Elephant Rock Ride : Official Thread

Thanks...Whats a mid paceline?

Oops, sorry - in the middle of the paceline. 

Only the lead rider should be on the aerobars (if at all).  If you are following close behind someone else, you should definitely not be on the aerobars.

Ok thanks.   I hope not to get any pack or whatever they call them.

I'm really doing this to practice my pacing for IMCDA.  I have a 11-28 cassette.  I don’t think were sissies especially when we are going by those with the smaller cassettes smiling and they are dying on the hills.

That ^^^ is why I stay away from Elephant Rock.

I had no idea you had been hurt so badly Andria!!!!  Glad you're back to training and racing this year :-)

AndriaLL - 2011-03-23 1:00 PM I rode this, well ~70ish miles of it anyway, last year with a 13-25 cassette and was getting a really good workout   Until someone crashed into me and then I got to ride in the ambulance   Missed the entire tri season with 3rd degree/full thickness road rash, broken bones and an AC separation that needed surgery.  Elephant Rock was the most crowded century ride I've done and with such a range of speeds (from people on tandem bikes to "racers") it felt a little dangerous.  Maybe there is a better time to start than whenever I did (there were routes of different mileages merging where I was run into) but there were 33 emergency room visits at Sky Ridge while I was there, and 9 ambulance calls on the same stretch of road as I crashed...(I think around mile 70, before County Line Road).  Anyway, be careful out there

 Sorry about the crash.  My head is always on a swivel, but it's going to be on double duty now. Thanks for the warning.

Can't believe there was/is no buzz for E-Rock this year. Third year for me. Last year did the century, this year the metric again. Had fun, but it was not the wife's year. The smoke is really effecting her asthma. It was a long day... but she is still proudly a non sag wagon rider. For me it was like doing 60 miles of intervals.. max out, wait, max out, wait.... But it was a ride with the wife and that is what we had. She kept trying to race up the hills, but I would dial her back and pace her so she did not loose here breath. Did not take much. Still a good day.

The smoke is really depressing me though. Obviously it does not compare to those actually impacted by the fires, but depressing none the less.