the reported temperature extremes faced this year. When reading Jeff's...
Jeff, I enjoyed your story. Congrats to you and the Nashville boys! Nice photos, too. What was that dust cloud rolling down the hill and across the road in...
aakard
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Jul 9, 2006 11:59 pm
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Penny and I have just returned from a week's vacation in the Canadian Rockies, between Calgary and Jasper. Beautiful, beautiful country and we saw many...
... Thanks, Andy. That was the "watch for falling rock" section of the report. Michelle and I were riding together. We heard a rumbling -- saw a bunch of ...
A report from a friend of a friend: <<Bad day in the mountains on Saturday. I went up by myself, but met three guys at the jump off point getting ready to go....
Since our Georgia rides have ended, I was wondering who in our group plans on doing the remaining 1200k's? I see Davy Haynes and Charlie Feaux signed up for...
Kevin Kaiser
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Jul 11, 2006 4:18 am
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Some members of the MACC cycling club, including Greg Masterson and Margaret Graff, are in France this week and should be roadside for one or two of this...
I'm hoping to hear that Jeff Bauer and Mary Crawley have decided to tackle BMB on a tandem. If so, I think they will have a strong ride, though it may not be...
I pulled out of the last chance a while back. Too many family commitments this year. There is an outside chance I might do the Bonifay 1200 at the last...
Haynes, Davy
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Jul 11, 2006 1:16 pm
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... If we do it, low gearing and lots of sleep will be essential. :-) I hope we see some familiar faces in Boston ... -Jeff...
Kevin+ Hope to see some of ya'll at BMB. All I can tell you at this point is that BMB has took money from my credit card. I plan on doing QuadZilla, so I hope...
Jeff, Check out their website. Quadzilla is run on a schedule other than every year. Mike D. ... From: jbauer@... To: garandon@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tue,...
... http://www.rochesterbicyclingclub.com/ultra/flindex.htm "QuadZilla is held in the year preceding and the year of PBP." Michelle Dulieu, whom we rode with...
I was a DNS one year but saw the cuesheet before I was forced to abandon. I was very much intimidated by the number of turns and the small font used on the...
Congrats to Tony Goodnight and Rick Rheingans, who each completed the 24 Hour Saratoga Challenge bicycle race this past weekend. Rick finished second (439.40...
This was an absolutely beautiful course. It was a big lollipop shape of almost 32 miles that slowly climbed (a bit) above the Hudson River valley and then...
Richard Rheingans
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Jul 12, 2006 11:38 am
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From the live telecast of today's TdF mountain stage (cyclingnews.com). How to lose friends on a brevet. 13:48 CEST 59km/131.5km to go Gonchar chats to his...
Rick, Congratulations on another impressive ride. Based on his last two BMB's Saunders is one of the best long distance cyclists around, having broken the BMB...
Here's an interesting article on sleep deprivation, a subject which most of us have had direct experience: http://tinyurl.com/ktco4 "Giulio Tononi of the...
Hello Ya'll This past weekend was the Saratoga 24 Ultracycling race. At the beginning of the week my back alignment had gotten off and I was not very...
Tony, That's a good result, especially considering that you probably had no support. I can see where it would be an advantage to drive to an event like this...