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The Ride Around The Bear

THE TWENTY FOURTH ANNUAL

100 MILE BICYCLE RIDE

Saturday, June 7, 2008

One of the all time great centuries. There is little more satisfying than cruising nearly 40 miles down the 7000- foot descent from Onyx Summit to Redlands. Not to mention the OCW feast at the end of the ride. This is a glorious ride but there is a little matter of climbing to Running Springs at 6030 feet. Big Bear Lake at 6750 feet and to Onyx Summit at 8443 feet to start with.

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Bear Training Rides with BCI

"Our Bear Training rides help you train for the Ride Around the Bear Century, hosted by the Orange County Wheelmen.

There are ten scheduled Bear Training rides, which increase in climbing and distance over the six months. Interspersed with the regular Sunday rides, these periodic remote rides such as Angeles Crest, Palos Verdes, and Graduation Day (to Mount Palomar) are a real challenge! The distances begin in the high 30-mile range and progress to 40 miles quickly. More attention is paid to the amount of climb, so the first ride has about 2400 ft. of total climb.

Please join us. It’s a great way to build endurance, even if you don’t plan to participate in the Ride Around the Bear. We recommend that you ride at your own pace. Don’t try to keep up with faster riders or slow down for slower ones."
 
Prof, I'm all for muscles - but Lans is too much for me. I'm with Cayci - "scary."

This is more my speed:

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Now, this is eye candy!
 
Hey CalGal, once you've seen the Guys in the IHB 7th Circle Cycling Club you'll be throwing Rocks at that Guy

Talking of which, I thought I'd give you all an updated report on our progress, kind of a ride report...

Last Friday Profette and I decided to do a lap of the Backbay, it was a beautifull Day , I ridden with Prof before but I never realized she'd been Sandbagging me, we started off at a pretty good pace and everything was going fine untill we hit San Juaquin Hill which is a pretty long 13% climb...although I must admit I was struggling to keep up until that point...

So here we go, She started the climb in her usual "go for it" fashion with me tagging behind and she just started to get faster, I couldn't keep up...then she let up and let me pass, I thought she was tiring untill she blew past me again, the most humiliating thing was that as she blew past she flipped me off with an over-the-shoulder salute...It was pretty upsetting I can tell you, it's bad enough being beaten by a Girl but to be taunted by a rude gesture made it even worse, and that's not all, she made me do repeats on this Climb, every time she just got faster and faster, on the 3rd or 4th repeat (I can't remember, I can't think straight when I'm hyperventilating and ready to pass out) I just gave up...

The Team went riding yesterday but I made up an excuse that I had to go into work..

Then today I rode with vicstah today, he's an ultra strong rider but wasn't as rude as prof although he did demonstrate how to not clip out of the Pedals when we met and do a tuck and roll safely on the Grass "See"?!! he exclaimed "All that BS you've been telling me about the dangers of not remembering to clip out isn't true, you just have to learn how to roll on the Grass properly, it's much easier and faster to dismount that way"

He was right, I need to start practising...

Vicstah is amazing !!
 
Peter, hubby keeps hinting that he wants to join the IHB Cycling Club. He wants to buy a bike first, and has been going around to different bike shops to figure out what bike to buy. They are so expensive, that he wants to make sure he is buying the right bike for him. He has a mountain bike - but that won't work for street biking.

One of these days he'll join you guys.
 
PeterUK should have mentioned that he would have been able to keep up with me, but had to keep stopping as all

the hawt cyclist chicks wanted to flirt with him.

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I snapped a .jpg of Pete on the last ride...
 
SAFETY FIRST: Whenever 7th Circle Club rides we always put safety first, we know we should always wear a Helmet, here is a Picture taken last Friday of Profette AKA Rockette wearing hers to demonstrate the correct positioning of the Helmet along with Sunglasses to protect the eyes.

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Boys, what do you mean by "What Helmet"?
 
Yesterday I did the "Tour de Sewer" which started in Bell Gardens and took us on a metric century (62 miles) through Fullerton and, erm, other places, I can't remember where. Anyway, here's the first couple of miles.....

 
Vic, it was a great ride, as you know I'd been grounded the whole week because I was sick, Friday night I got worse but promised the Guys I'd go, big mistake on my part, the first Climb was about 7% and a mile and a half, the second was about the same as "Our Hill" San Juaquin but 5 miles long....I got sooo sick, I stopped about 100 yds from the top...I bonked big time and just suffered through the last 35 miles...the 20 mph freezing (to me anyway) headwind didn't help the last 20 miles...

However, it's a great ride, the parts I can remember, we went through Fullerton and erm, other places..oh, Whittier too...I was just toast though, the Guys kept trying to encourage me to get a ride on one of the Broom Wagons...

But I'll deffinately do the ride again next year, parts of it saw a lot of Traffic...but the ride was well organized etc.

I never want to taste Gatorade or Gu ever again, I had no energy, I ran purely one Sugar
 
Thanks for the video, Pete. I'm sorry to hear you were so ill for the ride, but it sounds like you really soldiered through it. Millar would be impressed!
 
Thanks Prof and you're welcome....

Here's another clip of one of the descents, it starts at the top of a 5 mile 1800ft or so Climb, at this point I was Toast, I had nothing left, I was so sick, so from this point on it was just a case of stay on the Bike and finish the ride, I was on the Brakes the whole way down because at least I realized that my Body was shutting down and I was in a different world....

I think at this juncture we were going down into Fullerton, there were, as far as I remember, some absolutely lovely what can only be described as mansions, a lot of new constructions etc...

But anyway....

 
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