SLO - town was amazingly warm, well attended (about 60 riders per day). Chris/Trish Black did a great job. Info and photos from that ride below.
SR - was equally impressive, highlighted but a feisty group of 45 on Friday and an epic Sweetwater Springs climb, a massive group Saturday of 0ver 60 in cold temperatures heading out Coleman Valley to the coast - photos from our super SAG and photographer Ronnie Lenzi:
(http://www.veronikalenzi.com/data/PedroBrown/index.html)
The Saturday group was antsy, tough to contain despite my begging, pleading, and manhandling riders! Once we split the group at the 50 mile mark after lots of climbing, most went home and 12 crazy fast riders chased Nick and Dirk around the county for a 6 hour ride. Ouch.
Sunday saw ride temps to start, in the rain, at 29 degrees. 18 riders showed! Wow. Most of the group was pretty gassed, with sore legs, and enjoyed skies clearing after the first 20 minutes and 3 hours of great, rather epic riding. We head south (due to black ice and hail at the top of Trinity and Spring Mt.) to the rolling hills between Tomales and Sebastopol and had a wet last 30 minutes.
Thanks to ALL who CAME OUT! The rides, the dinner, the training, all make the whole charade worth while! Total of 206 miles, 13,000 feet of climbing and ONE RIDER, only one, showed up to complete all the miles for Santa Rosa. Congrats to MADDOGGGGGG, seen here riding next to his gay lover.
Pedro
From Chris last weekend---
Today we had a total of 57 riders and slightly cooler temperatures for a great ride south to the Nipomo Mesa. Walter Ajanel from Wally's Bike works provided support for today's ride (so Trish could rejoin the ride after driving support yesterday).
The weekend was a big success; thanks to all who attended and contributed to lots of fun and sore legs. Total distance was 204 miles and just shy of 10,000 feet of climbing.
I hope many of you will attend Peter Brown's camp next weekend in Santa Rosa; it should be a blast!
Saturday photos at the bottom:
gallery.me.com/cblackride
Chris Black
Morgan Stanley/24 Hour Fitness/ Specialized Cycling Team
San Luis Obispo, CA
Morgan Stanley/24 Hour Fitness/ Specialized Cycling Team
San Luis Obispo, CA
4 comments:
Super awesome ride, Pedro! Thanks!!
Thanks so much for putting the rides together. It was an awesome day of riding. Thanks!!!
awe... you all are so sweet. everyone is welcome, I tried hard (and fail just about every year!) to make everyone happy.
it is a worthy goal. and this year, since my SLO tradition carried on and was transferred to SR, I was the happiest (and tiredest) of all. I had trouble walking after 6 long days of riding it two weekends AND I can't stop eating!! YUM
yes, pedro. congrats and thanks. SLO-town had a great time... it's a great tradition. happy, merry everything and see you in Ohhhh-Nine!
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