Week Whatever - our 2nd 100 Miler (actually it's 94 miles)
Week Whatever - our 2nd 100 Miler (actually it's 94 miles)
I've lost track of what week this is since i haven't posted in a long time. Ryan's posts are always so entertaining.
We had such great intentions this weekend and were really psyched up for it. we were going to do 94 on friday and 94 on saturday. the weather report was for possible a.m. showers friday (well, the weather report was for a lot of things all week...who knows if it's ever accurate.....) and also late in the day, "possibly heavy". our plans were to get started very very early so that we could try to beat the rain. well, we got started early and were only about 30 minutes off our planned time. going out was fairly uneventful we had vowed to keep from "wasting time" on our stops..but as usual, our first stop almost blew that. i loved the chocolate i got at fresh fields (or whatever it's name is) so we stopped there but it was about 15 minutes from opening...so we diddled around with our bikes until they opened and i got my chocolate and was a hppy camper. i forgot to record that on my watch but it was about 20 minutes. then we did really well at just working toward the goal but i had to stop more than i liked becuase of numbness in my foot..i had prepared with many different items in my shoe..but this numbness was the outside two toes (as it it were from my back) sometimes the numbness is tolerable but occasionally it's agony so i had to stop to unnumb it. that aggravated me. at times we revised the many things in my shoes to see if that woud do any good. eventually i ended up out of the toe clips so that i could put the arch of my foot over the pedal, not the ball of my foot. that helped quite a bit. i like the biking shoes but they dont seem to do any good to decrease the numbness. at lunch ryan raised my seat and my handlebars and that helped some. anyway, we really did well at not procrastinating. we stopped some to stretch but kept it short and to the point. i wasn't happy with the time to the store (27 miles and about 3 hr 19 min) but Ryan said that was good for us. and i guess it is since that 19 min was probably what we spent at the fresh fields store. Then it took about 2 1/2 hrs to get to the end to eat lunch. we spent an hour at lunch....all the while watching the sky (and it did seem dark in the sky out toward Purceville). So, my watch said 5 hours and 53 minutes to the half way point. our next planned stop was to the store on the way back - that was about 8 /12 hours and spent 17 minutes there...it's terrible to be so consicous of the amount of time you spend somewhere. but at least we were talking more on the any back so the miles went by faster (plus my feet were better since i changed how i rode. Then it took us 3 1/2 hours to get back to the car. We really tried to work hard at improving our time even tho we had our lights with us (i lost my tail red light on one of the bumpy bridges since it wasn't attached permanently). we ran into rain finally about mile 11 or 12 - fortunately we stopped to put on our rain jackets..altho i'm not really sure why i said fortunately because i do not think it did any good at all. we rode through one of those "possibly heavy at times" sections and our feet were just as flooded as the rest of our bodies...good thing we had brought extra clothes and shoes. it wasn't cold so the rainwater was sort of refreshing to me..but whenever it rains i have to take off my glasses so who knows where i'm going. i got angry at one bozo. i didnt make it up OUR hill and dont know if i would have been able to but my "fixed" bike is still switching its gears when it feels like it and dropped to the granny gear suddenly and i had moved the rear gear to the big ring and as predicted it slipped so i had to stop in the middle of the hill to try to get the chain back on the bike. this guy came barreling down the hill and yelled at me to get off the path. he should not have been going that fast in the slippery rain but that's beside the point. i was not pleasant in my response :-0 as you might imagine. our total time was 12 hours 25 minutes (includes the one hour for lunch). Ryan's computer said it was somewhat over 8 hours of riding time but it was inaccurate in mileage so who knows what's going on with that computer.
we got back and even tho i really didnt think going to the outback was a great idea since i had to drive home and then get up early in the a.m. so we could ride..but we went anyway..and it was a long wait. i got home at 11:30 or so...hard to get to sleep. but finally did and was able to get up at 5 a.m to leave to go pick up Ryan for our next ride. i got up, went downstairs and opened the door to see what the cold front had done to the temp and went "Ugh" - it was 74 and had barely rained. so i got my stuff and took off to go get THE man. on I-95 our decision was made..the heavens opened up much more than when we had been riding the day before. then i got off to avoid an accident, stopped to get gas and realized how cold it had become in such a short time. so i brought Ryan breakfast and we went shopping and took his bike to Performance to see what was awrong with his bike...but it turns out it's a spoke thing so we need to take it back to the original shop.
i'm worried that we're not going to get a chance to really check how we're going to do on days 2 and 3. we felt good for this one but my test was going to be how i did on saturday. i was very tired so i dont know how that would really work.
but enuf of my rambling. we did our second one so that's bound to be some improvement. Til later
Terrie
I've lost track of what week this is since i haven't posted in a long time. Ryan's posts are always so entertaining.
We had such great intentions this weekend and were really psyched up for it. we were going to do 94 on friday and 94 on saturday. the weather report was for possible a.m. showers friday (well, the weather report was for a lot of things all week...who knows if it's ever accurate.....) and also late in the day, "possibly heavy". our plans were to get started very very early so that we could try to beat the rain. well, we got started early and were only about 30 minutes off our planned time. going out was fairly uneventful we had vowed to keep from "wasting time" on our stops..but as usual, our first stop almost blew that. i loved the chocolate i got at fresh fields (or whatever it's name is) so we stopped there but it was about 15 minutes from opening...so we diddled around with our bikes until they opened and i got my chocolate and was a hppy camper. i forgot to record that on my watch but it was about 20 minutes. then we did really well at just working toward the goal but i had to stop more than i liked becuase of numbness in my foot..i had prepared with many different items in my shoe..but this numbness was the outside two toes (as it it were from my back) sometimes the numbness is tolerable but occasionally it's agony so i had to stop to unnumb it. that aggravated me. at times we revised the many things in my shoes to see if that woud do any good. eventually i ended up out of the toe clips so that i could put the arch of my foot over the pedal, not the ball of my foot. that helped quite a bit. i like the biking shoes but they dont seem to do any good to decrease the numbness. at lunch ryan raised my seat and my handlebars and that helped some. anyway, we really did well at not procrastinating. we stopped some to stretch but kept it short and to the point. i wasn't happy with the time to the store (27 miles and about 3 hr 19 min) but Ryan said that was good for us. and i guess it is since that 19 min was probably what we spent at the fresh fields store. Then it took about 2 1/2 hrs to get to the end to eat lunch. we spent an hour at lunch....all the while watching the sky (and it did seem dark in the sky out toward Purceville). So, my watch said 5 hours and 53 minutes to the half way point. our next planned stop was to the store on the way back - that was about 8 /12 hours and spent 17 minutes there...it's terrible to be so consicous of the amount of time you spend somewhere. but at least we were talking more on the any back so the miles went by faster (plus my feet were better since i changed how i rode. Then it took us 3 1/2 hours to get back to the car. We really tried to work hard at improving our time even tho we had our lights with us (i lost my tail red light on one of the bumpy bridges since it wasn't attached permanently). we ran into rain finally about mile 11 or 12 - fortunately we stopped to put on our rain jackets..altho i'm not really sure why i said fortunately because i do not think it did any good at all. we rode through one of those "possibly heavy at times" sections and our feet were just as flooded as the rest of our bodies...good thing we had brought extra clothes and shoes. it wasn't cold so the rainwater was sort of refreshing to me..but whenever it rains i have to take off my glasses so who knows where i'm going. i got angry at one bozo. i didnt make it up OUR hill and dont know if i would have been able to but my "fixed" bike is still switching its gears when it feels like it and dropped to the granny gear suddenly and i had moved the rear gear to the big ring and as predicted it slipped so i had to stop in the middle of the hill to try to get the chain back on the bike. this guy came barreling down the hill and yelled at me to get off the path. he should not have been going that fast in the slippery rain but that's beside the point. i was not pleasant in my response :-0 as you might imagine. our total time was 12 hours 25 minutes (includes the one hour for lunch). Ryan's computer said it was somewhat over 8 hours of riding time but it was inaccurate in mileage so who knows what's going on with that computer.
we got back and even tho i really didnt think going to the outback was a great idea since i had to drive home and then get up early in the a.m. so we could ride..but we went anyway..and it was a long wait. i got home at 11:30 or so...hard to get to sleep. but finally did and was able to get up at 5 a.m to leave to go pick up Ryan for our next ride. i got up, went downstairs and opened the door to see what the cold front had done to the temp and went "Ugh" - it was 74 and had barely rained. so i got my stuff and took off to go get THE man. on I-95 our decision was made..the heavens opened up much more than when we had been riding the day before. then i got off to avoid an accident, stopped to get gas and realized how cold it had become in such a short time. so i brought Ryan breakfast and we went shopping and took his bike to Performance to see what was awrong with his bike...but it turns out it's a spoke thing so we need to take it back to the original shop.
i'm worried that we're not going to get a chance to really check how we're going to do on days 2 and 3. we felt good for this one but my test was going to be how i did on saturday. i was very tired so i dont know how that would really work.
but enuf of my rambling. we did our second one so that's bound to be some improvement. Til later
Terrie
posted by Terrie at
10:01 PM
