Weekly Ride Hoyles Mill + Black Hill regular Monday night rides [Archive]

denisvtt

July 30th, 2009, 05:36 PM

As promised, I'm making it a regular ride:

Date: Every Monday until late fall
Start Time: 6pm unless this thread says otherwise
Ride Difficulty: Easy
Phone: 240-994-6932

Extended Description: an 18-mile ride through the Hoyles Mill Connector and Black Hills Regional Park

When: every Monday night. 6pm unless there is a chance of a late thunderstorm or later this fall when sundown comes before 8pm.

This will be a casual to moderate no-drop ride. This is a good workout without being difficult or technical.

Terrain: nothing technical but there are a couple of good climbs in Black Hills. Very few log piles or obstacles.

Length: about 1h45 wheels rolling and a good 2 hours total ride time.

Directions: Schaeffer Farms parking lot

GPS: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/9627966

wrench177

July 31st, 2009, 09:43 AM

Denis, I changed this from a Group ride to a Weekly Ride and added it to the calendar.

You da man! :thumbsup:

denisvtt

August 3rd, 2009, 10:51 AM

Ride for tonight is on. Meet at 6pm in the Schaeffer parking lot.

The Hoyles Mill Connector is a fun, fast, easy and varied 7 miles out and back trail. It goes from Schaeffer to Black Hills. Black Hills has a couple of steep hills and some fun rolling terrain.

Entire ride is ~18 miles and will take ~1h45 wheels rolling, ~2 hours total time.

denisvtt

August 3rd, 2009, 10:36 PM

GPS data for tonight's ride: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/10470715

Nobody responded in the thread so I thought I was gonna be by myself. Turns out, 6 of us showed up! :thumbsup:

Great ride, guys! Thanks.

bcaverly

August 4th, 2009, 09:08 AM

muddymanda

August 9th, 2009, 11:21 AM

Is this ride a go tomorrow night? It is supposed to be brutal tomorrow, so I don't know if anyone is going to feel up to it. I'd love to join in if it is on!

toros

August 9th, 2009, 11:59 AM

I would be in if it is on...

Toros

nocro

August 9th, 2009, 12:48 PM

I would be in if it is on...

Toros

I'll probably see you out there tomorrow night. I'm going to ride from my house, so depending on the light I may bum a lift home.

jlc115

August 9th, 2009, 01:19 PM

Gonna be a scorcher tomorrow. Weather.com says 97 degrees for a high. :eek:

TonyP

August 9th, 2009, 04:23 PM

I would like to start at 5:30 if possible.

denisvtt

August 9th, 2009, 08:59 PM

Is this ride a go tomorrow night? It is supposed to be brutal tomorrow, so I don't know if anyone is going to feel up to it. I'd love to join in if it is on!

Ride is on unless there are strong thunderstorms.

To papandaj: 5:30 is a possibility if there are thunderstorms predicted for late in the day, but right now we'll say 6pm.

nocro

August 10th, 2009, 08:49 PM

Ride is on unless there are strong thunderstorms.

To papandaj: 5:30 is a possibility if there are thunderstorms predicted for late in the day, but right now we'll say 6pm.

I made it home @ 7:58. I ended up w/ 25 miles, 2.5 hours.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/10907164

yueq

August 10th, 2009, 08:58 PM

I just made into the garage and the sky opened up.

denisvtt

August 10th, 2009, 11:03 PM

GPS data for tonight's ride: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/10915314

8 people showed up tonight. This is becoming a popular ride.

toros

August 11th, 2009, 12:16 AM

Sorry for slowing you guys down. I'll try to fix that by next time. Thanks for the ride.

Toros

nocro

August 11th, 2009, 07:26 AM

Sorry for slowing you guys down. I'll try to fix that by next time. Thanks for the ride.

Toros

It was hot out there.

toros

August 11th, 2009, 09:16 AM

It was hot out there.

Yeah... I have a whole list of excuses. I almost went after you back to schaffer since I was done, so that I could give you are ride as well, but I thought of it a few seconds too late and realized there was no way I could catch up in the shape I am now...

nocro

August 11th, 2009, 09:43 PM

Yeah... I have a whole list of excuses. I almost went after you back to schaffer since I was done, so that I could give you are ride as well, but I thought of it a few seconds too late and realized there was no way I could catch up in the shape I am now...

Thanks. I appreciate it. The reason I turned around at that point was I wanted to be able to ride home without hitting much darkness. I managed to average about 12 mph from Black Hill back home, so I actually could have gone on with you guys and done the BH loop, too.

But that assumes I wouldn't have gotten tired with those extra 5 miles and maintained 10 mph. That would have been cutting it close. Next week I'll pack my light. I just want to be off riffleford rd before it gets dark.

denisvtt

August 17th, 2009, 09:49 AM

Ride is on for tonight. We'll try to start right at 6pm as sunset is now getting really close to 8pm and 2 hours is right about the time we need for the ride.

For future rides, maybe not next week but certainly starting the week after, we'll have to either start earlier (5:30p) or cut the Black Hills portion (and maybe both in late September). What do you guys think? Will you be able to make 5:30p?

TonyP

August 17th, 2009, 11:42 AM

5:30 sounds good to me!

jg848

August 20th, 2009, 04:53 PM

I'll start joining you.

denisvtt

August 24th, 2009, 10:10 AM

Ride is on for tonight. Still 6pm but let's try to get going as close to 6 as we can. The ride can take close to 2 hours and sunset is right around 8pm these days.

TonyP

August 24th, 2009, 11:42 AM

The weather will be very nice for a ride. I will be there! Lets try and leave at 6pm to make sure we can get in the whole ride.

The_Boy

August 24th, 2009, 02:30 PM

I will try my darnedest to be at Schaeffer ready to roll at 6pm. If not, maybe I will catch you on the bridge towards Black Hills.

denisvtt

August 31st, 2009, 08:24 AM

Tonight's ride is on. Due to earlier sunset time, we'll start at 5:45p.

Let me know if you're coming.

PS to Wrench: can you change the starting time in the calendar? Thanks.

Dirt

August 31st, 2009, 09:05 AM

This was part of my ride yesterday and the trails are in awesome shape.

wrench177

August 31st, 2009, 09:25 AM

Tonight's ride is on. Due to earlier sunset time, we'll start at 5:45p.

Let me know if you're coming.

PS to Wrench: can you change the starting time in the calendar? Thanks.
No problem. :thumbsup:

TonyP

August 31st, 2009, 12:06 PM

Tony P. is coming. 5:45 is good for me.

denisvtt

September 1st, 2009, 10:53 AM

Next Monday is Labor Day. Probably a good day to ride. But it's also the day after the SM100 and I think I will need a break, so if anybody wants to volunteer to lead, that would be great.

Let me know if you'd like to do it.

denisvtt

September 7th, 2009, 02:58 PM

Anyone planning on riding tonight?

I rode the SM100 yesterday and was thinking about taking off today but that shouldn't necessarily cancel the ride as several regulars know the route.

denisvtt

September 7th, 2009, 05:22 PM

Considering it just rained a lot in MoCo, let's cancel this ride.

denisvtt

September 14th, 2009, 09:55 AM

Can't lead the ride again tonight as my bike is being serviced but it would be great if a regular or anyone else could lead it.

Let me know. Thanks.

PS: 5:30 or 5:45 start at the latest if you want to be back in daylight.

denisvtt

September 21st, 2009, 11:27 AM

Still no bike for today but from what I hear there's at least a few riders interested for tonight. So I'd say let's go ahead and do it. Anybody wants to lead?

bcaverly

September 21st, 2009, 11:54 AM

Still no bike for today but from what I hear there's at least a few riders interested for tonight. So I'd say let's go ahead and do it. Anybody wants to lead?

What's up with your bikes? you've been rideless for a couple of weeks now haven't you?

yueq

September 21st, 2009, 12:40 PM

What's up with your bikes? you've been rideless for a couple of weeks now haven't you?

He is so OOS (out of shape) now and has to consider this 18-mile HMC/BH ride as "epic" :)

denisvtt

September 21st, 2009, 01:33 PM

OK, looks like Nocro is going to lead. Wheels down at 5:45p. May or may not do BH depending on group and time.

Thanks Nocro.

@Bob: yeah, well! :o

@Yueq: OOS, LOL!

yueq

September 21st, 2009, 08:20 PM

thanks nocro for leading the ride:thumbsup:

nocro

September 22nd, 2009, 09:40 PM

thanks nocro for leading the ride:thumbsup:

Sure.

Nice to ride with you, John. Try to come out to the Thursday night rides. Also, keep an eye out for a MoCo epic sometime soon.

Which is your reminder, Jim, to post or PM the cue sheet that you have. I found this one in the search:
http://www.more-mtb.org/forum/showthread.php?t=13902&highlight=moco+epic+directions

But I couldn't find the one where you and kegley talked about the ride initially.

I'll piece together all the cue sheets, and we can use that for the SPRING Moco epic MORE thing that was supposed to be this fall and I was too lazy to work on.

yueq

September 28th, 2009, 08:37 AM

What time today's ride start?

TonyP

September 28th, 2009, 10:17 AM

I can start today between 4:30 and 5. Would anyone be able to join me?

denisvtt

September 28th, 2009, 10:59 AM

Hey guys, I feel really bad about that as I finally got my bikes back, but today is teacher training day, so I'm babysitting my daughter and my wife just said that she won't be back before 6:30p so I'm out again!

I would recommend starting no later than 5:45p if you want to do just HMC and 5:30p if you want to do BH as well.

Damn!

yueq

September 28th, 2009, 03:15 PM

I can start today between 4:30 and 5. Would anyone be able to join me?

If the rain stops I'll show up @4:30 and do a Schaeffer loop.

yueq

September 28th, 2009, 03:19 PM

If the rain stops I'll show up @4:30 and do a Schaeffer loop.

Scratch that. It's wet outside and I'm going to skip.

jimweber1

September 28th, 2009, 03:45 PM

Scratch that. It's wet outside and I'm going to skip.

Same here...I might try to do the other "Denis" ride at Little Bennett tomorrow as a substitute if the weather is better.

nocro

September 28th, 2009, 05:00 PM

Scratch that. It's wet outside and I'm going to skip.

Next week of this one, then. Maybe I'll see y'all @ LB tomorrow.

yueq

October 5th, 2009, 10:13 AM

Next week of this one, then. Maybe I'll see y'all @ LB tomorrow.

5:30p today?

denisvtt

October 5th, 2009, 10:16 AM

5:30p today?

Let's meet at 5:30 and leave no later than 5:36p.

See y'all there.

TonyP

October 5th, 2009, 10:36 AM

How much of BH do you think we can ride today?

denisvtt

October 5th, 2009, 10:41 AM

How much of BH do you think we can ride today?

Probably not much but it will be a last minute decision depending on how fast we will have done the first leg of HMC. Sunset tonight is around 6:45p.

TonyP

October 5th, 2009, 10:49 AM

If it is possible could we try and start at about 5:15? Just asking...

denisvtt

October 5th, 2009, 10:56 AM

If it is possible could we try and start at about 5:15? Just asking...

I think it's too difficult for most people, including me, to make it by that time, but I'm open to asking the question and see what people say.

So feel free to chime in, everyone.

TonyP

October 5th, 2009, 11:05 AM

If it is to difficult thats OK. I do not want to cause folks to be rushing home and adding stress to our already stressful lifestlyes to make a ride. 5:30 it is.

denisvtt

October 6th, 2009, 11:21 AM

Great ride last night. Ideal weather. We were able to do a bit of Black Hills and still return before sundown. Thanks all.

GPS: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/15452956

denisvtt

October 12th, 2009, 01:49 PM

Ride is on for tonight. Meet at 5:15p, wheels down at 5:23ish.

denisvtt

October 13th, 2009, 10:11 AM

It was great to have 2 new potential MOREons at last night's ride. Welcome, Erik and Justin.

GPS track for last night: http://connect.garmin.com/player/16036961

denisvtt

October 19th, 2009, 07:50 AM

If anyone has a chance to check out the trails around Hoyles Mill, Black Hills or Schaeffer this morning or early afternoon, that would be great. I'd like to maintain the ride but wouldn't want to do it if the trails are muddy.

denisvtt

October 19th, 2009, 01:26 PM

Ride is on for tonight. Wheels down at 5:15p.

TonyP

October 19th, 2009, 01:27 PM

Denis, I will try and check out what I can and post back about 4pm.

TonyP

October 19th, 2009, 03:49 PM

A few soft spots in he fields, but overall trails look ridable.

denisvtt

October 20th, 2009, 07:14 AM

The trails were in excellent shape. There was no way to tell that there had been 4 consecutive days of rain ending barely 36 hours before. No mud anywhere.

denisvtt

October 20th, 2009, 11:22 PM

Next Monday will be the last ride of the season for this weekly ride. I will be out of town but Tony will be leading it for me. Wheels down at 5:15p.

denisvtt

October 26th, 2009, 07:58 AM

Reminder: ride is on tonight with wheels down at 5:15p. Tony will be leading (I'm out of town).

This will also be the last HMC/BH Monday night ride of the season. Take advantage of it!

TonyP

October 26th, 2009, 10:50 AM

If we can have wheels rolling at 5:15 we can get in a quick loop in Black Hill.

TonyP

October 27th, 2009, 03:04 PM

Thank you Denis!! I would like to thank Denis for setting up and leading this ride for the past several months. I have thoroughly enjoyed the challenge of riding with some very strong riders and have seen my own endurance increase substantially over the last several months of riding with the group. I have also enjoyed making some new friends and the comraderie of fellow avid MTBer's.

denisvtt

October 28th, 2009, 11:57 AM