Re: [CR]What is your most challenging ride?

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From: "Richard Rose" <rmrose@toast.net>
To: "Jim Merz" <jimmerz@qwest.net>, "'Classic Rendezvous'" <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
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Subject: Re: [CR]What is your most challenging ride?
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 21:48:26 -0400


Easy call. June 23, 2001. Cherohala Challenge put on by the Smokey Mountain Wheelman. 115 miles with over 9,000 total feet of climbing, and I'm a flatlander! I was feeling really good through the first 85 miles & then the real climbing started. We covered the 50 mile stretch of road that is the Cherohala Skyway, linking North Carolina & Tennessee. Just gorgeous! The reward was the last 20 miles or so of fast downhill sections - I hit 50+ for the first time in my cycling career. Yup, 47 years old and I went faster than my age. And the Sachs just ate it all up! I can't wait to go back. Richard Rose (Toledo, Ohio) flat, flat & more flat


----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Merz
To: 'Classic Rendezvous'
Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 8:25 PM
Subject: [CR]What is your most challenging ride?



>
> Can we get some stories? What is your most challenging one day ride? Has
> to be on a luged steel frame bike of course.
>
> Jim Merz
> Bainbridge Is. WA