L! G! A! – Wednesday C&O Gravel Rides

[Judd]

@TwoWheelsDC 160572 wrote:

It is muddy AF today. Almost more water than solid surface (at least between Gtown and Chain Bridge).

Given a confirmed report of muddy AF, I’m going to skip out on Liquid! Gravel! Action! Tonight and do some HP laps. If anyone wants some casual hamstering, I should be there around 6.

Secret HP fact: there is beer at HP.

[vvill]

@drevil 160574 wrote:

Thanks for the update. I’ve never done it, but from VVill’s pics, it could be good Hilly Billy Roubaix practice?

I really should have explicitly credited the photog (Mike Briggs on flickr), although I did embed the link to the photo on my post. Click through the photo album to see more awesome pictures from that event!

[Steve O]

@Judd 160579 wrote:

Given a confirmed report of muddy AF, I’m going to skip out on Liquid! Gravel! Action! Tonight and do some HP laps. If anyone wants some casual hamstering, I should be there around 6.

I’ll wave on my way to the baseball game, which hopefully will not be rained out, too.

[vvill]

@Judd 160579 wrote:

Given a confirmed report of muddy AF, I’m going to skip out on Liquid! Gravel! Action! Tonight and do some HP laps. If anyone wants some casual hamstering, I should be there around 6.

Secret HP fact: there is beer at HP.

ビール and Birru are very similar.

[mikoglaces]

I was thinking of doing this tonight but is anyone going to do it? More fun if it’s muddy!

[Judd]

@mikoglaces 160609 wrote:

I was thinking of doing this tonight but is anyone going to do it? More fun if it’s muddy!

It sounds like the usual suspects are probably out. I’d guess that Tania is probably out. Sunyata has a rep as being a dirty, dirty girl though.

[TwoWheelsDC]

You might pass me as I ride back IN to the city on my way home…that’s sort of like participating, right?

[Tania]

@Judd 160611 wrote:

It sounds like the usual suspects are probably out. I’d guess that Tania is probably out. Sunyata has a rep as being a dirty, dirty girl though.

Def out. I have to work later than normal plus I’m still anti-mud-grit-rain-whatever.

[Sunyata]

@Judd 160611 wrote:

It sounds like the usual suspects are probably out. I’d guess that Tania is probably out. Sunyata has a rep as being a dirty, dirty girl though.

While that may be true, my Warbird was packed up and shipped off to Kansas yesterday, so I was enjoying pie at Bikenetic instead. 😎

[Tania]

I could be talked into this for tomorrow especially if we reinstate the Slacker Edition. I’m way behind on my mileage goal for the year.

[TwoWheelsDC]

@Tania 160617 wrote:

I’m still anti-mud-grit-rain-whatever.

@Tania 160816 wrote:

I could be talked into this for tomorrow especially if we reinstate the Slacker Edition. I’m way behind on my mileage goal for the year.

Just as a warning, the Towpath was pretty muddy this morning. Didn’t require fenders, but I had to maneuver around A LOT of big puddles. Could be hard to execute such maneuvers at high speed in a group….

[Judd]

@Tania 160816 wrote:

I could be talked into this for tomorrow especially if we reinstate the Slacker Edition. I’m way behind on my mileage goal for the year.

I won’t be able to make it tomorrow night but I encourage others to still do it if it’s just a puddle issue.

[Sunyata]

@Tania 160816 wrote:

I could be talked into this for tomorrow especially if we reinstate the Slacker Edition. I’m way behind on my mileage goal for the year.

I will be finishing my packing tomorrow night since my flight leaves at 6am Thursday.

I WILL, however, most likely be back in town in time for NEXT Wednesday’s edition… If my legs still work after 200 miles of Flint Hill gravel, that is.

[Birru]

@Tania 160816 wrote:

I could be talked into this for tomorrow especially if we reinstate the Slacker Edition. I’m way behind on my mileage goal for the year.

I’m very unlikely for tomorrow unfortunately. Everyone’s falling apart and I expect to be making hospital visits/checking in on folks. I do owe you a loafy gravel ride, Tania. Hopefully next week we can all dead-leg with the Kanzanauts as they regale us with tales of mud and sorrow.

@TwoWheelsDC 160817 wrote:

Just as a warning, the Towpath was pretty muddy this morning. Didn’t require fenders, but I had to maneuver around A LOT of big puddles. Could be hard to execute such maneuvers at high speed in a group….

With this evening’s rains I expect C&O conditions to be even worse tomorrow.

[Judd]

@Birru 160849 wrote:

With this evening’s rains I expect C&O conditions to be even worse tomorrow.

I rescind my earlier comment about encouraging others to ride. It’s been pretty heavy rain at my place to I imagine the towpath is pretty yucky. Instead, I encourage doing a bunch of Hains Point laps.

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