Chilly Hilly - Great ride and great weather

"cheg" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Perfect day for the Chilly Hilly ride today (cascade.orgCH.cfmOpen ↗ ), high 40's -
low 50's and sunshine. Not a drop of rain all day. Sometimes you get lucky. My 30 year old Raleigh
International performed flawlessly as well.

I did Chilly Hilly too -- 2 hours, 32 minutes, which wasn't anything to complain about. And you're
right -- great weather. I'll add, no wind to speak of, which helped make for a great day.

This was the first year where I didn't have to worry about child care, so I could take the first,
bike-only ferry. What a trip! Hundreds and hundreds of bikes on the lower deck; hundreds and
hundreds of bicyclists on the upper deck. And everyone just ignored the "no cleats" rule.

I was thinking today about the 1990 Chilly Hilly. I had just moved back to the Seattle area after
years of living in other places. I had signed up to do the Chilly Hilly that year with my dad. As
it turned out, I got a new job after I signed up, and my new work place wanted to send me to
Washington DC to attend a conference and lobby our state's delegation. I was caught up with the
whole glamour of the thing, and gave my Chilly Hilly registration to my husband. He ended up doing
that ride with my dad.

That was the last formal bike event my dad ever rode in. I was thinking today that I will never have
the experience of riding in something like that with my dad, and it makes me feel very sad.

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Claire Petersky
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"Claire Petersky" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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"cheg" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:Zzu0c.85685$Xp.396776@attbi_s54...

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Perfect day for the Chilly Hilly ride today (cascade.orgCH.cfmOpen ↗ ), high 40's -
low 50's and sunshine. Not a drop of rain all day. Sometimes you get lucky. My

30

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year old Raleigh International performed flawlessly as well.

I did Chilly Hilly too -- 2 hours, 32 minutes, which wasn't

anything to

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complain about. And you're right -- great weather. I'll add, no

wind to

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speak of, which helped make for a great day.

This was the first year where I didn't have to worry about child

care, so I

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could take the first, bike-only ferry. What a trip! Hundreds and

hundreds of

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bikes on the lower deck; hundreds and hundreds of bicyclists on the

upper

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deck. And everyone just ignored the "no cleats" rule.

I was on the same boat. It was great to see such a huge variety of bikes and cyclists in one place.
From children on trailer-tandems to "Serious Racers"(TM) on aramid miracle bikes to elders on Bike
Friday folders. The highest bib number I saw was over 3000.

I'm not sure what my elapsed time was but I averaged 15.2 mph while riding over the distance and
got to the chilli line 11'ish. This was the first organized ride I ever did and it was a blast. Now
maybe the STP...

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I was thinking today about the 1990 Chilly Hilly. I had just moved

back to

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the Seattle area after years of living in other places. I had

signed up to

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do the Chilly Hilly that year with my dad. As it turned out, I got

a new job

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after I signed up, and my new work place wanted to send me to

Washington DC

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to attend a conference and lobby our state's delegation. I was

caught up

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with the whole glamour of the thing, and gave my Chilly Hilly

registration

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to my husband. He ended up doing that ride with my dad.

That was the last formal bike event my dad ever rode in. I was thin

king

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today that I will never have the experience of riding in something

like that

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with my dad, and it makes me feel very sad.

It's sad that you weren't there with your dad that day, but when you ride the route you can think of
him enjoying the day with your husband. They say that no one ever died wishing they had spent more
time at work, but you can't do everything, only the best you can.

"cheg" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Cheg, your email's munged, so I'm replying publicly:

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This was the first organized ride I ever did and it was a blast. Now maybe the STP...

You know how crowded it was when we first got off the ferry? That's the way it is for like the first
50 miles of the STP, especially if you leave at the peak of the morning, at 6:00 - 6:30. Then it
thins out a bit after Spanaway.

I'm not sure if I'm doing STP this year -- we've already got our hotel reservations for RSVP. STP is
a blast, though -- you should do it. Man, if you had a Chilly Hilly average of 15.2 mph (I had
13.8), you could do a two day STP no sweat, and a one day is easily in reach.

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Claire Petersky
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Cheg, are you in any of the pictures? My kids kept on insisting that I was one of the ones walking a
bike up NE Baker Hill, just to give me a hard time.

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Claire Petersky
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"Claire Petersky" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Great photos and article: seattletimes.nwsource.comhomeOpen ↗ for photo and text on

front page

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seattletimes.nwsource.com2001868076.jpgOpen ↗ for photo

only

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seattletimes.nwsource.com2001868482 chillyhilly01m.htOpen ↗

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ml for extended article.

Cheg, are you in any of the pictures? My kids kept on insisting

that I was

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one of the ones walking a bike up NE Baker Hill, just to give me a

hard

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time.

No I'm not in the pictures. For most of the ride I was wearing a bright red Manchester United soccer
jersey and black arm warmers. Decent article, though.