Peoples of the B group

50 degrees, Hot Damn! I'll be there.

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On Jan 8, 2014 10:37 AM, "Marc Bertucco" <

Great news everyone! We now have leaders for ALL options this weekend.

1. JP/Perlberg: Bag-o-Hammers (and not just the climbs...hanging onto JP's wheel on false flats and low-grade climbs is an exercise in "are-you-f'ing-kidding-me?"

2. Bertucco: Saddle River, NJ inland moderate/endurance paced

3. The Prez (Jules): Traditional Kissena group ride route to Piermont at moderate pace working on smooth paceline rotations and eating donuts. (not at the same time.)

We'll all meet on the Jersey side of the GWB at 9am and divide into groups there. Keep an eye on this thread for any changes to the plan.

I'm in for the B group Saddle River ride.

Hmm... wormhole vs. torus... I love a good donut ride, but think I'll RSVP for the B group Saddle River wormhole.

Gwynna Smith said:

I'm giving a very tentative RSVP for B Saddle River. Depends on many, many factors, not least of which is Marc emailing me and saying, "You have a GPS for when you get your slow sorry ass dropped, right?" (BTW, the answer is yes. )

We will only drop you if you try to keep up on the flats in your 39x26 spinning165 rpm. :-)

Seriously though, this is a no drop ride. On some of the climbs I'll say, "there's the top, if you want to unleash the beast go for it, wait for us at the top." But otherwise we're all sticking together. That said, bring your tech with...because you know, Strava, and for future solo repeats of this ride. It took me roughly 10 years of doing this ride with JP to finally get it down. #gottagetmesometechin2014helpCRAIG?

i'm resting up and trying to get rid of the seasonal stew clinging to my lungs.  been off the bike for a bit.  if i beat it before sunday, i'll be in for the ride.

The goal of the B ride is not to explode at each hill and wait for stragglers at the top.  Steady, steady, steady pace is the name of the game.

I will make an appearance for the B group. I will drag my gut up all those hills because I need some miles in my legs.

B ride for me--easing into the season with some steady pacelines sounds just right. 

Marc one question. What time do we plan to be back on the Right (NYC) side of the GWB at the end of the B-ride?

Remember all there are essentially two "B" rides. Jules is leading the paceline focused ride to Piermont. And I'm leading the Saddle River ride into New Jersey.

Dan, if the weather holds, I'm going to "pre-ride" the route on Sat and let y'all know for sure, but figure 12:30-ish return to the GWB. It's 58 miles.

Anyone up for a nyack ride from brooklyn saturday 8 am?  ( i am only going one way)  A casual pace, with no hill hammering. (am recovering from starting indoor power workouts. oof.)

I've gotten a number of questions about the pace of the Saddle River NJ "B" ride. Trust me when I tell you that we will be going slowly. It's been a while since I've had a functioning cycling computer on my bike, but my terrible math tells me that I've done this ride solo and averaged 14mph.

I posted an earlier comment about letting some of you lose on some of the climbs, only because in the past when I've led these slow rides, I have literally had people jumping out of their skins because the pace was "too slow" for them. No one on the club is better at riding slowly than me. I am the club champion of the slow ride. I don't know why I didn't get a jersey with a snail on it at the club banquet.)

I intend to ride at the front of this ride to control the pace and swear I will grab the jersey and practice my Jonas Carney finish line shenanigans of anyone foolish enough to try and half-wheel me. Also, there are traffic lights on this ride. And I stop for 90% of them. So there's that too.

There are a number of places we can stop for quick beverage refill. In the summer, I have a mini-picnic by myself on some of these rides. But I'm not by myself, and it's not the summer, so stopping once is okay, but just enough time to refill those bottles stuff some snickers bars in your jersey and get moving again.

There are a lot of people on this club for whom this ride is not right this weekend but if you are wondering if the ride is going to be too fast or hard for you, than fear not. why I'm SUPER psyched that we have THREE options on Sunday.

1) Bag-o-hammers with JP and Perlberg as your tour guides. (Route TBD)
2) Paceline practice (easy to moderate intensity) focus on smooth rotations and staying together with Prez Jules to Piermont
3) Saddle River, NJ. Easy peasy with Marc. Of course you Brooklynites will be putting in lots of miles. So don't think you are going to feel fresh and daisy like by the time you get home just because we're not going hard. You know?

Thanks for this clarification Mike...this is an important difference from how I've been heretofore inaccurately describing the ride. It will allow possibly more folks to participate.

Is there a possibility of extending the piermont ride to nyack or somewhere else to get in more miles at the moderate pace

So, it sounds like Marc's ride will be close to 90 miles for those of you coming from deep Brooklyn, since it's about 15 to the GWB each way. Just keep that in mind when packing grub and pacing yourself.

Sunday sounds good. Bag-o-hammers : )

Jessica; there is always an extra loop or two to add in, depending on how people feel.

Jules said:

Jessica; there is always an extra loop or two to add in, depending on how people feel.

Here's the thing--if you're going to do two extra loops, then you might as well go with Marc inland.  

Euris' memorial ride is Sunday; leaves strictly at 9am. I'm going to back out of my River abroad B ride to attend.

Did anyone ever decide on which story was true about how he died?  Hanging out with the wrong crowd, defending a robbery victim, or singing Christmas carols? I'm not being snarky here; I've read all three.

Anyway, it's a nice gesture.

Of course anyone is welcome to join me.

I'm going to head to Prospect around 10:30 this morning and try to beat the rain.