Kill Bill 2015

[Steve O]

I am starting this thread because I am hoping those with more information will fill in the details. I have heard rumors, but exact date time and place are not to be found here on the Forum.

Also, this would be a good place for fans and supporters of Kill Bill to organize another KBSR (Kill Bill Social Ride). I’ve heard at least mild interest from sarahybillington and wheels&wings. rcannon, Tania and others were awesome last year. Perhaps they want to spread the joy again.

Although her exact intentions are constantly hidden behind a fusillade of “no comment”s, I hereby appoint kayakcyndi as Senior Advisor Emeritus to those who are interested in organizing the social ride.

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[Tania]

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.

[Tania]

Social ride!

http://ridewithgps.com/routes/9228933

[rcannon100]

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

[peterw_diy]

Have a great time, everybody.

[dkel]

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.

[Steve O]

@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.

[sjclaeys]

@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.

[vvill]

@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.

[Tania]

@sjclaeys 120020 wrote:

We were certainly grinding out those final miles.

Major respect for that!

[sjclaeys]

@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.

[Subby]

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==

[Tania]

@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…)

[jabberwocky]

@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.

[sjclaeys]

@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.

[sjclaeys]

Some Kill Bill photos:

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