So, did you ride today? (Details!)

**Junk T.I.** · 08-21-2012 07:24 AM

quick 20 miler solo night ride. I chased a couple of local segments. improved on all of them

**jnm2.0t** · 08-21-2012 10:45 PM

Quick 9.7 before dinner. Best ride yet, grabbed a top 10 segment out of 493 and if I can pickup 5 seconds on it will break top 5. Bit disappointed that Strava didnt pause during one stoplight for about 1:30, would like to have seen my average close to 20. Oh well.

**GinsterGTI** · 08-22-2012 08:34 AM

Went out and got my Tuesday night beatdown.

**climbingcue** · 08-22-2012 09:03 AM

Originally Posted by J-Tim

Already posted on your Strava: are you following the peloton ?

Nope, I did Quandary Peak yesterday hiking. Elevation 14,265 ft with 3,200 ft gain in 3 miles. So I will not have time to follow the race. I will be in Boulder on Thursday and Friday and hope to ride both days. I am also planning on riding the bike up to 12,167 ft in Rocky Mountain park then the end of next week it is going to be riding up Mt Evans the highest paved road in the US...

**climbingcue** · 08-22-2012 05:12 PM

Entire ride over 8,000 ft... I need a job in Colorado, so I can ride here all the time...

**BsickPassat** · 08-23-2012 12:21 PM

after not riding in over 2 weeks.... in part due to business travel and the other part due to laziness.... I paid the price for it during my 2 mile hillclimb attempt during my lunch ride....

**Holden McNeil** · 08-23-2012 10:48 PM

Originally Posted by climbingcue

Nope, I did Quandary Peak yesterday hiking. Elevation 14,265 ft with 3,200 ft gain in 3 miles. So I will not have time to follow the race. I will be in Boulder on Thursday and Friday and hope to ride both days. I am also planning on riding the bike up to 12,167 ft in Rocky Mountain park then the end of next week it is going to be riding up Mt Evans the highest paved road in the US...

so... jealous...

**climbingcue** · 08-24-2012 07:26 PM

Originally Posted by Holden McNeil

so... jealous...

Did the climb the pro's are doing tomorrow on both Thursday and Friday. It is a tuff climb, here is the data for both days.

**Junk T.I.** · 08-25-2012 10:56 AM

50 mile group ride

**GinsterGTI** · 08-25-2012 12:09 PM

That climb looks fun Bill. I consider myself a climber but always wonder how I would stack up against the big hills out west. One day I guess...

**jnm2.0t** · 08-26-2012 01:22 PM

First time ever doing any sort of climbing and I really need work at it.

**synthsis** · 08-26-2012 02:41 PM

Did 15 miles today. Had a nasty headache from the Victory Summer Loves I drank last night, which is surprising, and didn't eat enough this morning, both my fault. It felt good to get out and sweat though.

**Hawk** · 08-26-2012 06:49 PM

I rode 100 kilometers today. But Strava uploaded it as 99.9 km. Even though on my iPhone app it was 100.03. Hmmm...

**J-Tim** · 08-26-2012 07:22 PM

Cracking ride on Saturday...quite windy though!

**BsickPassat** · 08-26-2012 07:29 PM

about 10 miles of single track.

talking to some roadies if they are planning on doing the Sourlands Spectacular on Grand Fondo NJ weekend...

**andycooper** · 08-27-2012 10:39 AM

1st cross race of the "preseason". Going into it I didn't have much in the way of expectations because I haven't exactly been training all that much. I wound up getting 10th/45, much better than I expected. The fact that the course was fairly technically challenging helped me, because if it was just a grass crit I would've been flung out the back of the race.

**A1an** · 08-27-2012 12:20 PM

Yesterday's ride:

Short break:

Summoning the powers of Lance:

**jnm2.0t** · 08-27-2012 05:51 PM

This weekends ride will be with a 2 time Team USA Olympian. Looking forward to some good pointers.

**climbingcue** · 08-27-2012 09:53 PM

Originally Posted by GinsterGTI

That climb looks fun Bill. I consider myself a climber but always wonder how I would stack up against the big hills out west. One day I guess...

Anyone that likes to climb on the bike needs to come to Colorado at somepoint. Here is today's ride thru Rocky Mountain National Park... Starting Elevation was 8,526 ft and summit Elevation was 12,180 ft. I feel like I have a good chance with the Mt Evans climb later this week.

**J-Tim** · 08-27-2012 11:34 PM

Impressive!

How are you coping with riding at high altitudes ?

**climbingcue** · 08-28-2012 06:07 AM

Originally Posted by J-Tim

Impressive!

How are you coping with riding at high altitudes ?

I seem to be adjusting very well, this is my 3rd time in Colorado and I have felt better this year than any other year...

Bill

**j0oftheworld** · 08-28-2012 07:14 PM

SoMo 8.26.12

SoMo TT course (San Juan to Towers)
5.5mi 1160ft elevation gain
32min ~ 10.3mph
HR Ave = 173 Max = 190

http://app.strava.com/segments/609429

This is our local South Mountain Park.. Biggest city park in the country.

My 3rd time up it, 2nd on my Madone. Baseline run.. shooting for 25min by end of year. Record is something like 18mins. :p

**Jboard** · 08-28-2012 08:23 PM

Saturday, rode opposite the race in Boulder, only 1/2 the distance. Up Lee Hill, Up Left Hand, Down Canyon.
No Strava on long rides, iPhone batteries won't hold out, so I don't bother.

It was way cool too see the riders coming up Canyon from the top.

The ride down canyon was pretty fun too.

**jnm2.0t** · 08-28-2012 09:45 PM

Yes and I damn near crashed at 30mph when some college kid on a bike came wandering into the road off a curb without looking either direction.

**synthsis** · 08-28-2012 10:11 PM

my LBS did their second TT last weekend but I skipped since I hadn't spent enough time on my bike due to a couple vacations recently. Kinda kicking myself for not doing it. Luckily the start and finish lines are spray painted on the road so I can go out and do it whenever I want.

**synthsis** · 08-29-2012 11:24 PM

24mile B-Group ride tonight. 1:10minutes, avg'ed 19.8. We ended up meeting up with another LBS A-group and someone had to get a big ego and try to keep up. Looked down and I was doing 26.

Blew up a little bit at mile 19 and fell off the back by a couple hundred meters, luckily some guy blew up worse than me so I drug him home.

**XClayX** · 08-30-2012 12:09 AM

6.6mi urban night ride on the singlespeed. First actual ride on one it was fun. Geared a bit low for the streets. 16-18mph is really spinning it.

**climbingcue** · 08-30-2012 06:51 PM

Today's climb was what all the training for the last two weeks led up too. 27.7 miles up hill on the highest paved road in the USA. Elevation peak for the road is 14,130 ft above sea level. Got rained and hailed on for the last 2 miles up and then 5 miles back down to where I had a car pick me up.

**dts** · 08-30-2012 11:41 PM

Almost 8k of gain in just over 33 miles. In a place where there's comparatively little oxygen.

Whoa -- I'm not worthy.

Meanwhile, I'll just post up my little group ride with the local bike club's three group (of five):

**climbingcue** · 08-31-2012 02:46 PM

Last ride in Colorado for this years trip, it was a great two weeks and look forward to coming back next year. With the two hikes I ended the month with 63,106 ft of climbing. I really need to figure out how to move out here...

**J-Tim** · 09-01-2012 12:16 AM

Easily, the most beautiful ride I've ever done!

**jnm2.0t** · 09-02-2012 01:59 PM

Bummed it didn't pause for the 8 minutes I had to adjust the saddle but oh well

**climbingcue** · 09-02-2012 06:06 PM

1st ride back in NJ from the Colorado trip, we did a little bit of climbing

**Holden McNeil** · 09-02-2012 09:04 PM

Rode with a co-worker and Bill. Was probably the most difficult ride i've ever done. Makes the double century I did in June look like a Sunday joy ride.

**J-Tim** · 09-02-2012 10:40 PM

I've had no idea you could do that kind of elevation gain in NJ! Impressive!

VWVortex

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