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New milestone: metric century
i do a few cross country runs and i am ok at it i have never done a big ride like that before but i know how you feel on runs i get about half way and start to think why am i doing this what is the point?but i manage to push though and do ok the same with my old paper round the last few papers are always the hardest. and well done! -- thinuniking - started trails unicycling i have given up the wheel to live ------------------------------------------------------------------------ thinuniking's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/4294 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/27495 |
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New milestone: metric century
rubic wrote: *After last year's Boston-Montreal-Boston 1200K, the only people who weren't complaining about their seats were the Brooks saddle cultists. So I joined.* Hi Rubic, First of all, Congratulations on the ride. I'm very familiar with the pain you went through. In my endless search for relief of soreness/numbness, I’ve never heard of Brooks saddles. Thanks for the info. I’m due for a new seat again (mainly due to sliding around in search of pain relief). I’ll try to find one of these things. Sorry I missed you in Nashville. You started posting shortly after I left town. -- unibiker - What is that thing anyway? Jeff Baker ______________________________ Favorite comment (from a child) 'You can't do that. That's impossible.' 'Unibike Pics Here' (http://www.unicyclist.com/gallery/albun01) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ unibiker's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/473 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/27495 |
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New milestone: metric century
rubic wrote: * I'm impressed. Any tips for my first MS150? Practice,practice,practice. I don't know enough about you to recommend anything else. Are you still planning to ride the NATCHEZ trail? Yes, but to fit it into my schedule it will have to cover 442 miles in 8-9 days. I'd be OK with that if I trained properly. I've ridden/driven most of Blue Ridge Parkway. How does Natchez compare to that?(if you're familiar with Blue Ridge) -Mark * -- Cokerhead ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cokerhead's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/136 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/27495 |
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New milestone: metric century
Cokerhead: Are you still planning to ride the NATCHEZ trail? Rubic: Yes, but to fit it into my schedule it will have to cover 442 miles in 8-9 days. Cokerhead: I'd be OK with that if I trained properly. I've ridden/driven most of Blue Ridge Parkway. How does Natchez compare to that? (if you're familiar with Blue Ridge) I've bicycled a good bit of the Blue Ridge Parkway. The "hilly section" of the Natchez Trace is the part closest to the northern terminus (Nashville) and IMO, pretty moderate. The grades are no worse than anything I've ridden on the Blue Ridge Parkway, and hills are not very long. As you move further south (maybe 60-75 miles) from Nashville, the terrain becomes mostly flat. -Jeff -- rubic - Unstable Coker Addict It's never to late to have a happy childhood. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rubic's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/3956 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/27495 |
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New milestone: metric century
rubic wrote: * Yes, but to fit it into my schedule it will have to cover 442 miles in 8-9 days. A Norwegian Unicycle Tour it is not, neither in beauty nor grandeur. After bicycling in France, I've got some ideas for 2005, however .... -Jeff * Really? I very much want to put together a european ride for the summer of 2005. If this is something you really want to do, let's work together on this. Email my username at unicyclist.com. On the subject of saddles, my vote goes to the KH Velo with the rail adapter to give it that upwards tilt. I was skeptical until I tried it and it makes a world of difference. The handlebars are next on my list. Think about how the KH seemed to expensive to you. Then think about the pain you were in. I don't think the price is too high. -- nbrazzi any God with sense is going to want to promote unicycling -onewheeldave on religion ------------------------------------------------------------------------ nbrazzi's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/917 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/27495 |
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New milestone: metric century
i've been meaning to ask how much training did u do for this ride? i'm asking because i got the impression from your write-up that u did this ride pretty much on 'residual fitness' and i wanted to check if that is actually the case if so, how much riding do u generally do to be able to pull off a ride like this? Dave, I think you are correct. I was able to complete this Coker ride mostly on residual fitness from training for the 760 mile Paris-Brest-Paris bike ride -- about 300 miles/week. Since the metric ride occurred only a week after PBP, I did not have time to train specifically for it. My longest Coker ride prior to this was 32 miles, about a month before the Labor Day ride. Compared to the intensity of my bike rides (brevets, in randonneuring parlance), the metric Coker was a cakewalk -- neglecting saddle issues(*). Although I'm sure we use our muscles somewhat differently in each activity, there was enough in common with bicycling that I suffered no hip/knee/foot issues. And actually the spine is in a much better position compared to bicycling for long distances. I was also helped by the flatness of the terrain. Hilly terrain with lots of descents would have required more back-pedal strength, which hasn't been part of my workouts to date. Good question. -Jeff (*) Note that I set no speed records for this ride, so I'm only comparing it to the level of intensity I bring to my other rides. I'm sure other Cokeurs could ride this course with the same effort level I ride on my brevets and complete it in much less time. -- rubic - Unstable Coker Addict It's never to late to have a happy childhood. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rubic's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/3956 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/27495 |
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New milestone: metric century
Congratulations on the accomplishment. Just this year, I rode my first metric century and mile century on a bicycle, and felt like that was an accomplishment! Back this spring, I rode my 3-wheel cargo trike in one of the local charity bike rides. This thing, specifically: [image: http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z...otos/WRL3.jpg] I rode the shortest route, which was 16 miles, and took 2 hours to do it, so that's averaging 8 mph. But what surprised me is that I still passed people! Now, these folks weren't doing a metric century, but still, it's hard to go so slow that you don't pass somebody. That trike also makes a good support vehicle for unicycling, as my son and I tried that around White Rock Lake once. One way that speed affects you, though, is it cuts down on your rest stops. On my bike, I'll ride 14 or 15 mph, depending on wind and hills. Typical rest stops are about 10 miles apart, so every 40 minutes, I'm coming to a rest stop, and that's about right for me. But going 8 mph, all the sudden, that's an hour and a half between rest stops, which is not good. Of course, for cyclists, the people going slow are the very ones that need them the most. (Edit: Dang, just saw this was an "old thread" after I hit the enter button- so the congratulations are a few years too late!) -- StephenH ------------------------------------------------------------------------ StephenH's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/16659 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/27495 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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