Ray's Indoor MTB Park!

I'm a fan of what Ray has done. Ray used to come to our mountain bike events that were held in Hopedale, Ohio. Now he has his own little biking mecca, check this out!

http://www.raysmtb.com/

ComputerBrain.com -> Cheap prices, SLOW ORDER PROCESSING

I'm not sure I'll ever buy from http://computerbrain.com again! I did research on a Garmin Edge 705 and Amazon.com had them as the cheapest price at 530.00 or so. I went direct to their site and ordered, paid for rush shipping and then overnight express on a wednesday night. Here it is on Sunday and I still did not get my package! I was not very happy so I called them on Friday and they offered to give me 10 bucks back on shipping.

Bike Ride - Saturday I felt adventurous so I went on to maps.google.com and drew myself up a 51 mile loop. The ride was great except for Smith-Goshen Road that had a lot of potholes! ALL the other roads were very smooth and no traffic pretty much. I rode the basically flat ride in 3 hours total. I'm looking forward to the next ride out that way. If your from Alliance, Canton, Damascus or Salem area I highly recommend this route. There are a couple roads that didn't have signs (Porter Road and maybe Yale Road.

Is it Friday yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I want my new gadget!! Where is my Garmin Edge 705! I need it!

Sweet Corn Ride thoughts...

Bike Ride - Well last Sunday I did my first large group ride! There were about 2,500 riders at the annual http://www.sweetcornride.com/ event. The sweetcorn ride is an open start fun ride with a big party afterwards. It goes through the Cuyahogo Vallye National Park and surrounding towns. There is a 25,50 and 100 miler. We did the 55 miler, yea that's right, we did a couple of the EXTRA hills.

We had a great group that rode the event, in no particular order, Thomas, Matt, Carl, Kyle and Matthias and your host...me.

There were so many cool things about this ride. I was very impressed with the hills in the Cuyahoga http://www.cvnpa.org/ . The hills took me by surprise at how challenging they really were. The food sucked, so Kyle and I hit Winking Lizards in Peninsula afterwards for some beer and food.

We averaged 16mph on the ride and that was totally due to the HUGE hills, in actuality we were blazing through the ride, I think my top speed was 43mph.

Thanks Thomas and Matt for telling me about this ride and I'm looking forward to this event next year.

My first blog, woot!

Well there are a lot of things going on right now.

1. It's almost Friday!
2. I got a new toy coming, a Garmin Edge 705 GPS-enabled Cycling Computer with Heart Rate Monitor.
3. Going out with some good friends tomorrow night for their anniversary.
4. I plan on doing some road rides this weekend, probably a 30+ miler on my Road bike.
5. Hmmz.. what else can I fit in this weekend!?????????