Great Lakes Ultra Cycling Ride Feedback and Comments

Thank you for planning and organizing this event, and making us feel so welcome!

Awesome and challenging route. As always, thanks for organizing!

Epically hot day, but awesome support from Diane. Thanks for a great ride Scott and Chuck!

Don't remember if I ever submitted this ride, or not. I promise to get better on self reporting. This is the one I split up into 3 200k sim days.

https://www.strava.com/activities/5492741452

https://www.strava.com/activities/5497800931

https://www.strava.com/activities/5503366316

Great route and ride. Thank you GLU for hosting these wonderful events.

Thank you for organizing. This was a great event.

As you already know I broke it down into two separate rides:

https://www.strava.com/activities/5420307345

https://www.strava.com/activities/5426954500

Challenging ride but enjoyed it a lot. Awesome to have Alex riding with me.

Absolutely a fabulous time! The weather was perfect and the route was well payed out.

We ended up cutting the ride short due to relative fitness and speed. We took an alternate route in.

Hi Michele, I am learning how to use my gps and apparently I did not record my ride on it :) I used it to follow a map, but that apparently does no automatically start recording a ride. We were with Adam all day long, you can use his track and stats for my record. Thank you and have a nice week!

Better late than never. Thanks for the great time. 

Another great brevet route! Weather a bit challenging but great camaraderie made it fun!

Thanks to everyone at GLR. Great ride, great to meet everyone. Tons of fun!

Tandem ride being reported by the stoker!

Thank you.

Hey Michelle. Nice riding the 2nd loop with you. Great day for a ride. Glad we had that trail to protect us from the NorthEast wind.

Let me know if the link doesn't work. It's a link to Ride with GPS

Thanks

Paul

Great route heading north. Hills were challenging all day. We missed the

bike shop, made several wrong turns but worked things out. Super weather. First time this year in real hot heat.

Lots hillier than I was at first thinking and I helped write the route. We started outside Waukesha and had a great day on the bike. It got to about 95 degrees at one point so I was glad there were places to get water. The section in Kettle Moraine and Dousman is especially nice.

Not a big fan of urban bike paths. Wishing I would have started in Woodstock to avoid the crowds. Overall I like the course. Pretty much in my back yard.

I never wrote this route as an early spring ride, but it worked and everyone had fun - including me! First 200k+ ride on a single bike since breaking my leg last year. The 20-30 mph headwind for the last 66 miles was impressive! I'm really looking forward to doing this route again when there is less flooding and I can enjoy the Fox River trail south of Elgin.

My first gravel road ride of any considerable distance The 50/50 mix was nice to go back and forth.

Newbie experience:

The gravel roads were in good condition and mostly easy to ride, almost like pavement. There wasn’t any washboard that I could remember. However, there were sections that had larger rocks on top of the hard pack which felt like riding on marbles. At times the rougher sections were pushing me off the road crown towards the shoulder. Needed to use the brakes on some gravel descents to maintain steering control (hard work on the climb and no joy on the way down). Did alright on the gravel climbs except for the early Chunkey Monkey where I did get off to walk about 30 feet.

Nice temperatures with my 9:04 am start and 7:45 pm finish. The headwinds to Savanna were strong and unrelenting, but nice to have some tailwind on the way back.

Thanks for the route and setting up the ride.

Yay!

We loved the course - and we enjoyed ourselves through the challenging hills:)

This was one of the best 200ks ever. The route was awesome, the planning was awesome, even the weather was awesome. I could go on and on! Loved the tour of the lifestyles of the rich and famous up in Lake Forest.

Also, supplying water on the route was real clutch--thanks.

Nicely set up. Was too tired to complete the whole thing, only road around 90 miles of the brevet route.

MIchele: It was nice to see you out on the road for support. The route was beautiful with exception of a few no shoulder sections on busy roads but we managed. All in all a great day.

Thank you.

Chuck