24 Hours in the Old Pueblo '05 - Plans and Smacktalk

Borregokid · Jan 11, 2005

Anyone heard anything about the course being changed this year? I understand they are trying to eliminate the section where the course crosses the road for getting up to the campgrounds and race center. Also has anyone heard if Light and Motion will be renting lights this year? I am very blind at night and need a bright light.

ghostrider · Jan 12, 2005

Daily update for Westy. Warm and sunny, things are drying out. We should be back on the dirt by the weekend. Bring your bike.

Still no word from T-Dog, though - hey may be under water.

TreeSaw · Jan 12, 2005

ghostrider said:
Daily update for Westy. Warm and sunny, things are drying out. We should be back on the dirt by the weekend. Bring your bike.

Still no word from T-Dog, though - hey may be under water.

Glad to hear that you are drying out...atleast for today. We were hoping you all were doing well in the awful weather you've been having.

Borregokid · Jan 12, 2005

Echo said:
How the heck can they get rid of that road crossing? From what I remember that would remove a ton of the course. On one of my night laps though, one of the volunteers had to scream his head off at some asshat in a truck to get them off the course when I was approaching :angry:

That was exactly the reason I heard they were trying to get rid of the crossing, too many problems with cars.

It is drying out-out here in the desert, although I wouldnt call it warm, although it might get to 70 by Saturday. Last I looked it was 56 and sunny.

douglas · Jan 13, 2005

ECHO, sounds good! and thanks guys for the planning/coordinating!

I'll be bringing $$ for my share of trailer rental & gas!

a question, any plans to do any non biking activity while we are in CA or AZ? (ofcourse I love biking but I dont think my ass, legs or lungs can handle being on a bike for 9 days straight)

douglas · Jan 13, 2005

that should work as long as somewhere in there I get to (or should I say have opportunities to ) pick up some CA or AZ cute/hot chicks!!

ghostrider · Jan 13, 2005

douglas said:
that should work as long as somewhere in there I get to (or should I say have opportunities to ) pick up some CA or AZ cute/hot chicks!!

Sounds like we'll have to make a trip to Santa Barbara while you are here.

douglas · Jan 13, 2005

ghostrider said:
Sounds like we'll have to make a trip to Santa Barbara while you are here.

I have hung out in the Venice Beach/Santa Barbara area before.......good times

ghostrider · Jan 13, 2005

Still no word from T-Dog since the storms. I'm thinking of heading up there to see if there is anything salvagable from his bikes.

T-Dog · Jan 13, 2005

Echo said:
Yeah, we will definitely make sure the CA people are properly compensated for gas and rental fees

As far as the 9 days straight

Monday 2/14 - travel to CA, get drunk
Tuesday 2/15 - ride, get drunk
Wednesday 2/16 - ride, get drunk
Thursday 2/17 - travel to AZ, set up camp, get people at airport, get drunk
Friday 2/18 - pre-ride course, get drunk
Saturday 2/19 - start getting owned by west coasters, get drunk
Sunday 2/20 - finish getting totally owned by west coasters, get drunk
Monday 2/21 - realize our legs are wasted, get organized for next 2 days, get drunk
Tuesday 2/22 - ride Catalina State Park, get drunk
Wednesday 2/23 - travel back to east coast with massive hangovers

Sound like a good plan?

Yeah that sounds doable.

It's been pretty wild up here.....today is the first day my gf could get out to go to work.....there's 4 ways out of this valley, and only one is open right now. Looks like good weather for a while, so I guess time to start training.....

As far as AZ goes:
We were planning to head back to CA on tuesday....I think an extra day of camping was allowed at the site or we can go somewhere else and ride.
I do think, however that we need 4 trailers. 5 people per unit and all their funkified gear would be a bit much I think.

I do have access to an RV here in CA that we can drive out and use.......we'll have a team meeting this weekend and get some details nailed down.

douglas · Jan 14, 2005

Ummmmmmmmm??

So if all the Cali peeps are heading back on Monday or Tuesday.......How are we (ECHO, Treesaw, Squirrel, Gee Spot, and douglas) getting ourselves and our bikes to the airport Wednesday??

also - it might be a good idea to get a motel on tuesday - I think by then I'll really need a real shower so they will let me on the airplane!

Borregokid · Jan 19, 2005

How many laps are you guys planning on doing? I am betting the guys from the east coast knock off 18 laps while they guys from the west coast are either fixing their bikes or sleeping in their campers in the middle of the night. My team did 16, could have been 17 last year but no one wanted to spin another lap.
If you guys havent run Fantasy Island in Tucson you should definitely check that out. I never got tired of it. RC in this months Mountain Bike Action has a nice right up of Fantasy Island. Its a five-star ride IMO. Another great place if you want a desert experience is Organ Pipe Nation Monument 100 miles south of Tucson. There are two great desert rides on of about 24 miles and the other 45. Both are roads and are not technical. The 45 mile loop is closed this time of year and you wont see a car. If you guys are coming from a long ways you should definitely get a great desert experience and OPNM is it.

douglas · Jan 19, 2005

Borregokid said:
How many laps are you guys planning on doing? I am betting the guys from the east coast knock off 18 laps while they guys from the west coast are either fixing their bikes or sleeping in their campers in the middle of the night. My team did 16, could have been 17 last year but no one wanted to spin another lap.
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We all will be either drunk or hungover, plus ECHO has a tendacy to nap when he's suppose to be doing his lap, and the last time I rode a bike was Nov 26th.....but they say you dont forget how to ride.....

I'm thinking we will be lucky to hit double digits for total laps

ghostrider · Jan 19, 2005

Echo said:
I thought we did 17 laps last year, and we had one pretty slow rider, 3 about average riders, and one fast rider. This year we will have all fast people and no slow person, so unless I decide to sleep through a lap again, we should do OK. I still don't know why ghostrider was so upset that I was late for relieving him, because at the end it saved him from having to do another lap

Well, I'll be slower this year than last, so if I was just "about average" last time, I'm downright slow this year. I like to check out the landscape and smell the flowers anyway. That's what I'm there for.

ghostrider · Jan 19, 2005

Echo said:
Heh, wondered if you would catch that smacktalk...

The cold hard truth isn't smacktalk.

T-Dog · Jan 19, 2005

Echo said:
Any news on this T-Dog? Gettin' close now!

Ok, a basic plan:

Accomodations: Three tent trailers, and one RV.

One person on the drinking team is driving out in a van that he will stay in, so that leaves 14 team members to share the digs. Of those, 13 will split the costs of the rentals and insurance. That figures to roughly be about 75.00 each, for 5 nights. (thursday thru monday).

Chickenhawk, myself and our ringer are all pulling out the tent trailers, Ghostrider will drive out the RV. At least 2 of the rigs, possibly three are going out early thursday morning, so we can get to the site and get a compound set up as soon as possible. Then we can have one of the pickups make a speed run into the Tucson airport, and pick up Treesaw and Squirrel and possibly Westy depending on when he gets there, and if he doesn't rent a van.

Chickenhawk and Ghostrider are heading for Cal. on monday, I had figured to drive back on tuesday. So there is the question of what to do with the thoroughly owned and dejected monkeys from the east coast for the remaining time. Still trying to figure that one out....maybe we can transport to Tucson or Phoenix to rentals.

We are still working on the other details, and supplies.....but if we do the shopping and have the get the rigs loaded with the gear and food on wed. night, and get an early start thurs. morning, that should work.

Thoughts?

Westy · Jan 19, 2005

douglas said:
We all will be either drunk or hungover, plus ECHO has a tendacy to nap when he's suppose to be doing his lap, and the last time I rode a bike was Nov 26th.....but they say you dont forget how to ride.....

I'm thinking we will be lucky to hit double digits for total laps

I figure we should be able to get in double digit laps and have a victory clinched for the East Coast monkeys before midnight.

ghostrider · Jan 19, 2005

Westy said:
I figure we should be able to get in double digit laps and have a victory clinched for the East Coast monkeys before midnight.

That won't work, since our foolproof plan is to simply sit back and draft off you east coasterz lap for lap, then have it come down to an all-out sprint to the finish on the final lap on Sunday.

Westy · Jan 19, 2005

ghostrider said:
That won't work, since our foolproof plan is to simply sit back and draft off you east coasterz lap for lap, then have it come down to an all-out sprint to the finish on the final lap on Sunday.

With my ultratight skinsuit, aero helmet and shoe covers I don't leave much of a wake to draft off of.

douglas · Jan 19, 2005

ghostrider said:
That won't work, since our foolproof plan is to simply sit back and draft off you east coasterz lap for lap, then have it come down to an all-out sprint to the finish on the final lap on Sunday.

so your saying your ringer will do 16 laps, and the rest of you one each? :blah:

douglas · Jan 19, 2005

T-Dog said:
Thoughts?

sounds great!!

ghostrider · Jan 19, 2005

douglas said:
so your saying your ringer will do 16 laps, and the rest of you one each?

Yup, the only training I'm doing is for a hundred yard sprint.

ghostrider · Jan 19, 2005

douglas said:
sounds great!!

Is Westy coming Thursday or Friday?

Westy · Jan 19, 2005

ghostrider said:
Is Westy coming Thursday or Friday?

I'll be getting into Tucson sometime Thursday night.

Westy · Jan 20, 2005

Echo said:
I hope you're thirsty when you arrive.

I'm always thirsty. I need to map out places to get some tasty brews between the airport and Old Pueblo, I like to try local brews when traveling.

douglas · Jan 20, 2005

ummm...yeah - so I was checking out some local MTB races that are in March, and I came across this chick - shes organizing these local races AND she'ss doing 24 Hours in the Old Pueblo '05 solo.......

I think she will kick all of our arses !

check her out: http://hmosley.com/index.html

splat · Jan 20, 2005

douglas said:
she'ss doing 24 Hours in the Old Pueblo '05 solo.......

I think she will kick all of our arses !

check her out: http://hmosley.com/index.html

I think Your in love :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart:

douglas · Jan 20, 2005

splat said:
I think Your in love :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart:

Hey Troll, well she's supposedly doing Dalton too...so if ya here the pop up a rockin...dont come a knockin

douglas · Jan 20, 2005

Echo said:
You gonna try to score with her husband while she's out racing?

HaHaHa...your funny...........NOT! :nope:

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