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Road Cycling “It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” -- Ernest Hemingway

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Old 04-07-11 | 05:43 PM
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Lol, Why didn't you start a thread with it?
Lets see if it lasts
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Old 04-07-11 | 05:56 PM
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I had a good ride this morning/afternoon. Kind of a recovery ride before my I had to go for knee injections but still had a good time. Managed to get about 42 miles in which put me at 254 miles for the month. Not too bad of a week for a old, slow, fat guy with no friends other than his fish. That reminds me, I want a donut!

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Old 04-07-11 | 06:39 PM
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I had a good ride this morning/afternoon.
You ride too much.
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Old 04-07-11 | 07:08 PM
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You ride too much.
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Old 04-07-11 | 07:14 PM
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Who can say?

On one hand, someone here just won $1 million from Powerball. On the other hand, the wastewater plant in Gatlinburg detonated, leaking millions of gallons downstream. So I may be drinking sewer water.
I heard about the people who drowned in the sewage. I was worried it was you until you posted. Thank goodness
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Old 04-07-11 | 07:39 PM
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You ride too much.
Trying to burn some calories and riding is the best way that I know to do it.
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Old 04-07-11 | 08:17 PM
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Trying to burn some calories and riding is the best way that I know to do it.
Do you work?
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Old 04-07-11 | 08:19 PM
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Trying to burn some calories and riding is the best way that I know to do it.
Consume fewer.
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Old 04-07-11 | 08:22 PM
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Lets see if it lasts
If you started a thread I can't find it so I guess not long.
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Old 04-07-11 | 08:30 PM
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Consume fewer.
I have been but to be honest, I just like riding my bike. I consider it a blessing every time I am able to ride considering that less than a year ago I was told I would never ride again.
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I have been but to be honest, I just like riding my bike. I consider it a blessing every time I am able to ride considering that less than a year ago I was told I would never ride again.
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Old 04-07-11 | 08:43 PM
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You ride too much.
That's just crazy talk.

I don't get to ride enough. I'll be out Saturday though. It's supposed to 60F and sunny. Plus, I should be pretty much caught up with work by then.
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Old 04-07-11 | 08:45 PM
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I just like riding my bike.
Are you riding a variety of routes? I can reach the point where I start getting bored riding the same old same old for more than 100 miles a week.
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Old 04-07-11 | 08:46 PM
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That's just crazy talk.
I'm supposed to be the mileage king here.
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Old 04-07-11 | 08:47 PM
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How many centuries have you done this month?
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Old 04-07-11 | 08:49 PM
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Are you riding a variety of routes? I can reach the point where I start getting bored riding the same old same old for more than 100 miles a week.
I very rarely ride the same routes. Parts of my rides may be the same but not the entire route. This week I did do one climb three times but the routes were all different. It is one of the "easier" climbs in the area so it gets done quite a bit. Tuesday I did it after I did two other climbs, Wednesday I did it with a club ride, today I did it as part of my recovery ride.
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How many centuries have you done this month?
None. I have only done one century since I got back on the bike last July.
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Old 04-07-11 | 08:51 PM
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How many centuries have you done this month?
Let's not go crazy here.
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I heard about the people who drowned in the sewage.
That's an awful way to die.
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Tuesday I rode 25 miles each way to spend 5 hours shoveling then stopped home long enough to refill a bottle and went for a 50 mile ride to a bike shop. My wheels are untrueable and warped from the salt and below zero exposure on my 30 lb commuter.

I think that you should either go farther afield or discover a further obstacle to overcome if you are getting complacent. Given your answer regarding centuries, riding till you puke is not going to be that challenge. Perhaps you could try being a randonneuse and haul a proper picnic basket to the idyllic hilltop vista of your choosing.
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I'm supposed to be the mileage king here.
I am the king of nothing anywhere.
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Old 04-07-11 | 09:23 PM
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Perhaps you could try being a randonneuse and haul a proper picnic basket to the idyllic hilltop vista of your choosing.
Hauling a proper picnic basket to go eat by yourself seems rather depressing.
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Old 04-07-11 | 09:29 PM
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I have been but to be honest, I just like riding my bike. I consider it a blessing every time I am able to ride considering that less than a year ago I was told I would never ride again.
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Hauling a proper picnic basket to go eat by yourself seems rather depressing.
It seems you are close to discovering your personal challenge. A true mileage king would have a threesome and feast till all were sated and happily reclined to rest up for dessert.
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Hauling a proper picnic basket to go eat by yourself seems rather depressing.
you missed the fact the miyata man called you a girl.
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