North Shore Century 2013

Holy cow - has it been a year since I made the 2012 thread?! Indeed, it has!

Based on the calendar event, it looks like a good amount of people have RSVPd to ride. Even if you haven't, and were looking for some people to ride with, post in this thread.

Which distance will you be riding? And, at which pace are you planning to ride?

I'll be riding the classic century @ a somewhat comfortable pace. After starting this cycling season well, my conditioning is questionable as I have only been on the bike a handful of times since June. Yikes. I'm looking for some people who might want to ride between 13-15 mph average.

The forecast is shaping up to look like it's going to be a great day for riding! I'm sure people remember the weirdo weather last year - much cooler. I remember waking up and heading out @ 5:15AM and it being 39 degrees!

Who's in?

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Permalink Reply by Gopher Biker on September 23, 2013 at 3:28am

Did you die - what happened to your heart rate (sensor slip)?  :-)


Michael A said:

Permalink Reply by Michael A on September 23, 2013 at 3:37am

A little of both ......

The damn thing works perfect when I start each ride, then goes away, I have replaced it 2x already

Permalink Reply by Deet 4.5mi on September 23, 2013 at 4:02am

yea we ended up leaving at 6:30
 
Lisa Curcio 6.5 mi said:

It was a good day!  Love that ride with the good stops, and the Evanston Bike Club volunteers are the best.  You all must have left early or none of you saw me when you passed me because you were going so fast.  Did not get started until 6:47 according to the computer. :-)

Permalink Reply by dan brown on September 23, 2013 at 4:46am

yes what a great ride. huge kudos to EBC and OTR (over the rainbow). I felt horrible till mile 70;

that potato soup at the rest stop rocked....and the peanut butter filled pretzel nuggets made it  even better. that helped me feel great until mile 85. perfect weather too ! great seeing everyone

Deet 4.5mi said:

yea we ended up leaving at 6:30
 
Lisa Curcio 6.5 mi said:

It was a good day!  Love that ride with the good stops, and the Evanston Bike Club volunteers are the best.  You all must have left early or none of you saw me when you passed me because you were going so fast.  Did not get started until 6:47 according to the computer. :-)

Permalink Reply by Josh.E on September 23, 2013 at 5:13am

I didn't get there till 8 ish and left around 8:15 since i didn't go to bed till 4:30 am and didn't carboload either.  So I could only muster doing the 70 miles instead of 100 on my fixie.  But i did it and it felt good knowing that i pedaled every single god forsaken mile.  I managed to keep up with some people going up on the hills then just flew past them on the down hill while they coasted.  Which i don't mean it or anything but sometimes I did mutter things like Phook your gears but that was my jealousy talking.  Knees are achey a bit but it was alot of fun. A few times I pushed myself to keep up to a few people that were riding at 19+ the longest stretch I was able to do at that speed was about 6 miles until my legs said screw you buddy.  I averaged about 15.3 which I was happy with especially being the longest I have ever ridden on Harley Quinn (thats her name)  I'm going to try to do it again fixed next year but train more and sleep/carboload alot more the day before.  

Permalink Reply by Skip Montanaro 0mi on September 23, 2013 at 6:39am

I had an enjoyable ride. EBC always does a great job with the NSC. And you couldn't ask for nicer weather. I wore my jacket until Kenosha, then stuffed it into my jersey pocket.

I asked the couple people I saw lurking around the north end of the lagoon at 6-ish if they were Chainlinkers. Since none were, I assumed the crowd who intended to leave then had already left, so took off myself.

Did anyone else see the guy on the Parlee? Looked like a TT bike to me. He had a Giro aero helmet. The thing that attracted my attention was that had two bottle cages inside the frame triangle, and two smaller ones hanging off the back of the seat. Yet he had no bottles.  Both hands were on the bars when he passed me, so he wasn't drinking from one. I didn't see any sort of Camelback device either. More power to ya if you can go 10-15 miles between rest stops without taking a drink, I suppose. I sucked down about a half a bottle on each segment.

Permalink Reply by Bill Nedza on September 23, 2013 at 7:07am

Did anyone else miss the route marker and end up going on the part of Sheridan Road that is prohibited to bicycles?  I was following a group that headed onto that part of Sheridan and all I could do was yell that they weren't supposed to be going that way, and (perhaps unwisely) followed then yelling to slow down, as I know the route well enough (via car).  Worst part was that some handcyclists were behind that group, and that's just dangerous for them, even with companion riders.

Permalink Reply by Skip Montanaro 0mi on September 23, 2013 at 7:36am



Bill Nedza said:

Did anyone else miss the route marker and end up going on the part of Sheridan Road that is prohibited to bicycles?

At that point I wasn't paying attention, just following the folks ahead of me. They got off onto Scott, realized they'd make a mistake. I passed them and just continued on to Green Bay, took that to Lake in Wilmette, then rejoined the route at Sheridan Road. I wasn't too concerned with precisely following the route at that point. I knew my way back to the start and didn't want to stop turning my legs. Where exactly did the route go in that area?

Permalink Reply by Julia 3.5/7.5 mi on September 23, 2013 at 8:22am

I was also around the north end of the lagoon around 6ish, but missed you! By a few min after 6, I was all about the coffee. I did meet up with Mike F, and we rode the 100mi route. Nice to have a fellow chainlinker to ride with!

The guy on the Parlee actually passed us somewhere between stops 1 & 2, then got slightly off-course and passed us again a few miles before the Kenosha stop! He was really moving every time I saw him.

Skip Montanaro 12mi said:

I had an enjoyable ride. EBC always does a great job with the NSC. And you couldn't ask for nicer weather. I wore my jacket until Kenosha, then stuffed it into my jersey pocket.

I asked the couple people I saw lurking around the north end of the lagoon at 6-ish if they were Chainlinkers. Since none were, I assumed the crowd who intended to leave then had already left, so took off myself.

Did anyone else see the guy on the Parlee? Looked like a TT bike to me. He had a Giro aero helmet. The thing that attracted my attention was that had two bottle cages inside the frame triangle, and two smaller ones hanging off the back of the seat. Yet he had no bottles.  Both hands were on the bars when he passed me, so he wasn't drinking from one. I didn't see any sort of Camelback device either. More power to ya if you can go 10-15 miles between rest stops without taking a drink, I suppose. I sucked down about a half a bottle on each segment.

Permalink Reply by Michael A on September 23, 2013 at 8:56am

I was riding with that small group of guys, he was able to sit in his TT position and hold 22-23 while we traded pulls, I just could not get much of a draft off of him... he did carry a single water bottle in his frame cage. I wish I could have met some other chainlinkers, I did run into Dan Brown a couple times

Permalink Reply by Lisa Curcio on September 23, 2013 at 8:59am

Good ol' Dan Brown.  He is everywhere!  I even saw him at the first rest stop.  And Jeff Schneider finished his century shortly after I finished my metric century.

Permalink Reply by Wendi Kromash on September 23, 2013 at 9:17am

I rode the NSC yesterday and completed the 25 mile ride, first time biking that distance in quite a while and first time participating in this event. It was a lovely ride with super support and very organized, especially once I got the hang of finding the orange street guides.  Thank you to all who helped make the NSC terrific!

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