Although generally I agree with the concept of riding your own ride, if you can hang on to the back of a big group, sometimes it's worth the extra effort on the rides 600K and longer, because you get more sleep that way. I feel that more sleep is more beneficial to my body the next day than conserving energy in some cases.
For example on the first day of the Lone Star Randonneurs 1000K, holding on to the back of a 12 rider group got me 220 miles at an 18.5mph rolling average without too much undue stress. If I had been on my own, it probably would have been 15mph and I would have expended more energy into the headwind on the first 110 miles. So overall I'd say it was worth it to me, because I was able to get 7 hours off the bike as we arrived at 9pm and departed on Day 2 at 4am. Unfortunately I DNF'd about halfway through Day 2 due to a mechanical failure, but oh well, c'est la vie. The engine was doing fine at least. On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Iron Rider <[email protected]> wrote: > For those who may be interested: > > > http://eprider.blogspot.com/2014/06/englewood-400k-longest-of-short-rides.html > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Keep the metal side up and the rubber side down! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
