Comments on: Big Ol’ Event Report: 2012 LiveStrong Challenge – Davis

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 23:55:33 +0000

It was great meeting and riding with you last weekend! I wrote up a ride summary on my blog (tdf2012.blogspot.com). You can find it here: http://tdf2012.blogspot.com/2012/06/team-livestrong-challenge-davis-ride_30.html.

By the way, if you are watching the Tour this year, keep an eye out for a shout out for Team Fatty on the roads of the Pyrenees, most likely on the stage finishing in Bagneres-de-Luchon. And you can look for me in the crowd: I’ll be the one holding the black and gold flag with the big tiger head on it (Go Mizzou!)

By: Clydesteve

Clydesteve — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 06:05:41 +0000

Way to go Team Fatty! It was meloncholy for me to miss this year. Hope to see you all next!

By: AKChick55

AKChick55 — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 04:11:00 +0000

This was going to be my final Challenge for a while. I have to admit that I’m already scheming on how to get there next year. It’s REALLY expensive to fly to anywhere from Alaska, but I have airline miles so I can get my own ticket (probably won’t be first class though) unless my dear friend offers to get my ticket next year. (hey SusieH, were you serious about a place to stay with air conditioning? :)

Where do I begin? First, thank you to Fatty for having this blog and bringing together such a dynamic and fun group of people. Second, thank you to Fatty again for marrying such a wonderful woman aka The Hammer. She was sweet enough to chat with me at length on Friday, put up with me on Saturday at the fundraising dinner and humored me by letting me take lots of photos of her and Fatty at the start. Then let me sit next to here after we finished. It was all I could do not to scream like a 13 year old girl. Also thank you to Fatty for putting up with my silliness. I forget that people don’t know me very well and when I joke around, sometimes I sound serious. And thank you Fatty for getting everyone that wanted to go to the dinner into the dinner.

Thank you to AngieG for planning Friday’s event. I feel like a slacker as I was supposed to help get food and set-up and I didn’t do any of that though I did keep DavidH company while he sliced pickles and watermelon and got everything set-up for Brats. AngieG was right, this is kind of like Thanksgiving! Thanks to Joe at the Cycling Hall of Fame for being a superb host! I LOVED the tour and now I want a beautiful bamboo bike and a carbon fiber bike from Calfee. They are complete works of art. Thanks to Wife#1 for making pies! And encouraging me to do the 100 miler. Thanks to DavidH and Jeff for pulling me nearly the entire ride on their tandem though our shortcut back to the finish only saved us 5 miles. :) They dropped me in the hills (I’m so out of shape) but I caught up to them at the rest stop and they never let me fall behind again. So awesome! Poor DavidH rode into the wind with little help all day. I would have been useless since I would have been too slow. We did have one really nice guy that pulled for them for a little while. We rode with his sweet sister Weige (not sure how you spell her name) who is a 5 year cancer survivor. i wish I had gotten her contact info!!! I think she’s planning on doing the Gran Fondo though so maybe I can still get her contact info through a fellow Fatty.

I SO enjoyed meeting everyone. It is so nice to put a face to a name.

It is worthy to note that Mykill did all 100 miles on a MOUNTAIN BIKE and was cruising along at insane speeds! He is an animal! When he gets a road bike, I expect he’ll be riding with the fast Fattys.

I have a TON of photos to go through and will put up on my Facebook page and share the link here. Feel free to look me up and friend me (Sasha Prewitt).

I can’t wait for next year!!! :)

By: Aaron W

Aaron W — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 04:04:41 +0000

Eldon it was such a pleasure to meet you and your better half. Yea it was a bit nuts on my part this being my 5th ride of the year, at least not the full century. I have done the last 3 challenges on my own to be part of this amazing team was just a blast. Everyone is accepting and encouraging. I plan on being part of the entire weekend next year, at least I hope to. Thanks for all you have done and continue to do. And thanks to the rest of Team Fatty for just being awesome.

By: Angie G

Angie G — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:41:44 +0000

For any Fatties attending the Granfondo, please keep in touch; angie@bikemonkey.net

I will be there helping manage registration again and would love for you to come by and say Hi.

By: Lonster

Lonster — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:48:39 +0000

It was an awesome time on the bike. Great write up Fatty! As part of the Visalia Team Fatty contingent that pulled people in it was nice to finally put faces to names. MattC (yest that one) was great to ride with as were the others. Sorry we lost some of you the last ten miles in the wind. The pie at the end was a bonus and we lived up to the slogan we chalked at the start.

By: Laura S

Laura S — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:34:25 +0000

Great write up! I’m sorry to have missed it yet again this year. I’m hoping next year it doesn’t fall on the same weekend as the extended family camp out cause I can’t miss that! No pie but the chili is awesome there.

By: ChristineG

ChristineG — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 12:54:43 +0000

I agree with everyones comments about Davis. Had a great time last year, an even better time this year, and am looking forward to next year.
Thanks to Angie for her awesome job planning , David for his cooking and pies ( Wife #1 I loved the shoofly pie, though I have never had it before so I have nothing to compare it to), Fatty and Lisa for all that you guys do, and all the other Team Fatty (and non-Team Fatty members) I got to hang out with. Hopefully I will see all you guys next year!

By: davidh-marin, ca

davidh-marin, ca — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 07:46:16 +0000

@rumpledJim we’ll be riding the tandem at Levi’s, keep in touch, hang on and we’ll pull you in. nothing like pacing a tandem uphill. The payoff is on the downs and the flats..

By: Rumpled/Jim

Rumpled/Jim — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 06:27:00 +0000

I was sooo disappointed tat I didn’t make this event – even though I signed up and sooo planned to be there.
Turns out I had a lodging/transportation problem. Coming back from Sea Otter my trailer had a big blowout. The $ I was gonna spend on going to Davis instead has been spent on fixing my trailer.
The stories sound so fun and amazing.
I did a sub 7 hour ride time for my 100 MON – sub 5 sounds soo amazing.
If all goes well, I’ll at least see some of you at Levi’s ride – trailer willing. (Yes, the plan is to camp out in Cloverdale for that one yet again)
I hope to do well sub 10 hours for that ride – finishing in the dark wasn’t totally fun.
Way to go all of you!