Sunday, July 13, 2008

ORAMM training ride




Rode 50 of the 65 mile "race course" of the Off-Road Assault on Mt. Mitchell with Mark P. Started from the picnic area in Old Fort > up old rt 70 > up and down Kitsuma > up Mill Creek Rd > up and down Jarrett Road > up Curtis Creek Road > up and down Blue Ridge Parkway > down Heartbreak Ridge. This was a relatively incident free ride other than both of us nearly collapsing on the 9mi Curtis Creek Rd climb, running out of water and begging for some on the Blue Ridge Parkway, Mark nursing a flatting tire, Mark almost doing a face plant, and the Banjo Wagon.