Ed, No, we set off at 6:00am in the morning and rode all day. I used to do a lot of biking back in my 20's and regularly did 200 miles plus so I knew what I was letting myself in for. The problem for me was not being able to keep to the times I used to do in my youth! Having said that I averaged just over 16mph for the whole route as opposed to my "youth" average of 24, but I was fit in those days with a little less weight. I used to be able to average 20mph for fun regardless of the terrain and as the course was fairly quite hilly I was actually quite pleased, especially as I hadn't done any training whatsoever.
My only boo-boo was forgetting that after about 1-2 hours of cycling you tend to hit "the wall" and I didn't thrust a candy bar down my throat early enough and had to be reminded by the support group that I was steering somewhat erratically, but after that I kept the sugar levels up and just ploughed on regardless ... trying to recover my youth, but failing miserably! Dave -----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Leafe Sent: 09 November 2012 15:53 To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Want to help? On Nov 9, 2012, at 9:09 AM, Dave Crozier <[email protected]> wrote: > ... no, it was 200 MILES and 13 hours of hard riding, the last hour done > entirely on auto pilot I'm afraid. Was that spread over a weekend? The MS150 ride does a century on Saturday, and the other 50-60 miles on Sunday. I don't think I could do 150 in a day, much less 200! > Mind you the beers went down really well afterwards ... and I didn't need so > much either. I did a 50 mile ride last weekend as a warmup, and yes, the thought of enjoying that beer afterwards was what kept me going. Well, that and the fact that I had to get back to my car to get home! -- Ed Leafe [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
