The weekend Thread

[Spudman***]

That looks like it would have been fun. That's a lot of people out on the road all at once. It's probably half the population of all of Idaho.

Our local club has a couple of "go fast and puke" 100 milers coming up that I hope I'll be in town to do. We don't get the charity rides happening around here and I don't know why. We've got a lot of open, untrafficked roads around to do them on.

[Tig***]

Yep, it was fun. I haven't ridden more than 60 miles at a time in 2 decades, concentrating mostly on short, high intensity stuff like MTB and track races. This was the 30th Texas MS ride. The last one I rode was in 1988!

My legs are already feeling better today. I'll work on climbing and loosing some weight the rest of the year.

[Tig***]

A photo of day 1. I'm about 160, 30 pounds above my racing days average weight. Losing just half of that would help on the climbs!

[Brian Krashpad]

A photo of day 1. I'm about 160, 30 pounds above my racing days average weight. Losing just half of that would help on the climbs!

I've got about 3 to 5 pounds on you, but the differential to my high school soccer-playing weight is the same.

Difference: you're exercising and I'm not.

[sunvalleylaw]

A photo of day 1. I'm about 160, 30 pounds above my racing days average weight. Losing just half of that would help on the climbs!

Looking at your photos, it makes me want to do one of these rides again. I love supported multi day group rides. Been a long time though. There was a Lung Association ride last year somewhere around here, but I don't see one for this year. There is a MS 150 way up in northern Idaho, or in Bozeman. Also, they have a variant of the one I used to do still in Washington. Not sure if I can pull it off with scheduled travel this year, but I sure would like to do a group supported ride.