Keep Up the Good Work Team WRFB

It looks as though everyone but myself will be doing these mountain rides for the next three months that the Brew Dave is so excited about. However, I have found a group of riders here in GA who are dedicated to riding weekends, but not to the extent of your insane routes. I will not be riding like I did last year, but I have your wheels to suck on. I am going to be sucking on everyone's wheels at BSG, the three mountain ride in NC, and of course BANC "Bike Across North Carolina". Hope you guys continue your insanity of mountain rides so I can coast in the middle of the pack, with a six pack and Patron shots. I have some make up miles to do and wish I were in NC to do your insanity rides. Keep up the good work guys for you have a huge responsibility to your fellow team mate of pulling him up the hills and on the flats. I will pull you down hill when needed of course to give you a breather and allow you to take a drink.

PSW

Assault on Saratown Mountain

Jim Olson and I conqured the first mountain this weekend in a 52 mile bike ride up Saratown and back. Jim probably added another 3-4 miles on top of that because of his starting point compared to mine. The goal for me is to tame one of the 3 mountains every week from now until at least my half-ironman on May 7. Allowing for a week a tapering for that event,and a week of spring break that only leaves 9 weekends for me. The rest of the group will have an additional month of training. Somehow we need to work in at least a day trip to Snake Mountain. It will either need to be in mid April if there is a warm weekend then, or between my half ironman and 3 Mountain Madness (May 7 and June 4). That is a tight time frame.

The ride was good for me. I made the trek with no issues and felt surprisingly fine on the ascent. Even the ride back felt easy. It was a rather tough day - windy and still cold. Despite how easy it felt, I was wiped out when I got home. I had to take an hour and a half nap afterwards.

I was impressed with Jim, though. He has only done a handful of rides in the 50 mile range ever and only been on his bike 2 or 3 times in the last few months. He made the climb up without stopping on his first attempt. Pretty good for an old fart! His energy level was not quite as strong over the last 10 miles, but he managed to complete the ride wihtout having to call in the calvary. A 40 mile ride would have been more appropriate for both of us, but now since we started we might as well keep it up.