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RCoapman
Joined: 09 Feb 2005
Posts: 5153
Location: Back in the snowy homeland4/2/23 2:17 PM |
Training camp
I'm in Wales attending a week long training camp with my coach. Yesterday was 3800' of climbing in 28mi, multiple +20% sections. Today was 4100' of climbing over 38mi with some of the worst road conditions I've ever seen.
Cycling is stupid.
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19099
Location: PDX4/2/23 4:19 PM |
Sounds fun, for you I mean. ;)
My last climby jaunt was aprox 3800' in 25 miles, and it twern't pretty... The views were, me... not so much...
Enjoy, I am green with envy.
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dan emery
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 6897
Location: Maine4/2/23 4:37 PM |
Sounds like fun
What’s your low gear?
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RCoapman
Joined: 09 Feb 2005
Posts: 5153
Location: Back in the snowy homeland4/3/23 9:41 AM |
Brought the Ekar bike, thankfully, so 44x42. Still wasn't enough for the "Devil's Staircase" at 25%.
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RCoapman
Joined: 09 Feb 2005
Posts: 5153
Location: Back in the snowy homeland4/3/23 11:23 PM |
Every part of my body is screaming for mercy. This is quite literally the definition of "I'm too old for this shit."
And today is the long ride. 75 mi and 2 high passes. I've given my coach my mother's contact information for proper disposition of the body.
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19099
Location: PDX4/3/23 11:47 PM |
I feel better already. ;)
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Brian Nystrom
Joined: 26 Jan 2004
Posts: 5102
Location: Nashua, NH4/4/23 7:29 PM |
Rob, I'm in awe that you can still do this stuff. I certainly wish I could.
Chapeau!
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19099
Location: PDX4/4/23 8:02 PM |
What Brian said...
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RCoapman
Joined: 09 Feb 2005
Posts: 5153
Location: Back in the snowy homeland4/6/23 1:33 AM |
Thanks, mates. It's been bloody hard.
After 5 days I've done 3.55mi of climbing. The others did an additional 3k ft because I bonked completely and irrevocably 2 days ago. The course was mentally challenging and I didn't notice until it was far too late that I was 3.5 hours in and only had 1 bottle to drink and a single gel. Laid in the grass twitching for a while, limped to the cafe we were going to stop at anyway, and caught a cab back home while the lads finished the course.
Today, last day, is finally a flat course (~90k) and I'm so shredded my hopes and dreams of thrashing these skinny wankers with some time trialing are probably not going to materialize.
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Brian Nystrom
Joined: 26 Jan 2004
Posts: 5102
Location: Nashua, NH4/6/23 8:05 PM |
Just remember: "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger."
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RCoapman
Joined: 09 Feb 2005
Posts: 5153
Location: Back in the snowy homeland4/7/23 7:37 AM |
Then I must be on par with superman at this point.
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19099
Location: PDX4/7/23 11:01 AM |
I'd need the blue kryptonite... [no, not the bike lock] ;)
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