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06-09-07, 08:28 PM
Just did my 3rd Century today. It was the Tour de Cure here in Utah. I was able able to reach my goal and raise $1,000. I rode with my brother and this was his first Century.
I was not going to do it since I we had a family vacation scheduled and were were coming back on June 9th. A few weeks ago I found out that were where able to move it and I would be able to come back the day before the event on June 8th. We were suppose to be home around 7pm or so but it took longer than we thought and I ended up coming home at 11pm. Since the ride is about 100 miles away (I should of just biked there and called it good) I had to get up at 5pm.
As I was getting all my stuff ready for the morning I found my tire was seriously out of true by a good half an inch which cause the tire to totally stop spinning. After looking at it closely to my horror I found the one spoke was broken where it meet the hub. By now it was about almost midnight and I had no idea what I was going to do since I don't have any extra spokes. I thought about taking one off my mountain bike and try to make it work even though it was longer but the part where it was broke was near the rear cassette and I had no tools to try and take it off. My only option was to try and true the wheel with the missing spoke and by tighten the spokes quite a bit on the other side I was able to bring it back into true. I was a little nervous though how the wheel would hold up. I am happy to report that it held true the entire ride. WHEW!
I finally got to bed around 1pm and I was totally exhausted since I woke up early that morning and drove all day long to come home in time. I was able to get about 4 hours of sleep.
I won't go into all the details of the ride but I am happy to report that this ride was a lot easier than my other centuries. It was still pretty tiring but I was able to do it a lot faster averaging 18.1 mph. My brother and I found pace lines whenever we could and I could really tell the difference with the amount of energy that was saved. Also it seems to keep you going fast since you don't want to be left behind.
I really started cranking when it was close to 100 miles since I thought it would be over pretty soon. I hit the 100 mile mark at exactly 5:30 but it ended up being another 6 miles totally 106.2 for the overall ride. the last few miles where the hardest since I used so much energy at the 100 mile mark since I thought it was about over. It ended up taking 5:52 bike time and 6:20 total time. These are all new records for me including only stopping for about 28 minutes total at all the rest stops. Many we rode right past because I have noticed that if I spend more than 10 minutes off my bike during the ride, my legs turn to Jello and it is very hard for me to get my endurance back up.
The food at the stops where not as good as other centuries I have been on, but this ride was for Charity and it seems they tried to spend as little as they could which is fine with me.
You can view some pictures of my ride at
http://www.holdman.com/tourdecure/
I was not going to do it since I we had a family vacation scheduled and were were coming back on June 9th. A few weeks ago I found out that were where able to move it and I would be able to come back the day before the event on June 8th. We were suppose to be home around 7pm or so but it took longer than we thought and I ended up coming home at 11pm. Since the ride is about 100 miles away (I should of just biked there and called it good) I had to get up at 5pm.
As I was getting all my stuff ready for the morning I found my tire was seriously out of true by a good half an inch which cause the tire to totally stop spinning. After looking at it closely to my horror I found the one spoke was broken where it meet the hub. By now it was about almost midnight and I had no idea what I was going to do since I don't have any extra spokes. I thought about taking one off my mountain bike and try to make it work even though it was longer but the part where it was broke was near the rear cassette and I had no tools to try and take it off. My only option was to try and true the wheel with the missing spoke and by tighten the spokes quite a bit on the other side I was able to bring it back into true. I was a little nervous though how the wheel would hold up. I am happy to report that it held true the entire ride. WHEW!
I finally got to bed around 1pm and I was totally exhausted since I woke up early that morning and drove all day long to come home in time. I was able to get about 4 hours of sleep.
I won't go into all the details of the ride but I am happy to report that this ride was a lot easier than my other centuries. It was still pretty tiring but I was able to do it a lot faster averaging 18.1 mph. My brother and I found pace lines whenever we could and I could really tell the difference with the amount of energy that was saved. Also it seems to keep you going fast since you don't want to be left behind.
I really started cranking when it was close to 100 miles since I thought it would be over pretty soon. I hit the 100 mile mark at exactly 5:30 but it ended up being another 6 miles totally 106.2 for the overall ride. the last few miles where the hardest since I used so much energy at the 100 mile mark since I thought it was about over. It ended up taking 5:52 bike time and 6:20 total time. These are all new records for me including only stopping for about 28 minutes total at all the rest stops. Many we rode right past because I have noticed that if I spend more than 10 minutes off my bike during the ride, my legs turn to Jello and it is very hard for me to get my endurance back up.
The food at the stops where not as good as other centuries I have been on, but this ride was for Charity and it seems they tried to spend as little as they could which is fine with me.
You can view some pictures of my ride at
http://www.holdman.com/tourdecure/