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03-07-15, 10:52 PM
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03-07-15, 10:57 PM
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Big training ride today prepping for the Mulholland Challenge. We had a Santa Ana blow through yesterday, which means dry, hot & cloudless. Some of the climbs were really tough in the heat, low 90s and there are some steep sustained bits on this ride. Thirty five people started but only 10 of us finished the full route.
My Garmin was messing up in regards to distance. In the end, it said 105 miles but Strava said 90, which is what it was supposed to be, so I believe Strava. Because of the Garmin glitch, I was never 100% sure where I was on the route sheet. Got caught out in a steep, windless, hot canyon with inadequate water and it was a real struggle back there, that climb was way way longer than I expected. Pretty woozy & dehydrated and no one else in sight. Started cramping, full-on bad scenario. But eventually made if through that, semi-recovered at the next rest stop.
With the two very difficult steep climbs in the heat, I wound up with too much non-moving time. But my moving time was right on my target time for the event, 15 mph.
In the end, it was 90 miles & 10000 ft climbing. 8:15 on the course, 7 hours moving time. Not my most elegant cycling performance. But I'm happy enough with it, getting familiar with the route will be hugely helpful come event day.
My Garmin was messing up in regards to distance. In the end, it said 105 miles but Strava said 90, which is what it was supposed to be, so I believe Strava. Because of the Garmin glitch, I was never 100% sure where I was on the route sheet. Got caught out in a steep, windless, hot canyon with inadequate water and it was a real struggle back there, that climb was way way longer than I expected. Pretty woozy & dehydrated and no one else in sight. Started cramping, full-on bad scenario. But eventually made if through that, semi-recovered at the next rest stop.
With the two very difficult steep climbs in the heat, I wound up with too much non-moving time. But my moving time was right on my target time for the event, 15 mph.
In the end, it was 90 miles & 10000 ft climbing. 8:15 on the course, 7 hours moving time. Not my most elegant cycling performance. But I'm happy enough with it, getting familiar with the route will be hugely helpful come event day.
03-07-15, 10:57 PM
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03-07-15, 11:12 PM
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Great job working through that, @Heathpack. The non-moving time is perfectly acceptable, and understandable.
Kudos on the work, and ride. Extra credit kudos for learning the route, and becoming familiar with it. Double kudos for the use of elegant.
Awesome on the whales and wheels!
Kudos on the work, and ride. Extra credit kudos for learning the route, and becoming familiar with it. Double kudos for the use of elegant.
Awesome on the whales and wheels!
03-07-15, 11:16 PM
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Im trying to get the whole 120 mi ride done with no more than 1 hour non-moving time. I'm not sure it's going to happen, though, if it's hot on game day. I'm ok if it's hot but breezy -OR- shady -OR- climbing something 8% or less. But hot + windless + in relentless sun + >8% = I lose my will to cycle. I just stop repeatedly. I'm not tired, my heart rate isn't out of control. I'm just miserable & want to go home. Not that I would ever do such a thing over something as trivial as feeling miserable. It's just something I need to figure out how to cope with. My brain needs to learn its possible to keep cycling under such conditions, it doesn't need to make me stop.
That is brutal. In PHX I usually found it easy to keep going, cuz stopping was even worse than grinding up the desert hills at 6mph. As soon as I'd stop I'd start sweating profusely, so I just had to keep moving to stop that from happening.
03-07-15, 11:33 PM
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Totally correct. Its really hard to get started on a 8-10% grade, hard to get clipped back in. Stopping is stupid. But I think I stopped 3 times on the last climb, twice in the full-on blazing sun. On a 4 mile 8% climb. My VAMs were still good then too. When I was moving, I was still climbing well. I just really really really wanted to stop. I decided not to. And then all of a sudden, I inexplicably did. Strange.
03-08-15, 01:19 AM
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03-08-15, 04:38 AM
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Im trying to get the whole 120 mi ride done with no more than 1 hour non-moving time. I'm not sure it's going to happen, though, if it's hot on game day. I'm ok if it's hot but breezy -OR- shady -OR- climbing something 8% or less. But hot + windless + in relentless sun + >8% = I lose my will to cycle. I just stop repeatedly. I'm not tired, my heart rate isn't out of control. I'm just miserable & want to go home. Not that I would ever do such a thing over something as trivial as feeling miserable. It's just something I need to figure out how to cope with. My brain needs to learn its possible to keep cycling under such conditions, it doesn't need to make me stop.
03-08-15, 06:15 AM
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Is it my gullibility that I am not absolutely sure you are joking. That is obscene. If *****houses had any use for bicycles, that would be the crank they would choose. Does it smell like too much French perfume, too?
03-08-15, 06:22 AM
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03-08-15, 06:24 AM
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rpen needs a little talk if he thinks that *****houses don't have any need for cranks.
03-08-15, 06:34 AM
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Ugh, my cats are more on top of DST than I am. When one of them woke me up, I looked at my phone and was surprised to see that it was 6:30, about their normal feeding time. I figured that it must have been pretty foul outside, though, as it was still pretty dark. Stumbled downstairs, saw the clocks in the kitchen and realized my misunderstanding. Thankfully, Anita was scheduled to turn on at 5am, and was already ready for the first cup of coffee.
03-08-15, 06:59 AM
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wow. I missed that one.
Cat 3 = license to buy 80mm wheels.
Who knew?
03-08-15, 07:23 AM
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Was supposed to wake up and go running. Not only did I wake up earlier than I should have, it's raining, so I'm sitting on the couch sipping my coffee instead. Feeling guilty.
Bah. Humbug.
Bah. Humbug.
03-08-15, 07:43 AM
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Just got above freezing here. I am going to give it a few hours and then try the local crit course around the corporate center. It's a terribly boring 1 mile oval course, but it does have a small hill/rise, and should be ice free. Ice free is the main selling point this winter.
03-08-15, 08:22 AM
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Mrs. rjones28 wears French perfume.
03-08-15, 08:32 AM
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Of course, but never too much, right? That is what separates the ladies from the ladies of the night. I'm sure she is far too refined for such a thing.
But getting back to the topic, who knew you would one day be able to buy a scratch-and-sniff Dura Ace crank?
But getting back to the topic, who knew you would one day be able to buy a scratch-and-sniff Dura Ace crank?
03-08-15, 08:40 AM
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That's why I don't have a set. Went to my LBS, money in hand, but they turned me down. No Cat 3, no go deep. 
03-08-15, 08:42 AM
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03-08-15, 08:46 AM
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03-08-15, 08:53 AM
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03-08-15, 08:54 AM
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03-08-15, 09:16 AM
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