Coming Soon: RAMROD 2.0: the White Album

Yup. It's time for RAMROD (Run Across Mountain Range One Day) again. Here's the details:

• 30 miles
• 10,000 ft elevation gain
• over the 3rd highest peak in CA (White Mountain)
• the highest peak in NV (Boundary Peak)
• Got some details here... note it's a 5 day hike... oh well.

Follow our progress on Saturday (4 am to ???) using my SPOT, here.

Drive to Tahoe (July 29, 2010)

Went up to Tahoe for a bachelor party...

didn't take too many pics... so this is all you get...

BATBOD... finally did it. (200+ mile bike ride)

Here's the approximate route

http://ridewithgps.com/routes/260121

That doesn't give a great cue sheet FYI... based most of it from this

http://felixwong.com/2005/07/bay-in-a-day-double-century/

There's a link to the cue sheet that I used there.

Started around 4 am... ended at 9 pm... took about 2 hours in breaks. By far the longest ride I've ever done in a day.

The Good/Highlights:

• Most of the riding is actually pretty scenic (skyline, paradise, china camp, san pablo dam)
• Passing 1000s of cars on 37 as traffic was bad.
• Mostly flat (only 11,500 ft of elevation)
• Plenty of shops to get snacks along the way
• Never been so happy to see the Mormon temple. (could be in the latter category as well...)
• Listening to some podcasts "limits" on radiolab was particularly appropriate.

The Bad/Lowlights:

• Almost colliding into a deer then nearly running over a skunk within 30 seconds on the first 10 miles of the ride.
• Riding down Hayward to Fremont... that's a pretty boring stretch
• Getting lost numerous times (one time had to back track 5 miles... ugh), following the cue sheet from ridewithgps.com
• Riding on the freeways (101, 37, and 24) were a little tense... not too bad once you get used to it (there's a HUGE shoulder on most of them)...
• Never rode with anyone... didn't get to draft at all...
• Riding across the Golden Gate... too many tourons there all the time...
• Sucking down the 15th GU.
• The last hill

Here's my SPOT track from the day... batteries died once I got on 37.

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20 seconds in to this vid...

...You can watch me "blow up"... just saw this a month ago... scratched up Metres' goggles pretty good on that jump too... Smith's SUCK btw.

Tuolumne to Eppie's (July 17, 2010)

Aaron had a genius idea of getting a front country campsite in Tuolumne Meadows... reserved back in March.

It's impossible to have a bad time up there... FYI...

Shenanigans up in Tuolumne from Yu Kuwabara on Vimeo.
I drove up there Wed night after my soccer game... and the third half at a close by bar. Got up to Tuolumne around 3:45 am. Got up and climbed all day... did the same on Friday (Nick and Dean joined us). Had a BLAST!!!
Friday night, left Tuolumne after sunset and dinner. Got to Sac-town around 1:45 am... jacked up on the 44 oz Dr. Pepper used to keep me up... I couldn't get to sleep til around 3:30... up at 5 am to go drop off the kayaks and the bikes. Came in 25th out of the 750+ Iron Persons... not too shabby... considering my quads and calves were cramping throughout the race.
http://www.capitalroadrace.com/results/2010_EGR_IRON_ALL.HTM
Don't know about Eppie's? The Oldest Triathalon in the US?
http://www.thegreatrace.org/data/yearbyyear.html
http://www.capitalroadrace.com/results/2010_EGR_IRON_OVL.HTM
Started out with another great week...
Tues - Played Soccer (soccer4s), then paddled around from Middle Harbour with B-Ral
Wed - Played Soccer (NorCal), 3rd half at the Trappist, then drove to Tuolumne

Nicasio Tandem Ride/Tomales Bay Kayaking (July 10, 2010)

Had a great road ride up in Nicasio.

http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Nicasio-Rancho-Loop

then went to Tomales Bay to paddle around for Sunset... and to look for biolumnescence.

http://www.redding.com/news/2007/jul/22/evening-paddles-on-tomales-bay-highlight/?printer=1/

But didn't see any... alas...

Tues - Played Soccer

Wed - Slept...

Thur - Played Soccer

Fri - Went to J-Dub's 30th at his house

High Sierra Music Fest.... (July 1 - 5, 2010)

Rocked my world... too much to do, too much to listen to, too much fun.