Monday, September 7, 2009

Group A (and B+) Ride Report - 9/06

Group A was fast!!! Yellow shoes and The Animal did a hammerfest. There was a new climb, Starcrest, that was so steep and so long it seemed like an eternity to climb. Capt was like Contador on Mont Ventoux, out of the saddle sprints up the climb!

The ride was hard, and the heat did not help any. Must have been close to the 90s. I have never seen Dashaan sweat, he was working hard on the front, and he was dripping like it was raining at the water stop. I was just barely holding on in the 2nd half, and was going to slip off any minute.

Going back on PCH, there was a Buena Park bike group that wanted to ride and compete. So Scott M, Capt, Dashaan, and Tuan just went to the front, set a blistering pace, and basically rode them off of our wheels one-by-one.

Coffee was nice, with Andy and a new rider Candy telling jokes that had the rest of us full of laughter. Candy was a bit excited as he was new to the coffee “experience”. Everyone loved Scott D’s picture of Lance and his new One-Two man, the Diesel. Scott may be getting some picture order soon.

Did I miss anything??? Give us your input Group A riders...

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  2. Just testing!

    Hello Phong!
    Great recap here, I can clearly see myself next to Dashaan and out sweating him! I can not handle too much heat because I need to keep my fat for surviving the cold Minnesota weather. hehehe!

    Hello OC guys,
    We got great training ride yesterday 09/09/09 special day ... we could not believe we can ride this fast!

    We did the 10 miles loop:
    1st loop for warm up and Ave = 19.5mph going through 1 red light and 3 corner red lights. The road still wet from the rain 1 hr ago... so we slow down to 16mph going throught the corners.

    2nd loop with only 4 of us (Oscar, Tim, Vibo and I) ... and Vibol is group B rider... and able to hang in there Ave Sp = 24.9mph... he did all the pulling just like one of us. Man! 9 weeks ago he was dying on flat and Ave Sp was only 15.5mph. Our group B have to make U-turn to bring him home without finish up the ride.

    3rd loop we Ave Sp = 25.6mph (I got drop ~200m to the line... in 3rd position) Oscar in 1st and Vibol in 2nd. Tim got flat ~800 m to the line... so he got drop.

    Keep pumping guys!
    Quang Vo

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