saturday's century

saturday's stats: 105 miles, 10hrs09min, 7000' climbing, 120 avg heartrate

friday's metric

friday stats: 66 miles, 5hrs15min, 4200' climbing, 123 avg heartrate

thursday night ride

stats: 32 miles, 2hrs30min, 118 avg heartrate, 2600' climbing

getting started

kent and steve have made it. so has the rain. looking pretty hit and miss with the weather for the next few days. planning to head out around 6p.m. tonight for 30ish miles of sloppiness. yay.

schedule

THURSDAY
-people will be arrive throughout early afternoon as best i can tell
-approx 6p.m. departure for 30 mile ride. guessing we'll be heading to ridgeway and back to keep the hills to a minimum. the timing of this ride will be flexible and will be leaving from my driveway in back of the old bookends and beans building at 309 e. water st. any locals wanting to join can either swing by or give me a call to see if the time has changed at all. if someone from out of town gets delayed, we will delay the ride. don't show up at 6 and get pissed if we don't leave til 8 just to wait for one person. we will wait.
-finish ride, clean bikes, eat, sleep.

FRIDAY
-6:30a.m. wake-up call and breakfast
-8a.m. departure for no-drop metric to harmony and back. depending on gravel conditions i'm estimating a fairly chill pace and about a 6hr finish time.
-finish ride, clean bikes, get cleaned up.
-dinner. couple of ideas here but final decision will be made by the group from out of town. locals are welcome to join, just stay in touch as to where we're going. regardless, all will/should plan on eating everything in sight. the way the weather looks, saturday is gonna hurt.
-back to apt to get bikes set up for saturday.
-sleep.

SATURDAY
-5:30a.m. wake-up call.
-7a.m. departure for saturday's self-supported century. guessing a few of us will choose to ride this together but if anyone drops off the back or feels like pushing on you will have cue sheets. guessing gravel conditions will lead to finish times between 8-12 hours. PACK YOUR LIGHTS!
-finish is back at my apt. we will collect there and clean up/clean bikes before deciding what to do for the rest of the night. whatever that is will most likely involve an unnecessary amount of alcohol and food.

feel free to call me with questions: 563.380.4791
don't be surprised if i don't answer, i usually don't. leave a message and i'll get back to you.

Today Mar 8 AM Fog / PM Sun 46° 34° 10% 46°F Tue Mar 9 Showers 48° 40° 60% 48°F Wed Mar 10 Rain 50° 38° 70% 50°F Thu Mar 11 Showers 51° 40° 40% 51°F Fri Mar 12 Showers 50° 37° 40% 50°F Sat Mar 13 Partly Cloudy 50° 34° 20% 50°F

like i said...

bring everything. don't know how much rain is forecasted but there's some maybe coming down everyday from now til thursday. bring everything. cross bikes, mountain bikes, fenders, rain gear, plenty of food. LIGHTS!!! if the roads get as shitty as it looks like they might our finishing times are just gonna get later and later and possibly start running into daylight issues. an incredibly masochistic side of me can't help but smile when i think about how truly miserable and painful saturday might be...

finalizing the century

took a drive friday afternoon to check out the cue sheets and see just how many street signs are missing/have been turned and to figure out exactly where all of you are going to get lost and hate me. i have done my best to draw your attention to potential problems, danger areas, etc. PLEASE DON'T BE STUPID!!!!! there are a couple times you will be riding the shoulder of highways for short distances, there are some raging fast (35-40mph) downhills, there are dogs, there are cars, there might be ice, it might get dark on you, you have to go from mile 35-85 without refueling...DON'T BE STUPID!!!! the first picture below is the sattre store. this is your 35 mile stop. look close. it is a house in the middle of nowhere and the owner lives upstairs. i will be calling just to make sure she's open for us. refilling your water will probably mean asking her to fill your bottles from her kitchen sink. i don't think the food is expired. do NOT expect hot dogs or pizza. we're talking bags of chips and fig newtons. maybe a 12 pack of busch light. the second picture is a casey's that is your 85 mile stop. expect normal gas station fare here. please understand this...you/we are going to get worked by this century. its no joke. i rode the first 35 miles of it last week and was deviously happy. i rode about 52 miles yesterday that was kind of like riding the last 50 backwards...we're really in for something with this ride. and with it being on the heels of a metric, just make sure you bring the right mindset and plenty of water/food. for what its worth i will probably be leaving with approx. 150oz of fluid with no plans of refilling liquids at the sattre store. i expect the 50oz carborocket and 100oz water to get me to the 85 mile stop. side note...thinking at this point we might have a contest to see who returns with the most busch light mile markers. yes, in northeast iowa the gravels are littered with empty busch light cans and if anyone feel the need to be an environmentalist while you're out there you might just get rewarded for being an awesome person.