Toshi, congratulations on your ride. Thank you for the ride report and the rice bar recipe. I'm impressed by your 18 minute total time stopped. That's a page from Jan Heine's playbook. "Inspiring" for sure to quote your fellow rando Mr. Lindsay.
Looking forward to your report from the 300k. Best, Rich in ATL On Monday, February 12, 2024 at 5:27:39 PM UTC-5 Bill Lindsay wrote: > This should be inspiring to anybody who thinks they can't do a long ride > just because they only do short rides. If you ride several times a week > and believe that your bike fits you, then you can do a long ride. The only > thing stopping you is you choosing not to do one. Choosing not to ride a > long ride is a perfectly logical choice, mind you. Just Ride! > > BL in EC > > On Sunday, February 11, 2024 at 11:12:09 PM UTC-8 ttoshi wrote: > >> The Russian River 200k comes in at a little over 200k with 126 miles. I >> consider myself a lazy randonneur. I prefer to train as little as >> possible, while also trying to minimize the suffering on the event day as >> much as possible. >> >> I'm not unfit because I commute to work on my bike (Cheviot). During the >> school year, I drop my daughter off at school, park the car nearby and ride >> my bike to work and back to the car after work. It's about 5 miles and >> ~600 ft of elevation gain. My base is therefore 40-50 miles a week (4-5 >> commute days) and two weekends I did a 15 mile loop from my house. It's >> enough training to finish the 126-miler, but I wanted to ride without >> suffering unduly. >> >> I drew on my experience: >> >> 1. I know what my body likes to eat on long rides. >> My go to recipe: rice bars-I think of it as an elevated spam musubi >> https://www.skratchlabs.com/blogs/recipes/dr-lims-bacon-and-egg-rice-cakes >> >> I put in chicken apple sausage instead of bacon and skip the maple >> sugar/brown syrup. I wrap the rice/eggs/sausage in seaweed like a sushi >> roll and plop it in a sandwich baggie. I didn't have to stop for anything >> yesterday except some water and a quick bathroom break. >> >> 2. I know that with my base of fitness, I need to stay within a very >> narrow range of effort. If I put in too much effort, then my body won't be >> able to recover. >> >> --This means that I need to go slow out of the gate and not get caught up >> in the excitement of the start, and I have to take it easy on the hills and >> spin in my low gears. If I follow this strategy, then I can maintain >> energy until the end without struggling to the finish line. >> >> (Conversely, a countless number of times, have I gone too hard at the >> start and limped along to the end!) >> >> It was a chilly start and forecast for 38 degrees, which on a steep >> downhill is practically ski weather, so I put on my ski gloves on top of my >> fingerless gloves to start the day off. >> >> As expected, out of the gate it was fast. I kept it slow. I was riding >> alone that day because my friend was just returning from Germany and was >> jet lagged, so I went at my own pace. >> >> Soon, I was the last one of the 60 or so riders and the only people I saw >> were the late starters who were passing me. >> >> It was cold as expected, and it was also foggy with condensation on my >> glasses, so visibility was poor for a while, but gradually the sun came out >> and it was a beautiful day. I met up with another Riv that day--a rider >> with a beautiful A Homer Hilsen (I'm sorry I missed his name). He caught a >> nice picture as the sun started to come out and we had a beautiful view of >> the rolling hills. >> >> I made my way through the grazing cows and worked through the Russian >> River valley over to the coast where it was a really beautiful day. We >> headed back down the coast and then back to the start at San Rafael. >> >> --In terms of time allowed for the ride, the minimum pace is roughly 10 >> miles per hour, including stops, giving about 12.6 hours to finish. >> >> I exceeded my target goal of 10-11 hours and came in under 10 hours. I >> only had 18 minutes of time stopped (a record low for me), including a >> couple of construction 1-lane delays, so that helped me maintain a good >> time. >> >> For the 300k, I'm going to add in some 28 mile training loops. I figure >> if I go hard on the 28-milers, then it will be enough to finish modestly >> well on the 300k. >> >> Until next time, >> Toshi in Oakland >> >> >> >> -- 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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/dc70d821-c207-4aa7-8528-9d5c1986be1cn%40googlegroups.com.
