Total 200 Survivors?

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June 28, 2011 at 12:34 pm #927444

Dirt
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I’m so jealous! I registered, even paid for the damn jersey, then my best friend decided to get married that day. No problems…. I’ll do the metric and be in the barn in plenty of time for the wedding. NOPE. She needed me to set up and also photograph the wedding.

Next year. How was it? I didn’t look at the route. I’m guessing it is something that couldn’t be easily ridden outside of the event. A

June 28, 2011 at 12:51 pm #927445

Tim Kelley
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I wanted to do this too, but a family vacation came up.

We’re going to do a self supported version later this summer, right Pete?

June 28, 2011 at 1:36 pm #927450

Dirt
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Sir, yes sir!

June 28, 2011 at 2:38 pm #927456

brendan
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Self supported? Oof. How many people?

I suppose y’all are more experienced with these kind of distances? But I think I only survived it because I could waterfall from faster pacelines/groups to more laid-back ones as the day went on.

A friend who fell off the back of the pacelines early and spent most of the day solo had a really hard day and finally volunteered to be swept about 2/3 of the way through the ride.

B

June 28, 2011 at 2:51 pm #927459

Dirt
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I do 3-5 organized centuries per year. I do 10-20 rides of 100 miles or longer per year on my own. 200 miles in a small group that worked well together would be fun and possible. Unfortunately work has me behind schedule for long rides this year. I’ve only done 4 or 5 long rides so far. We’ll have to do this in the fall.

Tim… I was also looking at possibly doing something in the Shenandoah valley… Between Winchester and Staunton. I need to research that and do some exploring. I just haven’t had time.

June 28, 2011 at 4:06 pm #927460

StopMeansStop
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Damn. 20 miles is a long ride for me.

June 29, 2011 at 5:35 pm #927486

eminva
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@StopMeansStop 5112 wrote:

Damn. 20 miles is a long ride for me.

It’s just a slippery slope from riding out to Ashburn for barbeque to riding in a 200 mile event. And from there to trying to figure out how to tell your spouse you want to train for RAAM.

Liz

June 29, 2011 at 7:07 pm #927488

CCrew
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@Dirt 5111 wrote:

Tim… I was also looking at possibly doing something in the Shenandoah valley… Between Winchester and Staunton. I need to research that and do some exploring. I just haven’t had time.

There’s a century in Berryville I think it’s Septemberish.

June 29, 2011 at 7:30 pm #927489

Tim Kelley
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@eminva 5147 wrote:

It’s just a slippery slope from riding out to Ashburn for barbeque to riding in a 200 mile event. And from there to trying to figure out how to tell your spouse you want to train for RAAM.

Liz

Convincing her I want to do another Ironman was hard enough!

June 29, 2011 at 7:34 pm #927490

DaveK
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@CCrew 5149 wrote:

There’s a century in Berryville I think it’s Septemberish.

That’s the Back Roads Century put on by Potomac Pedalers. It’s all rolling, not much (if any) flat terrain. Very well run event though, the support is fantastic. I’ll probably do it again this year depending on the date.

June 29, 2011 at 10:53 pm #927500

CCrew
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@DaveK 5152 wrote:

That’s the Back Roads Century put on by Potomac Pedalers. It’s all rolling, not much (if any) flat terrain. Very well run event though, the support is fantastic. I’ll probably do it again this year depending on the date.

Yeah…I live just a couple miles from berryville off rt7. Not much flat here I’ll vouch for that.

[url]Http://www.backroadscentury.org[/url]

July 20, 2011 at 8:01 pm #928341

creadinger
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If you want some long distance ride options this fall, there’s also the DC Randonneurs (http://www.dcrand.org). All the hard core randonneurs are gearing up for Paris-Brest-Paris right now, but starting in August they’ll run one 200K ride/month through December.

I am too slow to ride 200 miles in a day so congrats to you insane folks that did the Total 200! For next year I’m going to try to work up to a 300K. Last fall I did my first 200K brevet so I’m slowly working up to riding 100+ miles on a regular basis.

September 19, 2011 at 7:40 pm #930281

tuba_transport
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The boys did the ride yesterday. 200+ miles knocked out of the park.

September 20, 2011 at 1:30 pm #930299

Dirt
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It was a fun ride.

Crossing the Patuxent

Riding south through Maryland.

I like that the hills were mostly packed into the last 60 miles.

Definitely a great day in the saddle. Ended up with 221 miles in 12h40m.

September 20, 2011 at 4:08 pm #930300

ronwalf
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@Dirt 8305 wrote:

I’m starting to feel inadequate without a powertap.
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