November 2007 Archives

Created before Katrina, even before Reo, this video shows some of our more proud and fun moments as a team. Enjoy!

The Tour of New Orleans is a year-round group ride. Originally set up as an alternative to the New Orleans Giro group ride/hammer-fest, it hopefully will become another route for New Orleans cyclists to keep from getting bored stiff from riding the levee or Lakeshore Drive. This ride starts at the Audubon Zoo and goes through Kenner, Lakefront, New Orleans East, 9th Ward, French Quarter, Garden District and Uptown. The pace (with the group) is typical winter training pace, nothing that'll make your eyes cross. It can also be easily added to for extra miles, or cut short at Lakeshore Drive, giving you the option of a 2,3 or 4 hours ride. As mapped, it is 53 miles and has a couple of grassy sections (100 feet or less) which are better than most paved roads in N.O.. Bring money for coffee and biegnets.
Go here: http://www.mapmyride.com/ride/united-states/la/new-orleans/672265425

This Red Bluff route is a great ride to prep for Rouge Roubaix. http://www.mapmyride.com/add_route_to_blog?r=526589708

For south Mississippi, this is about as hilly as it gets. My ErgoMo showed over 2,000 feet of climbing during the 51 miles. The hill on Fire Tower road is the longest climb of about one mile. This first climb is about 12 miles south of Monticello. Of course, there are the two climbs on Hwy 587: Red Bluff at mile 30, the view here is great, and White Bluff at mile 35, the steepest grade of over 10%. Due to the climbing and slag sections, this route will help prepare you for the brutality of the course and gravel sections during the "Hell of the South" in March.

 

This is mostly just a test to see if we can embed videos on the blog. Hey, what do ya know? We can! Ain't technology great?

We've plugged in an image gallery for the site, where individual team members can post their own pictures. That's a good thing, because it means they won't have to rely on their old curmudgeon webmaster guy to upload and display their photos. The gallery is a bit sparse at the moment, but that will of course change. The front page of the gallery is at http://herring-cycling.com/gallery2/. We'll most likely add that link to the site's main menu once there is more to see.

For now you can get there via the link above, or by clicking on the Random Image picture in the sidebar, or by clicking any of the thumbnail images on the Links page.

Welcome to the new home page for the Herring Gas Cycling Team. Look around, stay awhile.

Latest news:
Herring Gas has expanded its roster for the 2008 racing season to include Master's racer Jeff Foote of Monroe, LA. Welcome, Jeff!