Radquer | Cyclocross day

At Veteran's day Py went out for an alternative training ride on his Stonbite Cross Velo and headed towards CP to meet with Craig and Karl for a few CP laps. A crisp clear windy and chilly day, great warm in the sun, pretty chilly in the shade and on open wind exposed areas.

Also this was an experiment to do the whole trail with all diamonds on his Stonie Cross, but was 100% ridable and flying on the very few smoother straits... Basically skill and traction limited, sliding on tonns on leaves and bouncing over hidden roots. May be little less tire pressure would have done good. But it was all fun and a great workout, no troubles at all.

Here the most active three of the WP team so far... 11 good well earned points today.

Trevors #2

2nd Sunday of November, means Trevors ride #2. So Py got up little past 6am got ready by 7:35 and rolled out and pushed up this steep hill in front of his house... some what not feeling so well today, tiered and little low on energy, may be low on sugar? However, he got to the start in the usual 35 min, so all must be normal enough.

The early group was almost ready to go as he arrived...

So what, let's chill out 15 more minutes in teh nice early morning sun -- seams like getting a great day. The chase group... just a few riders so far.









The group grew up to nine riders if Py remembers right. 8:33 -- they rolled out and kept moving nicely constant good pace, as Py did felt little weired this morning, he played as smart as reasonable and just stayed very shortly at front or just kept hiding from the wind more behind. This worked out great all the way :-)

On Mill Rd the eary group came into sight and they passed them, a few riders tagged on and kept going the faster pace. Also K tagged on, he gained one more point for starting out slow, as funny as it is... so what, Py was feeling little better after finishing up one more Clif bar and completed the group ride today all teh way back to PJ/112 instead of bailing East on North Country.

Here K & C back at the start.

What a day. Py rode back at decent pace, but a few miles before home he all sudden run really low on fuel... and was going at some emergeny pace for the last few minutes and made it to Tildas. Got a bad of goodies and a piece of Rasberry Crum Cake -- this was dedicated to be finishged on the spot -- that helped a lot and he got back enough power to finish up the ride and make the 15 points for today -- one more hill lap.

Ride stats:

Total: 3h46:37, 119 km, 882 m elev gain, 146 bpm avg / 179 bpm max, 83 rpm, 68.6 km/h max, 31.5 km/h avg, 4200 cal.

Group Lap: 2h:21:17, 85 km, 502 m elev gain, 156 bpm avg / 179 bpm max, 91 rpm, 68.6 km/h max, 36.2 km/h avg, 3092 cal

RP2IPBP

A grey fully overcast humid windy 15C warm morning. Wet leaves spread all over minor roads -- extra attention for that. Py decided the RP2IPBP ride is a go and meet w C at 9am at Tildas for the old RP2IPBP ride.

On the way he had to stop for this view...

at Iron Pear Beach Park... a grey background





an good decent just right ride to prepare for Trevors.

Visit of Tildas at end of the ride and
one lap around the block to complete 12 WP points -- needless to say, this lap adds also 80hm.

10k Bluestones...

Drizzel, warm, wet, high humidity, slippery leaves, just messy on the road. Py put in a few lunch time runs...

This is his favorite route w/o warmup/cooldown and meeting at the reactor sections -- scenic back roads within the quite woods of the Camp.

Road Ride Lunch

This nice warm and sunny morning at the time he was up to close his gate before driving to the Camp, Py spontaneously decided to get quickly back in and grab his road bike and stuff in expectancy of some one would think a like and would be up for a quick lunch time ride at noon.

So it came, and Py meet up with Trevor at the old reactor building. A great day for good ride, a perfect pace.


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Trevors race (ride) #1

The first Sunday of November kicked off the change from EBs to Trevors route or ride... same core riders, hillier route, no stop, similar distance, later start at 8:30 for the winter season.

This morning and basically all day it was pretty chilly, clear sky and windy, 4C as Py left his house to ride the 16km on mostly North Country to the start in Port Jeff at 112. He got quickly to the start and was early, he had tail wind.

All he got were a few photos of the riders at the start -- the assembled riders were mostly some of the stronges out here on LI -- getting interesting...

From Trevors

So far so good, 8:30 they rolled out of the parking lot and got moving pretty fast for the first section out easy on North Country, flying over the seamingly not existing hills, Py felt good so far and was may be little too excited and took some good pulls... they passed some riders fixing (a flat?) of the 8:12 started group. Pulling again out to Boy-Scout-Hill into the wind little too long, Py got little behind but caught back up to the little slowing group shortly before Osborne.
Turning into Osborne with some tail wind (12mph NNE) they started racing at up/over 50km/h what did gave Py a hard time to hang on, not yet recovered from the catch up and as they aproached the light at Old Country he still was close, the group passed the light just at the end of the green phase and Py lost even more time at the red light :-(
In the mean while Py joined up with S. who also got behind. They continued as a duo team, so that was good. On mill they caught two more dropped riders, one was K. They just tagged on... Taking turns again on Mill, a differen slower group ride came along opposide direction on mill, telling they were 30sec behind -- well, true or not, no way to catch up with the "big" guys.

Two riders bailed out (home?) early, so only K. and Py were left, Py took one long pull the long way back back to North Country, from where he rode back this same road again as he came, roade out and now back. It seamed the arctic cold wind was always in Pys face and it did not warmed up at all.

The Ride stats - almost 70mi:

CP laps

Saturday morning about 8:15, not yet sure what's up for the day, Py got up and checked mail and figured it was already 8:20... and his buddies wanted to ride CP at 9am.... welllllll, hurry up, quick Cappuccino, splashing some water in the face, grabbing all the stuff, dressing up and putting the big bike in the car, skippin breakfast, and taking a few Cliff bars and water... he drove to CP and arrived in time.

A very nice day was just starting out slightly chilly but good for short sleeves and pants to start out, great. They stared out at a good pace and kept going form half way at good, but little more moderate pace enjoying the ride.

One lap down, quick snack, they decided to go for one more, still getting nicer :-)

Two laps down, quick 2nd snack and one more, but just the dolly lap for cool down.

Three laps down. Nice ride guys....

Back home after some shopping, house work and other stuff... Py finally got his "breakfast" in just little delayed.