hippy wrote:
> Sorry you had to come down from NSW for this weather! Hope you had a nice Saturday
Aside from the weather, we had a ball!
> Speaking of which, if it wasn't for the guy behind me yelling "RIGHT! RIGHT!" I'd probably be in
> Adelaide or something by now!
I missed one of those green arrows and just kept going straight
> ahead, somewhere in Geelong.
That's what it's like on some rides here, a bunch of people that just blindly follow another bunch
of people, hoping the ones in front actually know where they're going. Sometimes you get a
substatial crowd that take a wrong turn and realise it at the end of the street when they don't
see any more people. Anywhere.
> I wasn't in the timed ride though so none of that makes a difference to
> me. Unless they were timing all our little plastic cards?
Oh, I was going to xray my card to see if really was a proximity card, the start beeped as we all
passed, though I don't know if it was me or just everyone else. It's possible that only selected
entrants get proximity cards. Strange they made everyone go over the strips though.
> I just logged the whole ride on my Polar S710, so I have HR, speed, distance, time and various
> other data to look at. Everybody go: "ooooh".
I left mine in the hotel for some reason. Though I logged the ride on my GPS. Gives me everything
(except heart rate) including altitude, so would the 710, but I had mine cranked up to 5 second
intervals which would give me only about eight hours worth. No, I couldn't reconfigure it, as I've
never actually used the watch by itself, I've only ever configured it via the PC.
> I took 2 spare tubes and used none - would've been a different story had I not changed my
> glass-cut ProRace tyre a week ago. I took many fruit bars and 2 PowerBars (ate 1 Powerbar and
> maybe 4 fruit bars + the lunch, but dropped the bananas on the boat),
I didn't carry any bananas, they're too heavy. Only food was those carbo gel packs. I collected
and ate the lunch after the queue died down.
> 2 bidons water (drank 1), wind vest, disposable camera, patch kit, phone, $25 cash, ticket and
> eftpos card. So, I COULD have bailed at Sorrento but I didn't.. maybe that's why I still feel
> really good about this ride?
In hindsight, I would have been better off going back the same way I came. But in hindsight,
everyone has 20-20 vision.
> hippy smacks head with fists screaming "HARDCORE!"
Maybe because you're used to the weather doing that, we weren't, so it came as a bit of a shock.
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