Anyone want to go for a 79 mile ride this weekend? Yes, another Strava challenge

[dcv]

@OneEighth 36054 wrote:

dcv, there’s something wrong with the bike in your photos. The pedals don’t move when the wheel does…

I know, and it has water bottles too. Eminva spotted me today but was confused because I was riding a bike with gears.

[TwoWheelsDC]

@Mark Blacknell 36055 wrote:

Uh oh. I’ve got a motorcycle sitting out back, and, well it’s mostly sat out back. Fun to take out from time to time. But I’d never really looked at it as another bike. Might be time to sell . . .

I was surprised to only get one serious inquiry on mine, which thankfully panned out. Otherwise, I’d have probably had to wait until March or so for the buyers to wake up from winter hibernation.

[vvill]

@Mark Blacknell 36055 wrote:

Damnit! I forgot that was this weekend.

Hains Pt, now. You still have time!

[Dirt]

@dcv 36053 wrote:

I was looking for Consularrider and your silver R3 all day. At the last minute I was a lazy brain and just took the easy route to Purcellville and rode around there for a bit. I ran out of road at the 50 mile mark:

We had fun getting dirty. Finished up the challenge in a pretty good way.

[consularrider]

My distance for a 24 hour period this weekend (3:45 pm Saturday to 3:45 pm Sunday) was about 120 miles. However, Stava is only giving me the 101 miles from my Arlington Loop/complete W&OD combo ride yesterday which didn’t finish until about 4:30 pm. The other milage would be adding in the Saturday miles. Unfortunately neither of the guys I was riding with wanted the added challenge of the Woodburn Rd/Harmony Church Rd hills.

[Dirt]

@consularrider 36086 wrote:

My distance for a 24 hour period this weekend (3:45 pm Saturday to 3:45 pm Sunday) was about 120 miles. However, Stava is only giving me the 101 miles from my Arlington Loop/complete W&OD combo ride yesterday which didn’t finish until about 4:30 pm. The other milage would be adding in the Saturday miles. Unfortunately neither of the guys I was riding with wanted the added challenge of the Woodburn Rd/Harmony Church Rd hills.

Awesome ride, sir!

[Vicegrip]

Nuts! I could have used this as good “reason” to get in another ride in onSun afternoon to add to the 50 done. Who needs a leaf free yard anyway?

I see i need to start exploring West.

[Justin Antos]

http://app.strava.com/activities/8477227

I highly recommend the stretch from Lovettsville to Purcellville on this route – Mountain Rd. is incredibly scenic!

[Dirt]

@Justin Antos 36115 wrote:

http://app.strava.com/activities/8477227

I highly recommend the stretch from Lovettsville to Purcellville on this route – Mountain Rd. is incredibly scenic!

Heck yeah! That area is lovely to ride. We’ve done variations on the Potomac Pedalers’ TC Waterford Wander route for years. Great ride in both directions and an AWESOME Century ride from most places in NOVA if you use the W&OD. It is 106 miles from home to that loop and back.

Also super cool is a loop very similar that uses mostly dirt roads. http://app.strava.com/activities/26945159 The Loudoun portion of that loop is about 55 miles and has a hair over 30 miles of dirt roads.

My preferred Waterford Loop: http://ridewithgps.com/routes/880260 <---- AWESOME on a fixie! The rollers at the end will seriously get you though.
Dirt Road Variant: http://ridewithgps.com/routes/1858457

Even though the dirt road variant is only 10 miles more, it is a significantly more difficult ride.

[ShawnoftheDread]

My LBS let me down so I didn’t do any long rides this weekend. That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.

[consularrider]

@ShawnoftheDread 36126 wrote:

My LBS let me down so I didn’t do any long rides this weekend. That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.

I have to give kudos to Bikenetic for getting my damaged rear derailleur repaired quickly and giving me time for lots of Stava BMC Challenge riding. It did help that I broke the darn thing a full week before the big ride.

[vvill]

@consularrider 36086 wrote:

My distance for a 24 hour period this weekend (3:45 pm Saturday to 3:45 pm Sunday) was about 120 miles. However, Stava is only giving me the 101 miles from my Arlington Loop/complete W&OD combo ride yesterday which didn’t finish until about 4:30 pm.

Yeah, that’s how the challenge was set up I think: “The Challenge is to complete a single ride of 79 miles (or greater) in one 24 hour period.”

I was curious to know what it would do if you didn’t reset your trip on your Garmin. I guess you could then accumulate miles in the same 24 hour period from multiple rides and it’d be considered a single ride (unless they put in a check to see if there were location displacement points or long time gaps in your ride, or something).

[Vicegrip]

Well OK then. 79 in 2 days seemed easy even for a OFIL. Thanks for the Western ride tips. i am looking to steal a day and try a Century. My butt just chimed in and asked for paved roads only please, it does not seem follow rule#5.

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