RP 2 IPBP 2 Orient

Special ride out to Orient Point today. Early start at 7am, the sun just rising,

nice just comfortable warm morning for the very early fall season end summer season. A good number of ten total riders gathered at the usual meeting place behind Tildas.

Rolling out good on time at 7:01. A few snap shots of the ride out east on the RP2IPBP route -- just a little picture story:

The Tanks...

And further going east -- Soundview:

Orient -- History Downtown and back roads:

Returning from Orient Point, as far as you can go east on LI/North Fork.

Greenport Cafe stop.

The return -- with the help of an nice tail wind...

105 miles, 5h11 moving / 20.6mph average. A nice fun morning ride :-) Back by just noon:45.

And finally enjoy...

Bear Hill (Mtn) Race -- Nancy Morgenstern Memorial Fall Road Race

This Sunday Py went with his team, well, finally four instead of five Green Arm Bandits, to the Nancy Morgenstern Memorial -- also known as Bear Mountain -- Road Race.

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Around 9:30 arrival at Lake Sebago, Bear Mountain. Plenty of time to get ready, have a sandwich and do a little warm up riding with the team mates Chris, Kris and Owen.

Getting the number 393 -- like it :-) And gathering with some big crowd at the staging area where two more fields were waiting to take off ahead. A slight delayed start around 12:10 for the CAT 4B field. Just a few minutes after the 4A... well, we will find out that this was not a sufficient time gap later.

The neutral start until first pass of finish line -- out of 4 laps -- went very easy and smooth, a nice and well behaved field, good control of speed before the U turn at end of downhill at up to 77km/h... Py stayed mostly all the time in top 5..10 either way.

A good steady climb, felt almost easy -- about the same effort 4 times, nothing went crazy. Also no issues with the bumpy road, again, Py stayed more or less in front and out of any troubles. A little speed on the rollers around the lake, the usual gaming, nobody wants really to work... at least a few pulls and share of work and then stalled sharing of work again...
At end of 1st lap we caught up on the 4A's (the younger kids kept it easy) -- they were made neutral as we passed this time.

Same game again 2nd lap.

Towards 3rd lap the 4A's came close to us this time, did not passed so -- but we were made neutral and forced to stop and wait 5..7 minutes to let all of them go by and far enough ahead... do not want that issue again on the final lap (every one disliked that, stragglers caught up... also the official was sorry and apologized -- but he did not had any options) -- the field started moving slowly again (good idea to prevent cramping -- like!).

Same games until last lap and climb, went fairly smooth up all the way, pushing at good fun pace over the rollers, Py helped pushing the pace over the bumpy part in very front and had fun...

A few more times in front and sharing work worked kind of OK on the rollers -- Py stayed almost all the way to the last turn into the short finish climb in top 3 spots :-)

At the final finish climb just a few passed up on Py (he got to the finish line in 15th place) on the finish climb, kind of not so super motivated putting in a not so big efford, do really know why -- may be because of the gray drizzly weather... GAB Chris was just behind me and made it up to the 11th I think -- nice job Chris!

Fun day and ride, well, race -- felt more like kind of nice good group ride ;-)

Results: http://www.crca.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010FallBear1.htm

Kevins HHH ride -- adding 66 miles

Kevins Holiday Harbor Hills ride on Labor Day. A brisk cool morning at 7am rolling out towards Stony Brook, arm warmers felt just good. But by the time of the ride start at 8am it got really nice. A fine group gathered for the hilly ride.

Moving just fine, good climbs, good work, nothing unusual.

Early Birds North - again - and some extra miles mission

Sunday -- the Early Birds day on the East End of LI. 6:39am ride to the start at good TT like pace. At the parking lot in Manorville a quite reasonable sized group gathered for the ride.

Due to Earl Dune Rd seamed to be flooded and they had to go North again. Rolling out...

Moving East taking advantage of some tail wind a good fast pace developed quickly, only the few section heading North needed little extra efforts but no big deal in the big field. A pretty impressive strong move up to the tanks by Joe -- brought us up there at some flying 30mph! Only issue this dump gravel field ending in some cut in pavement bump -- looks like it will never get done -- caused a flat on one rider. A few waited up and made sure it all went fine and helped the rider back to the shortly following reassembly point.

From there further flying East and back South to the Cutchogue Deli stop.

Return to Manorville on the South water front of the North Fork, a few nice views of the Great Peconic Bay:

... and a misshap of one rider -- Py and a few more did not saw this (previously on the road in the way, not seen in time) just run over, but one went down, however, he was fine finishing the ride.

Finishing up with the usual race on 51 /111... a strong group including Py finished together.

From there, Py proceeded South towards Westhampton to the GAB meeting... and rode all the way back home stopping by at the Camp for some LN2 refill. That's why this route looks a bit funny -- a total of 115 miles or 185 km.

GAB Bear Mtn Training

Early morning drive up with Karl to Bear Mountain -- the day after Earl passed by LI. A very nice day, a little breezy and clear. Meeting Chris at Lake Sebago, 8am. Checking out the finish of the coarse, the longer down hill and U turn into the major climb, some nice winding road climbing for about 10 minutes on a 6..9% grade starting at 168m up to 346m. The first ride up we merges with some random other riders what made it a bit more interesting, repeating three times and then doing the loop once. A very scenic ride. Nice quick workout -- need to come back and figure the area out a bit more!