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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@Buck Rogers
Not sure how it works on iPad but I suspect if you navigate to the part of the app where you upload data and plug in the Garmin, it will guide you through the upload. That's how it works on the website.
@Buck Rogers I was able to upload from my Garmin using an Android tablet with USB ports. The table simply saw the Edge 500 as another USB drive and by navigating to the activities folder, I could select the correct file to upload. Question is, do you have a cable with mini USB at one end and the iPad connector at the other to even attempt this?
@CanuckChuck
That's my problem, I do not have a mini usb/ipad cable. There are no usb ports in my ipad that I can find. I will try to get a cable soon. Thanks for the help!
@Buck Rogers
Not sure if such a cable exists, or if the iPad would even recognize the Garmin. You may be SOL unfortunately until you get use a laptop/desktop.
Fuck me! I never ordered a cogal pint glass! Any way to get one retroactively?
i thought north adams was not far out, and distance wise it wasnt. but when coming back to porches, it seemed an eternity. @buck and @rob, you guys absolutely blasted this thing apart. so many parts of this ride are starting to slowly evolve in my mind and being hours behind of most everyone, it's wild to see how 2kph here and 4kph there on the flats adds up. with all those climbs coming in the 2nd half, you guys had to have set a hard pace up those mountains. amazing.
heres my strava. http://app.strava.com/rides/12097708 i did a lot of stopping towards the last 60km. my feet were in such pain that any little bump instantly set fire to all my nerves, feeling like the man with the hammer was slamming away at the balls of my feet. if i was lucky enough to see the imperfections in the road, i'd apply all weight to the sitbones while putting the cranks at 3 and 9, pulling up a bit so as to send all the vibration to my already numb posterior. absolutely not a charlie sheen winning moment.
@Buck Rogers
where the heck are those things? i heard everyone at the restaurant talking about them but i dont remember getting an email with the order form?
@CanuckChuck
I can only hope you have a much weaker prescription than i do. when darkness is combined with my poor vision, im a stumbling bat and literally feeling my way around just to get to the bathroom. when we saw you at the bar loading up, you looked pretty dang pleased all things considered. wonderful job claiming 328km worth of vermont road. you deserve it
@Buck Rogers
@roger
You guys can order them retroactively from the main cogal page. Frank just checks to make sure you were actually on that particular ride before processing the order.
@roger
I have a pretty weak prescription so, although riding in the dark without glasses is not ideal, it's not the end of the world.
Since there is not official 200 on 100 route, I'm happy to have been able to ride just over 200 on 100, thus qualifying me to the T-Shirt I ordered the day before. AND I'll be able to drink from my cogal pint glass without shame.