Memorial Day Populaire: Fast Women, Loose Fenders, and Tuber-themed candy bars

Memorial Day Populaire 2007.This time I actually got to ride with other people. The last two brevets, I’ve been in between groups, so most of the rides have been solo. Or, I should say, most of the rides were people passing me.

Woke up with plenty of time, but took the ride out to the MAX stop a bit too slow. I chased the Hillsboro train and caught it before it disappears into the mountain, but it pulled away before I could bet my ticket. I took the next one out to Beaverton and rode to 10 miles or so out to the start. I was 10 or 15 minutes late, so I had quite a bit of ground to make up. I luckily caught up with Lynne, Andrew, and Cecil right before the turn onto Highway 6 and its secret control. After that, I had to press myself to keep up with pace, which wasn’t fast by absolute standards, but faster than my default leisurely rolling.

Lynne

At Gaston, I had the privilege to experience the infamous Idaho Spud candy bar. How I know why it’s one of the top 100 candy bars in the US. Marshmellow center, chocolate coating with coconut flakes. Some native Northwesterners swear their allegiance to them, but I think it’s in the same way that we Southerners extol the virtues of grits and chitlins.

marshes

Women who torture stuffed animals while riding

Andrew at the info control

Total, I finished at 2:35, but I didn’t check when I started, but I guess a total of about 5:20. My Snoozeville time was 5:07, but this course was a bit more hilly and 7km longer, and Lynne had to stop every 10 minutes to “take pictures of the scenery” or some such nonsense :)

Combined with last weekend’s 200K, this is the most riding I’ve ever done over two (long) weekends. I’ve been worn out the whole week, and have been hungry all the time. Very burned out. I didn’t ride other than commuting the whole week, and I feel better now. Sometime it’s nice to take a break.

The mechanical lessons of the ride were 1) change your break pads before the night before the ride, since you might need a new canti straddle wire and there aren’t a lot of shops open at 10pm on Sunday on a holiday weekend, 2) finish installing your fenders before riding 120km on them, since the rattling gets really annoying, and 3) if your pump breaks, don’t just keep carrying it around since it will “make due”, since your handlebars might knock it off your bike and then it explodes into 5 pieces and how have to stand there on the side of the road and put it back together.

3 Responses to “Memorial Day Populaire: Fast Women, Loose Fenders, and Tuber-themed candy bars”

  1. Lynne says:

    hey! I took a picture of you! What are you complaining about?

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