I love the objective of "enough". Enough insight on food to get the good without the bad. Enough discipline to dose yourself over the whole ride and all of its bits. Enough effort to conclude the day within the limit.
On long non-event rides I like to add a few others: Enough time for a few pictures, not everyone will appreciate them but a few will. Enough reserve and insight to look up from the stem because if I can't, the latter miles won't be pretty. Enough trust in others to not have to make every mistake myself with my bike and gear. Enough adventure, effort and opportunity to be a reward motivating me to do it again! I'm already scanning the calendar for opportunities to ride a two day out and back trip, balancing how many layers I'll need for the weather contingencies and the range limits it will imply until spring is here. Andy Cheatham Pittsburgh On Wednesday, February 14, 2024 at 9:43:28 AM UTC-5 Bill Schairer wrote: > Such a refreshing write-up!! The current obsession with "FKT"s for > anything and everything has sort of turned me off. > > Bill S > San Diego > > On Tuesday, February 13, 2024 at 10:53:23 AM UTC-8 ttoshi wrote: > >> Thanks for all the encouragement! I am VERY lucky to have a custom Riv >> made for randonneuring. >> >> https://rivbike.tumblr.com/post/165236855564/toshis-custom-i-dont-care-who-you-are-or-what >> >> My new acquaintance on the AHH took a nice picture and I'm hoping to >> share that here. >> >> I agree with Bill regarding elevation. I think the major difference from >> other 200k events is the start in San Rafael instead of San Francisco cuts >> off an up and over Camino Alto into Fairfax and the same out on the return >> and the "oh so fun" climb out of Sausalito to the Golden Gate Bridge. It's >> always a challenge to end the ride with the hills. >> >> Speaking of Sausalito reminds me of one of my favorite randonnees ever, >> where I rode with my 5 yr old son on a Populaire 110k on our tandem >> (pre-Hubba times) in 2010. The only way we could make the time cutoff was >> to have my Skittle-powered son climbing out of the saddle and up the hill >> to the bridge. He was so inspiring that several other populaire riders got >> motivated to finish too! Now my son's in college and I'm eligible for a >> senior discount at IHOP. Time flies. >> >> I found an itty bitty picture from that day: >> >> [image: image.png] >> >> >> Toshi >> >> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/c06c5764-79d9-436f-a1ac-33bbc04ad2b9n%40googlegroups.com.
