Clydesdales/Athenas (200+ lb / 91+ kg) - CASA (Century) De Old Clyde

Rode that deal today. Pretty uneventful by the standards set by Chef, Paisan, wfournier, Troy, and Cat when they went to Knots Landing

Started out on a 58 degree beautiful morning knowing I'd be at the front of the pace line unless I met some folks that wanted to ride 'my' plodding along speed. I'd thought maybe if I could average 15 it would be a great day as my best, and only other 100 mile ride, had taken me 7 hrs 19 min.

Got on the road and put the Polar on 16 mph average to see how I felt. After 20 miles when I passed the first rest stop I felt as if my legs had more in them so I pushed a tick harder. Finished the first 50 in 3 hours and change. Stopped in at the registration area to refill my water bottle and Power aid bottle then back out I went.

Ridding alone is not good since it can start your mind to wandering and wondering when you start doing the math and thinking you can do the rest of this pretty quick if you start pushing it.

After doing some mental math I figured I could do this in less than 6 hours so I kept focused on form and kept after it by really pushing after passing the rest stop at 72.7 miles. Now I was going through water, Power Aid, Cliff bars and Hammer gel at a rate that I'd have to stop at the last rest stop to refill.

Stopped at the last rest stop at 91.9 miles to shove some food/water down and off to finish the last 8 miles. Looking at the ride time on the Polar told me I'd be fairly comfortable in making it in 6 hrs but just to make sure I hammered out some good miles coming back to the registration area with 8 minutes to spare - still at the front of the single rider pace line :twitchy:


Wall time - 6 hrs 9 min
Saddle time - 5 hr 52 min 07 seconds
Avg speed 17 mph
Avg HR 145
Max HR 160
Avg Cadence 86
Max Cadence 112

3 Cliff Bars
3 Hammer Gels'
2 GU Mandarin orange gels
4 Gatorade soft chews
1 Peanut Butter samich
4 24 oz Polar bottles of water
2 32 oz bottles of Power aid

LOL at your pace line - well done!

Great ride ibo. Do you have a link for the ride? Wish I knew about it. I would have driven to there. What was the elevation profile like?

$hit I think I ate too much on the century we did last weekend. I gained like 5 pounds.

Chef - here's the link

http://www.casarivercentury.org/Course/Century.aspx

mapmyride has about 1800' but I think I have to call BS on that. 18' per mile in these parts? Don't think so Tim.
I'll have to map it with ridewithgps to see what they have
Wish I had a garmin 800

Ibo: Dude, you would love the Gamrin 800. It is amazing!

You beat the pants off me and the group I was in. I left solo but ended up meeting up with 3 other great guys and rode with them for 90 miles or so. We ended up finishing in 6:30, with an avg. speed of about 15.5. Based on my energy level at the end, I think I could've done it a bit faster, but this was my first century and wanted to pace myself. And the pace the four of us were keeping felt great and it was awesome riding with a group. Garmin shows the elevation at about 2533ft, but Emdomondo shows it as 4800, which seems way too high.

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/179857052

You beat the pants off me and the group I was in. I left solo but ended up meeting up with 3 other great guys and rode with them for 90 miles or so. We ended up finishing in 6:30, with an avg. speed of about 15.5. Based on my energy level at the end, I think I could've done it a bit faster, but this was my first century and wanted to pace myself. And the pace the four of us were keeping felt great and it was awesome riding with a group. Garmin shows the elevation at about 2533ft, but Emdomondo shows it as 4800, which seems way too high.

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/179857052

Thanks for the Garmin data, which I can believe.

Darn it I wish I would have ridden this ride with you all. I was looking for another century too.

You beat the pants off me and the group I was in. I left solo but ended up meeting up with 3 other great guys and rode with them for 90 miles or so. We ended up finishing in 6:30, with an avg. speed of about 15.5. Based on my energy level at the end, I think I could've done it a bit faster, but this was my first century and wanted to pace myself. And the pace the four of us were keeping felt great and it was awesome riding with a group. Garmin shows the elevation at about 2533ft, but Emdomondo shows it as 4800, which seems way too high.

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/179857052

You got any more centuries planned?

Nice report! It was a great day for a ride.

I've been off the bike for a month recovering from emergency abdominal surgery, so I am really out of condition. I did just the first loop, and did it very, very slowly. Here's the gps report for your amusement. Let the mockery begin :)

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/179794203

Nice report! It was a great day for a ride.

I've been off the bike for a month recovering from emergency abdominal surgery, so I am really out of condition. I did just the first loop, and did it very, very slowly. Here's the gps report for your amusement. Let the mockery begin :)

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/179794203

No reason for anyone(!) to mock a person out on a bike especially with what you've accomplished and gone through. I applaud your effort and accomplishment

I appreciate the Garmin data however it seems to report different data than MattFoley with respect to elevation gain.

MattFoley - http://connect.garmin.com/activity/179857052

Distance: 100.30 mi
Elevation Gain: 2,533 ft

JimF22003 - http://connect.garmin.com/activity/179794203

Distance: 50.58 mi
Elevation Gain: 2,444 ft


Now, I will say that I've never been accused of being the sharpest nail in the box and I'm more suited at sitting on a Super M pulling 3-14's but one 50 mile ride with 2444' of gain and the other was 100 mile with 2533' of gain just don't make a lot of sense to me. I rode the full 100 mile deal and the Jefferson loop was more than 109' of gain.

Can folks that have Garmins chime in on what might be skewing the data (or for our friends in Mass... 'datar')

for those that don't know...

A Super M is an International tractor
3-14's is what we dumb rednecks say to refer to what we are doing when plowing a field.

No reason for anyone(!) to mock a person out on a bike especially with what you've accomplished and gone through. I applaud your effort and accomplishment

I appreciate the Garmin data however it seems to report different data than MattFoley with respect to elevation gain.

MattFoley - http://connect.garmin.com/activity/179857052

Distance: 100.30 mi
Elevation Gain: 2,533 ft

JimF22003 - http://connect.garmin.com/activity/179794203

Distance: 50.58 mi
Elevation Gain: 2,444 ft


Now, I will say that I've never been accused of being the sharpest nail in the box and I'm more suited at sitting on a Super M pulling 3-14's but one 50 mile ride with 2444' of gain and the other was 100 mile with 2533' of gain just don't make a lot of sense to me. I rode the full 100 mile deal and the Jefferson loop was more than 109' of gain.

Can folks that have Garmins chime in on what might be skewing the data (or for our friends in Mass... 'datar')


I wondered about this as well. I use an Edge 200, which doesn't have a barometer to help with elevation unlike Jim's 800. However, I have elevation corrections enabled and Jim does not, which may be skewing the numbers. If I disable elevation corrections for my ride, the elevation number jumps to almost 5k. But given how fresh I felt the entire ride and the lack of any real climbs, I tend to think the number indeed is closer to 2500. I think I would've been much more worn out with 5k worth of climbing, but I was not particularly tired at the end.

I wondered about this as well. I use an Edge 200, which doesn't have a barometer to help with elevation unlike Jim's 800. However, I have elevation corrections enabled and Jim does not, which may be skewing the numbers. If I disable elevation corrections for my ride, the elevation number jumps to almost 5k. But given how fresh I felt the entire ride and the lack of any real climbs, I tend to think the number indeed is closer to 2500. I think I would've been much more worn out with 5k worth of climbing, but I was not particularly tired at the end.

ridewithgps has the number at around 5k as well.
I mapped a ride with ridewithgps that's on the hill behind me and ridewithgps has it at 1009' which looking at a topo map seems about right.
Those 40' rollers tend to add up quick.

red neck... lol....

coming from a guy who just did a roll out! :) No wonder we couldnt keep up.