Great ride and I'd like to brag :-)

[Neil Cherry]

Over the weekend (Sept. 25) I did a ride (Staten Island's Pumpkin
Patch Pedal) with 5 others and we proceeded to ride a really nice
century at a 19.8 mph pace. I'd like to thank Gina, Jud, Mark, Bob,
and John. I've left off their last names as I didn't ask if I can
post them. Without them I'd be:

1) taking the SAG wagon (ripped the rear tire wide open at mile 45)
2) unwilling to finish as I got sick at mile 50, 75 and 92.
3) unable to keep that kind of pace for 100 miles by myself.

My previous fastest avg. was 18.8 over 100 miles (with several of the
above folks) done in June this year.

BTW, it was a great day to ride in NJ, USA. Started at 62F at 7:30AM
and went into the high 70's by afternoon. There was some wind starting
around mile 40 but with the 6 of us riding 1 minute on the front and
five resting we were flying! The terrain is rolling flat land at the
start, flat in the middle and a little rolling flat land toward the
end.

Oh, I took my turn just like everyone else. Bob and John said they'd
never broken 18 before. Our plan was to take an easy ride at around 18
mph avg. Despite getting sick I had no trouble riding as my legs felt
great! Weird but true. I love it when a plan comes together!

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[Fred Hall]

"Neil Cherry" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Over the weekend (Sept. 25) I did a ride (Staten Island's Pumpkin
> Patch Pedal) with 5 others and we proceeded to ride a really nice
> century at a 19.8 mph pace. I'd like to thank Gina, Jud, Mark, Bob,
> and John. I've left off their last names as I didn't ask if I can
> post them. Without them I'd be:
>
> 1) taking the SAG wagon (ripped the rear tire wide open at mile 45)
> 2) unwilling to finish as I got sick at mile 50, 75 and 92.
> 3) unable to keep that kind of pace for 100 miles by myself.
>
> My previous fastest avg. was 18.8 over 100 miles (with several of the
> above folks) done in June this year.
>
> BTW, it was a great day to ride in NJ, USA. Started at 62F at 7:30AM
> and went into the high 70's by afternoon. There was some wind starting
> around mile 40 but with the 6 of us riding 1 minute on the front and
> five resting we were flying! The terrain is rolling flat land at the
> start, flat in the middle and a little rolling flat land toward the
> end.
>
> Oh, I took my turn just like everyone else. Bob and John said they'd
> never broken 18 before. Our plan was to take an easy ride at around 18
> mph avg. Despite getting sick I had no trouble riding as my legs felt
> great! Weird but true. I love it when a plan comes together!
>

So what do you think made you sick at those three points? over-exertion?
Bad chicken?

 

[Roger Zoul]

Fred Hall wrote:
|| "Neil Cherry" <[email protected]> wrote in message
|| news:[email protected]...
||| Over the weekend (Sept. 25) I did a ride (Staten Island's Pumpkin
||| Patch Pedal) with 5 others and we proceeded to ride a really nice
||| century at a 19.8 mph pace. I'd like to thank Gina, Jud, Mark, Bob,
||| and John. I've left off their last names as I didn't ask if I can
||| post them. Without them I'd be:
|||
||| 1) taking the SAG wagon (ripped the rear tire wide open at mile 45)
||| 2) unwilling to finish as I got sick at mile 50, 75 and 92.
||| 3) unable to keep that kind of pace for 100 miles by myself.
|||
||| My previous fastest avg. was 18.8 over 100 miles (with several of
||| the above folks) done in June this year.
|||
||| BTW, it was a great day to ride in NJ, USA. Started at 62F at 7:30AM
||| and went into the high 70's by afternoon. There was some wind
||| starting around mile 40 but with the 6 of us riding 1 minute on the
||| front and five resting we were flying! The terrain is rolling flat
||| land at the start, flat in the middle and a little rolling flat
||| land toward the end.
|||
||| Oh, I took my turn just like everyone else. Bob and John said they'd
||| never broken 18 before. Our plan was to take an easy ride at around
||| 18 mph avg. Despite getting sick I had no trouble riding as my legs
||| felt great! Weird but true. I love it when a plan comes together!
|||
||
|| So what do you think made you sick at those three points?
|| over-exertion? Bad chicken?

Too many fig newtons. Well, that's what made me sick one time...

 

[Neil Cherry]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 19:50:06 -0400, Roger Zoul wrote:
> Fred Hall wrote:
>|| "Neil Cherry" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>|| news:[email protected]...
>||| Over the weekend (Sept. 25) I did a ride (Staten Island's Pumpkin
>||| Patch Pedal) with 5 others and we proceeded to ride a really nice
>||| century at a 19.8 mph pace. I'd like to thank Gina, Jud, Mark, Bob,
>||| and John. I've left off their last names as I didn't ask if I can
>||| post them. Without them I'd be:
>|||
>||| 1) taking the SAG wagon (ripped the rear tire wide open at mile 45)
>||| 2) unwilling to finish as I got sick at mile 50, 75 and 92.
>||| 3) unable to keep that kind of pace for 100 miles by myself.
>|||
>||| My previous fastest avg. was 18.8 over 100 miles (with several of
>||| the above folks) done in June this year.
>|||
>||| BTW, it was a great day to ride in NJ, USA. Started at 62F at 7:30AM
>||| and went into the high 70's by afternoon. There was some wind
>||| starting around mile 40 but with the 6 of us riding 1 minute on the
>||| front and five resting we were flying! The terrain is rolling flat
>||| land at the start, flat in the middle and a little rolling flat
>||| land toward the end.
>|||
>||| Oh, I took my turn just like everyone else. Bob and John said they'd
>||| never broken 18 before. Our plan was to take an easy ride at around
>||| 18 mph avg. Despite getting sick I had no trouble riding as my legs
>||| felt great! Weird but true. I love it when a plan comes together!
>|||
>||
>|| So what do you think made you sick at those three points?
>|| over-exertion? Bad chicken?
>
> Too many fig newtons. Well, that's what made me sick one time...

I don't exactly know!? I thought it was the raisinettes (what the
difference between a raisin and a prune? 15 minutes . but it
started before then. The last time it was Orange Gatorade. I'm not
sure what to think. BTW, I ended up with the runs but I didn't get
dehydrated and drinking Lemon-Lime Gatorade (what I always use) didn't
make me sick. Weird, last time I got really badly dehydrated. This
time I didn't have a problem with dehydration. I went through about
240 oz of gatorade. No dehydration the next day but I was a bit
tired. I could have still realed off another 60 miles.

I doubt it was over-exertion as I kept pace with everyone, took my
full minute pull and road rather well. I wonder if it might have
something to do with the last few weeks low mileage (around 100 for
the last 3 weeks). I also seem to have this problem at the begining of
the season when we start to build up miles and I jump from 62 miles to
100 miles on Saturday rides. It could just be that this year was a bad
year ofr illness. I've suffered through 2 centuries where I had heat
problems. I normally love the heat and have typically riden on 100+
days.

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