started training yesterday for the 5 boro bike ride in nyc

[Beer Snob-50]

42 miles finishing with a nice little hill onto some island (i cannot remember the name now)

[RT Atlanta]

1. Sounds like a fun ride

If you havent already learned how to fix a flat, please do so. That knowledge helped me out a lot on a long ride last fall (where I previously didnt know how to fix the flat).

Not sure how hilly your ride is either, but if you can find some hills to practice on, that will be good for your strength and endurance too.

Best of luck!

[Beer Snob-50]

2. right now i am riding the stationary bike at the gym

using the hills program. did 6.5 miles yesterday, and will do a flat course today.

[RT Atlanta]

3. Keep it up

and if your beer snobbery brings you to the South, please let me be the first to recommend any of the following brewers:

http://terrapinbeer.com/

(its rye pale ale is awesome)

http://www.sweetwaterbrew.com/

(make a great pale ale called 420, and my personal preference is their IPA)


http://nantahalabrewing.wordpress.com/

(these guys were "underground" for so long you had to know the home brewers, who are turning their dream into a reality - great story too!)

[Beer Snob-50]

5. i love a good ipa

when it is mixed with spicy food of some sort. last night i went to a beer dinner where they paired an ipa with steak with a poached egg (poached in beer) on top. out of this world. the beer was from a colorado brewer.

[Beer Snob-50]

7. breast fest at the terrapin brewery

sounds like an event i can sink my lips into.

[charlie and algernon]

4. my dad and brother did that a few years ago

they loved it and yeah, they said the Verizano bridge hill is killer right there at the end.

[Beer Snob-50]

6. that is the one.

last year i did it and i had dread as i viewed the bridge. my brother in law pulled over as we got close as we shared a hot dog being sold on the side of the road for some extra energy.