Love It When a Plan Comes Together!

Unfortunately, Saturday's "TB Farewell Urban 100" ride was not one of those instances. It typical Foghorn fashion, poorly organized, sparsely attended, a SNAFU from the gun. It was like a ride that never wanted itself to happen. In a fitting farewell, TB showed up late, rode off the front early (like mile #0.5) and was gone. We found him 2 hours later showered, dressed and painting his bathroom. Some say premeditated, some say typical TB membo (aka: male bimbo). Beyond that, the first couple of hours saw several crashed, two flat tires and an episode hither to only be referenced as the "poison ivy pandemic". I'm still itchin' all over, although the rash never appeared.


This was the last we'd see of TB.











Foster & Jeff on the flood wall.












This was the last we'd see of Pibby & Dave.













THe selection was made, and the chosen few got lunch and beers at Chez Andy. Actually, I think that was beer and lunch. Bob and Andy jumped in for a post-lunch Powhite session.





In the end, it was 100K not 100m for Scottie D., Mean T Green, Jeffrey and myself, but my ass was pretty whooped regardless. A lot was learned, and a lot was left on the table for the next attempt. Forest Hill turned out to be a right decent base camp, Stu showed us some new new trails and one helluva poison ivy patch. We got to see our peeps in the Urban Insult on both sides of the river, and the after party was mellow but awesome, with a backyard presentation of Cutters. Thanks to Ian & Molly for that. Wish I had some more photos, but I either had a handlebar, BBQ sandwich or beer in my hand pretty much all day.

Appropriately, the GPX file for that ride mysteriously became corrupted, and in that sense, it really never did happen. So no ride map for you techno-geeks, sorry.

FOghorn will be in seclusion this weekend on Skyline Drive for Bill Rider's (love that name, why can't I have a cool name like that?) Skyline traverse, an unsupported out & back event from Rockfish Gap to Front Royal, and vice versa. Fingers crossed for a successful event and safe return. Report next week!