Hains Point 100 – December 22, 2013!

[consularrider]

Great to see everyone who braved today’s freezing weather (oops, rainy weather ). Megabeth, thanks for organizing this and making sure the squall went through before the official start! I did 21 laps and ended the day with just over 103 miles. See you all for the repeat on January 1st!

[Megabeth]

Thanks to everyone for coming out. Am trying to thaw out then head to a holiday party. In the next few days, I’ll get out a proper thank you….but in the meantime please accept this THANK YOU!!!!

[APKhaos]

Additional kudos to Megabeth and WABA! Great event!
Vicegrip and I rolled out for a few laps before the official start. Looking left across the river there was a strong squall line heading right for us. We both bailed, and headed back counter-race to the shelter of the tents just before it hit.
I left around 1PM, and will be back next year for sure.

[hozn]

I showed up at what i assumed was a fashionably-late 3:45, but I guess that was in fact not fashionably late; it was too late. Enjoyed a couple of laps. Kudos to y’all that did 100 miles of those laps. HainsPoint is pleasant, but … damn!

[KLizotte]

OK, so who has the super awesome “NPlus1” license plate?!

[se1kang]

New member here. Thank you for organizing such a wonderful event for a very good cause.

I biked to the event from Vienna at 8am hoping rain would not start until the afternoon. Despite the wet weather we were in high spirit. It was fun. Unfortunately I had to leave bit early back to Vienna. When I came home and saw “track” on my backside, I wished I had some Ass-Savers.

Here is video clip of the event start.

[video=youtube_share;ZgPXPfjz-r8]http://youtu.be/ZgPXPfjz-r8[/video]

[Raymo853]

I just joined in for some laps on my way to and from my ride. Very glad I got a fender-ed bike for such days.

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[Tim Kelley]

@JimF22003 72549 wrote:

Lots of fun on the ride today, until I broke a spoke after about 60 miles (I rode 15 from home to get to the start.)

I wasn’t too terribly sad having a good excuse not to make one more d*** loop, I must say

I also broke a spoke yesterday! I think it happened somewhere around mile 20, but I managed to finish out the last 80 without too much trouble after it was tied around another spoke.

[MattAune]

Much fun was had, and many cookies were consumed. Thanks again.

[Vicegrip]

@APKhaos 72555 wrote:

Additional kudos to Megabeth and WABA! Great event!
Vicegrip and I rolled out for a few laps before the official start. Looking left across the river there was a strong squall line heading right for us. We both bailed, and headed back counter-race to the shelter of the tents just before it hit.
I left around 1PM, and will be back next year for sure.

That was funny. Looking over and thinking “Cool weather today, that looks just like a squall line” then realizing that it was a squall line. Rain coat in back pack, back pack under tent = 180 deg turn and 2XFPT watts.

@MattAune 72580 wrote:

Much fun was had, and many cookies were consumed. Thanks again.

Cookies are fuel in my book.

Thanks to Revolution for the bike support. Got a flat on the Potomac side and once again the backpack with what I needed was back at camp. Walk of shame and a tube from Revolution rather than my patched back up and I back on track in short order.

[consularrider]

Megabeth,

There were a couple of photographers out taking lots of pictures. Are these going to be posted somewhere?

[Megabeth]

Some have been posting links and pics on the Facebook event page.

I am awaiting some others and will try to do a comprehensive post once I hear from everyone. I haven’t poked anyone yet for them considering the holidays and random work week. (In fact, we have pics in our camera I haven’t had a chance to pull off and cull through yet…)

[Megabeth]

The winning numbers from the drawing are posted on the official Hains Point 100 Facebook page!

The prizes that aren’t claimed will magically turn into raffle prizes at a Women & Bicycles Happy Hour that will be scheduled for some time in January. Thanks again!

[Tim Kelley]

@consularrider 72671 wrote:

Megabeth,

There were a couple of photographers out taking lots of pictures. Are these going to be posted somewhere?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mvjantzen/tags/2013hp100/

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