As I sit here in Florida, in what feels like the New Jersey winter weather I most despised, 32 to 50 degrees, damp and rainy, I may have caught a bug and not that flu that my wife and everyone else seems to have. No I am talking about the Racing Bug. I was thinking about doing either the 6 hours on a geared bike or the 12 on a Single Speed. I didn't see a 6 hour class for SS class listed on the website, but both the online registration and the downloadable form has a SS class listed for the 6 hour event.
Conversely, the website listed a 12 hour SS class.
That is fine by me. I really wanted to race my SS, but not for 12 hours.
In order to use Vortex, the split it in two. From the Strava files I have seen, it looks like one part is ran in reverse order. As Vortex is a one way only trail, that presents problems for pre riding. As it turned out, it was quite empty before noon on Tuesday. So I snuck in 3 laps, of my best guess of the reverse portion was, before riders started to hit the trail.
I rode with Jim Matthews at Tussey ridge, near State College, PA last May. On Facebook he asked me about SS gear selection after my Santos Post. Here they are: "The 34x22 was crazy low. My log must have been wrong. 20t is good in the Vortex pit and tolerable on the yellow and just fine on Twister." and "The 19 seemed heavy on Twister and the outer green was not faster today realy, than with the 20t. The first lap was 19 seconds faster on the 19t, than the 20. But the 20t had a couple Vortex laps first. Laps 2, 3 and 4 were very similar to the 20t lap"
I like to gear lighter than heavier on a ride of this length, I think the 34x20t will be my gear, if I do this race.
Here are those two Strava Files:
34x22t and 34x20t
34x19t
Santos Map
http://sadlebred.com/2014-races/
http://goneriding.com/index.php/events/2014-events/ccs/13-12hrsantos
12 hour 2014 Flyer
http://omba.org/maps/OMBA_Bike_Trails_Map_Jan_2012.gif
https://www.swfwmd.state.fl.us/recreation/areas/halpata.html
https://www.facebook.com/groups/OcalaMtBikeAssn/
OMBA Trailheads
OMBA Epic
http://ocalabicyclecenter.com/map.cfm?ID=1
The 19t did not seem as heavy today. Not sure if the sand was packed better after the rain or the bigger 2.35 IKON front tire or that the kettlebell movements are starting to click after I went back to the basics, with 1ree-30-day-intro-kettlebells on <a After working the cornering Solution for a few weeks.
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