[sccc_chat] Re: Mt Hamilton

Shung:

       Wow!  What a trooper!  Sorry to hear about the flat.  Hope you recovered some before hitting that "wall" going back up, undoubtedly it was not a walk in the park.  Good riding with you.  BTW, I really was hurting with the speed the group was going, Kathleen wasn't helping. I'm climbing just fine and have been doing a lot of that, but I obviously need some faster paceline/speedwork now.

      When we got to rest stop #3, it wasn't there, they had moved it.  Peter and crew (about 8 or so, since we had picked up some) went looking for it but since I didn't care to go on a wild goose chase to find it, had plenty of food with me and hadn't left a packet in the bag for stop #3 anyway, I just went though downtown Pleasanton, found a water fountain by a creek trail access (very good, cold, great-tasting water, BTW!).  I stopped fior a minuteto refil the bottles, ate something, and started back out.  Started feeling better climbing Calabasas and stopped at the very top before descending into San Jose.  Right as was ready to go here comes Peter, Dave and some German guy that was strong (but wouldn't take pulls a lot of the time).  So the four of us hammered down across town -- it was sure good to some others to fight the wind with and in gereral just to keep the pace up.  Got back about 4:15-4:17, we were riders #3, 4 and 5 overall.

Stan

-----Original Message-----
From: Shung Chieh
Sent: Apr 28, 2012 5:53 PM
To: stan stewart , Peter Gasiorowski , david@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Mt Hamilton

Hey Guys,

I ended up flatting on Mines road and decided to turn around after fixing it - hopefully you figured this out quickly at the rest stop.

I probably should have kept going because I still ended up with 120mi and the back side of Mt Hamilton wasn't all that fun to climb.

Thanks for riding with me the first part.

Shung