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06-16-2004, 10:12 AM

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 00:24:01 -0400, Roger Zoul wrote:
> Hieronymus wrote:
>:: "Neil Cherry" <njc@wolfgang.uucp> wrote in message
>:: news:slrnccskpt.fg1.njc@wolfgang.uucp...
>::: I'm feeling pretty good (and still really hungery!) after riding
>::: what I'm told is an easy double century. It's run by the Central
>::: Jersey
>::: Bike Club (NJ, USA) and it's called the Longest Day (it's held near
>::: the summer equinox). It's really kind of funny because if you talk
>::: to people who are not cyclist (and a few who are) they hear '207
>::: miles in one day' and think your nuts. Talk to people who have
>::: ridden doubles
>::: and they'll poo-poo it as being easy. Uhm, it's still 200 and 7
>::: miles :-). Anyway this is my fourth time doing this and I'd
>::: completed it
>::: with an average rolling speed of 15.6, 16.2, 16.8 and Saturday's
>::: 17.7 mph! Now the story I'm about to tell is from my point of view,
>::: none of the names are change but I may exaggerate the truth a bit.
>::: I'll just blame it delirium from too many mile and not enough food.
>::: Snippage..
>::
>::
>:: This story is one of the things that makes me glad there is this
>:: newsgroup. Thank you for your wonderful story of your wonderful ride.
>:: Ride On,
>:: Hieronymus
>
> This story makes me eager to work up to being about to do a 200-mile ride
> like that. I'm just green with envy!

I think Double Centuries are easy to ride as long as you do the proper
training. Now I could go out and just ride a double without training
if I were lucky. But I would pay for it for weeks afterwards. I had
2500 base miles this year. I did all kinds of weather (except snow,
not much call for that in June on this ride :-) and started with
Saturday 30 mile rides and training on the rollers. One thing to
remember I seem to be able to ignore a certain amount of pain so I can
push harder. I can't ignore lack of strength or endurance. Sometime to
be a cyclist is to enjoy pain. ;-)

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06-16-2004, 10:12 AM	#61 (permalink)
Neil Cherry Posts: n/a	Re: Just finished 207 Mile ride (and I need to brag ;-) Long On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 00:24:01 -0400, Roger Zoul wrote: > Hieronymus wrote: >:: "Neil Cherry" <njc@wolfgang.uucp> wrote in message >:: news:slrnccskpt.fg1.njc@wolfgang.uucp... >::: I'm feeling pretty good (and still really hungery!) after riding >::: what I'm told is an easy double century. It's run by the Central >::: Jersey >::: Bike Club (NJ, USA) and it's called the Longest Day (it's held near >::: the summer equinox). It's really kind of funny because if you talk >::: to people who are not cyclist (and a few who are) they hear '207 >::: miles in one day' and think your nuts. Talk to people who have >::: ridden doubles >::: and they'll poo-poo it as being easy. Uhm, it's still 200 and 7 >::: miles :-). Anyway this is my fourth time doing this and I'd >::: completed it >::: with an average rolling speed of 15.6, 16.2, 16.8 and Saturday's >::: 17.7 mph! Now the story I'm about to tell is from my point of view, >::: none of the names are change but I may exaggerate the truth a bit. >::: I'll just blame it delirium from too many mile and not enough food. >::: Snippage.. >:: >:: >:: This story is one of the things that makes me glad there is this >:: newsgroup. Thank you for your wonderful story of your wonderful ride. >:: Ride On, >:: Hieronymus > > This story makes me eager to work up to being about to do a 200-mile ride > like that. I'm just green with envy! I think Double Centuries are easy to ride as long as you do the proper training. Now I could go out and just ride a double without training if I were lucky. But I would pay for it for weeks afterwards. I had 2500 base miles this year. I did all kinds of weather (except snow, not much call for that in June on this ride :-) and started with Saturday 30 mile rides and training on the rollers. One thing to remember I seem to be able to ignore a certain amount of pain so I can push harder. I can't ignore lack of strength or endurance. Sometime to be a cyclist is to enjoy pain. ;-) -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@comcast.net http://home.comcast.net/~ncherry/ (Text only) http://linuxha.sourceforge.net/ (SourceForge) http://hcs.sourceforge.net/ (HCS II)