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re: Heart of AZ century in 5 days, some preparation required
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Russell L. Carter
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Nov 02, 2009 16:56 PST
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Loop #4 is Wed., departing 8AM from Denny's on Gail Gardner.
Pace will be about 3:45 wall clock door-to-door from my house
in Prescott Heights.
Anybody who wants to join is welcome.
The weather is tres awesome. This is November, in
the mountain West. 60-70Fs for most of a 55 mile ride
that begins and ends over 5000'.
Today I was joined by Bill not far from the Junction on the
climb back to Prescott. It was very nice. So that is another
option. Maybe start 1 hr later and descend to the depths of
Wilhoit, and beyond. Then climb back.
Russell L. Carter wrote:
| | I will be riding Loop #3 tomorrow (Monday) departing 8AM
from Dennys on Gail Gardner. Pace will be about 4:15
wall clock door-to-door from my house in Prescott Heights.
Anybody who wants to join is welcome.
Tomorrow I intend to be going for endurance building on
today so it'll be close to a 'no-drop' pace.
Today's loop may have been the loveliest one I've ever ridden.
N winds on the backside meant sailing along effortlessly,
30+ avg. mph to SV from the top of Iron Springs, 25+ to
Kirkland Junction. Little to no traffic till after Wilhoit,
and not even one motorized asshole (maybe a first).
No snow, but you can't have it all.
There were three young chaps at the store in Wilhoit who are
touring self-supported from NY to LA. Talking to the lady
minding the store, it turns out that there are over the course
of a year quite a number of tourists riding through Prescott
(then stopping at the Wilhoit store). Does anybody know if
there is some sort of organization that matches up cycle-tourists
with people in towns who can put them up for the night? I would
have been happy to give them floor space and a big meal.
Russell L. Carter wrote:
| | Brrrrrr... that was a bit brisk. But the occasional snow
showers climbing out of Wilhoit gave the outing a festive
air. Ed and I had a good time today knocking down loop
number 1. 3 to go. I was thinking of doing #2 on either Fri or
Sat, depending on interest, if any. Then again on Mon and Wed.
Same situation as described below. That is, some scheduling
flexibility available.
Russell
928 308 4154
rcar-@pinyon.org
Russell L. Carter wrote:
| | So I see that the Heart of AZ century
http://www.bullshifters.org/heartofaz.htm
includes a modest 6000' of climbing in 104 miles.
That's enough to incentivise even fat and lazy me to apply a bit of
extra prep for the next 13 days. So I'm going to ride the SV loop 4
times. Thru a quirk of fate I'm free during the next several weeks,
so I'm thinking of leaving via Iron Springs sometime around 8-10AM.
Leaning toward next Wed, Sat, then Mon, then Thu.
If anybody is interested in joining me please send me an email and if
I can move things around a bit to accomodate your schedule I'd be
happy to. If there seems to be enough interest for a particular ride
I'll firm up the starting time and date a bit earlier than otherwise
and post it back here as a general ride.
Pace will be not be blazing for the first three outings but I intend
to kill myself on the last one. (Maybe it should be on next Wed a
week from now.)
Needless to say I suppose, but these rides could possibly provide a
nice prep for TdT in another two weeks, as well.
Ta,
Russell
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