Dearest CeeCee,

This would be an ideal time to bust out
"Jane, you ignorant slut!!!"

- but you likely wouldn't get that pop reference either.

Don't they have movies and TV up in Canuckistan?

So, you're bringing the Appletini's again this year, right?

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Steve!
Dude - just Jens those legs into submission.

It only hurts while you're racing.
Before and after feels awesome.

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Rich,
It would almost be worth it to get my ass handed to me by you, yet again, just to have ya back racing at AmZof where ya belong.
Almost.

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float , hammer , and jog

It IS awesome!

You can camp nearby if you so desire.
There's one campground area that is literally right along the bike course.

There are hotels fairly close by - everything from a Hostel thru cheap chains thru a Hampton Inn and all the way up to the 5* Mohonk Mountain House.

It is quite hilly, but nothing mere mortals can't handle.

All 3 distances start off with the same 5m trail run. It's hilly, but not terrible, and everybody runs all of the first run, because they can.
Enjoy that feeling, since you likely won't be doing that again the whole way the next time around.

Short Course aka Canadian Womens Distance then has 1 lap of the bike course, a challenging but super fun hilly 29m loop, which starts off (after bombing down the dirt road coming from transition) with a tough climb up Mohonk.
Followed by an E-ticket ripping descent.
It's an awesome bike loop, with a bunch of fantastic scenery and wide variety of terrain.

Short course finishes up with another 5m lap of the run course. Get acquainted with the term "power-hiking", since the gravity gets turned up to 11 on all the hills on the run course after you've done the bike loop.

Middle Distance aka the G Chris Gleason Memoral, is a F1 format:
Run/Bike/Run/Bike/Run.
So - identical to Short Course, but then you go out for another bike after the 2nd run, then a 3rd run lap after the bike.
T3 & T4 are definitely an interesting new experience.

Long Course - is 1 lap run/3 laps bike/3 laps run.
7-10+ hours of fun, for the same low, low price as the other 2 races!

All of which followed by FREE BEER!!
In Big Honkin Steins!!
(Assuming you place well enough to win one)
And a fantastic post race spread put out by Doug and crew from Main Street Bistro.

There's nothing more fun than finishing your race, hanging out drinking beer and swapping war stories, all while heckling the long course racers as they come thru the Pavilion yet again.
It doesn't get any better than that.

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1. Hear me now and believe me later, you girlyman, you better start your training now if you're going to do anything longer than the Canadian Womens distance!
2. No, we are too busy utilizing our free health care, to spend any time on such mindless pursuits.
3. COSMOS. COSMOS. COSMOS.

CeeCee wrote:

@ML..... Swallows of Capistrano.... you illiterate moron....

I guess they don' show great movies up there where you are;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQJjWhSTgEI


You need to come back and get some culture!

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''Sweeney - you can both crush your AG *and* cruise in dead last!! 😂 '' Murphy's Law

The "short course" takes longer to finish than USAT National "long course".

One of them is mislabeled.

And don't worry about the climbs. Its the downhills that will kill you.

wow..... how have I missed that? ick. LOL, yes apparently I need to come back for some learnin' from you lot. :-)

I had to do a lot of searching to find it. I thought it must have been part of John Balushi's speech in Animal House.

So, are you comin back? The place hasn't been the same since you left!

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''Sweeney - you can both crush your AG *and* cruise in dead last!! 😂 '' Murphy's Law

LOL.
Most, er many, ok - SOME - people really enjoy the descents.

Rather than white-knuckling your way down them, you should go with the prison rape strategy -
You can't avoid it, so try to relax and enjoy the ride, and get it over with as quickly as possible.
;-)

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float , hammer , and jog

Making a return as well after 2 yrs away from this race great race. Signed up for the Chris Gleason Memorial and looking forward to another stein. Oh, I'll be one of those running around in pink, cursing those climbs.

I'll do it if you do it.

Oooh! All the GCG studs coming back for '18?

I might just have to step my game up from the Canadian Womens Division if that is indeed the case.

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float , hammer , and jog

Awesome.

All of these hills, I'm guessing most people ride regular road bikes? Is the dirt out of transition the only rough road?

TT bike, with all the go-fast aero goodies you own, or can beg, borrow, or steal.

There's only a short dirt hill section that's unpaved and somewhat rough, the rest of the course is in decent to good to very good shape.
There are LOTS of parts that you'll be in the aerobars for miles at a time.

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float , hammer , and jog

I think I will be coming back. Deciding whether to go for 3rd time doing long course or middle. Regardless, I am feeling the pull of this race. If you haven't done it and are thinking about it, just commit, you won't regret it.

I seriously want to be there again, but I might be in Europe for work. TBA for me. If I can rework a couple things, I'll be at AmZof! Need a more recent picture with you and Rich for my old-man-admiration-wall.

Brett, it's time to Shake and bake!

And for you ML, also in the words of Ricky (or Reese) Bobby, if you ain't first, you're last.

Let's do this.

Here's one of Rich:



And me:

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I don't know..... silly me, went and grew my tax practice over the last couple of years, and our Canucki tax deadline is April 30th.... doesn't give me a lot of time to get in much outdoor riding b4 AmZof....

PFFFFTTTTT!!! Said the woman who trained like an Olympian for Penticton National Du's earlier this year.....Fear not the Pavilion, fear not the chalk start line..............fear everything else! I'm back this year proudly representin' the back of the pack of CWD!!

It was Worlds, not Nationals.... but it could have been Universe...... nothing scares me more than the chalk start line of AmZof!

You just want me to come back so the I will be the back of the pack.... not you!

BTW, we had a mini AmZof reunion at Worlds in Penticton. Myself and TriYoda. He's not getting any shorter and I'm not getting any taller. No ICBs were harmed in the taking of this picture.

The descents are the only fond memories I have of that course. Especially the big one. That was almost worth the price of admission.

Funny how different people are. I love the climbs, hate the descents.

I guess that's what makes it fun....