Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Tip #3 -Boy Scouty and Girl Scouty Stuff
Intro:
Part of the original blog request was that I comment on "boy scouty" types of tip. Just as good "girl scouty" tips too. So here goes.
What worked for me:
1. The number #1 thing that makes riding in the rain more pleasant is fenders.
2. Never pass up water. Especially when an RBA is standing by the side of the road passing out water.
3. Travel as heavily loaded as you need to. I never was truly sorry for carrying something. I have been truly sorry for not having things.
4. Metal fenders are the work of the devil. Not only are they heavy, but I blew out a sidewall on my first 300 km from fender rub. Plastic fenders cause fewer problems for me.
5. What have I promised myself to always carry (at times when I didn't have them)?
- Shoe covers
- Lightweight coated nylon emergency mittens
- Lights. I had a really bad experience once on a club rally scouting ride getting stuck after dark without lights.
- Rainlegs if slightest chance of under 40 and rainy. See separate note below.
6. What's the most important lesson from Antarctica that I use on brevets: How important the top of the head, the hands, and the feet are in regulating body temperature. Balaclava, liner gloves, shoe covers. Both in putting them on and taking them off to regulate body temperature.
7. What else do I always carry on long brevets:
- A flask of Hammer Gel. In the early years, it was my food last resort when I couldn't stomach anything else. Now it is a bit of treat. I only carry Apple Cinnamon flavor.
- A balaclava, liner gloves, arm warmers. Probably knee or leg warmers too.
- In the past, I always carried one more piece of clothing than I think I needed. I cut it closer now. After 20 hours on a bike, 60 deg at night feels a lot colder than when you are fresh in the morning. If there is a heavy dew at sunset, you can get drenched even without rain. A dry jersey sometimes feels good.
- Perhaps 3-4 tubes and two ways to inflate them - pump plus CO2
- Two supplements - electrolytes and short chain amino acid pills. Though salt packets from fast food or convenience stores will work just as well as the former.
- Enough food to get to the next control. I use solid Hammer Perpetuum for times I can't get other types of food. Often, I will stick to Perpetuum for perhaps the first 6 hours of a ride, then I shift to good sports nutrition from convenience stores.
- Equivalent of 4-5 bottles of fluids. Water in a camelbak. Over 80F, I put ice in my camelbak so it is an ice sock. I use Hammer Heed to start. At controls, I generally fill my two frame bottles with the higher calorie Gatorade.
- At least two tail-lights. Usually 3 or 4.
- A backup for my headlight. With modern lights, this is sometimes my headlamp. However, if your main headlight is out and you need to change headlamp batteries, you need a light to see that. Perhaps a tail light in worst case.
8. I prefer a rear rack and an "unbag" rather than something like Carradice handlebar or seat bag. By unbag I mean a lightweight mesh bag and cargo net I use on a rear rack. I can put wet stuff on the offside and keep dry stuff in plastic bags on the inside. If I want to carry more stuff I put at least one small pannier on. I just took off my expensive titanium rear rack and replaced it with in inexpensive aluminum one with a much better platform. I use a small inner triangle bag to carry snacks, supplements, butt cream, batteries, sun-tan lotion.
9. What butt cream do I use for butt sores? Calmoseptine "A Multi-purpose Moisture Barrier Oinment Which Protects, Sooths, and Helps Promote Healing of Skin Irritations From: urine, diarrhea, perspiration, wound or fistula drainage, diaper rash, minor burns, cuts, scrapes, chaffing, and itching." That is what the single use packets say. At nursing home conventions (when I worked at AccuNurse), the supplier always gave away envelopes of samples. Stings when it goes on on chaffing. Works for me. Once every 12 hours or so I don't know what I'll do when my supply of samples run out. I don't use it as much as I used too. The leaner I am, the less butt issues I have.
10. What is one the thing I wished I started using years earlier? Aerobars. Not so much for the aero part (though they are good for that too), but to give another point of contact and position to take the weight off of the feet, butt, and arms. I didn't think aerobars would be a net gain in hilly Pennsylvania. But they are. I get low both starting on hills, as well as on shallow descents. And on flats of course. Aerobars are illegal in France. I guess they never forgave Greg Lamond.
11. What rituals do I have?
- I stop at night when I need to read cue sheets. I usually enjoy the break, and peripheral vision doesn't work with a headlamp on. (I rode off the road on my first 300 km into a ditch).
- Since I used to be the slowest rider, I learned to be the fastest to control through. In the early years I ate on my bike. I'm more lax than I used to be.
- Consistent nutrition, I take an electrolyte and short-chain amino acid pill every 30 minutes (after first hour after a meal). When running on Perpetuum tablets, I eat one every 20 minutes. That gives me so something to 5 times and hour. At some point I knock it off and eat what my body wants.
- Put on suntan lotion on the bike. It gives me something to do.
- Always eat breakfast. Although sometimes I eat main breakfast before I go to sleep. If I don't eat breakfast, I bonk sooner and harder somewhere between hours 6 and 12. I try to eat at least two hours before the start so I have a better chance my bowels move. (also good for digestion not interfering with riding).
- When I get them, I only eat breakfast sandwiches as meals. Sometimes I'll get them made at Sheetz, but I'll usually grab an egg salad sandwich from the grab section. Eggs, bread, and mayonnaise are easy to digest.
- Drink chocolate milk at controls. Until I want caffeine and then I drink Coke. I start to crave orange juice if my electrolytes are low.
- After 15 to 20 hours on the bike, I eat whatever amuses me the most. Sometimes ice cream. Al's Corner carries chocolate pudding.
- Always ride assuming I am impaired by lack of sleep. Cause when you are impaired, you don't know. So I ride by one set of rules. I descend slowly and carefully. I never trust shadows to be just shadows. I never descend faster than I can see a safe stopping distance.
- When possible, keep another ride in sight. Two riders are less likely to go off course IF they are both navigating. Either ahead or behind you.
- Don't pedal downhill! Recover.
- Ride at the start of the day the way you will be riding at the end of the day. Don't go into deficit early. Ride your own pace.
- Taper before big rides. My tapering is unsophisticated. I take 1-2 weeks off. Let your body fully heal and recover.
12. What piece of clothing do I love the most? My Kucharik wool bibs (when it is less than 70 deg). To be clear, I found Kucharik wool clothes not to be always long lasting or well fitting. But their bibs fit me magically well, and they are comfortable riding in cold and rain. They never feel like a wet diaper to me when wet. (In warm weather I wear Santini bibs).
13. What is my geekiest piece of bicycle clothing? My rainlegs. They are coated nylon rain chaps that role up into a belt. Key to comfort for me in downpours under 45F.
13. My raincoat is too warm until it is down to nearly 50F. So I wear or carry wool clothes instead. A spare wool jersey if I am not wearing one. Wool arm warmers.
14. I don't tolerate heat well. Over 80F degrees I have to take my cycling cap off and socks off. Both bicycling helmets and shoes are meant to vent (if you don't block the vents with clothing). I'll go from two bottles of Gatorade to one, and use one bottle dowse myself occasionally. Note that having some fresh water on the bike is always good either if you get road rash or something gets gunked up.
15. Why do my handlebars look so fat? Early on, I had lots of hand pain (as well as pain everywhere else). My bars have two layers of gel tape over gel bar cushions.
16. Walkable shoes make like easier. My first randonneuring year, I rode all rides including PBP with Speedplay road cleats. They make walking more difficult and they could be fouled in mud easily. I washed them out with Gatorade more than once. I switched to Speedplay Frog walkable cleats for both randonneuring and club riding. I don't really notice the difference in performance, and walkable, non-fouling cleats are great.
17. Feet swell. My feet swell on grand-randonnees. In my first two years, I lost 2 big toenails dying from compression in too small shoes on grand-randonnees. For me Specialized mountain biking shoes have extra space around the toes. Having shoes sized for swelling also leaves room for cold weather socks when needd.
This is a continuing list of tips in what I explain what works for me. What I did may or may not apply to you. However, it should inform your decisions of what can work for you. I am writing this series because one of Pittsburgh's riders asked me to do it.
Sunday, February 1, 2015
Tip #2 - Training as a Lifestyle
Intro:
I went from a club C rider to de facto senior athlete over about a decade. While many people can "just ride", I've always found it useful to work training into my lifestyle. I'm writing this note now (in the nominal off-season), because the nominal off-season has always been key to me advancing my fitness and riding.
What worked for me - Summary:
1. Have an annual calendar of activities that adds up to an annual training plan.
2. Use the off season to work on weaknesses. For me, that has been fitness.
3. Minimal indoor equipment and body-weight training, slowly accumulating various accessories.
What worked for me - Detail:
1. Have an annual calendar in activities that adds up to an annual training plan. Elements that I use or have used.
1. Ride an ultra once a month. For years I used the UMCA Year-Rounder to encourage me to ride at least a century every month. You can only get so far out of shape if you ride an ultra every month. RUSA has it's own program - R-12. Or just find friends like Dan Blumenfeld and Stef Burch that like to regularly ride ultras too. Riding an ultra in a day gives you many of the benefits of a week of workouts - especially with our varied Western PA terrain.
2. DD scouting rides - They are actually a two month emphasis on strength endurance intervals. Meaning repeats of 5+ minutes at or above aerobic threshold.
3. Participating in a club weekly ride and weekend rides. When I joined the WPW, there wasn't a weekly ride convenient for me. So I started my own in Harmarville.
4. Spring brevet series. These certainly provide base miles. You learn endurance by doing it.
5. Use an annual goal (now usually a grand-randonnée) to force me to sharpen my fitness. Usually 4 to 8 weeks of in season training (depending on how hard the ride is). I also use these events to strongly encourage myself to lose weight. I've suffered by not being prepared in the past. That is sufficient motivation to get me training and dieting with enthusiasm.
6. In recent years I used the 12-hour Calvin's Challenge as well as RAAM qualifying at the Tejas 500 to motivate me to ride faster.
7. Along the way, I used events like the MS150, the WPW Fall Rally, the Mon Valley Century, and many other local rides to form a string of annual rides. Several years, I rode the MS150 to Lake Erie, then rode back again on Sunday and Monday.
2. Use the off season to work on weaknesses. For me, that has been fitness.
1. I had a twofer win in 2004. I wanted to transition from a C to B club rider, so I looked for a mid-winter century to force me to advance. Instead, I found 8 centuries at Gator Hell Week. I also found Cyclo-Core from Graeme Street - when I started Graeme had two CDs. Graeme combines on bike training with core training and yoga. He's developed many variations of training plans over time - the one I look to now is his Cyclo90 H.I.T if I am looking for training structure. I still use his workouts year-round as needed and they are the content of whatever training I do.
2. Since I never commuted, I start my outdoor riding early. Normally the week when the clocks change. Lot's of people wait until April or May. Ride yourself into fitness before other club riders get out. Note - commuting is among the best training you can do. Kudos to those of you that commute.
3. The last three years I've been using the heart-zone based indoor training from Cycling Fusion (Gene Nacy) January to March. Training like was a racer was new to me, but helped me speed up. Gene's software keeps me more honest than I do when managing my own workouts.
3. Minimal indoor equipment and body-weight training, slowly accumulating various accessories
I started out indoor training with a bike trainer, a yoga mat, perhaps a yoga ball, and Cyclo-Core and Cyclo-Zen. I did body weight work-outs for many years. I slowly accumulated a roll-out wheel, a medicine ball, 5-25 lb nesting dumb bells, and 45 lb dumb dells. The latter are for endurance squats, getting prepared for the Dirty Dozen or other climbing using Cyclo-Endure. I've never had a gym membership. Two years ago I splurged on one of Cycling Fusions surplus indoor training bikes so I can train will power in the off-season.
This is a continuing list of tips in what I explain what works for me. What I did may or may not apply to you. However, it should inform your decisions of what can work for you. I am writing this series because one of Pittsburgh's riders asked me to do it.
I went from a club C rider to de facto senior athlete over about a decade. While many people can "just ride", I've always found it useful to work training into my lifestyle. I'm writing this note now (in the nominal off-season), because the nominal off-season has always been key to me advancing my fitness and riding.
What worked for me - Summary:
1. Have an annual calendar of activities that adds up to an annual training plan.
2. Use the off season to work on weaknesses. For me, that has been fitness.
3. Minimal indoor equipment and body-weight training, slowly accumulating various accessories.
What worked for me - Detail:
1. Have an annual calendar in activities that adds up to an annual training plan. Elements that I use or have used.
1. Ride an ultra once a month. For years I used the UMCA Year-Rounder to encourage me to ride at least a century every month. You can only get so far out of shape if you ride an ultra every month. RUSA has it's own program - R-12. Or just find friends like Dan Blumenfeld and Stef Burch that like to regularly ride ultras too. Riding an ultra in a day gives you many of the benefits of a week of workouts - especially with our varied Western PA terrain.
2. DD scouting rides - They are actually a two month emphasis on strength endurance intervals. Meaning repeats of 5+ minutes at or above aerobic threshold.
3. Participating in a club weekly ride and weekend rides. When I joined the WPW, there wasn't a weekly ride convenient for me. So I started my own in Harmarville.
4. Spring brevet series. These certainly provide base miles. You learn endurance by doing it.
5. Use an annual goal (now usually a grand-randonnée) to force me to sharpen my fitness. Usually 4 to 8 weeks of in season training (depending on how hard the ride is). I also use these events to strongly encourage myself to lose weight. I've suffered by not being prepared in the past. That is sufficient motivation to get me training and dieting with enthusiasm.
6. In recent years I used the 12-hour Calvin's Challenge as well as RAAM qualifying at the Tejas 500 to motivate me to ride faster.
7. Along the way, I used events like the MS150, the WPW Fall Rally, the Mon Valley Century, and many other local rides to form a string of annual rides. Several years, I rode the MS150 to Lake Erie, then rode back again on Sunday and Monday.
2. Use the off season to work on weaknesses. For me, that has been fitness.
1. I had a twofer win in 2004. I wanted to transition from a C to B club rider, so I looked for a mid-winter century to force me to advance. Instead, I found 8 centuries at Gator Hell Week. I also found Cyclo-Core from Graeme Street - when I started Graeme had two CDs. Graeme combines on bike training with core training and yoga. He's developed many variations of training plans over time - the one I look to now is his Cyclo90 H.I.T if I am looking for training structure. I still use his workouts year-round as needed and they are the content of whatever training I do.
2. Since I never commuted, I start my outdoor riding early. Normally the week when the clocks change. Lot's of people wait until April or May. Ride yourself into fitness before other club riders get out. Note - commuting is among the best training you can do. Kudos to those of you that commute.
3. The last three years I've been using the heart-zone based indoor training from Cycling Fusion (Gene Nacy) January to March. Training like was a racer was new to me, but helped me speed up. Gene's software keeps me more honest than I do when managing my own workouts.
3. Minimal indoor equipment and body-weight training, slowly accumulating various accessories
I started out indoor training with a bike trainer, a yoga mat, perhaps a yoga ball, and Cyclo-Core and Cyclo-Zen. I did body weight work-outs for many years. I slowly accumulated a roll-out wheel, a medicine ball, 5-25 lb nesting dumb bells, and 45 lb dumb dells. The latter are for endurance squats, getting prepared for the Dirty Dozen or other climbing using Cyclo-Endure. I've never had a gym membership. Two years ago I splurged on one of Cycling Fusions surplus indoor training bikes so I can train will power in the off-season.
This is a continuing list of tips in what I explain what works for me. What I did may or may not apply to you. However, it should inform your decisions of what can work for you. I am writing this series because one of Pittsburgh's riders asked me to do it.
Friday, January 30, 2015
Tip #1 - Endurance Fitness is Cool ... Hang in there.
From: Jim Logan
[mailto:jimlogan@verizon.net]
Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2013 11:22 AM
To: randon@googlegroups.com
Cc: pittsburgh-randos@googlegroups.com
Subject: Fitness is cool ... hang in there
Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2013 11:22 AM
To: randon@googlegroups.com
Cc: pittsburgh-randos@googlegroups.com
Subject: Fitness is cool ... hang in there
Short version:
A time capsule
message to send back to riders who struggle with riding ultras now as I did in
2007.
Detail:
Back when I started
riding brevets in 2007, I thought a lot about comments about endurance and the
body’s reaction to ultras I read on randon that didn’t seem to apply to me.
And since I lived 5 hours from the nearest series, everything I
learned about riding ultras I pretty much learned from randon. After
riding myself into endurance fitness over the years, I found my original
hypothesis correct. The bodies of people with endurance fitness do react
differently than an ex couch-potato riding into fitness – how my body reacts to
recovery both on and off the bike is different now than 7 years ago.
Bottom line –
endurance fitness is really cool. It took me 3-4 years to obtain
it. This is a time capsule message being sent back to riders in their
first year or two of ultra-riding, for which it is doesn’t feel natural, you
are only finishing with a goal-focus and grit, and you wonder if it will ever
get better. As long as you use the suffering to spur you to training and
education, I can say yes.
One metric – how
long it takes my body to recover from long brevets:
2007
– three weeks
2008
– two weeks
2009
– one week
2011
– days
Another metric is
distance to first pain meds. My progression was something like this:
2007 – 75 miles
2008 – 125 miles
2009 – 400 miles
2011 – only to sleep
The pain medication
metric is analogous to how long it took my body to start to irrecoverably break
down in some way. Except my body broke down after 600 miles in 2011,
though I didn’t need pain meds for riding that year.
While I learned the
mechanics of sports nutrition early on, it took 4 plus years to feel sports
nutrition, and make it a natural part of me. Ditto for equipment choice
becoming a non-issue. Ditto for training.
There are some
lucky people for which ultras are a natural experience and who’s first reaction
is to post wonderful travelogues about the countryside and people you
encounter. This post isn’t for you. This post is for riders who
focus the entire ride is on the minutiae of surviving to the finish. That
while it never gets easier, it does get more familiar, and your body does learn
how to recover better as the years go by.
Happy new year and
happy riding.
Jim Logan
Pittsburgh
Ancien 2007, 2011
RAAM qualified 2012
Jim's Randonneuring Tips
I got this request last month:
>>As much as I like reading your travel logs (and I do, especially when you get lost or pedals fail), I'd be really grateful (truly) for a "Jim's Randonneuring Tips" series. What to eat. How to train. Gear. Problems to look out for. How to navigate. 200K is tough but look out when you try 400K. This stuff breaks but don't worry about….. Stuff like that...<<
My first advice to anyone looking for lessons learned is look to two place first:
- randon@googlegroups.com - The international email group for randonneurs
- The RUSA Handbook. The latest edition was just published.
Nonetheless, I was asked again. I am warming up to the request. My thought is to write some comments before each brevet this year, about either the distance or the route.
This being the off-season, I'll post some comments about off-season training this week.
To be clear, I wasn't asked to write about what will necessarily will work for everybody. I was asked to write about what worked for me. Perhaps that will inform your choices.
Jim Logan
RBA, Pittsburgh
>>As much as I like reading your travel logs (and I do, especially when you get lost or pedals fail), I'd be really grateful (truly) for a "Jim's Randonneuring Tips" series. What to eat. How to train. Gear. Problems to look out for. How to navigate. 200K is tough but look out when you try 400K. This stuff breaks but don't worry about….. Stuff like that...<<
My first advice to anyone looking for lessons learned is look to two place first:
- randon@googlegroups.com - The international email group for randonneurs
- The RUSA Handbook. The latest edition was just published.
Nonetheless, I was asked again. I am warming up to the request. My thought is to write some comments before each brevet this year, about either the distance or the route.
This being the off-season, I'll post some comments about off-season training this week.
To be clear, I wasn't asked to write about what will necessarily will work for everybody. I was asked to write about what worked for me. Perhaps that will inform your choices.
Jim Logan
RBA, Pittsburgh
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Preliminary 2012 Pittsburgh Randonneuring calendar
Date Distance Type Comments Route
Sat 17-Mar 100 km RUSA populaire Dan G to route
Sat 31-Mar 200 km ACP brevet Spring 200 km
Sun 8-Apr Easter (Fleche time!)
Sat 21-Apr 300 km ACP brevet Roach motel 300 km
Sat 28-Apr 100 km RUSA populaire Same route as 3/17
Sat 28-Apr WPW Spring kickoff?
Sat 5-May Calvins Challenge
Sat 12-May 400 km ACP brevet Pgh-Erie-Pgh
Sat 26-May 600 km ACP brevet Pgh-Erie-Pgh+200km
Sat 16-Jun 200 km RUSA brevet AMCUP 200 km Ohiopyle-Cumberland-Ohiopyle
Sat 14-Jul 200-ish km RUSA brevet there… Dan B to route
Sun 15-Jul 200-ish km RUSA brevet and back (east or west?) Dan to route
Fri 3-Aug 1000 km RUSA brevet Dan B to route
Sat 18-Aug 100 km RUSA populaire Bike Fest populaire ??? Brian to route ???
Sat 18-Aug 200 km RUSA brevet Bike Fest brevet Dan B to route
Sat 6-Oct 200 km RUSA brevet River Valleys or TBD
Sat 17-Mar 100 km RUSA populaire Dan G to route
Sat 31-Mar 200 km ACP brevet Spring 200 km
Sun 8-Apr Easter (Fleche time!)
Sat 21-Apr 300 km ACP brevet Roach motel 300 km
Sat 28-Apr 100 km RUSA populaire Same route as 3/17
Sat 28-Apr WPW Spring kickoff?
Sat 5-May Calvins Challenge
Sat 12-May 400 km ACP brevet Pgh-Erie-Pgh
Sat 26-May 600 km ACP brevet Pgh-Erie-Pgh+200km
Sat 16-Jun 200 km RUSA brevet AMCUP 200 km Ohiopyle-Cumberland-Ohiopyle
Sat 14-Jul 200-ish km RUSA brevet there… Dan B to route
Sun 15-Jul 200-ish km RUSA brevet and back (east or west?) Dan to route
Fri 3-Aug 1000 km RUSA brevet Dan B to route
Sat 18-Aug 100 km RUSA populaire Bike Fest populaire ??? Brian to route ???
Sat 18-Aug 200 km RUSA brevet Bike Fest brevet Dan B to route
Sat 6-Oct 200 km RUSA brevet River Valleys or TBD
Pittsburgh River Valleys 200 km - Ride Report
We had two finishers, one DNF, one DNS. Dan Blumenfeld reported on his DNF on the email list.
Congratulations to Dan Golderg on his first successful brevet riding a fixed gear bike!
The day started as warm as it would get, around 50 F. The ride along Freeport road to Culmerville was pleasant. The section beween Culmerville and Butler is among the most pleasant on this route. But as Dan B reported, that is when it started to rain. It rained steadily mostly through the day, tapering off a bit near the end for a while, then picking back up.
Dan G was a good sport when soon after the second control south of Butler, I missed a turn and rolled off the ridge the wrong directly into Butler, so we had a bonus hill to climb.
Dan G noted the abundance of hills on the route circa mile 60, when we nearing but not quite at the end of the abundance of hills between miles 60 and 75.
We had head winds pick up particularly after Cranberry toward Midland, so I was looking for tailwinds on the return. They didn’t show up initially, with wind out of the north. We did get some after Rochester. The mile of milled road after Rochester was paved this week, and we had a blocked off lane of 51 to ourselves.
It was a great day to experience the combination of rain, mid-40’s and hills, if you were looking for that in the safe setting of a 200 km to experience same.
With the rain, the trail was largely free of people from its start to Millvale. That is a pleasant low-stress entry into the city, as long as it is an off season day (last week after a Pitt game was a much different experience.
The before ride snacks were cookie's from Jean-Marcs and afterward we had pizza.
I thought it was an aberration last week, but the route comes up a mile or two short in this instantiation.
Congratulations to Dan Golderg on his first successful brevet riding a fixed gear bike!
The day started as warm as it would get, around 50 F. The ride along Freeport road to Culmerville was pleasant. The section beween Culmerville and Butler is among the most pleasant on this route. But as Dan B reported, that is when it started to rain. It rained steadily mostly through the day, tapering off a bit near the end for a while, then picking back up.
Dan G was a good sport when soon after the second control south of Butler, I missed a turn and rolled off the ridge the wrong directly into Butler, so we had a bonus hill to climb.
Dan G noted the abundance of hills on the route circa mile 60, when we nearing but not quite at the end of the abundance of hills between miles 60 and 75.
We had head winds pick up particularly after Cranberry toward Midland, so I was looking for tailwinds on the return. They didn’t show up initially, with wind out of the north. We did get some after Rochester. The mile of milled road after Rochester was paved this week, and we had a blocked off lane of 51 to ourselves.
It was a great day to experience the combination of rain, mid-40’s and hills, if you were looking for that in the safe setting of a 200 km to experience same.
With the rain, the trail was largely free of people from its start to Millvale. That is a pleasant low-stress entry into the city, as long as it is an off season day (last week after a Pitt game was a much different experience.
The before ride snacks were cookie's from Jean-Marcs and afterward we had pizza.
I thought it was an aberration last week, but the route comes up a mile or two short in this instantiation.
Pittsburgh Randonneurs - 2011 Results
Thanks to everyone who rode brevets in Pittsburgh 2011. Attached are summary results.
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