Gregory E. Keller
Atlanta, GA | Great Neck, NY
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Leighton [mailto:rleighton@leightonassociates.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 9:18 AM
To: 'Oriel Mor'; 'Isaac Seinuk'; 'Arthur Finkel';
northshorerenegades.chainring@blogger.com; 'David J. Shereck'; 'David
Wargin'; 'Gus Condiles'; 'Barry Feirstein'; Gregory E. Keller; 'George
Uribe'; 'Bill Eisenberg'; 'Mitchel Lang'; 'Larry Nipon'; 'Todd Manas';
'Jan Lemerman'; 'Yihao Ou'
Subject: tour of the hamptons sept 26th
Tour of th Hamptions is September 26th. Can take up to 6 in my SUV.
We'd
leave around 6am for a 730/8 am start in Southampton. It's usually a
great
ride? Who want in?
Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: Oriel Mor [mailto:oriel61@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, September 06, 2010 11:16 PM
To: Isaac Seinuk; Arthur Finkel;
northshorerenegades.chainring@blogger.com;
David J. Shereck; David Wargin; Gus Condiles; Barry Feirstein; Greg
Keller;
George Uribe; Bill Eisenberg; Robert Leighton; Mitchel Lang; Larry
Nipon;
Todd Manas; Jan Lemerman; Yihao Ou
Subject: Labor Day Ride
We met at Bob's at 8:00. It was chillier than it has been in a long
time and some of us started out wearing sleeves. Today's starting
Renegades lineup: Gus, Isaac, George, Bob, Beast and, at the last
minute, Stitches. Crash canceled early this morning. Something about a
really bad headache. Twitchy was MIA.
We climbed Westminster to Bates to LIE. On the service road we came
across a group of triathletes. At one of the red lights one of them
mentioned something about having already done a swim that morning. I
didn't realize it at the time, but that guy was Brickwell's own Andy.
I would have liked to say 'hi' to him.
Also along the LIE we picked up another rider by the name of Michael.
He was strong and, from what I could tell, he was holding back just to
let us stay with him, especially on the climbs. Besides Michael,
Stitches was by far the strongest rider today. Turns out he's been
training by doing hill repeats on Vista and all the other steepest
climbs around here. That sure explains his ease at dropping most of us
effortlessly.
We had dropped both Isaac and Gus before hitting Lawrence. That climb
wasn't any easier today than yesterday. On Turkey we came across a
large group riding the opposite way. I think they were the 8:30
triangle group. As we were climbing snake we caught up to Isaac and
then Gus. They had skipped Lawrence and ended up just ahead of us. By
the time I topped Snake I felt like my brain was in serious oxygen
deficit and was experiencing some mild tunnel vision.
We promptly lost Isaac again, but Gus was able to hang with us for the
rest of the way. We did the rest of our usual way through Huntington
to 108. We had just started our climb of Stillwell and were spread out
all over the right lane when a lady cop that had snuck up behind us
fired up her squad car's PA and warned us to get into a single file or
she would ticket us. Yes, ma'm! Why do they give US (a bunch of middle-
aged, spandex-clad, tax-payers) a hard time instead of giving it to
the a'-holes who harass us for no dam' good reason (he asked
rhetorically)?
We stopped at the small deli in Syosset for a food and water break.
Michael didn't want to stop, so he continued on his own way.
We did our usual way back through the campus. Something about those
rollers seems to invariably compel us to go as hard as we can. The
rest of the ride was uneventful. We didn't do Vista. The numbers on my
computer read 62 miles total at 17.2 average.
In less than 3 weeks, on Sunday, 9/26, is the Tour of the Hamptons.
Those of us who are interested should start planning the car-pooling
and meeting time.
We also want to do some time soon the ride around Port Jeff that Dubya
recommends. Let's find a day when a whole bunch of us can get together
for it.
Great ride today. Perfect weather. Let's do it again soon.
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