FAT BOY 2009 CHALLENGE:project 25,000 miles...

[donalson]

10 + 28,463.55 = 28,473.55

apparently I missed posting last weeks ride... snuck in a sweet ride up at columbus ga at flatrock while visiting my dad.

started a new job last monday, get to start commuting this week ... 7 miles each way... looking forward to it

[eokerholm]

Originally Posted by donalson

10 + 28,463.55 = 28,473.55

apparently I missed posting last weeks ride... snuck in a sweet ride up at columbus ga at flatrock while visiting my dad.

started a new job last monday, get to start commuting this week ... 7 miles each way... looking forward to it

28,473.55 + 62.4 (road/trail/road combo) = 28535.95

Another 100K, this time on my 38 lb 29er, not the 19 lb roadie rental

[prodigy321]

28535.95 + 29 = 28564.95

...preparing for dawn till dusk ride out here at Mcdowell Mtn, AZ

[donalson]

13.21 + 28564.95 = 28578.16

rode 2 and from work... nice ride... need to get the road bike dialed in still a bit but was a nice change of pace

[prodigy321]

28578.16 + 14.1 = 28592.26

Rode for time with my new panaracer's at night along the canal. Time was 50 minutes according to my watch, I am getting better Tomorrow I am going to try a 30 mile ride.

[prodigy321]

28592.26 + 3 = 28595.26

My so called 30 mile ride turned into a 3 mile ride with the kids, it was still fun though.

[Apache_Guy]

28595.26 + 27.00 = 28622.26

I rode canal trails between Gilbert and Mesa tonight. Prodigy, if you saw an angry looking guy on a silver Specialized with HIDs...that was me.

[prodigy321]

I usually ride that canal almost nightly (shaved head, no helmet, blue and silver Trek4300 with red wall panaracers), but the kids wanted to ride, so we rode from our house to Greenfield Elementary and back. If ya see me, catch up and wave me down, usually I have the ipod cranked up

[Takedown]

28622.26 + 35.2 = 28657.46

Joining in on the fun, had a 25.2 mile bike path ride last week and a couple 2 mile loops this week.

[prodigy321]

28657.46 + 15 = 28672.46

Another canal ride at night, thinking I might need some lights soon

[ortrigger]

28672.46 + 10 = 28682.46

[mward]

28682.46 + 17 = 28699.46

[Shafaegalo]

28699.46 + 26.69 = 28726.15
Road ride on new tires - had a flat 6 miles away from home!! Luckily my wife was at lunch and came and picked me up! (I'm a dumba$$ - had a patch kit AND a tube but left my pump sitting on the kitchen table!)

[WVBikr]

28726.15 + 41.8 = 28767.95
few rides added together

[Shafaegalo]

28767.95 +10.06 = 28778.01

[Apache_Guy]

28778.01 + 26.14 last night = 28804.15

I call last night the Karma ride. About 10 miles into I saw a cell phone half buried in the dirt. I stopped and collected it, opened it up and it was on. I called one of the many missed calls numbers and quickly found out that I had uncle so-and-so's phone. I arranged to meet someone about ten miles north. They got their phone back and I got 26 miles of canal dirt. Life is good.

[Shafaegalo]

28804.15 + 7.6 = 28811.75

[AZ.MTNS]

28811.75 + 53.64 = 28865.39

[Psycho Mike]

28,865.39 + 23.78 + 23.71 = 28,912.88

[Apache_Guy]

Rode nite ops last night with 5 others. 15.3 miles at Mcdowell Mtn.

28,912.88 + 15.3 = 28928.18

[hchchch]

Did a ride around the local technical bike trail for morning exercise yesterday.

28928.18 + 5.6 = 28,933.78

[mward]

28,933.78 + 26.4 = 28960.18

[pertm]

28 960.18 + 196.14 = 29 156.32
Rides for the last 2 weeks, lots of shorter rides with only 2 rides at about 30 miles

[eokerholm]

Originally Posted by pertm

28 960.18 + 196.14 = 29 156.32
Rides for the last 2 weeks, lots of shorter rides with only 2 rides at about 30 miles

29 156.32 + 7 + 13 = 29,176.32

[prodigy321]

29176.32 + 18 = 29194.32

Nice Canal ride, but seriously need to buy lights (almost took out a black lab and his master). Going to look tomorrow at my LBS.

[eokerholm]

29194.32 + 8.4 = 29202.72

Was hoping for more, but wasn't "feeling it" and after getting 2 new tires from the shop and riding them in with Stans I just bailed in the parking lot.

Jury is still out on my Mtn Kings in the Front and Nanoraptors in the back. I'm so sick of shedding knobs on my Nevegals...

[ortrigger]

29202.72 + 23 = 29225.72

not a bad ride except I forgot to take water.

[prodigy321]

29225.72 + 18 = 29243.72

Nice canal ride in the East Valley.

[bobbykeller]

29225.72 + 8.5 = 29233.22

[Shafaegalo]

29233.22 + 21.?? = 29254.22 - Huntsville State Park
Stopped at Walmart to get supplies for the trail - When I came back out my computer had been stolen off my bike

[Apache_Guy]

29254.22 + 12.6 (Thurs Canal) + 15.3 (Saturday Premberton) = 29281.82

Riding in the desert rain yesterday was very refreshing.

[ortrigger]

29281.82 + 8 = 29289.82

Some dirt roads and a couple miles of trail. It was a rather intense trail for my riding level though.

[jrherald420]

29281.82 + 14.25 = 29296.07

i havent rode but 3 times in the last 3 weeks due to classes starting back up for the fall semester. im finding it hard to find time between school and doing homework/studying for tests everyday. i can feel it every ride.

[prodigy321]

29296.07 + 21 = 29317.07

Fun ride at McDowell Mountain Range Park, AZ (mix of trails).

[Apache_Guy]

29317.07 + 14.74 = 29331.81

I was at McDowell Mountain yesterday morning with 4 others. It was a bad day. I went out there a bit dehydrated and emptied my camelback within an hour. Sport loop to long loop to premberton to a downhill back to the road. I was in bad shape. Lessons learned...I need to drink more water here.

[prodigy321]

29331.81 + 18 = 29349.81

Ran errands tonight on my bike. Never realized the importance of planning out a trip when on a bike, backtracking is never fun when you are on a strict timeframe. Pushed off road once into muddy shoulder by a car, then rode into construction gravel on the shoulder and somehow my panaracers decided to lay my bike down. But all in all it was a good ride and I didn't run out of water

[sixate]

Been 2 weeks since I added my mileage, but I know I've reset my trip counter so I'll throw in a conservative estimate of 280 miles.

29349.81 + 280 = 29629.81

[en3chix]

29629.81 + 5 = 29634.81

[ortrigger]

29634.81 + 1 = 29635.81

Snapped my chain on the first hill.


Sheared the side of the link right off. I don't know whether to cry or be proud of myself...

[AZ.MTNS]

29635.81 +73.5 = 29709.31

[Shafaegalo]

29709.31 + 2.82 = 29712.13

[Apache_Guy]

29709.31 + 24.5 = 29733.5

Rode nite ops at Fort McDowell tonight. Great ride.

[Shafaegalo]

29733.81 + 14.16 = 29747.97

[pertm]

29 747.97 + 188.16 = 29 936.13

Last 2 weeks of rides.

[prodigy321]

29936.13 + 15.3 = 29951.43

Morning Pemberton Ride

[ortrigger]

29951.43 + 5 = 29956.43

[mward]

29951.43 + 177.9 = 30129.33

Haven't posted in a while but I've been riding.

Next year we oughta count hours instead of miles. Might be more meaningful.

[prodigy321]

30129.33 + 13 = 30142.33

[ortrigger]

30142.33 + 8 = 30150.33

[Apache_Guy]

30150.33 + 15.53 + 24.5 = 30190.03

[Shafaegalo]

We are actually having having Fall here in Texas. (First time in a number of years!!) Great cool weather. Road ride -
30190.03 + 45.06 = 30235.09

[The Red]

30235.09 + 380.72 = 30615.81 ... Boom baby, I'm baaaack! (fully back that is) ... I just started grad school and haven't had the time to post my mileage or my story. Now is the time! .. Fortunately, I didnt give that kind of slack to my riding.

Rode the Erie Canal yesterday, 34 miles, my longest single run yet. Its compacted dirt, my two friends and I were covered in dust. Found a wild apple tree and tried to get some, stood on a compost heap behind it only to find out it was a huge bees nest, and got stung. But I got a half-dozen apples or so before that for my backpack.. I hope my friends appreciated me sharing the fruit of my pain...

I haven't been stung in over 20 years, that **** hurts, was right on the ankle too... its now a day later and I still feel the burn and itching. Not sure if it was bees, wasps, or what.. but damn that **** burned and spread.

[Shafaegalo]

30615.81 + 10.2 = 30626.01

[ortrigger]

30626.01 + 8.55 = 30633.56

[Apache_Guy]

30633.56 + 28 on the canals = 30661.56

[prodigy321]

30661.56 + 32 = 30693.56

20 mile city ride and 12 mile hills/trail ride

[pertm]

30693.56 + 176.14 = 30869.70
Rides from the last week or so

[eokerholm]

30869.70+15.4 = 30885.1

[ortrigger]

30885.1 + 9.56 = 30894.57

Think we've hit our goal yet?

[pertm]

30894.57 + 63.09 = 30957.66
Rides last two days

[orangedog]

30,957.66 + 4.1 = 30,961.76

[Shafaegalo]

30961.76 + 41.6 = 31003.36

[orangedog]

31,003.36+4.2 = 31,007.56

[AZ.MTNS]

31,007.56 + 90.5 = 31,098.06

[orangedog]

31,098.06 + 6.0 = 31,104.06

spent some time on a couple small local jumps... looked like a penguin trying to fly...

[Psycho Mike]

31,104.06 + 15.00 + 16.51 = 31,135.57

1st ride was cut short when I killed the freehub on the bike The second was the shake-down cruise following the install of a new freehub.

[sixate]

Been a few weeks since I last updated. I don't have a fork for my MTB because it's being rebuilt, and the LBS is retarded so I've spent all of the past 3 and a half weeks on my road bike. I put in a lot of miles, and completed my first century this past Sunday. I'll throw up a conservative estimate of 450 miles.

31135.57 + 450 = 31585.57

[ortrigger]

31585.57 + 12.46 = 31598.03

[Shafaegalo]

31598.03 + 71.33 = 31669.36
Pineywoods Purgatory road bike ride in Lufkin, Tx. (Hills are NOT my friend)

[ortrigger]

31669.36 + 6.2 = 31675.56

[orangedog]

31,675.56 + 35.4 + 15.3 = 31,726.26

35 miles from the Tour of the White Mountains (mtb) yesterday, 15 miles at McDowell Mountain Park (mtb) this morning. 50 miles of trail in 24 hours... I'm cooked. McDonald's, couch, and football for me...

what are we going to again, 35,000?

[AZ.MTNS]

31,726 + 35.5 = 31,761.76

35.5 miles from the Tour Of The White Mountains

[Psycho Mike]

31,761.76 + 18.44 (nice little night ride the other day) = 31,780.18

[Ciclistagonzo]

31,780.18+1335.71 (April -Sept)=33115.89 Miles

[pertm]

33 115.89 + 166.04 = 33 281.93
Rides for the last 2 weeks. Starting to get ice here so I will start to use tires with spikes from now on.

[orangedog]

33,281.93 + 5.9 = 33,287.83

[orangedog]

33,287.83 + 13.5 = 33,301.33

13.5 miles as part of the PBR Off Road triathlon

[Shafaegalo]

33301.33 + 18.19 = 33319.52

[Shafaegalo]

33319.52 + 20.79 = 33340.31

[eokerholm]

Originally Posted by Shafaegalo

33319.52 + 20.79 = 33340.31

33340.31+9.2= 33349.51

1000 ft of climbing. (wet trails so hit the neighborhood with lots o hills; my Garmin 705 is off on the mileage)
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/16283274

[Apache_Guy]

Haven't posted miles in three weeks, so this is catch-up time:

9/23 = 16
9/26 = 15
9/27 = 16
10/2 = 18
10/6 = 23
10/8 = 15
10/13 = 25

Updated today: 10/17 = 22

33499.21

[orangedog]

Hey Apache - sorry I couldn't meet up with you on Saturday. Another time.

33,499.21 + 7.5 = 33,506.71

[orangedog]

33,506.71 + 6.4 = 33,513.11

made a steep, slick rock climb that I've crashed going up before - hooray for progress

[eokerholm]

Originally Posted by orangedog

33,506.71 + 6.4 = 33,513.11

made a steep, slick rock climb that I've crashed going up before - hooray for progress

kudos

stole another ride after work yesterday
more climbing at Crystal Falls.

33513.11+8.5= 33521.61

[trf6x6]

Just finished 15.8 miles. Out and back on the trail.

[orangedog]

33,521.61 + 15.8 (from trf6x6) = 33,537.41

33,537.41 + 7.7 (from myself) = 33,545.11

I can almost see 50,000....

[trf6x6]

I forgot to post the last couple of days.
10/22/2009 10.8 miles
10/23/2009 12.3 miles
And today was 8.9 miles./

[orangedog]

for trf6x6... 33,545.11 + 10.8 + 12.3+ 8.9 = 33,577.11

and for me... 33,577.11 + 11.2 = 33,588.31

[pertm]

33 558.31 + 112.73 = 33 671.04
Rides for the last 2 weeks. Getting cold here now with ice some places.

[eokerholm]

Originally Posted by pertm

33 558.31 + 112.73 = 33 671.04
Rides for the last 2 weeks. Getting cold here now with ice some places.

33671.04 + 16.5 miles at Camp Eagle this weekend = 33687.54

[orangedog]

33687.54 + 8.6 = 33,696.14

hit some new trails - whoo hoo!

[snowhoss]

33,696.14 + 14.4 + 5.6 + 10.01 = 33,726.15

10.01 at night = Awesome!

[pertm]

33 726.15 + 127.97 = 33 854.12
Starting to be harder to get any long rides now with well below freezing. Also tires with spikes are slower than regular tires.

[Shafaegalo]

33854.12 + 30.25 = 33884.37

[dorton]

33884.37+15+17=33916.37

My first post on the board

[davidmarquis]

33916.37 + 8.5 = 33924.87

like dorton, this is my first post on the board. i've been a troll for some time, but decided it was time to get back on the bike and start doing my body some good. thanks to you all on the board for your stories and time spent here

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