Hi...my name is Kevin and I have a problem with training.
Yes, on Sunday I did yet another 103 mile charity ride. What is it about the training pain that I can not seem to get enough of? Does anyone else have this addition?! Bonnie called me a beast to her friends (of course she is doing her first century ride this weekend).
Funny but back to back weekends of century rides has not seemed to have effected my legs. They are not sore or tired. They feel great. Strange?!
Sunday's ride was the Soles 4 Souls charity ride. The course was in the shape of a figure 8 with the sag stop in the middle of the 8. You hit the sag stop every ~33 miles. Three loops made 103ish miles.
The first two loops were easy. I did not draft at all and was holding about a 20 mph pace. The last loop got REALLY windy and was brutal. I finished the 103 miles without drafting in about 5:30:00. Not to shabby for me considering I just did 105 miles the previous Sunday. Average around 19.4 mph.
The after party was really fun. They had several coolers of really good craft beer and smoothies. There was a BBQ going with chicken, vegetables and hot Italian sausage. It was a ton of fun.
This weekend is my best friends 60th birthday so it will be a well deserved rest weekend for me. That means I will go crazy without sneaking in some form of exercise.
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Champions Ride for Charity Review
Champions Ride for Charity Review
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Sunday I completed my second 100 mile century cycling ride. It was the Champions Ride for Charity. It was a great ride!! It was hosted by the Rotary Club of Lake Mary - Florida. Being a Rotarian I always like to support their events.
The ride had several distances to choose from (10, 33, 66, 100 miles). Overall about 160 riders showed up for the rides. Maybe forty riders did the century distance.
There were about nine SAG stops for the century. Each SAG had plenty of oranges, bagels, peanut butter, Gatorade, water, bananas, ice, etc. They were staffed by warm and friendly Rotarians and Boy Scouts.
The route was pretty and safe. We started from Lake Mary, FL and went through Deland, Deltona, Lake Helen, Cassadaga ( "Psychic Capital of the World") and then back to Lake Mary.
The first half the ride was at a monstrous pace. The century group was so small that you didn't want to get dropped so you hung on for as long as you could. There were several 66 mile riders in the century group also so they did not need to ride at an endurance pace. The average pace for the first half of the ride was about 22-24 with several sprints up to 28 mph. I hung onto this pace for the first 50 miles. Then after that I got dropped from the group when some riders did not call out that a car was coming and a few riders almost got hit by a car. I had to stop and never caught back onto the main group. This meant that the next 55 miles would be spent pretty much riding alone at about an 18-19 mph pace. This was good practice for next year's (2014) Ironman that I plan on completing(more on that in a later blog).
The total race distance was 105 miles. At mile 100.00 I blow a rear tire on what looked like a piece of wire the size of a record needle (for those of you old enough to know what a record needle is). It took me 10 minutes to get it out of my tire because it was so small. From that experience I learned to take some tweezers on my future rides to save time.
Overall it was a great race and I had a great ride. My legs the following day felt great. No soreness or stiffness at all!! Adding so much extra miles to my cycling training has benefited me greatly!!
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Sunday I completed my second 100 mile century cycling ride. It was the Champions Ride for Charity. It was a great ride!! It was hosted by the Rotary Club of Lake Mary - Florida. Being a Rotarian I always like to support their events.
The ride had several distances to choose from (10, 33, 66, 100 miles). Overall about 160 riders showed up for the rides. Maybe forty riders did the century distance.
There were about nine SAG stops for the century. Each SAG had plenty of oranges, bagels, peanut butter, Gatorade, water, bananas, ice, etc. They were staffed by warm and friendly Rotarians and Boy Scouts.
The route was pretty and safe. We started from Lake Mary, FL and went through Deland, Deltona, Lake Helen, Cassadaga ( "Psychic Capital of the World") and then back to Lake Mary.
The first half the ride was at a monstrous pace. The century group was so small that you didn't want to get dropped so you hung on for as long as you could. There were several 66 mile riders in the century group also so they did not need to ride at an endurance pace. The average pace for the first half of the ride was about 22-24 with several sprints up to 28 mph. I hung onto this pace for the first 50 miles. Then after that I got dropped from the group when some riders did not call out that a car was coming and a few riders almost got hit by a car. I had to stop and never caught back onto the main group. This meant that the next 55 miles would be spent pretty much riding alone at about an 18-19 mph pace. This was good practice for next year's (2014) Ironman that I plan on completing(more on that in a later blog).
The total race distance was 105 miles. At mile 100.00 I blow a rear tire on what looked like a piece of wire the size of a record needle (for those of you old enough to know what a record needle is). It took me 10 minutes to get it out of my tire because it was so small. From that experience I learned to take some tweezers on my future rides to save time.
Overall it was a great race and I had a great ride. My legs the following day felt great. No soreness or stiffness at all!! Adding so much extra miles to my cycling training has benefited me greatly!!
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| This weekend I can add a second century tally mark to the bike!! Two Centuries and ten 70.3s. (Note they tallies look crooked in the photo because of the curve of the bike) |
Wednesday, September 4, 2013
My Weekend Challenge - Century Cycling Ride
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This weekend I will be cycling 100 miles for the Rotary Club of Lake Mary. I am currently the president of my Rotary club and wanted to support a local club. It was very convenient that I also wanted to do a century ride around this time of year.
So I am "looking forward" to a weekend of sitting six hours on a pencil wide seat and having my man parts scream at me for the following two days. :-)
Sorry my posting rate has died down lately. I've been slammed with work, training, family and life.
-Kevin
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