FLCC> FLCC Digest, Vol 59, Issue 8
Gil Menda
gm234 at cornell.edu
Tue Jul 8 10:29:37 EDT 2008
Any one that would like to see the tour for free on line here it is:
http://www.justin.tv/jtvsports2 Video
http://www.cyclingfans.com/ Audio eurosport
Enjoy it
Gil
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> 1. All welcome to TVC's "ESG RR Practice" Thursday, 10July at
> 6:30pm (Jeff Poulin)
> 2. Texas Hollow Ride Notes (John Dennis)
> 3. p.s. re: Rockies Ridge Ride (John Dennis)
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> Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 19:19:45 -0400
> From: "Jeff Poulin" <jpoulin at stny.rr.com>
> Subject: FLCC> All welcome to TVC's "ESG RR Practice" Thursday, 10July
> at 6:30pm
> To: "FLCC Bike Club" <flcc at icycle.org>, "'TVC Members'"
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> Cc: 'Mike Kumiega' <kumiegam at binghamtonschools.org>, "'Walker, Joe'"
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> Dear FLCC, TVC, et al.
>
> The TVC welcomes *all* to join us for our Thursday night RR as we dry-run
> the ESG road race course in south Binghamton and Vestal. We will do 2
> laps
> consisting of up PA Ave, r and up Hance Rd, right then quick right down
> State Line Rd, r onto Rt. 26, r and up Powderhouse Rd, r on Hogan Rd, r on
> Webb Rd, and repeat. The finish is at Mr. Hogan's mailbox on Hogan Rd
> (duh!), close to where the actual ESG finish was in 2000 and 2004 (and will
> be again in 2008).
>
> NOTE!! Instead of starting at the elementary school (as we will in the
> ESGs), we will start about 1/4 mile up PA ave (corner of Ross St) at the
> professional building. You may remember this as the only stop sign heading
> up PA Ave, and where the "neutral zone" ends during the ESGs.
>
> (For TVCers: we will not be doing the Alp d'Gardiner and the finish is
> the ESG finish, not at the Golf course!)
>
> One-night "guest membership" is free, we just ask that you sign a std USA
> Cycling waiver when you arrive (see our VPs Joe Walker or Mike Kumiega) and
> be ready to race promptly at 6:30!
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> Please pass along? See you there!
> -jeff
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> Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 20:35:30 -0400
> From: "John Dennis" <jvd at baka.com>
> Subject: FLCC> Texas Hollow Ride Notes
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> We had a great turn-out today and not a cloud in the sky.
>
> Andrejs Ozolin turned out as did Sam Kolins, Anna Sapozhinkova, Jim
> McGarry,
> Wayne Gottlieb, Scott Penner, Vanessa Ann McCaffery, Mark Sorrells, Louis
> McDonald, Kurt Lavetti, Eva Tarcsai, Jason Stilwell, Mike Richter, Ruth
> Sherman, Steve Bowman, Mark Sheehan, Jim Millar, David Sahn, Charles
> Dietrich, Kyra Stephanoff, Francis Steen, Jerry Licht, Randy Olsen, Richie
> Berg, and Amelia Habicht. Apologies to anyone I may have missed!
>
> We departed by 9:15am from the Professional Building. As we were heading
> due west on Iradell Road, I was riding near the back with Mike Richter,
> Ruth
> Sherman, and -if I recall correctly-Steve Bowman when we spotted a rider
> walking east on the left hand shoulder. Randy Olsen explained that he had
> had a flat and his house was "only about two miles away." Mike and I
> suggested fixing the flat and Randy admitted to being new to cycling and
> not
> having a clear idea of how this was done. He also admitted to having
> recently bought his ancient Raleigh multi-speed-I'm guessing 14 speeds-on
> e-Bay for $100. He had then shown the bike which came in the mail with
> flat
> tires--to Bike Rack Gary who reportedly exclaimed "All they need is air."
> It was apparently nearing the end of the work day, but I worry that BR Gary
> may be losing his famous entrepreneurial edge.
>
> Perhaps you can recall that old style tire that came with cream or
> tan-colored sidewalls made of gum arabica-or wait, am I thinking of Gutta
> Percha-that intrepid material that Egyptians allegedly used to fill
> cavities
> several thousand years ago? In any case, the sidewalls of Randy's two
> tires
> were in an advanced state of decay, resembling a crumbling papyrus
> manuscript just lifted from King Tut's tomb. What was BR Gary thinking we
> wondered? The tread portion of Randy's rear tire had balded down to the
> fabric in three or for places. Randy mentioned wistfully that he'd never
> been on a 50-mile ride before, so we took leave of common sense and decided
> to give it the old college try. Mike and I put a new tube into his back
> tire. I had one tire liner in my pack, but it was one of those, "where
> would you start?" situations. Soon after we resumed the ride, we met David
> Sahn who was heading east, "returning to base."
>
> As we were by then a good 10-15 minutes behind the lead group, Randy
> suggested that rather than follow the course route south to Mecklenberg and
> west on busy Rte 79, that we turn north and then head west on the less
> hilly
> and less traffic-laden CR 222. This provided an enjoyable ride and soon
> after turning south onto Texas Hollow Road, we caught sight of Richie Berg
> and Andrejs not far ahead. Tire marks in the dirt indicated that the
> thundering lead herd had already proceeded us. The full canopy of this
> road
> makes it well worth the portions of dirt road. And more of it was
> bitumened-lightly macadamed-than last year. Goldfinches were frequent in
> the open field portions and life was good. But then Randy complained of a
> soft front tire. So we stopped and pumped it up. Alas, by the sharp
> downhill on the way into Odessa, Randy's front tire had packed it in. But
> it was nothing a fresh tube at the Odessa refueling stop-kindly donated by
> Mike R.--couldn't handle.
>
> I did learn on this ride that Ruth and Steve are in training to participate
> in pactour's 19-day Ridge of the Rockies ride which starts on July 28th in
> Kalispell, Montana and which ends 1,943 miles and 88,000 feet of climbing
> later in El Paso, Texas. Ruth had ridden from home in West Danby today so
> as to get in about 85 miles today. Quickly doing the math, that will be
> doing a century every day in mostly mountainous terrain for almost three
> weeks. Wow!! I hope they serve good chow in the evenings.
>
> Speaking of long rides, I happened to check today to see how (click
> <http://stats.raceacrossamerica.org/2008/reports/overview.html> here)
> Steve
> Bugbee, a guy that Dan Barbasch and I rode with in May-well, rode with in
> the dark along the Hudson River for 50-some miles before he went off the
> front during the Lake Placid 400km brevet---had done in this year's Race
> Across America (RAAM). I see that Steve got 1122 miles into the race
> before
> being disqualified for not keeping up with the "finish in less than 12
> days"
> pace. That pace is about 250 miles every day! On the day we rode with
> him,
> he had not slept for 24 hours as he was doing his sleep deprivation
> training
> while riding a RAAM qualifier. Browsing on this site, I see that poor
> Caroline van den Bulk got within 55 miles of Annapolis, Maryland-the
> finish-before she was disqualified for not staying the pace. Maybe there
> is
> something to be said for just signing up with Pactours and letting them put
> you in a sag wagon if you start having problems keeping up on any given
> day.
> This year's RAAM winner finished in 27 minutes short of 9 days! So what is
> 9 into 3014? A blistering 335 miles a day! They now require a minimum of
> 20 hours of sleep, so the winner was averaging 14 mph before factoring in
> any sleep or refueling not to mention massage and the application of
> copious
> amounts of sun block and bag balm, though not in the same places.
>
> Back to today's 47-mile ride, I was plugging along near the back when I
> overshot the right turn off the Cayutaville Road. Sam Kolins and Amelia
> Habicht called me back. And it turned out that the lead group had done the
> same thing but hadn't heard Ruth calling them back. So a very strung out
> rear guard had a new chance to move up in the polls. Thanks to Mike, Ruth,
> Jim Millar, and Mark Sheehan (the middle group)-waiting near the top of
> Connecticut Hill, we regrouped for the speedy descent down into the Treman
> Park watershed. Miraculously, the real lead group (among them Vanessa,
> Wayne, Gary, Jim McGarry, Mark Sorrells, and Louis McDonald caught back up
> to us on Van Dorn Road and most of us rode back as a large group, with
> Francis Steen (our youngest rider) and her mom, Kyra Stepanoff, finishing
> near or in the final lead pack as well. Well done, Francis!!
>
> Thanks to Eva Tarcsai, Jason Stilwell and Andrejs for helping to sweep the
> back of the ride. Speaking for myself, that's enough to keep you on your
> feet.
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> Ride safe, John
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> Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 21:55:28 -0400
> From: "John Dennis" <jvd at baka.com>
> Subject: FLCC> p.s. re: Rockies Ridge Ride
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> I forgot to mention that it was Blaine Chamberlain who had the inspiration
> to participate on this year's Rockies Ridge Ride and altogether 4-6 people
> from Central New York are planning on going. At last count 44 berths out
> of
> a total of 50 were taken, so there is still time to jump on if you are
> already in good shape.
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> John
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Gil Menda
Gm234 at cornell.edu
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Dept. of Neurobiology and Behavior
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