Ever get passed by someone...
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Getting passed is fine.
I accept there are people more fit than I ESPECIALLY on the uphill. For the most part, if you stick to your training by the time you do your first event there's a pretty good chance you'll do a lot of passing yourself.
Have a buddy that's doing his first mini-tri (just the cycling leg). He's never cycled a race before. So concerned to NOT come in "last". That's ridiculous. I understand the feeling though. Two weeks up to my first 5K (footrace) it's all I could think about: "Don't come in last. Don't come in last". Darned if I didn't get second in my age group (they guy who came in first in my AG was first overall, so I don't cry in my soup about it).
Anyway back to passing. If you get passed, fight the urge to keep up. Run/pedal your own race. Just think of it as a temporary issue. If and when you pass someone else, pass with authority. Pass them as if you intend them to stay passed. Make it as demoralizing as possible. Your breathing is confident and steady. This is the most effortless thing you've ever done (I've always wanted something on the back of my shirt that says something like: "I may be slow, but I'm currently beating you").
There's nothing more satisfying than to hear some other racer b**** and moan about this "big, old dude" that passed him on some hill halfway through and "I about caught him on the last two hills, but he was just too fast going down.". Good times. Good times.
I accept there are people more fit than I ESPECIALLY on the uphill. For the most part, if you stick to your training by the time you do your first event there's a pretty good chance you'll do a lot of passing yourself.
Have a buddy that's doing his first mini-tri (just the cycling leg). He's never cycled a race before. So concerned to NOT come in "last". That's ridiculous. I understand the feeling though. Two weeks up to my first 5K (footrace) it's all I could think about: "Don't come in last. Don't come in last". Darned if I didn't get second in my age group (they guy who came in first in my AG was first overall, so I don't cry in my soup about it).
Anyway back to passing. If you get passed, fight the urge to keep up. Run/pedal your own race. Just think of it as a temporary issue. If and when you pass someone else, pass with authority. Pass them as if you intend them to stay passed. Make it as demoralizing as possible. Your breathing is confident and steady. This is the most effortless thing you've ever done (I've always wanted something on the back of my shirt that says something like: "I may be slow, but I'm currently beating you").
There's nothing more satisfying than to hear some other racer b**** and moan about this "big, old dude" that passed him on some hill halfway through and "I about caught him on the last two hills, but he was just too fast going down.". Good times. Good times.
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It's going to be the 1st time I'm doing that ride, I think it will be fun......
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i used to get passed when on my hardrock doing 16mph but now i am on the road bike i do all the passing, well except once. I use it as motivation and it works. On the mountain bike when i woudl get passed I would do my damnedest to keep up. I would find that i could and it improved my fitness. If they dropped me i was proud of myself for at least trying.
Now i pride myself on seeing a roadie on the trail that looks fit and passing him doing about 5 over what he is. At least once a month i hear "damn you see the size of that guy and how he flew buy us" Makes me feel good
Now i pride myself on seeing a roadie on the trail that looks fit and passing him doing about 5 over what he is. At least once a month i hear "damn you see the size of that guy and how he flew buy us" Makes me feel good
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A couple of months ago a friend and I were on our road bikes a couple of miles into a ride, and a rather husky older fellow, probably in at least his 70's, comes past us on a mountain bike with fenders, rack with loaded pack and panniers, you get the picture. He blew past us, waving and bidding us a good morning, and just kept churning on out of sight. We were quiet for a minute or two, just watching him disappear ahead, and my friend turned to me and said "I'm glad no one else is around to see that." We had a good laugh and kept on huffing along. Sigh.
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There is a stretch of road on my commute that I still can't ride up and I have to push my bike to get to the top. One afternoon, I was at the top and resting before riding the rest of my route when a guy riding a unicycle and eating an apple breezed past me. I sighed with frustration and got back on my bike a minute later. It felt like a ride full of shame. He was also really fast and was out of my sight in no time, unless he turned off one of the side streets. Still, an apple chomping unicyclist. Sigh.
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I look at riders passing me as an interval training opportunity. If I get passed Ill hammer to stay with them as long as possible and then drop back. Now its seems Im the one passing more than I get passed
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I was once passed by a gal that changed my cycling life. I was told by my 150 lb ride partners that I was a big rider and that I "couldn't" climb. I was on the Rosarita (Mexico) ride when a chick rode by me and drop me like a hot potato. Cool except that this gal was about 5 feet tall and 220 lbs. She smiled when she flew by me! It was then that I thought BS, if she can do it so can I!
Nowadays I don't pay much attention to riders that pass me. If I'm 2 mintues into my ride warming up and a rider passes me with a victory salute, I let him enjoy his moment. If I pull another rider for 60 miels then he sprints around me in the last mile, I let him enjoy his victory. If I do 10,000 ft of climbing on Sat and on Sunday another rider challenges me to a 2 mile Timetrial on the trail, I graciously refuse
Nowadays I don't pay much attention to riders that pass me. If I'm 2 mintues into my ride warming up and a rider passes me with a victory salute, I let him enjoy his moment. If I pull another rider for 60 miels then he sprints around me in the last mile, I let him enjoy his victory. If I do 10,000 ft of climbing on Sat and on Sunday another rider challenges me to a 2 mile Timetrial on the trail, I graciously refuse
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Back in the day on group rides I was always um. . a source of amusement. . . for my lack of hill prowess. Loose chainring bolts didn't help.
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Now it's quite unusual for anyone who isn't on a drop-handlebar bike to overtake me, even though I've still got room to lose a fair chunk of weight.
I still remember hiking a fairly hilly area with my wife when we were in our 20s and stopping to enjoy a viewpoint. While we were there we got chatting to a couple who, in their words, were "the graveyard side of 70". They set off and we figured we'd soon catch them... boy, were we wrong. Even pushing hard we couldn't catch them.
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Another hiking story...when I was getting in better shape and had lost quite a bit of weight, I was regularly hiking up an unpaved access road into a county park near our house. Parts of it were very steep, probably 12-15% or more. Hiking up that road as fast as I could, I'd also be breathing about as hard as I could, too, a great workout, and not much less than going up stairs. But the cool thing was, that a few times, I actually passed mountain bikers going up that hill! That was awesome! There were two or three factors that went into that. One is that a bicycle increases your efficiency tremendously on flat land, but on a steep hill, it's just more dead weight to be toted up the hill. One is that those cyclists probably started back in town and were now about 6 miles and 2000' into their rides, while I was within a quarter mile of my house. But it was still a cool feeling.
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