08-07-2004, 02:39 PM
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| Guest | Re: I blew it!
psycholist wrote:
|| "Roger Zoul" <rogerzoul2@hotmail.com> wrote in message
|| news:10haasfa86bqi83@corp.supernews.com...
||| I went on a metric century today with about 3700+ feet of climbing.
||| According to my Polar 720i, that's about 1800 more feet than I
||| normally do on 65 miles. Well, the ride as going great. Finally
||| we got to this one longish climb...some guy came past me....I
||| decided to follow....I finally pasted him back....HR hit 173 (my
||| theoretical max) and stayed there a while...I was huffing and
||| puffing...only going about 5 mph or so...but I got that hill. My
||| buddy who was with me at the beginning said I was out of sight by
||| the time he got to the top of that hill. He must weigh some 60 lbs
||| less than me.
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||| Well, the next time a major hill came...I started having cramps in
||| my left quad...the muscle to the left of the knee cap (inner front
||| thigh)...got off and massaged it for a bit...it felt better. Went
||| on...another hill...this time it started locking up. Got off...I
||| couldn't bend my leg....it was stuck straight....that muscle as
||| hard as a rock...it took about 3 minutes before it relaxed. That
||| was at 46 miles. I rode to 50 miles (3400ft of ascent) where the
||| next rest stop was. I got in the sag wagon. Dammit.
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||| I must learn to respect the climb. I must find some better climbing
||| material, too.
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|| Hi Roger,
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|| I do the Lance Dance, too. I don't necessarily do that much of it
|| out of the saddle, but I've worked on my aerobic ability to spin the
|| smaller gears. That keeps me in the game on the longer climbs. It
|| also saves your legs when you're doing longer rides.
I was in the smallest gear! Pedal pretty fast, really, even though I don't
recall the cadence.
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|| So how was Tigerville?
Lovely. Absolutely lovely. I was quite disappointed I didn't complete such
a ride ride on such a beautiful day with such lovely scenery.
Sorry I didn't make it up there. Who woulda
|| thought they could move the date from October to early August and
|| still have the same Fall weather?
I was all set to be unhappy about them moving the date, but they apparently
put in a special order for fantastic weather.
I just wasn't up for 4 hours of
|| driving to do a 3 hour ride. I did 82 miles ... half of that solo
|| and half with an old training buddy from Anderson. What a glorious
|| morning!
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Wow. This would have been a cakewake for you.
|| Sorry to hear that you ended up in the sag wagon. Work on using
|| small gears on those hills. When you mash the big gears, you work
|| your muscles harder and they give out sooner.
I've got a lot of stuff to work on, it would seem! 
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|| We'll talk more about this.
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Yes, let's do, as I need some work!
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