Brad_sr51, The keys to your disappointing first TOSRV are probably your statement: "I've never ridden a century before this ride." and the fact you rode alone...
My first TOSRV was in 2003 and found the ride to be very enjoyable for the terrain, though I only planned my ride one way to Portsmouth, starting from...
so many experienced riders talk about the winds encounterd. This spring will be my first tosvr east and first time in OHIO. Is the norm winds or not?...
I always look at flags as I drive to work each day, and to see one hanging still in NE Oh is very rare, I notice it. ONLY time that seems to happen is on a...
I have completed 26 TOSRV's and I can tell you that wind is always present in the Scioto Valley. Saturday usually has tail to crosswinds of varying degree with...
I've lost count of how many TOSRV's I've done. I've been doing them since 1986, and have only missed a few. For me its a rite of spring, the beginning of the...
Last year I rode several centuries in Northern OH. "Sunday in June" Geauga CO, "WOO City Century" Wooster, "Emerald Necklace Tour" Cleveland, and the "Hancock...
Hills are relative... With that said, TOSRV is a good blend. It is not completely flat! I would classify it as gently rolling, and hilly at the 50 mile mark...
Thought it was Jan 15, now ~Feb 1. Oh well, the ride is the 2nd week of May either way! Just sent off my TOSRV-West application, $75, includes a shirt but...
I started training a month ago but I can see I need to get much more serious. Thanks for the guidance. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Craig, I don't think you wil find TOSRV to be difficult. I way over trained for what I thought would be hills but were instead rollers. I admit a few on the...
I have another question for you veterans. OK you say to get an early start, but then I hear it is staggered starts. Are we assigned start times and if so, can...
Go buy a good rain jacket. 2003 was not a horrible weather year...most aren't, but most TOSRVs aren't warm either. That's just Ohio spring weather. I'd rather...
You can start whenever you'd like. The start is only staggered in that there is no mass start. Earliest time is limited by when the luggage trucks arrive for...
You can start when ever you want as long as the sun is up. I have only done this ride the past 2 years and the first year I was advised that only EXPERT...
Most years that I've done TOSRV, I've left around 8:00, spending most of the ride catching the main field. However, If you want to cruise with the main field...
Hello, Just a quick note to let you all know that Ride For A Cause has released their schedule of cycling events for ’04. These Fundraising Rides take place...
I am a little late getting in on this conversation but I pretty much agree with what has been said already. 7:00 to 7:30AM are pretty good start times. If you...
It rained all the way down, tornado warnings from Waverly on, flash flooding, severe storms South of Waverly, intense lightening, that is Spring weather in...
We must have been of different TOS's. We departed at our usual 8:45 - 9 AM and had a great dry trip except for the road being wet! I have no idea why people...
Gee, I must have missed something...maybe it pays to be slow? I know overnight it was horrible (a tree branch through a picnic table at Yocatangy park comes to...
I started very early, before 7am and it starting raining about a mile past the first stop at the dairy farm. I remember a friendly white duck hanging out in a...
I have done Tos more than a few times and I like to leave early. I mean real early, like as soon as the SAG trucks show up. (6:15-6:30). Why you ask. Here are...
My trip started at 0500 from Deleware in the rain and it pretty much did that the during the trip for me, leaving the downtown starting area around 0630....
...and let's all hope TOSRV finds something to replace the dairy barn rest stop fiasco. There has to be a way to return to the Fox School. Anybody else...
Fox - that is a recent memory. I think we should go way back and ask for Brooks Yates to come back! Anyone have any idea what I am speaking of???? NHJim ... ...
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