Saturday 5AM I rode from home in Horsham, PA to Georgetown and met up with Mike Ridgeway, who also runs the Lancaster Dream Ride for local Charities, we rode out West on the RAAM route for 25 miles, crossed the Susquehanna River and turned around at a Restaurant at the Maryland border. The temperature averaged around 94 and sunny with high (93%) humidity. As we were leaving the Restaurant we heard a barking coming from a parked car in the direct sun with windows 3/4 up. One person was calling 911, but by the time the Police arrive the dog would be dead from the heat. I went inside the Restaurant and announced who owns a car in the parking lot with a dog locked inside? The entire restaurant got concerned, in fact one person came outside and was going to break the windows!! I found the family (who was ignoring me) and had them get the dog out of the car!!
It was very hot and no matter how much you drank dehydration was a factor. We stopped at just about every convenience store, of which there were not that many out in the back roads! This cost me a lot of time but I finished at 10PM with 225 miles and 12,700' of climbing.
Sunday, August 5, 2007
Saturday, July 28, 2007
Support for a Friend
This past weekend the Daydream ride was on the schedule to help with support for Mike Ridgeway in Lancaster. Friday I rode to work (40 miles), worked 8 hours, rode to Lancaster (another 35 miles), due to heavy thunder storms I had to stop. Saturday I sagged all day for 30, 63 and 100 mile route and helped set up at 4AM.
Sunday heavy thunder storms in morning kept me from leaving Lancaster at 4am. By the time the lightening had ceased it was 6am, I was on the road by 6:30am. Stopped for Breakfast and headed out for home. About 15 minutes into the ride I looked behind me to see BLACK sky, which I was hoping would be following the river that I was going away from, I got as far as King Highway Elementary School just east of 340 and Rt 10, about 25 miles when the lightening started up, 1.5 hours later it was still raining but the lightening was over 10 miles away so I started out. Very nice ride until I got to the wooden bridge that connects Valley Forge Park to Betzwood (VF Trail), apparently a horse had gone over this bridge and broken 2 boards and left a lot of "stuff" on the pavement leading down to Betzwood. About 10 miles later as I was on the VF bike trail, I was going through the S curve where the 'Cross County' and Schukyll trails meet and down I went leaving quite a bit of skin. The road surface was freshly paved with what appears to be blacktop, VERY Slippery. Home by 2:30 (90 miles), in time to mow the lawn!!
Sunday heavy thunder storms in morning kept me from leaving Lancaster at 4am. By the time the lightening had ceased it was 6am, I was on the road by 6:30am. Stopped for Breakfast and headed out for home. About 15 minutes into the ride I looked behind me to see BLACK sky, which I was hoping would be following the river that I was going away from, I got as far as King Highway Elementary School just east of 340 and Rt 10, about 25 miles when the lightening started up, 1.5 hours later it was still raining but the lightening was over 10 miles away so I started out. Very nice ride until I got to the wooden bridge that connects Valley Forge Park to Betzwood (VF Trail), apparently a horse had gone over this bridge and broken 2 boards and left a lot of "stuff" on the pavement leading down to Betzwood. About 10 miles later as I was on the VF bike trail, I was going through the S curve where the 'Cross County' and Schukyll trails meet and down I went leaving quite a bit of skin. The road surface was freshly paved with what appears to be blacktop, VERY Slippery. Home by 2:30 (90 miles), in time to mow the lawn!!
Saturday, July 7, 2007
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Floyd Landis Challenge TT
Saturday, June 30th, the weather was perfect, 75 degrees, little wind, clear, sunny. The start of the TT was at the Riverview Elementary School in Marietta (west of Lancaster). This is a 28 mile race with each racer leaving at 1 minute increments. About 10 entrants were there for a 10AM start. At 9:45 AM there were questions about the route and since it was not painted I volunteered to Race/Paint with a 10 minute head start I went out with a can of paint to put down arrows at each turn so there would be no question of where to turn and no one would be lost. We had 2 small climbs in each direction, Chickies Rock and Turkey Hill, the rest of the route was rolling with very little traffic. Somehow I stayed out in front even with painting arrows and taking about 5 minutes at the turn around deciding where the safest and best place would be. Thanks to Mike Ridgeway for hosting a great race for "CycleSmart".
Monday, June 25, 2007
06-23-07 Longest Day
The Longest Day is also known as the Lancaster Longest day Challenge, consisting of 400 miles with ~28,000' of climbing. The climbs are short and steep, as soon as you get to the top of one climb you have a steep descent and a climb right after crossing a stream, there are many covered bridges on this route in the heart of Lancaster County. There were many Amish children, teams of horses working the fields, horse drawn buggies, truly a step back in time. The weather was dry, sunny, warm and the headwinds were variable depending on the direction I was riding!!!
Oh and don't forget about the two laughing Amish Work horses we passed playing in the cornfield at 2:30 AM, crossing the road to the alfalfa field across the street, that refused to let us by on the road.
Thanks to my CREW! Fred, Hummel, Beth, Diane, Chappy.
My time: 29h:59m to complete.
Previous Longest Day Record 35 hours
Oh and don't forget about the two laughing Amish Work horses we passed playing in the cornfield at 2:30 AM, crossing the road to the alfalfa field across the street, that refused to let us by on the road.
Thanks to my CREW! Fred, Hummel, Beth, Diane, Chappy.
My time: 29h:59m to complete.
Previous Longest Day Record 35 hours
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