Great Pumpkin Ride 2015

Great Pumpkin Ride 2015 This ride was like no other I've ever been on.  It was nutty from the get-go.  George Perry and I drove out to Warrenton, VA for our first entry into Fauqier County's finest road ride.  Not quite a century, the mileage was supposed to be 67 miles.  I ended up recording 74.3 in 4 hours 48 minutes. Strava Stats Here George and I started out riding together for the first 10 miles.  We were supposed to continue for the next 57.  Somehow George snuck by me on a downhill and I didn't notice.  So I ride on for a few miles, slowing down, letting everyone pass me, and eventually I turn...

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Shenandoah Fall Foliage 2015

Oh no I didn't, it's true, I didn't.  The original plan was to travel south to the Shenandoah and ride back to back Sat/Sun centuries.  It was a good plan, a hopeful plan, a failed plan.  Turns out the Shenandoah is a lot more hilly and windy than I had envisioned.  It turned out to be enough spending 6.5 hours riding through the countryside of 98 miles on Saturday. Fortunately I've got my fraternity little brother living in Staunton, VA. Seems I get down there a couple times and year and he is certainly the host with the most.  The ride weekend overlapped homecoming weekend for the mighty Buffalo Gap Buffalos....

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MoCo Epic 2015

I've ridden the MoCo Epic twice before, in 2013 and 2014.  There were some differences in this ride as opposed to the prior two.  Let's start with the obvious, I don't think I've ever been thrown down as hard as I was yesterday.  25 miles in the ride I approached the bottom of a descent and had to make a sharp left turn to ascend.  I don't think I even saw the little sapling of a tree with really mean intentions.  That sapling hooked my left handlebar end and turned my wheel left .. and yea, I kept going straight.  Right arm extended I was body slammed down on the packed rock surface.  OMG, it took a few seconds...

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