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07-27-14, 11:46 AM
#5076
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07-27-14, 12:08 PM
#5077
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Just uploaded my ride today, I noticed that I was in the top 5 on some segment. I put in some effort on the ride, but it was the consistent sort, with no real all-outs, so I was puzzled on how I could have landed so high on a segment. Clicked on the link to find out... yeah, someone created a segment around the corner from my house, it's all of 2 blocks long in a highly residential area and they had the balls to call it a "climb" in the title with an elevation gain of 31 feet. Jezuz.
07-27-14, 12:25 PM
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Kudos!
07-27-14, 12:29 PM
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Just rode 2 laps of this course. Tempted to enter but gotta save myself for season's final STXC race tomorrow.
Vancouver Criterium ? Sunday, July 27 | Omnium Events
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07-27-14, 12:37 PM
#5080
So it is
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In the end, it was 131 miles/9880 ft of climbing, both personal bests for me. About 10:25 pedaling time, 13:25 on the course. And with the Gibraltar climb, we checked off #47 of the top 100 climbs in California, we are now 2% of the way there, lol. Next Saturday is my Big Bear ride. I'm registered for the 70 mile ride, but have been thinking of doing the 100 mile route instead. I'll see how I feel next weekend, right now I'm pretty tired. Good tired, though. 
07-27-14, 12:39 PM
#5081
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Just rode 2 laps of this course. Tempted to enter but gotta save myself for season's final STXC race tomorrow.
Vancouver Criterium ? Sunday, July 27 | Omnium Events
Vancouver Criterium ? Sunday, July 27 | Omnium Events
07-27-14, 12:56 PM
#5083
Scarlet Knight
Great ride @Heatpack. Bonking is a horrible feeling, but one we all have experienced. Strong work to power through it. And I've never met dickhead cyclists like you did before Gibraltar. You should have Cinzano'd them
07-27-14, 01:01 PM
#5084
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07-27-14, 01:02 PM
#5085
Scarlet Knight
another reason not to live in California. Life is too short to be mean to people.
07-27-14, 01:19 PM
#5086
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07-27-14, 01:22 PM
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07-27-14, 02:08 PM
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07-27-14, 02:25 PM
#5091
Mostly Harmless
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07-27-14, 02:38 PM
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07-27-14, 02:40 PM
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PR'd the 5k race this morning. 4th in age group.
Then weight pull antics with Benson after lunch.
Now I'm too pooped to pedal.
Then weight pull antics with Benson after lunch.
Now I'm too pooped to pedal.
07-27-14, 03:08 PM
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07-27-14, 03:09 PM
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07-27-14, 03:19 PM
#5097
Senior Member
I can see it, diseased and ugly, dripping blood as the saw goes through the final mm of cortical bone, a pink mist and crack, complete, now being lifted out and placed in a steel bowel, my pain transferred to a bowl and on it's way to the lab. Free at last, free at last....
07-27-14, 03:24 PM
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07-27-14, 03:28 PM
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@Heathpack's ride report makes me think that if I do lie down and go to sleep, I might have nightmares involving hills and bicycles.
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07-27-14, 03:50 PM
#5100
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Heathpack- Great post on your ride, I really enjoy your writing, you have a real ability to make us fee the ride and experience it with you. Photos or it never happened.