Kill Bill 2015

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July 11, 2015 at 5:34 pm #1033845

Tania
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As payback for nominating him KB Social Ride leader, jabs made me the Helper Monkey.

We both plan on riding from start to finish (starting and finishing with the main group) so anyone who wants to bail on the full ride is welcome to join up with the social ride. He’ll be posting the route later but we’ll both be checking out phones periodically and will have Find My Friends installed (that might be iPhone to iPhone specific though).

You can message either of us though during the ride and we’ll tell you where we are or where we’re heading.

We’ll also have extra sunscreen, first aid kits and Advil. Although I may lecture you about the dangers of mixing Advil with endurance events before giving you any.

July 12, 2015 at 1:33 am #1033860

Tania
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Social ride!

http://ridewithgps.com/routes/9228933

July 12, 2015 at 1:55 am #1033861

rcannon100
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Is there any actual riding on the “social ride” or is it just eating????

July 12, 2015 at 4:16 am #1033864

peterw_diy
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Have a great time, everybody.

July 12, 2015 at 8:12 pm #1033875

dkel
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I just saw them on my street! I yelled at them and cheered them on. I might have heckled a tiny bit. 😮 It looks like there are only about eight riders left, and they were moving really slowly. Kudos to them for sticking it out all the way to Falls Church; I think our street is mile ninety-something.

July 13, 2015 at 12:10 am #1033881

Steve O
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@dkel 119996 wrote:

I just saw them on my street! I yelled at them and cheered them on. I might have heckled a tiny bit. 😮 It looks like there are only about eight riders left, and they were moving really slowly. Kudos to them for sticking it out all the way to Falls Church; I think our street is mile ninety-something.

By then we had split into groups and some smaller groups got separated, also. You saw one of the groups. I think close to 40 of us finished.
I was not in the group that you heckled; I got enough of that from my fellow riders.

July 13, 2015 at 11:43 am #1033900

sjclaeys
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@dkel 119996 wrote:

I just saw them on my street! I yelled at them and cheered them on. I might have heckled a tiny bit. 😮 It looks like there are only about eight riders left, and they were moving really slowly. Kudos to them for sticking it out all the way to Falls Church; I think our street is mile ninety-something.

I think that was the group the I was in with Pete, Rod and Cyndi. We were certainly grinding out those final miles.

July 13, 2015 at 12:54 pm #1033901

vvill
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@sjclaeys 120020 wrote:

I think that was the group the I was in with Pete, Rod and Cyndi. We were certainly grinding out those final miles.

I was there too, I think I may have heard the cheering. At the time I assumed it was just an enthusiastic bystander resident, but after reading this, it may have been dkel!

754 TSS points for me – almost 150 more than last year’s Kill Bill (assuming the same FTP, which may or may not be correct). No wonder I’m tired.

July 13, 2015 at 1:09 pm #1033905

Tania
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@sjclaeys 120020 wrote:

We were certainly grinding out those final miles.

Major respect for that!

July 13, 2015 at 2:31 pm #1033907

sjclaeys
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@vvill 120021 wrote:

I was there too, I think I may have heard the cheering. At the time I assumed it was just an enthusiastic bystander resident, but after reading this, it may have been dkel!

754 TSS points for me – almost 150 more than last year’s Kill Bill (assuming the same FTP, which may or may not be correct). No wonder I’m tired.

Yes, Will, you had joined our merry group at that time. Sorry to have left you out.

July 13, 2015 at 6:07 pm #1033930

Subby
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I have thoroughly enjoyed watching the replay of Kill Bill here – especially cool to see when folks split off, hopped in, etc.. Also fun to watch the Social Ride move around.

http://labs.strava.com/flyby/viewer/?utm_source=strava_activity_header#344901055,L26HFDC6iBTc84gUXruJFElIihSQdYoUNK2LFOS8ixQNB4wUCzqMFF8RjRQ5So0UOUyNFO1NjRTJX40U72iNFF1pjRTCjo0UiJ2NFBOmjRSXro0USrqNFKfBjRSR0I0UVdGNFFLfjRS+6Y0U8u2NFML5jRTu/I0UIhOOFG4UjhTfFI4U1yqOFCBejhQgZI4UInSOFHV9jhQngY4UsoWOFLKMjhS3lo4Uz7GOFK3EjhRrzo4UDNeOFGkKjxSpOY8UTp2SFA==

July 13, 2015 at 6:27 pm #1033931

Tania
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@Subby 120057 wrote:

I have thoroughly enjoyed watching the replay of Kill Bill here – especially cool to see when folks split off, hopped in, etc.. Also fun to watch the Social Ride move around.

http://labs.strava.com/flyby/viewer/?utm_source=strava_activity_header#344901055,L26HFDC6iBTc84gUXruJFElIihSQdYoUNK2LFOS8ixQNB4wUCzqMFF8RjRQ5So0UOUyNFO1NjRTJX40U72iNFF1pjRTCjo0UiJ2NFBOmjRSXro0USrqNFKfBjRSR0I0UVdGNFFLfjRS+6Y0U8u2NFML5jRTu/I0UIhOOFG4UjhTfFI4U1yqOFCBejhQgZI4UInSOFHV9jhQngY4UsoWOFLKMjhS3lo4Uz7GOFK3EjhRrzo4UDNeOFGkKjxSpOY8UTp2SFA==

This is awesome! And you can totally tell where and how often we stopped for food.

(Taking at least part of the social ride up Jay Miller was totally my Very Bad Idea…)

July 13, 2015 at 7:02 pm #1033933

jabberwocky
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@Subby 120057 wrote:

I have thoroughly enjoyed watching the replay of Kill Bill here – especially cool to see when folks split off, hopped in, etc.. Also fun to watch the Social Ride move around.

http://labs.strava.com/flyby/viewer/?utm_source=strava_activity_header#344901055,L26HFDC6iBTc84gUXruJFElIihSQdYoUNK2LFOS8ixQNB4wUCzqMFF8RjRQ5So0UOUyNFO1NjRTJX40U72iNFF1pjRTCjo0UiJ2NFBOmjRSXro0USrqNFKfBjRSR0I0UVdGNFFLfjRS+6Y0U8u2NFML5jRTu/I0UIhOOFG4UjhTfFI4U1yqOFCBejhQgZI4UInSOFHV9jhQngY4UsoWOFLKMjhS3lo4Uz7GOFK3EjhRrzo4UDNeOFGkKjxSpOY8UTp2SFA==

Very cool! I have to say, planning the social ride was the biggest ride planning challenge I’ve ever done… just because I was trying to regularly intersect the main ride to cheer (which meant guessing where they would be and when we could get there), as well as hit some quality food locations (and early on, hitting them after they opened for the day, since not much is open at 7am on a sunday!).

It worked far better than it had any right to. Especially since I did most of the mapping Saturday night. I don’t think we waited anywhere for more than 10 minutes or so. We hit the top of 41st like 3 minutes before the group came through.

July 14, 2015 at 1:59 am #1033962

sjclaeys
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@sjclaeys 120033 wrote:

Yes, Will, you had joined our merry group at that time. Sorry to have left you out.

And my exhaustion addled mind also forgot that Subby was with us too.

July 14, 2015 at 2:26 am #1033963

sjclaeys
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Some Kill Bill photos:

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