GaryG wrote:
|| "Rick Warner" wrote in message
|| om...
||| Bill Baka wrote in message
|| ...
|||| On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 23:40:29 -0800, Terry Morse
|||| wrote:
||||
||||| I got an e-mail from this guy the other day. He's trying to break
||||| an annual climbing record that he read about in Bicycling
||||| Magazine, and he has a web site and upcomng book entitled "98
||||| Miles High":
|||||
||||| "Coming in January, 2005 98 Miles High"
||||
|||| It sounds hard but if you froke it into 365 days that would only
|||| be about 1500 feet per day, doable. I used to ride in Healdsburg
|||| where I worked in the wine country and did 900 feet once at lunch
|||| and up to 5 times after work where darkness cut me off. On the
|||| weekends I was nowhere near hills so coulnd not add to the total.
|||| In the summer I came close to a mile a day, but never thought of
|||| tallying it.
|||| A GPS might have been a cool tool since I probably could have
|||| counted all the down then up again little swooshy hills. It is
|||| possible I came close but fitness was the goal, not a record. My
|||| reward for 5 times around the hill, a nice cold Millers Gold. Not
|||| healthy but it sure
|||| hit the spot.
|||
||| Bill,
|||
||| You must be talking of the other guy's goal, 98 miles (517440 ft);
||| Terry did over twice that and is still going but not counting.
|||
||| And Terry, the 'other guy' who promotes his 'world record' is named
||| Jeff Alden and he has a letter in the current Bicycling touting that
||| he broke the (his) previous 'record' this past Sep when he went over
||| something like 404000 and change. Since the editors at Rodale keep
||| giving him a forum for self-promotion perhaps you should provide
||| some
||| zip and tell them of your achievement. I did a quick,
||| conservative tally, and I am just under 500K right now with most of
||| December left,
||| and had almost 6 weeks off due to my collision with the wrong way
||| cyclist on the Wilkie bridge. Alden's records are so laughable
||| since
||| you and know that 500K is pretty common in the area we live.
|||
||| - rick
||
|| How many miles have you logged for that 500K of elevation gain? I
|| thought I was having a pretty good year with 200K...sheesh!
||

You are having a pretty good year. Those other guys are just off the
frickin map!