Request for Distance - Troy's Kitchen Creek Century of 7/26/08

[Chuck Bramwell]

Hi,

 

This new Century route was just awesome.  It was amazing to me to see how soon we were out on country roads with little car traffic … and it stayed that way for about 90 miles!!

 

It was brutally hot Saturday.  We knew it was going to be.  I saw 111 degrees on my handlebar at the base of the Kitchen Creek Climb.  However, it cooled down to 80 as we climbed up Kitchen Creek Road and we had a cool breeze as we flew back to the Start / Finish in the low 80’s.   This route will be even nicer in the Fall or next Spring.

 

We bought big bags of Ice at the Pine Valley Market at miles 33 and 62 which I packed into my Polar Water Bottles and my 100 Ounce Camelbak.  The result was that I had cool fluids for most all of the ride so that worked great.

 

This was a good hard ride for sure.  After some great discussions about the Tour de France and Performance Enhancements at the Pine Valley Market for 36 minutes, it was full throttle all the way back in for me.  Dan, Robert, Jim, Don, Drew, and Troy were really whipping it up on the way back in and it was really good fun.  Thanks to everyone for a good ride … and a BIG THANKS to Troy for coming up with a really outstanding ride here.

 

Please let me know of any changes to your miles below.

 

Eric Axford – 68? – Eric, I didn’t see you after Pine Valley – Did you go back from there?

 

Chuck Bramwell - 96

 

Bruce Campbell - 96

 

Dan Crain - 96

 

Robert Freed – 96 who’s going for the Mt. Tam Double next Saturday so this was a perfect final tune up ride.  I overheard Robert saying as we were pulling into the finish: “This was every bit as good as an Alpine Stage today.”

 

Karla Johnston – 96 who’s going for the Mt. Tam Double next Saturday so this was a perfect final tune up ride

 

Greg Kibble – 96 who uploaded his Garmin Computer data to a cool web page at

 

http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=32976

 

Jim Miles – 96

 

Don Parsons – 96 who wrote: “Thanks again for putting together a great ride.”

 

Drew Peterson – 96 who wrote: “Great ride this saturday out to the mountains.”

 

Troy Raffelson- 96

 

 

Chuck