Thursday, September 15th 6:30AM - KOM.2

Rides
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It’s that time of week again, King Of the Mountain #2 will be tomorrow morning, so get up at an ungodly hour and get down to the bottom of Houde for 6:30 (the grace period is getting smaller this year, as Advanced is getting longer). If you’ve never been to a KOM, tomorrow should be a great time to start, nothing says welcome to McGill Cycling like a rainy KOM.

We meet at the bottom of Camillien Houde where it intersects with Boulevard Mont-Royal and the ride finishes in roughly the same place about an hour later (1:15 for A). A will continue to do the advanced route as we felt it was a total success.

If this is your first week, please try and go in a group where you will push yourself, but also one where you will be competitive.

We dropped the ball on putting up the results for last week, but the leaders for A are as followed:

Mathieu Fradet-33
Brandon Tulloch- 19 *McGill KOM leader, but will not be riding tomorrow.
Phil Brunet- 18
Drew Childerhose-14
John VK-13

Hope to see you all tomorrow.

2

I’m pretty sure last week was a trial run and not the actual start of the competition in itself.

Also, a signup would be nice.

3

The advanced group did go for points though Jocelyn, and from what I heard it was a super awesome ride. Everybody not Advanced starts the counting this week.

P.S I don’t like the rain. So we’ll see what it looks like at 6 am on Thursday to determine my presence.

Otherwise I’m pumped for some hills.

4

what is the point scheme again?

5

i was not aware we were keeping tally last week, but if we are i should have something like 20.

we should also strive to have equilibrated groups. Last week there were 20 riders in A but only 8 in B.

6

Nic, I have you down as getting 11 points for being first up the UdM climb and conservatory, (5 points each) and 5th up Clark for 1 point. I haven’t had time to get the spreadsheet out yet but I can get it up and running tomorrow if someone sends me the scores from the ride tomorrow.

I have the scores as:
Houde
1-MathF
2-Phil
3-JonVK
4-EricB
5-Brandon

Belvedere
1-Drew
2-Brandon
3-MathF
4-??
5-Nybom

Clark
1-MathF
2-JonVK
3-EricB
4-Turtle
5-NicA

MtPleasant
1-MathF
2-Phil
3-Will
4-JonVK
5-Brandon

Oratory
1-MathF
2-JonVK
3-Brandon
4-Drew
5-Turtle

UdM
1-NicA
2-MathF
3-Phil
4-EricB
5-Dennis

Conservatory
1-NicA
2-Turtle
3-Drew
4-Brandon
5-??

“The Hooded Fang” aka Goat Path
1-MathF
2-Phil
3-Brandon
4-EricB
5-Justin

Remembrance*
1-Brandon
2-Drew
3-Phil
4-Justin
5-MathF
*1 bonus point for EricB for not crashing

FYI The scoring is
1st - 5
2nd - 4
3rd - 3
4th - 2
5th - 1

I don’t mind more people coming in Advanced if they want to. Not everyone in intermediate is willing to do the 9 climbs and if people want a harder workout I don’t mind them coming along. If intermediate wants to do the big loop, they are definitely welcome to it too.

At the same time, if you are in contention for the points, you will push yourself harder and I think the ride will be more fun for you, there will be more smack talk and more friendly rivalries, which are awesome. I am talking about people in advanced who didn’t place top 5 on any climbs last week. If you still want to come in advanced, great. There is no shame in dropping back to intermediate and duking it out with those guys, and if you do there is no penalty since they haven’t been keeping score yet.

7

Because really, aren’t points just quantified bragging rights?

8

Sorry can’t make this one.

9

Brandon, I’ll take the heavy, heavy burden of filling all the ??? spots if no one else claims them…

10

Adam is withdrawing from this KOM due to the weather man telling me its going to be soggy.

Good luck on the hills everybody. I’ll see you at the dry intro meeting and potluck.

11

I agree, not a fan of the rain. Will also decide if coming by 6am Thursday… Due to just checking the forecast, as noted I’m bailing due to rain.

12

girls represennnt

13

I’m not going to make it guys, i’m sorry. I’ll come next week.

14

If it’s not raining, I’ll think about it…

15

Flatted on the way out and couldn’t make it on time… next week

16

i am going to continue my yearly tradition of signing up for these rides, waking up before the sun, looking outside, and then going back to bed.

17

Ben: hilarious. I’ve done the same thing.

18

it was wet, we didn’t do the full loop.

the jersey has changed hands.

19

where are the points drew? We’re going to need to see the concrete evidence before you get to pull on those polka-dots!! :stuck_out_tongue:

Nice riding today, I’m sure you’ll have to keep it up in order to fend up Mr. Burge…

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Medical science tells me that riding in the rain gives you a cold.