brendan
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@Dirt 18752 wrote:
Nice! Were you in the group that did the 2-day ride out west of town? Where did I see you? Sorry for not recognizing you. The ride had me quite toasted.
Yeah, that’s a lot of miles in non-optimal weather…
I was right behind you on the Big Dummy at the stop light east…I think…of Vienna…before the 495 bridge. We saw you (again…relative to Purcelville) after we stopped at the Vienna Whole Foods coffee shop/bar and managed to create a moat of water around our entire table, which caused the clean up staff to circle us for half an hour or more until we left and they trailed us with push brooms and mops all the way out the door.
I suspected you might be Dirt when someone pointed out the Hello Kitty bike rims. Only later, when I thought it through, did I kick myself for not asking you if you were Dirt.
Any plans to do the total200 this year?
Brendan
@acc 18640 wrote:
Dirt, you left out a few small details.
Yesterday in the rain you rode a century on a fixie.
And I had my first Dirt sighting ever on Sunday.
Brendan
@creadinger 18423 wrote:
You can try Nuun tablets. You just add one to a normal water bottle, let it fizz for a while as it dissolves and then drink. It has all the electrolytes you need, without all the calories. They come in a little canister of like 10 and are easy to carry.
I have a bit of a sweet-tooth which I find encourages me to drink more G2 or diluted gatorade/powerade than plain water. I tried Nuun (and some competing products) and found they made me less likely, not more likely, to drink the water that contained them. As Ann said: “Find whatever works for you.”
(e.g. caffeinated clif shot bloks > gel of any kind)
Brendan
I’ve done the rehoboth -> bethany -> rehoboth out and back several times on a hybrid and an xtracycle. Aside from the bridge crossing it is rather flat. The wind can be a terror, though. If you’re making excellent time heading one way, brace yourself for a rude awakening on the way back.
An alternate plan would be to do a loop ride that includes both a shore portion as well as inland portion, such as this one:
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/112292785
Warning: there’s a huge Mountaire chicken processing plant you have to pass. About 50% of the time, the stench nearly knocks me off the bike for a quarter mile or so.
Brendan
@PotomacCyclist 17507 wrote:
I thought that only happened to me. I was heading toward the Pentagon City mall one evening, with no traffic at all on the nearby streets. I had a green light and moved into the intersection. A taxi was in the opposite lane, heading toward me. He wanted to turn left, i.e., across my path. He began honking his horn repeatedly, so obviously he saw me from far away. (I have so many lights on the bike that it’s almost impossible to miss me. That intersection is also very well lit.) I don’t understand his hurry because even if he had to wait for me to pass through the intersection, he would have been delayed at most by a couple seconds. He wasn’t trying to beat any other traffic because there was none. It was smooth sailing for him to wherever his destination was.
He came barreling through and floored it as he turned to his left, narrowly missing me. What a jacka$$.
I used to say the most predictably unpredictable vehicles on the roads were cabs and bike couriers.
Then a couple of weeks ago, I was in courthouse, in daylight, heading downhill eastward in the bike sharrows on 15th St N and then curving on to 14th St N when a parked Doctor Delivery car on the right side of the road suddenly U-turned right in front of me (about 1/4 block from the right turn on N. Queen Street that takes me across route 50 towards iwo jima). I slammed the brakes hard and stopped less than two inches from his rear passenger door. Cargo bike, disc brakes, properly adjusted, meant I didn’t endo and I stopped in time. I was pretty angry and called the guy an idiot before moving on.
Bad bike ambassador, I know, but seriously, that could have been really terrible.
So add food delivery cars to that list. Yeesh.
Brendan
