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Archive: January 18, 2009
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I just received an email from Chuck Bramwell, the über-meister of the California Triple Crown, and the 2009 schedule of events has been posted. Those are all Double Centuries, there is also a smattering of Centuries and Ultra-Centuries. So in the public interest, here is... (the yellow divider is "now"; I actually rode the events in green above this line, and I intend to ride the events in green below the line.)
The 2009 California cycling calendar
updated 10/18/09
| date | event | distance | elevation | location |
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01/10/09
| PCH Randos 200K Brevet
| 124
| 3,000
| Ventura
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01/17/09
| Stagecoach Century
| 100
| 4,700
| Ocotillo
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01/24/08
| Janus Century day 1+2
| 2 x 100
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| Thousand Oaks
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02/07/08
| PCH Randos 300K Brevet
| 185
| 7,200
| Ventura
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02/08/09
| Breakaway from cancer
| 50
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| Thousand Oaks
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02/21/09
| Camino Real Double*+
| 200
| 8,800
| Irvine
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02/28/09
| Death Valley Spring Double*
| 200
| 9,000
| Death Valley
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03/14/09
| Solvang Spring Century
| 100
| 5,000
| Solvang
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03/28/09
| Solvang Spring Double*+
| 200
| 7,200
| Solvang
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04/04/09
| Spring Stagecoach Century
| 100
| 4,700
| Ocotillo
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04/11/09
| Mulholland Double*+
| 200
| 16,470
| Calabasas
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04/11/09
| Mulholland Challenge**
| 109
| 12,000
| Calabasas
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04/11/09
| Midnight Express
| 50
| 7,000
| Acton
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04/18/09
| Devil Mountain Double*
| 200
| 18,600
| San Ramon
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04/25/08
| SLOBC Wildflower Ride
| 100
| 6,500
| San Luis Obispo
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05/02/09
| Breathless Agony**
| 114
| 12,000
| Redlands
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05/09/09
| Cruising the Conejo
| 100
| 6,000
| Thousand Oaks
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05/09/09
| Central Coast Double*
| 200
| 14,000
| Paso Robles
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05/16/09
| Encinitas Bicycle Tour
| 103
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| Encinitas
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05/16/09
| Davis Double*
| 200
| 8,400
| Davis
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05/23/09
| Heartbreak Double*+
| 202
| 15,500
| Palmdale
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05/23/09
| Heartbreak Hundred**
| 100
| 8,500
| Palmdale (part of Double)
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05/30/09
| Ojai Valley Century
| 100
| 5,000
| Ojai
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06/06/09
| Eastern Sierra Double*+
| 200
| 12,000
| Bishop
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06/13/09
| Alta Alpina Challenge*
| 200
| 20,300
| Markleeville
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06/20/09
| Terrible Two Double*
| 200
| 16,480
| Sebastopol
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06/27/09
| Grand Tour Double*
| 200
| 8,500
| Malibu
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07/11/09
| Death Ride
| 129
| 15,000
| Markleeville
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08/01/09
| Mount Tam Double*
| 200
| 14,500
| San Rafael
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08/15/09
| Cool Breeze Double Metric
| 128
| 8,500
| Ventura
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09/05/09
| Son of Death Ride
| 132
| 19,000
| Ridgecrest
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09/12/09
| High Sierra Century
| 100
| 5,500
| Mammoth
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09/12/09
| Everest Challenge
| 2 - 206
| 29,000
| Bishop
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09/19/09
| Knoxville Double*
| 200
| 12,600
| Vacaville
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09/26/09
| White Mountain Double*
| 200
| 10,700
| Bishop
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09/27/09
| Lighthouse Century
| 100
| 4,700
| San Luis Obispo
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10/03/09
| Furnace Creek 508
| 2 - 508
| 35,000
| Valencia - Twentynine Palms
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10/03/09
| Angeles Crest Century
| 100
| 11,000
| La Canada
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10/03/09
| Hemet Double*
| 200
| 7,800
| Hemet
| 10/10/09
| Bass Lass Powerhouse Double*
| 200
| 11,700
| Clovis
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10/17/09
| Solvang Autumn Double*+
| 200
| 10,300
| Solvang
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10/18/09
| New Moon Century
| 100
| 6,500
| Oak Park
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10/24/09
| Death Valley Fall Double*
| 200
| 9,100
| Death Valley
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11/07/09
| Borrego Ordeal Double*
| 200
| 14,900
| Anza Borrego
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11/14/09
| Solvang Fall Century
| 100
| 4,900
| Solvang
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* - part of California Triple Crown series (need three or five) - currently have five - did it!...
** - part of King of the Mountains series (need all three) - and got all of them!
*+ - part of Grand Slam series (need four) - currently have five- did it!...
You're welcome! I will try to keep this up-to-date, if you have additions or corrections, please let me know...
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Want to see something pretty incredible? Check out this infographic from Wachovia Securities, comparing the banking industry in January 2007 to January 2009. The size of each bubble is proportional to the market cap of each bank.
I wonder how much of the difference is due to decreases in the value of their lending portfolios, particularly mortgages, versus a decrease in consumer confidence and market values in general?
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 Had a nice quiet day, my girls are all gone (shopping in Santa Barbara!) and had some friends over to watch football. We were rooting for the Cardinals, who won (yay), and for the Ravens, who didn't (boo). Both good games. The Super Bowl will be pretty interesting, a study in contrasts. The key will be whether Arizona's offense can move the ball against Pittsburgh's defense. My heart says yes, but my head says no :)
One of the important issues we discussed today while consuming vast quantities of chips, dip, and beer, was whether the Pro Bowl shouldn't be played right after the conference championships, the week before the Super Bowl. We decided yes (please tell the league office). Of course that means nobody playing the Super Bowl would play in the Pro Bowl, but that's okay; having a game to watch in that "dead" weekend would be good. Right now everyone cares about who is selected for the Pro Bowl, but nobody cares about the game or watches it.
The rehabilitation of George Bush is well under way, as people realize 1) Obama is going to have to do many of the same things Bush did, for many of the same reasons, and 2) people realize that blaming everything on Bush didn't work. Sisu nails it: To trash Bush was to belong. I'm not a huge fan of Bush but I thought he wasn't nearly as bad nor nearly as guilty as many people did, particularly in the mainstream media. 
Sully Sullenberger is [justifiably] a hero (he was the captain of flight 1549 who piloted the plane into the Hudson River after it encountered a flock of birds just after takeoff), but FuturePundit points out he's also a genius. "Innate intellectual ability matters a great deal. A dumber society will be a more accident-prone and less safe society." Exactly why I'm so worried about Unnatural Selection...
Incidentally, since deciding that this year I have to focus myself on my book, I've told a number of people about it, and have condensed "what is it about" to this: the world is getting dumber. When people ask why, I answer because dumb people have more kids than smart ones. That isn't the whole story but it resonates; people "get it" right away.
I saw a billboard yesterday with the caption "do you leak urine?" Now c'mon, do we have to see that? Eew. How do you explain that to a kid? There are like five people who care about that problem, and zero of them are going to call an 800 number because of some billboard. [ ...here it is... ]
 So I wired my blog posts into Twitter, and that was good, and I wired Twitter into Facebook, and that was better; and now I've wired Twitter into Plaxo. Can't hurt, right? I'm beginning to realize just how non-universal use of RSS really is. A lot of people like being notified about new posts this way...
 You all know how I think Floyd Landis was innocent, right? (He won the 2007 Tour de France, then was found guilty of "doping" on stage 17 because the ratio of testosterone to epitestosterone in his bloodstream was too high.) Well you can take my word for it, or not, but you also might like to read Floyd Landis and the Magic Water Bottle, Part I, Part II, and Part III, posted by Oliver Starr, a former professional bike racer. Dead on, IMHO.
The other day I rediscovered the utility of "hard links" in NTFS. You do know about hard links, right? No? Well then you can read Jameser's Tech Tips and learn all about it, like I did...
Finally, want to know how to build a great UI? Avoid annoying the user. That's it. Easier said than done, unfortunately, users annoy easily...
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