Alternative Ride for Saturday

Hey,

I know the first choice for the Saturday ride is out past Alton, riding up and down the Hill at Pierre Marquet State Park. Unfortunately or fortunately I have to meet a contractor at my house at 7:15 am. I should be done by 7:45, so if there are any of you who can't make the 8:15 am start out in Alton, let me know if your interested in a ride that starts closer to home and a bit later.

Roark

Reservations Made For Hotels to and From Travis City

I have made hotel reservations for our trip to Travis City for Friday night July 13th and Saturday night July 21st. We are staying in the Days Inn in Portage IN, for both days. We have two rooms with two double beds, at $133 each stay for both rooms. It is nothing fancy but he price is right. Note: There are five of us in two rooms with four beds, you do the math!

Portage IN, is 320 miles from St. Louis; and 300 miles from Travis City.

Note: Holland MI is 175 miles from Travis City and a 3 Hour Drive. We will be getting up very early Saturday Morning July 21st to get to the Holland Hundred Tour.

Jittery Jaunts Custom Jerseys!

Folks,

I have a proposal for the group. We can get custom jerseys for $45 each if we order a minimum of ten. Zavisa will custom design our jersey if we all pitch in and pick up his jersey cost. So if a minimum of nine of us order a jersey, its $50 per jersey. Next time we travel to the Hilly Hundred, etc we all could be dressed in our new custom Jittery Jaunts Jersey!

We need to have 9 jersey commitments to make this work and get Zavisa started.

If your willing to commit to a jersey, let me know.

Roark

Commitments to Date:

1. Roark
2. Mark
3. John
4. Dan
5. Bill
6. Brian
7. Cheri
8. Amanda
9. Melina
10. Rick
11. Mike

The Hillclimber Goes Down Hill!

It"s True: Mike is on the down hill descent of his biking career, turning 40 years old today! No longer the young stud of the group, he turns his attention to endurance rides, those normally reserved for the insane or retired!

Happy 40th Birthday Mike!

Rec-Plex Triathlon

To those of you who are interested,

I started swimming on swim team at approximately age 4 and I was good enough to swim in high school. I never really made it to state, except as a participant in a free relay. I was not good enough for college swimming (or at least I was not interested) and I have continued to swim off and on just for fun. As far as biking goes, I enjoyed riding my mtn bike on trails and paths since 1993 and was happy with that until Roark drafted me for his MS Bike Tour team. Since then (approximatley three years) I have been road biking and doing what I thought was some serious training. I have never been a good runner. Despite that, I managed to finish the New York City Marathon in November of 1998 in just over 6 hours and have participated in two half marathons (none recently) since then.

As far as the triathlon goes, I expected to do ok on the swimming, excell in the biking and do poorly with the run (especially taking into consideration that I tore some ligaments in my right ankle a couple of weeks ago).

My results were a bit surprising to me. In my age group (49 men aged 35 to 39 years), I finished the 500 meter swim (breast stroke) 27th with a time of 10 min and 45 seconds. I finished 45th (out of 49!) (a real surprise!!!!) with a time of 1:14:33 on the 21 mile bike ride despite an average speed of 18.1. The run (there was a lot of walking in there) took me 55:59 (an 11:40 min per mile pace) and put me in 48th palce. In my age group I placed 48 out of 49 and overall 289 out of 373.

I think I will try again in the fall.

Regards,
Brian

Friday Night

Cheri,

Count me in for sure. Linda went to NYC today and will be back Thursday but not sure if she will want to join us. If you get tickets Friday just get the one for me. If Linda does join us I will get her a ticket then. Thankyou. Mark

Wednesday Night

I will not be able to join you on Wednesday. I have t pick my bike up Wednesday evening before 6:00: I was hoping the guy would be able to straighten out my wheel tonight.

I am in for Friday night. What time at Kaldi's?

Saturday Ride June 16th

Folks,

I am doing one of my team rides this Saturday from Creve Coeur Lake to Old St. Charles for a late breakfast at Miss Aimee B's Tea Room. The ride starts from Creve Coeur Lake at 9:00 am. As usual I plan to ride to the team ride, and after the team ride to get some real miles in.

So if you want to join me, and the team, plan of leaving the Lopatin's at 8:15 am. Since I am reserving space at Miss Aimee B's please let me know if your planning on joining the ride.

Roark

Calhoun County Century Ride

Anybody up for the Calhoun County Century Ride in June before it gets too hot. I was thinking Saturday June 23.
Greg

Wired to Win at Omnimax

You may have seen the email about the movie Wired to Win, Surviving the Tour de France at the Omnimax Theater. (Thanks John!)

Is anyone interested in going as a group? I've put in a call to see what the discount is for group rates.

We're available this Friday, June 15 for either the 6p or 8p showing....or we can look at next weekend.

Here's the link to the showtimes: http://www.slsc.org/content.aspx?id=2215

If we don't have a group going, here's the link for a $2 off coupon: http://www.trailnet.org/images/wired_coupon.jpg

Let me know what you think and I'll let you know when I hear something about group rates.

Thanks.
Cheri

Tues 6/12 ride vs Wed 6/13

I'm not able to ride Wed night 6/13, but am available Tues night 6/12. Anyone interested in Tues night ride this week? Let me know.
Thanks.
Cheri

Accelerade/Enderox/Accel Gels

Is anyone interested in placing another bulk order of the Accelerade and/or Endurox and/or Gels?

6 cases of any combination = no shipping. Otherwise it ranges from $11-20/case for shipping.

If you want to get to the free shipping without getting as much, we could get the smaller servings.

Here are the team prices:
Accelerade (fruit punch, orange, lemon lime, blue raspberry, lemonade)
- 30 servings $79.50 for case of 6
- 60 servings $135.00 for case of 6
Endurox (fruit punch, tangy orange, lemon lime, vanilla, chocolate)
- 14 servings $96.00 for case of 6
- 28 servings $162.00 for case of 6
Accel Gel (strawberry kiwi, chocolate, citrus orange, raspberry cream, key lime)
- 24/box $64.60 for case of 4 boxes

Let me know if you have any interest or thoughts on any other product at a reasonable price...or nothing at all
Thanks.
Cheri

Sunday Morning Bike Ride

Who wants to do a bike ride early Sunday morning around 7:00 AM. We could do ride starting from Kaldi's in Chesterfield and headout toward Babler and six flags or we could do a city ride starting in Olivette either at Roark's house or Starbucks on Olive in Olivette.

Mark

Bike Race in O' Fallon June 10

Hey,

Does anyone know anything about this?

Driving home from the Wednesday night ride I saw one of those portable message signs used by the street departments set up on Winghaven avenue. All it said was Bicycle race June 10.

That's practically walking, easy biking distance from my house to where this sign was, near MasterCard's facility.

Flat as a Pancake Century

Is anybody doing the Flat as a Pancake Century ride on Sunday June 3?

Greg

Memorial Day Weekend Plans

Saturday - The train leaves from my house at 8 am. The ride about 50 miles will take us out to Old St. Charles, then over to Hog Hollow up and out to Marshall Hill & West Adams. There will be a coffee stop.

Sunday - I am off the bike.


Monday - Mark is picking me up at 7:30 am to head over to Milstadt for the Pizza Ride.

Roark

Rides Saturday May 19th and Sunday May 20th

Folks,

I plan to ride next Sunday the Fun Club's Berry Bicycle Ride & Strawberry Festival as an easy jaunt of 20 or 28 miles with my spawn Joseph. I will probably see most of you at the start and finish for Strawberrys and Ice Cream.

That leaves Saturday open for some challenging riding. So lets talk options

i) First of the Season Calhoun County Century....

ii) First of the Season attempt to actually complete all of the 100 Miles of Hill Route( its never been done to date)

iii) You tell me your suggestion....

Roark

RIdes Saturday May 12th & Sunday May 13th

Folks,

I know there are a few ride options for this weekend. There is the Hosteling Indian Crossing Century for $30.

I prefer and plan on doing another option with Alan Spivak and his group. Firstly its FREE!. Secondly its a nice opportunity to ride with Alan's group, in an area that we dont ride all that often. It is the Elsberry to Louisiana Missouri and back loop. Along the way the ride passes through Clarksville, and returns via a lovely climb to the aptly named Paynesville. We did this ride a few years ago, its scenic and got some hills and is about 70 miles. If your planning on this ride, the carpool train will be leaving from Alan's at 7 am Saturday morning.

Turning to Sunday. It's mother's day, so the ride I normally do is out to Laurmier Sculpture Park to tour the show with the family. Upon arrival the bike goes on top the car. Mark is usually my partner for this ride, but he is bailing this year. So I am not sure if its a go.

Roark

3S3M Pictures

Obviously, not in chrono order....but a sampling of the pics....

Indian Crossing Century

Saturday May 12 is the Indian Crossing bike ride. Register online at moonlightramble.com. The 30$ includes 3 sag stops and lunch. Let me know if you want to carpool to the event.

Brian