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@MattAune 96796 wrote:

The problem with bluemont is that there are multiple trail crossings. There is a great run up though.

So Matt and Hozn can we arm twist you into leading us through the course one morning early next week if the forecast deluge turns out being a false alarm?

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@vvill 95998 wrote:

…. and after the season there’s also Monster Cross (Feb 22, 2015).

Currently pondering this one. If I go I’ll make a weekend of it. Going down to our place in WB on Friday pm before hitting the race Sunday. I’ll have room for guests ….

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Missed a low-5 with Dickie this morning near Brandymore Castle. Perhaps we both thought that by employing late starts and slow rides we could avoid getting soaked from either the rain above or the sweat within our rain gear.

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@Steve O 95541 wrote:

Me: Zipping along Maine Avenue with traffic at 22.1 mph (thanks, Strava!) on my way to the final Nats game of the season
You: Maine Avenue, with your steel plates and gravel and construction-destroyed surface
Me: Holding up a hand to the car approaching from the right to make sure he doesn’t turn onto Maine into my path
You: Throwing an enormous lump of irregular road surface under my front tire
You & Me Together: Oh, you with your coarse, dark hardness and me with my soft, abradable skin: we probably weren’t meant to have such a close relationship–even for such a brief encounter.
Me: Sporting about an acre of road rash on my ankle, hip, elbow, shoulder and back.

Huge thanks to nurse Kim at Nationals Park first aid, who cleaned me up and covered me with a couple yards of gauze. I still got to see the final seven innings of Zimmermann’s no hitter.

(Bike was remarkably undamaged, other than scraped handlebar tape and a scuff on the saddle. I think my pannier protected the derailleur from hitting.)

Ouch! Glad it wasn’t worse.

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@GuyContinental 95395 wrote:

My company (a major kayak/canoe manufacturer) uses the new Polartec Neoshell fabric in our top-line dry tops which are designed to keep paddlers bone dry while upside-down in a rapid. Performance is simply amazing- it’s light, breaths and the barrier is built right into the fabric (rather than as a coating or a membrane)- paddlers used to wearing nearly nothing under their tops because of the lack of breathability tell us that they are having to layer up because it breathes almost too well. Given what I’ve seen so far I’d totally try a Neoshell based jacket like the below linked one from Sugoi. However, I’m also guessing that it’s NOT cheap…

http://www.sugoi.com/usa/polartec

(you could also wear a paddling dry top but the laytex neck and wrist gaskets *might* be overkill…)

Mmmm … yummy. Jacket is $250-$350 depending on which model you get and how hard you look online for a deal. Thanks for feeding my gear fetish!

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@chris_s 95074 wrote:

I haven’t been down that way in a while. Any notable progress?

It was a mess when I went through this morning. All the asphalt was stripped off Eads and the the remaining surface was that rough, bumpy, wish-I-hadn’t-switched-out-my-wheels-last-night surface. Definitely not going that way again for awhile!

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@Dickie 92802 wrote:

I suggest a plane ticket to Spain

While oh so helpful dickie, that isn’t in the cards for me at the moment. Any other suggestions?

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All knowing forum … how does can one watch the Vuelta without Universal Sports? Inquiring minds want to know.

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Dave and I went for a little shakedown ride this weekend on the C&O. Boy was I in need of some camping time.

Here are a few but they are all at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kayakcyndi/

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@Dickie 92610 wrote:

…. should have been animated by 1950’s Disney artists; Singing frogs, sun bursts following me the entire way to work, a soft gentle wind keeping me cool, a bubbling brook escorting me for a few miles, turtles marching, and I swear a butterfly landed on my head… then I visited with Dirt for a while.

It really was that kind of morning. Simply lovely and great to see you!

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@TwoWheelsDC 92575 wrote:

Ooooh, this one goes well after school starts full time and I’ll have nothing to do during the day…will probably make a run at it.

The fixie comment applies to you too!

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@dcv 92555 wrote:

Just got asked the same thing from someone else, is there a new strava challenge?

Actually, yes.

http://www.strava.com/challenges/cts-bucket-list-2014

For you it must be completed on the fixie though to count.

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Just turn him loose in Barcroft. Repeats up Jay Miller, Tallwod, Whispering Pine … You could stay at the bottom with a stopwatch, beer, and a cowbell.

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Awesome! I needed to pick up salad fixings on the way home anyway.

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@ShawnoftheDread 92483 wrote:

Excellent guess, but it actually looked like this:

Or maybe like this:

And that is exactly how it felt too!

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