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ksd training tour-the road back to snake gap -Kenny

1/2/2016

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So the road to the 2016 Snake Gap Started here....the finish line of the 2015 Snake Gap
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Andy, Shep, and I earned our second belt buckle we love this race and this is a must do for us every year.  Dustin just came down to see the hoopla and without a buckle for his effort had to come back but Corianne...sweet innocent Corianne brought her own buckle back to Ohio and for some reason Corianne telling other teammates how much fun she had carried more weight than when Andy and I tell people how awesome it is. So next week there will be ten of us traveling 10 hours south to make another go.  Let alone the logistics of herding cats and bathroom breaks the trip down will be an adventure itself! Just as this conversation broke out as I type this blog:
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It's not just Knobsider's but big groups from Columbus and Cincinnati will be representing the Buckeye state as shown in this heatmap from the Snake TT. How can this many people be wrong?
So anyway the training tour for the 2016 The Snake TT announced that they were reducing the event to two races but adding a fifty mile option, as if 34 miles in January wasn't ridiculous enough the lure of fifty miles and a bigger beltbuckle makes the decision a no brainer to me.  To put it in perspective of local Ohio folk the fifty mile numbers wise is like the Mohican 100k, but 90% singletrack and real mountains in January.....
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Snake Gap TT 50 mile route adds an 18 mile loop at the beginning then onto the normal course
Most of us really don't want to drive ten hours to have a really bad day on the bike, none of us are winning anything it's about completing and not feeling like crap for 80% of it so that meant sacrificing our nice El Nino weather and riding the trainer, all of us joined trainer road and picked proper plans so at least we would be able to measure how much it was worth being stuck inside and taking the ridicule of everyone who was outside riding.  
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I need more screens to distract me
During the week it was the trainer for most of us (with the occasional bowling league thrown in there...that person will not be named in this blog but he is a card carrying member "big leagues" hope that card helps while you are cramping walking up the wall sir....)
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Most of the KSD crew is spread out throughout North East Ohio so to be fair every Sunday someone would hosts a ride local to their area to be fair with the commuting, from Mohican, Akron, Lisbon, Bolivar, Canton, and one crazy day trip to Rothrock we got to see lots of different sites over the last few months.
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The ladies at Tuscazoar!
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bound to have at least one on the ride!
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Michael forgot his chamois... He HTF and did the mohican ride in running pants
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Gravel Roads of Mohican Country
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Dicky looking FABULOUS in his "flashy" jacket (note Corianne was on the trainer and she took this picture
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Akron ride at Silver Lake
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Appropriate picture for Kenny and Andy's T-County Death March.
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Team FMBR and KSD collaboration Skratch Labs dinner, everything was a Skratch recipe!
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The beautiful roads of T-County
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We even got a couple trail days in helping cut in a new 1/2 mile at Camp Tuscazoar
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F'n tourists...who really does bike adjustments in the middle of the trail
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you caption this one......
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Lisa and Corianne in the Cuyahoga Valley enjoying Xmas decorations
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Yup it was that kind of ride
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nothing good can happen if you do not have a map at Rothrock....and plenty of food!
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Obligatory Rothrock selfie...proof Josh can look creepy in any picture
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Did you take the picture? .....Yes it looks great
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Post ride libations worth freezing for
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The girls still smiles at the end of the Lisbon ride..reported to be 40 miles and 2K climbing ended up being 5k climbing...whoops
And proof of what happens when cyclist drink together...even if they aren't riding they end up on bikes anyway...a tournament broke out at the FMBR/KSD Skratch labs party of who could climb a hill the fatest in Zwift world.  Flat pedals, no bike adjustments, and extra high fives if you drank during your run.  It went something like this...
 Well that's it we'll know how all this worked out for us about this time next week but either way we've had fun so far leading up to it!

And for those keeping score here is who is going and the distance they are doing wish us luck!
Kenny 50
Andrew 50
Tim 50
Dicky 50
Jim 34
Josh 34
Dustin 34
​Michael 34
Corianne 34
Lisa 34
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