Ping Roger Zoul--Ride for the Raptors

pam_in_sc wrote:
|| psycholist wrote:
||| Hi Pam & Roger,
|||
||| I was there ... hanging with the front group for about 75 miles.
||| Kept losing my chain then having to chase back. I think I just
||| learned a drawback to compact cranks. If you drop your chain, it
||| won't just shift back on (at least mine wouldn't). I had to stop
||| and dismount.
|||
||| Isn't Maw Bridge special?
|||
||| It was really special being in no-man's land and trying to chase
||| back on as we came to the festival and traffic jam in Central.
||| That was insane.
|||
||| I'd like to know the cum. elevation gain on that ride. It's
||| probably awfully high for a ride that has no real mountain climbs.
|||
||| I was happy to be in under 5 hours ... and the guys who remained at
||| the front finished 20 minutes ahead of me!
|||
||| Bob C.
||
|| I wondered how the groups got across that mess in Central. If you
|| have
|| a problem with your chain coming off have you looked at the Jump Stop
|| (see http://www.gvtc.com/~ngear/index.html ). I just got one and I
|| love it.
||
|| I would love to know the cumulative elevation gain, as I've been
|| scared
|| of rides in Spartanburg that had pretty hefty elevation gains, but
|| perhaps I've been doing as much. I haven't ridden the 100 start to
|| finish but I've ridden the outer loops (skipping the first part of
|| the ride).

According to Richard Hare, the 100 has 5500 ft of elevation gain. When I
quit at about 80 miles, I had 4380 according to my Polar 720i. Richard told
me he never measured the 66.

||
|| I live about 5 miles from Maw Bridge Road and I just got a heart rate
|| monitor. I didn't want to try it on the ride because I was afraid it
|| was going to be uncomfortable, so I went back and rode Maw Bridge
|| Road
|| again today. I hit a maximum heart rate of 195, sustained above 190
|| for
|| the steepest part of the hill. Does that mean I have the heart of a
|| 25
|| year old? Considering that I am 49 years old, have a BMI of 27, and
|| have only been back to bicycling 4 months, I was very happy.

Wow. You have a really high HR. I've never seem mine above 176 and i'm 46.
I don't have a clue what the numbers mean but supposedly if sustaining those
high percentages doesn't kill you, you get better.