Vermont is spelled with a capital “V”, surely no coincidence. With the loads of mountains and climbs available, it had to start with a “V”. I mean, if it was mountainous enough to draw a runaway “loose” nun who left the church for a sailor, it must be good, right? (Great nordic skiing there””Trapp Family Lodge, if you are there in the winter months as well).
Anyways, being a seventh generation “V”ermonter myself, who was raised on a family farm on Rogers’ Hill in West Newbury, VT (which was hand cleared and settled in 1763 by my G-G-G-G-G-Grandfather and still owned by my father) I have a deep love and feel for VT, liberal politics notwithstanding. So when I heard about the 200 on 100 “Dumptruck of Awesome” that was available, I just knew that I had to do it. And not only that, I knew that I had to share this beautiful “Ode to the V in Vermont” with all of my best cyber-cycling-soul mates. Okay, soul mates might be going a bit far there, but you get my meaning.
So, enough with the intro.
Break out the rollers, get on the trainers, find your winter gear; lay off the seconds, nurse that one glass of booze, hold the toasting to one drink, dodge Cupid’s chocolates and shoot the Easter Bunny because training for this bastard started yesterday and you’ll be paying for it on the 28th of June, 2012 in spades!
See you in the pre-dawn hours on the Canadian border with our eyes firmly fixed on the prize of the Massachusetts border. Let’s drive this dump truck like Mel Gibson leaving the compound in a post-apocalyptic world, baby!
Route and location details on the Cogal Event Page.
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Attempting to get a pulse on transportation. Since it's quite likely most of the attendees will be coming from points south and west, would prefer to leave your vehicles at the destination town? We can all meet up there, load bikes onto the bus, then enjoy a leisurely bus ride up to North Troy.
I can rent one of those utility vans and load it up with luggage food tools wheels etc and have it meet us up North, then be the SAG for the ride down.
This idea was brought up in email, and is world's better than what I was first thinking. No doubling back with a car, no need for everyone to worry about SAG, spare room in van if you are unable to finish the route, so on and so forth.
Any and all feedback is appreciated. 3 months has gone by since this article first appeared and I was thinking there was all the time in the world to get to training and increasing fitness, but this bad boy is nipping at our heels once again.
In case you missed it, please send an email to 2muchon100@gmail.com, and I can email you the link to the spreadsheet that's been started.
Cheers
@roger
email sent as well
For what it's worth, my current plan would be to intercept the group as it comes screaming through Waterbury. I'll be in Burlington with the VMH and since she has graciously offered to come pick me up at the tail end of the ride (or whenever I call her from the side of the road in tears), I don't feel right having her and my daughter get up before O dark hundred to drive me to Troy. So I figure I'll ride over to Waterbury from Burlington and hopefully time things right to just grab a wheel as the group comes by. That is, unless I can figure out better logistics.
@roger
Email sent
Alright everyone, how's the training going? We all need to be almost at "Two Months from Peaking" and if Fronk and his minions on the pave' have not inspired us, we're royally hosed!
As for me, I am still nursing two injured Achilles from my futbol time in Honduras (from which I returned a week ago) and have not turned a pedal in one month!!! I am dead in the water! This is literally the longest I have gone without riding since deployment in 2008. I am soooo dead! Totally am not eating anything as I am trying not to put on any weight as I wait to get back on the bike!
I have even considered starting to do some swimming as I can do that with screwed Achilles (talk about desperate!).
So, as for me, I am looking at being the sweeper on the ride if things do not turn around ASAP!!!
How are you all doing?
Also, Roger, email sent and I am good for $50 bucks toward the van rental if that would cover any of it (truly have no idea how much it would cost and the VMH would probably KILL me if I not only blew off my entire family for the ride but also dropped a huge amount of money on it! I'm already in the doghouse for bringing the bike to France for my Paris-Roubiax ride two weeks prior to this ride!). Thanks mate!
Everyone that has listed info on the spreadsheet, you've got mail.
Lodging has been secured for us the eve of our Cogal.
It was not easy, and some bribe money had to be wired up, but fear not, there is 1 less thing to worry about.
@roger
Awesome roger! Thanks for setting this up. I have to say, you are making harder and harder to come up with excuses to not partake in this crazy project.
@roger
Definitely a life saver as I was prolly gonna end up sleeping in my truck.
I'm horrible when it comes to logistics!
@Buck Rogers
Training isn't near where I'd like it, but with the time change and the days getting longer I should be able to get in some more km's before/after work. Hopefully I shall not embarrass myself too badly
@roger
I'm with @Buck Rogers. I definitely want to chip in for the SAG vehicle (since I may very well be using it).