My first 600k
08-02-02, 03:15 AM
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My first 600k
Apologies for being away so long folks - work and stuff.
Tomorrow morning I start my first 600k Audax ride. 2 weeks ago I did my first 400 and I learned a few things:
1. never go on a long ride in untested gear. I had new bibshorts, and the seam of the padding chaffed me to pieces. Most uncomfortable.
2. use good gloves. My hands tingled for days afterwards and my right hand pinky was numb for a few days too
3. keep warm at night. Sweat generated on climbs makes you cold on the descent.
What's going to be new on this ride is it'll be the first time I'll have to sleep for a few hours and then get back on the bike. The course is a 400k loop and a 200k loop. So the sleep will be around 5am Sunday (after a 6am saturday start). I expect I'll feel like crap for the first 50k of that last loop.
I'll mail y'all Monday with a report
Stew
Tomorrow morning I start my first 600k Audax ride. 2 weeks ago I did my first 400 and I learned a few things:
1. never go on a long ride in untested gear. I had new bibshorts, and the seam of the padding chaffed me to pieces. Most uncomfortable.
2. use good gloves. My hands tingled for days afterwards and my right hand pinky was numb for a few days too
3. keep warm at night. Sweat generated on climbs makes you cold on the descent.
What's going to be new on this ride is it'll be the first time I'll have to sleep for a few hours and then get back on the bike. The course is a 400k loop and a 200k loop. So the sleep will be around 5am Sunday (after a 6am saturday start). I expect I'll feel like crap for the first 50k of that last loop.
I'll mail y'all Monday with a report
Stew
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08-02-02, 10:43 AM
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Hope you have a nice ride. Do you plan to do PBP in 2003?
I had originally planned to do at least a couple of brevets this year, but had bad luck with the timing of local rides.
/Csson
I had originally planned to do at least a couple of brevets this year, but had bad luck with the timing of local rides.
/Csson
08-02-02, 01:10 PM
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Congratulations!
I plan on doing the same distance in August. At this point it looks like I'll do it in about 25 sessions with rest periods of 12 to 96 hours between individual rides
Have a super ride.
Carl
I plan on doing the same distance in August. At this point it looks like I'll do it in about 25 sessions with rest periods of 12 to 96 hours between individual rides
Have a super ride.
Carl
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08-05-02, 03:57 PM
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So, the 600 has ben completed & I'm typing this with numb fingers!!
Net results and bald figures:
624k ridden (610kfor the route & 14k "bonus" distance for getting lost, going off-route etc)
Total riding time 28 hours
Total elapsed time 39 hours (40 hours was permitted)
So 11 hours was taken up in stops for food & drink & sleep.
Sore butt, blistered palms, tingly little fingers, stiff shoulders.
There were 40 riders on the event, around South Central England. The course was a 400k loop followed by a 200k loop, so the natural time & place for a sleep break was the village hall that hosted the start & finish for the loops.
The ride started at 6:00 am on Staurday. I was riding with a long-time colleague and cycling partner, and we completed the 400k loop in 21 hours (including 4 hours of feed breaks) we were 11th & 12th in.
Because we had so much time in hand we took a long sleep and only started the second leg at 8:45 Sunday morning and were the last to leave the control. 32 riders started out on the second loop & we rode hard and I was chuffed finished 13th & 14th.
The first leg was fairly flat, but it rained on us. A lot. Its pretty miserable to have to repair a flat tyre at 1:30 in the morning in the dark and the rain with 350k behind you.
Sunday was a great sunny day, but the route was very hard. "Lumpy" was how the organiser described it. "Bloody hilly" is how that translates. I was suffering with bad saddle sores on that day so ironically I appreciated the climbs because I could stand on the pedals to get up the hills and coast down the other side with my bum hanging off the saddle.
Peversl much of the ride has disappeared from my mind, like a dream. I have to really concentrate to remember what happened, in what order. Maybe it's my mind suppressing the horror!!
Resolution: buy a Brooks saddle.
Net results and bald figures:
624k ridden (610kfor the route & 14k "bonus" distance for getting lost, going off-route etc)
Total riding time 28 hours
Total elapsed time 39 hours (40 hours was permitted)
So 11 hours was taken up in stops for food & drink & sleep.
Sore butt, blistered palms, tingly little fingers, stiff shoulders.
There were 40 riders on the event, around South Central England. The course was a 400k loop followed by a 200k loop, so the natural time & place for a sleep break was the village hall that hosted the start & finish for the loops.
The ride started at 6:00 am on Staurday. I was riding with a long-time colleague and cycling partner, and we completed the 400k loop in 21 hours (including 4 hours of feed breaks) we were 11th & 12th in.
Because we had so much time in hand we took a long sleep and only started the second leg at 8:45 Sunday morning and were the last to leave the control. 32 riders started out on the second loop & we rode hard and I was chuffed finished 13th & 14th.
The first leg was fairly flat, but it rained on us. A lot. Its pretty miserable to have to repair a flat tyre at 1:30 in the morning in the dark and the rain with 350k behind you.
Sunday was a great sunny day, but the route was very hard. "Lumpy" was how the organiser described it. "Bloody hilly" is how that translates. I was suffering with bad saddle sores on that day so ironically I appreciated the climbs because I could stand on the pedals to get up the hills and coast down the other side with my bum hanging off the saddle.
Peversl much of the ride has disappeared from my mind, like a dream. I have to really concentrate to remember what happened, in what order. Maybe it's my mind suppressing the horror!!
Resolution: buy a Brooks saddle.
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08-06-02, 10:01 AM
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Well done, Stew! I can't imagine riding 240+ miles one day much less get up and ride 120+ the next. I'm still trying to get up the nerve to do a century.
I don't normally drink at lunchtime, but I feel obliged to hoist a pint in your honor (thanks for an excuse). Is Bass OK?
Rainman
I don't normally drink at lunchtime, but I feel obliged to hoist a pint in your honor (thanks for an excuse). Is Bass OK?
Rainman
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08-06-02, 10:13 AM
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Wow.
Good job.
I rode 209.5 miles a few weeks back in 13 hours - but i rested the next day. I would'nt have been excited about getting on my bike for another 125 miles. Hows the recovery going? It took me about 4 days before I was feeling "normal" again.
Good job.
I rode 209.5 miles a few weeks back in 13 hours - but i rested the next day. I would'nt have been excited about getting on my bike for another 125 miles. Hows the recovery going? It took me about 4 days before I was feeling "normal" again.
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08-07-02, 01:11 AM
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Originally posted by RainmanP
I don't normally drink at lunchtime, but I feel obliged to hoist a pint in your honor (thanks for an excuse). Is Bass OK?
Rainman
I don't normally drink at lunchtime, but I feel obliged to hoist a pint in your honor (thanks for an excuse). Is Bass OK?
Rainman
Audax UK seems to be largely made up of men over 50. I guess its because when cyclists retire from work they discover all this time available to ride.
So there I am, 40 years young, feeling tired but detirmined at around 500k mark and I overtake this 60+ old geezer, and I chat to him for a bit, and he says he's feeling a bit tired coz he was on a 1000k ride the week before!
Whenever you do something you consider remarkable there's always someone to trump it!!
Recovery is going OK, I'll probably start cycling to work again tomorrow. My right hand is still nub, and I've torn a little muscle up by my shoulder blade, but apart from that, everythings OK
Stew
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