Northern California - You know it's been a long, hard ride...

Ok, folks, almost all of the threads have been about cycling and rides lately (what is this, some kind of cycling forum or something?).

So, here's an inane, useless thread to liven things up a bit.

And to answer my own question,

I know it's been a long hard ride when I don't need salt for my margarita - I just rub the glass against my face.

JB

All the chamois cream has worn off and you have to peel your bib padding from your taint. :eek:

All the chamois cream has worn off and you have to peel your bib padding from your taint. :eek:

:wtf:

I can fill up a couple of shot glasses by squeezing the pads in my helmet.

...when you lick the sweat streaking near your mouth because you've run out of salt tablets but yet still so salt-deprived.

All the chamois cream has worn off and you have to peel your bib padding from your taint. :eek:And the winner of the "Things I Really Didn't Ever Want To Have To Read" award is...

When you have a dehydration headache nearly 5 hours after completing your ride..

consumed:
1 pk. sport beans
1 12oz. Gatorade G2
2 24oz. Bottle Water
None of this stuff is working as of yet..but I'm hoping that in the next few hours this headache will go away, I can't even get loose on the Wii with this thumping.

I made a GROSS misjudgement of the conditions today and ran out of water, sux 2 b me!

All the chamois cream has worn off and you have to peel your bib padding from your taint. :eek:

Yeah! That sounds like a Mr. Show episode I just watched... :innocent:

... when you're coughing so hard you can see your spleen more clearly than the room around you.

(of course, I just came from the track so this may be a bit biased in that direction)

This only applies to rides on desolated areas but here I go...

...when for the last 2 hours of your ride, a group of nasty looking vultures were flying in circles above your head...

When you lose a $60.00 windbreaker at the top of Tunitas and your too bonked to go back for it.

When you are home, and so tired, don't even feel like changing your clothes, and you wind up sleeping in your jerseys and shorts till the next morning.

When you find a $60 windbreaker at the top of Tunitas, and you wear it like a trophy, even though it's not windy at all.

When you are home, and so tired, don't even feel like changing your clothes, and you wind up sleeping in your jerseys and shorts till the next morning.

And get painful elastic gripper indentations on your skin.

...when you get home and find you have enough gnats stuck to your exposed skin as to look like you've tanned excessively.

When you lose a $60.00 windbreaker at the top of Tunitas and your too bonked to go back for it.


When you find a $60 windbreaker at the top of Tunitas, and you wear it like a trophy, even though it's not windy at all.

When you are collapsed on the side of a dirt trail wheezing from a full fledged asthma attack.

...when you get home and find you have enough gnats stuck to your exposed skin as to look like you've tanned excessively.
:roflmao2:

I usually stop once I look like a poppyseed bagel. :p

...you leave the house clean-shaven and come back with a beard.

Nyuk Nyuk

When you pull up to the house, and lean against it for a minute to work up the strength to unclip.

When you pull up to the house, and lean against it for a minute to work up the strength to unclip.

+1 That's a good one.

When you have a dehydration headache nearly 5 hours after completing your ride..

consumed:
1 pk. sport beans
1 12oz. Gatorade G2
2 24oz. Bottle Water
None of this stuff is working as of yet..but I'm hoping that in the next few hours this headache will go away, I can't even get loose on the Wii with this thumping.

I made a GROSS misjudgement of the conditions today and ran out of water, sux 2 b me!

I take my 84oz camelback on my commute. Typically I don't drink that much on the way north, but on the ride home when it's warmer, I'll go thru the whole thing. I drank easily 70+oz on my ride to work this morning due to the heat (warmer day, and I left late). So I rode from 10am-11:30am, against the wind.

How much water did you take on the bike with you?

How much water did you take on the bike with you?


I typically run 2 20oz. bottles on the bike. If I'm going to stretch the ride, then I run 24oz. bottles and fill one with Accelerade and alternate between the two.

how far are you commuting reidconti?

'bout 28 miles, so 90-ish mins of rolling time (my record is 88 mins going south on the way home, but I'm a n00b and have only done it 5 or so times so far).

It's interesting, the wind blows south, stronger in the afternoon than in the morning, so I think I fight a gentle breeze going north in the AM and have a slightly stronger help going south in the afternoon.. but in the end it doesn't make a huge speed difference -- 17.5ish MPH north, and around 18.75 headed south.

Okay, that explains the need for more water then. 28 miles is a pretty long commute in each direction, where do you ride to?

I'm only going 13 miles each way, so a 20oz water bottle is fine on non-heatwave days - I'm only out there for around 50 minutes.

Yeah, I have a drinking problem :)

I commute from Santa Clara to Redwood Shores (right up behind Oracle). Still feeling it out, but tomorrow will be 3 days in a row. I don't know the meaning of "take it easy" so I can end up feeling pretty rocked by the end of the day.

Right on, that's really impressive. Makes me feel bad for wimping out on my commute so many times. I've stayed strong this week though, and hoping to make it a more regular thing...

Yeah, I have a drinking problem :)

I commute from Santa Clara to Redwood Shores (right up behind Oracle). Still feeling it out, but tomorrow will be 3 days in a row. I don't know the meaning of "take it easy" so I can end up feeling pretty rocked by the end of the day.

Where in Santa Clara? My commute is considerably shorter (just to Sunnyvale, Mathilda and 237). 7 mile commute if I go shortest path. 10 miles if I take a detour along the bike path.

All the chamois cream has worn off and you have to peel your bib padding from your taint. :eek:

:lol:


And get painful elastic gripper indentations on your skin.

That happened to me after my ride up San Bruno Mountain at lunch today, after only 1h 15. Oh yeah, it was ~90F at the park entrance.

I come from about Lafayette and Agnew. sjr, don't worry, I'm pretty new at this and probably won't keep it up forever. At least 2-3 times a week for the time being though.

When you drink two 24 oz bottles of Cytomax, refill them and drink them, then refill them with water and drink one of those.

Then you check your weight, and it's 5# less then pre-ride, despite drinking a gallon of water.

When your sitting under a cold shower, eating a burrito and drinking iced tea, and don't understand why the wife is looking at you funny. Darn it was hot today, 107 degrees for the club ride.

When a -1% Grade looks and feels like a +3%..

w00t *bump*

You are at lunch in the office, and all you have is Clif Bar or Power bar, Hammergel, and Cytomax or Heed, and you think there is nothing wrong about having that for your lunch break.

When it is really hard to think and you feel like your wearing out your brain figuring out the order you need to take your shoes off, find your car key, take your helmet off, open the car, put the bike in,put your cleats in, put your sandals on....

I swear, after Davis my brain had the hardest time doing the most simple things. I had to concentrate just to load the bike into the car.

When you feel thirstier after a full bottle of water than you did before.

Clif Bar or Power bar, Hammergel, and Cytomax or Heed

You know it's been a long, hard ride... when even those things sound good! :eek:

:P