This blog is my attempt to journal our rides each season. TEam MANG (timang) is a very informal club - the one requirement is that you love to ride your bike (all types)...and do other things like eat and hang out and be silly. The term "Mang" is commonly used in the Filipino language to address older gentlemen but we're not gender or ethnic exclusive. We welcome women, too - we call them Team "Aling". Overall, we're just BFF's (bicycling with friends for fun).
Saturday, August 3, 2013
Training Ride for the RSVP - 66 miles
August 3, 2013 - Last "hard" ride before the Ride from Seattle to Vancouver and Party (RSVP). Conventional wisdom states that you do a 65+ mile ride to prepare yourself for a century - so we did just that, going from the Ron Regis park in Renton towards Maple Valley, Ravensdale and Black Diamond where we stopped and ate at the bakery. We then moved on to Enumclaw and then back to Auburn through the Green Valley Road where switching pulls between Mang Ferdie, Mang Rene, Mang Bob and Aling Fatima got us cruising between 22 and 25 mph...And of course, Mang Jay pulled, too! A quick break at the meat market and then it was on to Lea Hill and into Renton's rolling hills coming back north towards Fairwood and back down to the park. With about 5 actual breaks averaging 15 - 20 minutes, that makes our total riding time around a little less than 5 hours. So our average moving time was about 13 - 14 mph. That's fine for a training ride. Here's some videos of the ride...
