4-20-10

Thanks to all that made it out to our first Tuesday ride. There was 9 or 10 of us and we covered 26 miles at about 16 mph average. No pictures and no GPS data yet, but that will be coming soon. Tom C. won the wheelie contest hands down covering probably 15 meters-Joe O. tried but just couldn't out wheelie the old pro.

4-19-10

4-19-10
Here is our ride data for today(yes Jay click here)
Tonight we had a small but good crowd.
Ryan on his Fixxie( how does he do that?)
Mike B on his first official group ride( hope to see him back for more, you too Angie!!)
Natalie testing the waters, she just completed her first ever triathalon last weekend and is a Team in Training partner with GHSH team member Kayla Redding. Glad to have you all out and hope to see more of you next week. Next week we will be moving our start times to 6:00 PM.

On another note here is a good podcast if you have the time to listen it is worth it.

Thanks for reading and hope to see you next week!

Fair Hill

Fair Hill April 11 2010
Mark Lentz -15th Sport Master 1
Mike Nardelli-24th Sport SS open
Dave Frey-8th Sport Vet 2

Kayla's first Tri

Tri for Life Hempfield PA April 11th 2010

Kayla Redding
11th out of 74 women
4th out of 20 in age group (females 20-29) missed 3rd by 19 seconds (ouch)
62 overall out of 164 entries.











Awesome Work!!

The Beginning

We had awesome weather tonight for our first official beginner road ride. We started the evening by going over some basic road etiquette and talked about some important items to bring along in case of mechanical' s or flats. We will continue to touch base with any new faces as they become new to the group so please be patient with us, we really feel that these are some important topics to help you enjoy your rides.


Tonight's group almost instantly meshed well and reminded me of why cycling is so awesome. It brings people together and reduces any type of barriers that might inhibit socializing. I may have a biased opinion on this, but it is only formed from my experiences.


Our ride Data will be posted here every week if you are interested in seeing what we are doing .
Click Here to see tonights data.


Keep in mind that average speeds from week to week will possibly fluctaute and cater to the group as a whole. We do our best to accommodate everyone and make sure that no one gets dropped.

Thanks to all that joined us tonight and hope to see you all again soon.








Thanks to the all who showed up.

Mary

Marysville 4/3/10

GHSH sent two teams up to the Osterling Farm for a day of fast paced relay action. This is my first time on the farm and it was a super fun day. It was like a cyclocross reunion a few months early for me. I generally tend to lay back for the mountain bike season and focus only on cross.


We couldn't have asked for a better day weather wise ( sunny and temps reached the low 80's Awesome!) , and I couldn't have asked for a better group to spend it with.


We started the day meeting at the shop and instantly started giving MO a hard time. We had a little undercover T-Shirt operation and made a shirt in his honor.


Sorry MO we just Couldn't resist!! I m sure there will be plenty of payback for that one.
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Lots to say about the race but here is the real short version.The Lemans start was delayed by about 40 minutes and everyone was anxious to get the day going. GHSH-Alien Agenda ( Dave F, Mike B, Mike N and Matt O)and GHSH- Atomic Raygun (Clark E, Greg L, Izzy M, and Sean M) . Both teams raced hard and had lots of good times and smiles. The course itself was pretty fast with a good mixture of tight twisty rooted single track with plenty of logs, and even a up and over bridge along the creek. AT the end of the day Team GHSH-Alien Agenda completed 13 laps respectively with GHSH- Atomic Raygun completing 16 laps in 4 hours. As of now the results are still not updated with corrections to our laps times.



It was a super fun day and hope to return next year.

Return from hibernation

I typically ride with no type of cycling computer or even a HR monitor. I am picking the wrong time of year to use a Garmin Edge 605 to gather some ride data.

I went out today with a goal of doing two hours at a "base" pace and headed east to start. The good thing about that is that I had a nice tailwind the whole way out 462 but I think we all know the bad end of this deal. I figured that I could just try to pick a route that required allot of climbing so I wouldn't notice the headwind so much. Either way it I would suffer, I just prefer suffering on climbs to flat headwind.

Needless to say I could not keep my eyes from checking my speed, exactly why I don't ride with computers of any type. This only makes me feel like I should be going much faster than I was and potentially hurting myself in the the long run.

It was still great to be out and not sitting inside on the trainer. It will be nice when warmer weather is here and rides are longer and stronger.