Indolent58

Everything is relative.

Iamkar33m

What a day... filled with fun and pain. Here's my share of the pain:



Total mileage (Home to Harrah, Full Pie Ride, Harrah to Home): 316 miles
Time behind the wheel: 11 hours and 16 minutes

Total gas consumed: 17 gallons

Chucklehead

Dude. I had trouble keeping up with the group, too

I blew it with yesterday's club ride. Someone please remind me not to get into pissing contests on the bike the day before a big ride. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
This was one of the most miserale days I've had riding a bike.

Chucklehead

Kareem, thanks again for driving SAG! I bet you're glad you weren't on a bike today

couchweight

HA! Yea, I felt pretty much like **** out there too as well. Few things different next time I am thinking. Little more warm up before we tackle palomar, more food for me, less sugar for me, less waiting around. 9 hours for 6 hours of riding? That picnic table sure was comfy though.

merckx89

The picnic tables ******* Rocked. They also saved my but for the last few miles.

GP

I didn't ride yesterday and it was still a long, brutal ride.

Good seeing and meeting everyone, or most everyone. Sorry I missed you, Phil. I was stiffening up so I left.

Jancouver

Thanks all for the ride. It was fun .... oops I meant struggle.... but I made it

Thanks Kareem for doing the dirty work. You deserve to be the official SAG driver of the SoCal forums.

GP

Thanks for volunteering and supporting us.

Iamkar33m

There were some descents that made me wish I was on a bike... namely the descent right at the end of Mesa Grande.

I'll happily take the title, now get my my magnetic signage. I dont think the tacky "soccer van paint" on my rear windshield caught enough attention... some drivers need to take a ****ing clue (namely that dude in the red civic who passed us right before the turn onto Bandy Canyon Road).

No problemo.

Chucklehead

Ah yes. Couchweight and I were discussing that one. What a beautiful piece of road.

Iamkar33m

Yeah... Jason dropped me like a hot potato on that descent. That's what caused me to tip the damn ice chest over in my trunk (that last hairpin turn before that long straight descent).

Iamkar33m

Oh and...

What's this? Julian Carmel Dutch Apple Pie? Oh, oh my G...oh, that's better than sex!

Iamkar33m

One last thing before I sleep... stay tuned for pictures of the aforementioned suffering (to be posted sometime tomorrow).

jschen

Sorry to the back group for getting you lost today. I'm looking at Google Maps and it still doesn't make sense to me why we got lost. The directions seem to jibe with what Google Maps shows. (And El Norte, where we ended up, doesn't even intersect Washington Ave on Google Maps.) Maybe there's new construction or something. I'll have to go drive it sometime to sanity check the route for next time, or just cut out the uninteresting detour onto Washington Ave and redo the Escondido routing (as various people have suggested).

Of the many times I've completed the Pie Ride, this time was the most frustrating. I don't completely understand why, but it was. Probably a combination of factors, among which getting lost actually ranks pretty low on the list. Nonetheless, I had a great time. However, I have decided that having done this ride more than anyone else and having enjoyed wonderful SAG support on many occasions, I will be driving SAG next time. Thanks everybody for showing up, and a huge thank you to Iamkar33m for driving SAG and for helping us get un-lost.

DaveSANYYZ

Thanks again, Kareem! Sorry that you had to endure driving at 5mph behind me for quite a while.

Iamkar33m

Try 3mph, you slowpoke!

Oh and my speedometer prompted "Would you like to change to feet per hour?"

DaveSANYYZ

Chucklehead

Where was this?

ZombieButcher

It does intersect but El Norte Changes name right before you get to Washington. Its N. Citrus.

jschen

We turned onto Washington from Citrus. Someone else told me that El Norte has since been extended and now intersects Washington east of where Citrus and Washington intersect. Our group turned left there on the mistaken (but previously correct) assumption that we were looking for the first major intersection after turning onto Washington and realized the mistake too late, after some of the others had already gotten out of shouting range. Oh well. Looks like the future routing will be to stop for refreshments at the gas station at the corner or Citrus and Valley Pkwy, and then to simply continue on Valley Pkwy directly to Lake Wohlford.

Jancouver

When I was driving home last night the Valley Pkwy and was passing the Lake Wohlford turn and the gas station I was thinking "Why the heck we did not just take the Valley Pkwy"

But not a big deal, those few extra miles give me the missing distance to make it a century

Iamkar33m

Almost all day.

felt1

Thanks Kareem. Next time you are riding, there will be a couple of ascents you're going to wish you're not on.

blue_nose

Thanks for the sag support Kareem. This ride would be a lot more difficult without the support.

Thanks also Jason for organizing another Pie Ride