Monthly Archives: July 2011

Here are a few more thoughts about PBP for the new people.

I’m thinking this might be an obvious one, but consider putting new rubber on your wheels just before packing it up for PBP. There are bike shops or sports store near the PBP start and finish area and there will be mechanics available at every official control. You can expect to pay cash for any parts, I’m not sure what they charge for service time. (more…)

Seventeen riders started the Rochester 300k Night Ride on Saturday evening at 8p. Thunder, lightning and severe rain storms were predicted for the early evening and later on so there was lots of weather map checking on PDAs. It looked pretty grim for most of the night and we were expecting the worst. The storm cells surrounded us and threatened severe rain, but no one got more than a sprinkle, despite lightning all around and strong winds at times. The only weather hazards were the consistent sticky humidity and a stiff headwind for the last 15 miles.

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A couple more thoughts about PBP.

Drugs!! Not the kind Lance is accused of using, but over the counter stuff you might want to have along on PBP. Some sort of anti-inflammatory, be it Tylenol, Aleve, or what you like. This is going to probably be longer and harder then any other brevet you’ve done. You are going to get aches and pains, you’ll have to ride thought it and continue.

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Offered for the first time in 2011

Complete 3200k of any combination of Minnesota based brevets, permanents or populaires in 2011

You don’t need to ride the really long brevets to reach this goal

A very prestigious, highly coveted award will be conferred on all who reach this goal Contact [email protected] for more details

Minnesota
You Betcha Super Randonneur
As of September 25, 2011
KMs	Last	First
5239	Welsh	Rob
4353	Brougher	Michele
4014	Elias	Bob
3232	Bakke	Gary
3210	Nygard	Jonas
3018	Ehrentreich	Norman
2800	Olsen	Mark
2606	Fahje	Martin
2600	Miller	Richard
2506	Sanders	Hall
2400	Schepers	Renee
2300	Soderberg	Richard
2136	Diehn	Dan
2000	Hassler	Ed

Nelson 200k Challenge

The inaugural Nelson 200k Challenge went very well last Saturday, July 9th. 16 riders started out from Backwaters in Nelson, Wi, 11 finished the full 200k, four others completed 91 miles and one rider made it 108 miles before heat took its toll.

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