vermilionx

so i have a feeling that my 2 friends that are even more casual rider than me will be flaking on doing a century this month of november. (one of them went with me on a 65 mile ride last monday and he was dying already.)

anyway, i haven't done a century since february. so i wanna do one again before this year ends. definitely don't wanna go solo. so im wondering if who else here might be interested.

gotta make it a sunday though since i work saturday. i don't work mondays as well but im sure most of you do.

i'll leave the route planning to you guys since i have a bad sense of direction.

so anybody interested in a group century?

my standards for a century isn't pretty high. 8hrs to complete including breaks. IIRC, i believe last time it took me 7 hrs including lunch and breaks.

Lesper4

Are you intrested in a flat century or some with hills? I am sure yuo can find a lot of people on SART?

maddmike

I was thinking about do the Pie Ride members used to do several years ago. You can find the thread here. It's kind of hilly though.

zzzwillzzz

i might be interested, i'm in noho
where in the valley are you?
how hilly/flat do you want to make it?
sunday works for me, mostly.
do you want to start from the valley? i hate driving to rides and don't mind riding to and from the start for a few extra miles
thanksgiving weekend not good for me
a friend and i have a ride planned (no date set) for sfv to mojave and back, 150 to 180 miles but you can make it a century by catching the metrolink train in lancaster. the only caveat is that the last train is at 3:15 on sunday, saturday has a train at 6:30 as well.

spinerguy

I may be interested, but don't want to drive too far to ride so I'm going o play this one by ear to see where it goes.
I'm located in middle OC and a rather mediocre climber (2 hrs to hit Baldy Village).
My time is flexible. Would you guys be interested in a OC to San Diego? Or even a SART-Canyons-PCH type tour?

volosong

I'm riding a century later this month, but can't/won't on Sunday. That's my "day of rest". A day for church going, brunch at a local dinner afterward, then goofing off the rest of the day. I'll probably make the Santa Clarita to Ventura run over the Thanksgiving four-day weekend.

vermilionx

im down even if i have to drive.

kinda prefer only minor elevation since it will be century.


im fine starting in the valley. im in mission hills.

i dunno ab out the sfv to mojave... that's a little too much for me plus, i don't wanna stress out about the train ride times.

zzzwillzzz

here's relatively easy 100 from mission hills. it's a little over 100, but that's easy to adjust in the oxnard portion to get right to 100 if you want.
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/1864328

another option:
this is the flattest i could think of:
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/1864356

vermilionx

Thanks. Ill check out the map later.

GaryinLA

I am in LA. I would be intersted but my average pace is 10-12mph. I just did the Solvang Prelude metric century (hilly) and including lunch and rest stops and flat tire, it took me a little more than 8 hours to do 63 miles. So if you are willing to get a very early start and have a non drop policy and stay at my pace I would do it. There's safety in numbers. You would have to plan on 12 hours with breaks.

vermilionx

seems like you're even more casual than me.

i'll see how it goes. i really wanna do another century before the year ends so yeah, if my friends flake out. let's go. i'd rather ride a 10-12mph century than no century at all.

GP

Check out PCH Randos. They've got a couple centuries left this year.