The Real long ride can be divided into just 4 hill climbs

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Rizal Philippines
August 28, 2018

                                                        The riders at Famy crossing

Most of us are intimidated by the Real ride because it is a real ride.  It is long and heavily punctuated by long hard climbs.  However if you analyze it well there are only 4 major hard climbs:  Bugarin of course (the usual climb we practice) at Laguna. Then just 3 at  Laguna Quezon:    1 between Famy and Siniloan before the quarry.  Then from quarry to the DENR check point, and  the last one from Llavac to the crest going downhill to the Real town proper.

I would like to think that going home ride is more difficult and challenging.  The Llavac to the crest of the hill would be about 5 km only but from Real to the pasalubong center is about 15 km.  They are not very steep but long.  With 36 chain ring, I had to shift to 28 and 30.  (Which was noisy as noted by others)  The B screw was not screwed in sagad kaya the jockey wheel was scrubbing the 28 and 30 sprocket.  

                                                  Resting after hard ride at Larry's store

                                                            Nagchain rub ako kahapon

                                                      Naka 3 kami Sunday evening nito

Recyclists who rode to San Felipe Zambales now on the way home at Taysan Valenzuela City

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Rizal Philippines
February 7, 2016

                                            Recyclist Jess Verchez and Master E


The Recyclists, 14 of them who rode to San Felipe with Jeff Arquiza, are now in Taysan, Valenzuela City (matarik ito)  They rode to San Felipe last Saturday, departing at 5 am.  The weather was bad at that time.  I was not able to join them because I had a team building and goal setting engagement in San Fabian Pangasinan at the same time (San Felipe, San Fabian jeje) and I saw how high the waves were and the weather was not so good.  So its good for them, because the heat would not be so much

I learned that merong nalaspag.    (fatigued nearly giving up) but eventually recovered.  The bad weather also did them in.  They were not able to buy good fish and stroll as we did before.

At Gapo

                                    Angel, Meong, Pres Luis, Nolite, Jess, Joel, Alan, Master E, Gerry

                                       Admiring the huge waves;  may bagyo ba?

                                     Master E, Pres Luis, Meong and others by the beach in San Felipe

Our feeding station and nourishment on bike ride to San Felipe Zambales

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Rizal Philippines
November 1, 2015

                                            Food stop in San Fernando

These are some details on where and what we ate on the way to San Felipe Zambales and on the way back.

October 30 2015

1. Early breakfast at RapSa in Angono, Rizal.  I had lugaw 5 am +

2.  In Marilao just before SM, we had pan de sal, water and Pansit Canton  8:30

3.  In San Fernando intersection - water, water and more water  1030 am

4.  In Dinalupihan, Bataan  12:30

5. At Olongapo City, 7-11 and Mercury

6.  Plaza of San Marcelino  -  pineapple juice and some candies

7.  Dinner rice, sinigang na isda and fried fresh fish at the house of Kuya George of Jeffrey

October 31 2015

We bought some fish at the landing of fishing boats near the beach.   We bought 2 kgs of tuna (yellow fin) and two kgs of pusit.

1.  Gerry prepared the two tuna for kinilaw.for breakfast

2.  The head was made part of sinigang, and the squid were made into adobo for lunch

3. We had dinner at the house of Ate Violy near the sea. Then we had videoke and slept for a while near the beach

Long ride to San Felipe Zambales on October 30 to Nov 1, 2015

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Angono, Rizal Philippines
October 27 2015











Gerry and Jeff invited me to join the long ride during the Undas week end -  long ride to San Felipe Zambales from here. From the Google maps, I estimate this to be 208 km.  100 km  up to San Fernando Pampanga, and 103 to San Felipe.  It is  a town past Subic:   San Narciso

Those who will join are:

Jeff
Gerry
Weng,
Angel,
Edgar
and JB.

Any more joining?

I did two 100 km training rides:   last Saturday (to Jalajala) and yesterday. to Famy.  I hope they are long enough.  I was able to bike at noon time on both occasion because as we climb to Olongapo, that will be noon time.  And that promise to be a challenge.

San Felipe Zambales

Recyclist ride to Nasugbu, Batangas on May 1 to 2, 2015

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Rizal Philippines, May 3, 2015

Its Mayweather Pacman fight today.  Pacman lost to Mayweather by unanimous decision.  But who cares, they earned millions in the fight of the century ($150 million each due to the hype and all the hee hawing etc) It is the time for May weather;  it is May anyway.

But kidding aside, 12 Recyclists labored it out to Naugbu May 1 and 2, a total distance of 240 km both ways, the peak of which was at 40 degrees Centigrade (when we were biking from Tagaytay City on May 1, from 1 pm to 3 pm., and from Daang Hari to home on May 2. Those were the hottest day of the year (will it get hotter than that)

Twelve showed up for this ride:  Armin, Echo, Jess, VM, Master, Joel, Gerry,Vhen, Jimmy, Meong, Jorgeusbiker, and Jeff.  Our Pres Luis did not show because he had LBM and fever as per his text

Chrononogy of ride

Awarding Certificates of Achievement to the Sturdy, Strong, Fast and Determined Recycllists

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                                    Preview of the certificates prior to the distribution

Villa Criscar, Adelina St, San Carlos Hts, Tayuman, Binangonan Rizal  |  December 29, 2013

The way I looked at it, the most important part of the days event was not the eating, nor the singing nor the exchange of gifts, or the raffle.  But it was the awarding of Certificates of Achievements.  It was the graduation of sorts, a signal achievement for having worked so hard to finish those long rides.

The Certificates of Achievements were for the Lemery and Ternate ride.   VM and Pres Luis gave out the certificates

It is not only a proof to our wives and families that we really biked out there, but gives us the bragging rights of how much we improved in terms of guts and endurance.  We may not be the TDF riders, but riding 200 km, out and back,  puts us in different territory.  It is going back and forth to Bugarin 3 times during the day, from Angono.   And it is a non stop effort.

So guys, congratulations.  Keep this up.  We are proud of you, as you are proud of yourself for having worked so hard. And you all deserve to get this certificate.  Cheers.

Our bike ride to Ternate last Sunday December 1, 2013 was our finest, defining moment

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Angono, Rizal Philippine  | December 5, 2013

Up to now my thighs and body are complaining of pains, a result of last Sunday's ride.  I made an earlier post that was our most challenging, most technical climb.  Gerry and the rest at FB would like to think so.

Compared to various rides:

1.  Real is l00 km ride, there are hill climbs, but we rode the first 100 km one way, spent the night there and road back the following day;

2. Same with Baguio.  We rode 200 km one way up to Urdaneta  slept there and rode Baguio, 40 km away the follwing day.

3.  Bitukang Manok.  That is over 150 km one way, we ride up to Bitukang Manok the last 5 km as the most challenging hard part.

But Ternate was 80 km ride flat one way, 20 km difficult like climbing up Kennon road or Bitukang Manok (but were looking false flat) (total 100 km) ride back the 20 km hard ride and ride back to Angono.  Nothing matched was like it.

That ride separated the boys from men, and showed who were real men.  Real Cyclists

That was our finest moment.  Congratulations everyone.

How do you rate the Ternate ride of December 1, 2013

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Angono, Rizal  Philippines | December 3, 2013

How do you rate this ride compared to our technical/difficult climbs:    Sierra Madre, Baguio, Bitukang Manok?

I feel as my thighs and my body scream in pain since Sunday evening, be similar to Kennon Road, or Bitukang Manok ride.

What do your thighs and your body say?

From dawn till dark, our bike ride today December 1, took more than 14 hours

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Angono, Rizal, Philippines  | December 2, 2013

                                   Most of the Recyclists were assembled by 5:42

Our bike ride yesterday to Ternate saw us assemble at 4:30 am, and we were at home by 8:00 pm.  It was long and ardous ride, and marred by many delays:

1.  the accident of Richard at C6

2.  flat tires of Angel (1x),  Nanding (2x),  jumping chain and 8 of wheels of Edgar;  (dnf from Sucat)

3.  rains at Mt. Palay palay,

4.  misunderstanding about eating arrangement at Kaybiang  (there was no place to eat nor rice available)

Because of the delays, we were still at Daang Hari by 5:30.  It was still dark.  By 6:15, we were in corner of C Garcia in Bicutan (C6) and we did not know that there was a road rage incident.  A certain PO Potilla, shot a person dead when the latter tried to knife him.

But despite those little things it was still a long ride to remember.

              Vic with Richard;  both works at Angono munisipyo.  First time for Vic to join us  DNF

           Erning with pamangkin Joseph;  Joseph does not know much about Daang Hari despite his biking shorts label

                            Nanding joined us in the long ride for the first time;  DNF though

                                  Assembly at Iglesia;  time was at 5:18

                                 First flat casualty:     Angel repairing the flat at the Carry All

                                       Frequent cause of delay

                                Going up to Gen Trias

                         Waiting for the rain to stop at Mt Palay palay in Ternate - 30 mins delay

                                   It was raining and it was all going up

                                     There was no rice at Kaybiang tunnel;  back to DENR resto

                                   Waiting for Nanding and Edgar at 13 who had flats at Naic

                                Did Master have flat also?

                                   Another long wait just before Daang Hari

                         From Daang Hari (445)Bacoor to Petron took just 26 minutes - that is fast

                              We had to refill our tanks at this Petron station; they were empty

                                       Master gesticulating

                                     Tito

Since sunsets at 7:30, and it was all ready dark at Daang Hari (we were maybe 6 km to Alabang) we agreed to:   have those with lights and blinkers to be in front, those without would stay behind, and the team vehicle would light us.  It would be dangerous at the Alabang Zapote road, the service road, and at C6.  Thanks God, nothing more untowards happened along the way.

                        Waiting for the slow ones (I was not one of them) at Highway 2000 after C6

                                       Alan with his bike

                                      Jeff

                                       Finally home

                                  Were the bikes tired?

VM Photo Album Atimonan Ride June 2011

June 4, 2011