05-31-2008, 06:40 PM | #1 |
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Ride report
I am slow and not getting faster. After 74 miles with lots of hills and a guy I've never seen before beating my butt up the hills, I come away knowing I must either suffer tremendously in the next several months or that I will suck.
We lazy it until the first major hill, so I piddle it up when a rocket shoots by me and I'm in my big ring having no time to react. So I plod ahead when two more come up so I react and spank them, but down the hill I'm not able to shake the rocket. How discouraging. Next major hill, same result.
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05-31-2008, 09:18 PM | #2 |
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I went for 2 hours and got in just over 40 miles. Went from my brothers house in Mapleton to a little ways up Payson Canyon and back. Rode the route for the Salem triathlon next weekend to get a feel. It is going to be a fast course. I wish we would have went back and done some swimming in the pond as well.
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Fifty miles into my seventy mile ride today I hit a bonk like I haven't experienced in years. I had a big breakfast and thought I would be okay with only one gel pack but I wasn't. At mile 55 I even got off my bike and rested by a small ditch for about five minutes. The last 15 were painfully slow and to top it off I got a cramp in my inner thigh climbing a small hill to my neighborhood. It was a good lesson to learn early in the year to make sure you get enough fuel in you when you ride.
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06-01-2008, 04:12 AM | #4 |
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COmpare our ride reports and you will see why I am not doing lotoja.
To celebrate our anniversary my wife and I took the tandem on a pancake flat 20 miler along the bayshore on the SF peninsula. My computer's battery died so not exactly sure how far or how fast, but we did catch and pass an old guy on an ancient steel frame with toe clips.
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06-02-2008, 03:05 PM | #5 |
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I spent Saturday in the car for 6 hours driving to and from the Sacramento temple for the sealing of a gal that I home teach. While it was a great day altogether, it was not so good for my training schedule.
I had a decent ride of about 55 miles with about 4,000 feet of climbing on Memorial Day last weekend and then a couple of 20-30 miles rides mid week. I'm hoping to put in about 120 miles the next 3 or 4 weeks. Or else I will may very well croak in 6 weeks at the death ride. |
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06-02-2008, 03:20 PM | #7 |
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Arch you're killing me. I had a 130 miles weekend and I'm still way behind you. Let's make a deal right now that our only goal is to finish before dark and we gain weight during the ride.
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My ultra marathon friends re-started cycling and he will be great on hills but he's a chicken while descending.
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06-02-2008, 04:32 PM | #9 |
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How about "cycling for sand baggers"?
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06-02-2008, 04:40 PM | #10 |
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I golf, using that term loosely, as well as I cycle.
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