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Paul, down hill or not, 120+ miles on a hot August day is gonna take a bunch out of ya. You're looking at ~8 hrs of saddle time. That's a LONG day. Really, though, not as long as the next day when all of the chamios butter on the planet couldn't take away the discomfort of getting back in the saddle after a 120 mile hilly ride on a hot August day. It would be difficult to ride Jenna Jamison let alone your own bicycle.

Can you split that leg in two? Either way, I hope you guys have fun.:mug:
 
Ten miles of interval training this evening. Ten minutes warm up, 5 minutes pretty hard, then 5 sets of alternating 3 minutes as hard as I could go alternating wit 2 minutes of easy spinning, then 10 minutes of cool off. I was sweating pickles. Hit a max heart rate of 165 and a max cadence if 150

Now it's off to the ICU.



I work there. Don't be fresh

PTN
 
the_bird said:
Two buck a mile? That's pretgty awesome. Either you're really generous just or not very good at math.
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You're right. Very cool! Thanks Cape Brewing! $2/mile is a VERY generous pledge. Of course, when you think about it, it's only a buck a boob per mile. And you sure wouldn't want to cheap out and only go a buck a mile. The whole idea is to keep the boobies in pairs.

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Thursday was a 3+ mile walk (with Dad for his recovery) then later around an 8 mile ride. Friday was somewhere between a 16-20 mile ride. I don't have any fancy computers on my bike, and don't see them in the near future, but got my headlights set back up for nightriding. The next bike related thing will be replacing the clipless pedal setup that went away. Halfway through my Friday ride I finally put air in the tires and went from about 10# of pressure back up to 60#... Massive improvement!! No ride Saturday and questionable weather for the next few days, but then again, as sweet as I am, I'm not made of sugar, right?

Bird, you have time to get in the proper shape. I mean I understand you aren't round like me (which as we all know is the strongest shape), but there is still hope for you. Like Janis says... "you have to tryyyyyy, just a little bit harder!"
 
"Sweat another couple of pounds off, Baby!
Sweat another couple of pounds,
you know they're there. (sweat it)
sweat another couple of pounds off, Baby!
You know you got it
worrrrrrrrk it
Sweat it!

PTN

(Big Brother and the rest of the Holding Company just jumped on a Government Mule and rode off a cliff!)
 
Paul, I'd like to see your route plan. I am also thinking that western mass should be 2 days with all the vert. I was also wondering how many people we are looking at, as I may have a place in beverly where we can stay and may try to set up some sort of dinner.
 
I guess I'm a slow, yeast-coddled, fermenterizer....

I will NOT be able to do the whole ride, but I'll try to do the Sharon-Marion trip with you!

(Since it's only a small portion of the whole trip, should I look into nipple fundraising?)

... Research the NERTS! ....
 
Trying to motivate myself for today's ride. tuesday's was in the high teens and last night I did about 22 miles.
 
Christ, I got winded the last time I tried to ride 10 miles from Lake Massapoag to the State Forest in Foxboro.
 
Well Cape, it worked, so start with the imbibing! Even with no jump in my legs I still banged out 25.

Monk, are you really gonna pull a Rosie Ruiz on us? Meet us at the end and ride into the cheering crowds... weak:p
 
I spent Wednesday skiing with my daughter at Wawa. There was no one there, we skied right up to the lift and skiied down as fast as we could. We were getting in 6 runs an hour. Eventually my legs were so tired that I couldn't even carve a turn, my skiis were just floating. When the school buses showed up at 3 we bailed. My legs were toast yesterday. The quads were ok but my groins were seriously sore. I'll be back on the bike at teh gym tonight and try to get outside tomorrow. We'll see, it's suposed to be in the teens.

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Hippie said:
Well Cape, it worked, so start with the imbibing! Even with no jump in my legs I still banged out 25.

Monk, are you really gonna pull a Rosie Ruiz on us? Meet us at the end and ride into the cheering crowds... weak:p
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that's my plan for the new york marathon, too!
 
Paul, I am impressed. You are really going for it!!!!!! I'm going to be gasping and wheezing behind the pack, and that's *IF* I set up my trainer in the basement.
 
Then actually ride the thing instead of using it as a clothes hanger like most people!

No ride yesterday...Took my grandfather out to lunch, then T-storm & tornado watch into the night. Today was pretty windy, so I did laps around the complex, totaling around 25 miles.
 
paulthenurse said:
Ya great, you have a nice pot. This thread is about a charity bike ride. You upping your pledge to $3.00 per mile?

How about keeping it at $2.00/mile but pledging to both myself and the Hippie?

PTN
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Instead of a swear jar (which we would go broke filling) we could have an off-topic jar.
 
Ok, here is the first segment. I've registered as a member on this site. It has some INCREDIBLE tools, including and especially the one that lets you map out routes. If you go to the drop down menu you can toggle the view to "Terrain" which I think gives you the best view of the landscape. The topo map is just to busy with topo lines. I've mapped out the best route I could find, avoiding the worst of the killer hills. (You can also click on the "Show Elevation" box and a graphic will pop up on the bottom showing the elevation gained/lost over the miles. You can also scale down to an extremely high resolution. The other WICKED cool tool is the GoogleEarth 'Watch Course Fly-By Video,' it's a beta version but it is so cool. Click on that up at the top and follow the route from 100 foot in the air!) I'll post up the other completed segments shortly. They are all completed and I think they are pretty good. The only one that I really and truely don't like and am somewhat afraid of is the Sharon to Beverly section. That ride is going to have an extremely high pucker factor. There is no way to avoid high traffic routes. Duh! We'll be riding thru Boston and over the river to Chelsea. That is going to need to be done on a Sunday so we stand a chance of finishing the ride without ending up like a mosquito on a Mack truck's window.

Give me feedback on the routes.

PTN
 
This is the ending segment, Sharon to Marion. (I initially had this as the starting leg and that is why it is labeled as Leg 1 Marion to Sharon,but since we will go west to east it is now the final leg. That just means we get to jump in the ocean when we finish.)

PTN
 
BTW, the total milage comes in at 266 miles. 123 from Lee to Shirley, 52.5 Shirley to Beverly, 43.5 Beverly to Sharon (including riding thru Lynn and Chelsea) and 47 Sharon to Marion. I think this might have to be a multi weekend ride.

We'll also want to discuss what sort of bulletproof vests we'll want for the ride down Blue Hill Ave and thru Chelsea and Lynn.

PTN
 
Just did a short 4 mile ride but it is my first ride outdoors of the year. 36 degrees out. My f'ing toes might never warm up. I've really got to get those faggy little footies, I don't have winter cycling shoes and I can't feel anything from my ankles down. And we're supposed to get a foot of snow tomorrow so it looks like I won't be going outside again any time soon. Cool, my feet might warm up by then.

PTN

Any thoughts on the routes? Buehler? Buehler? Buehler?
 
Paul, one thing that I would change is on the 'dicey' section from mile 35-40 go on Rt 1A instead of 107, it is just nicer. Also, you have the Beverly waypoint on the far end of town in Beverly Farms.
I like how the Lee section has the 6 mile warm up before the steeps, then a 2 mile cool down before 2 more miles of uphill and that is pretty much it, with the long descent; east to west would have blown.
I understand your wanting to make it a multiweekend ride, and I think the first leg will be too long, but I would still prefer to do this as one continuous ride. I looked to see if there was a state campground in the 80-100 mile range on day 1, but there isn't. Oh well, we still have 6 months to iron out the details.

As far as workouts go, my pace is off, doing just 8 on sunday, 10 monday and an uptempo 3 mile walk today. Hopefully tomorrow will be a longer ride.
 
Well, I got to tell you, Hip, today was a reality check. Yes, you may not have any downhill sections on a trainer or at the gym so you need to keep peddling continually but roads are harder, I don't care what anyone says. I just did a simple loop of 4 1/2 miles and I was winded. I had a max heart rate of 156 and I was on easy gears.

Also, I am riding one of my brothers old bikes. The first time I got on it I felt like I'd never been on a bike before. I've had bikes my whole life but they have always been "Two-ton Schwinns." If you wanted to turn left you pushed your right hand forward and the bike turned left. Not this bike. You want to turn left you drop your left shoulder a quarter inch and WHAM! You are tearing thru a turn. And the shifters are on the diagonal tube. (Until I get my balance skills back I intend to keep it in only one or two gears. Every time I shift it is an adventure.) If it were a boat it would be called 'tender.'

I got used to it but it took a while (a few hundred miles) and I'm starting over again at square one. I asked him about it when he first gave it to me and he described it like this. "You're used to a 75 Chevy Impala. Some big block, gigantic old boat that cruises down the road. Now you're driving an MG. Smaller, lighter, faster and much more responsive." After I put several hundred miles on that first summer he let me take his new bike out for a spin and it was the same thing all over again. "Now you're going from an MG to a Ferrari."

At least my arse feels ok. The saddle didn't really have a chance to cause me misery, I was on it for less than 15 minutes. My hands didn't like the brake hoods, either. Man, that stationary bike at the Y is starting to seem like a waste of time! Winded, tachycardic and sore after a 4 1/2 mile ride. Reality check indeed.

PTN
 
Hippie said:
I understand your wanting to make it a multiweekend ride, and I think the first leg will be too long, but I would still prefer to do this as one continuous ride. I looked to see if there was a state campground in the 80-100 mile range on day 1, but there isn't. Oh well, we still have 6 months to iron out the details.
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I'm waiting for feedback from Joe on the route. I sent it to him and I'm waiting to hear back from him on it. I talked to him this evening on my way in to work but he's in KC on business and hasn't bothered to sit down and put the time into checking out the routes. I'm pretty sure I'll be in Century shape by mid summer. But this is 260 + miles. And I don't intend to fail so I want to do it smart.

(I don't know if you've noticed but you and I are both just a little to the left of 'in shape.' But that's why I put this out at the end of the summer. Gives us plenty of time to flog the hog.)

PTN
 
I also expect the century mark to be attainable, but I expect to personally average about 10-12 MPH (Mtn bike), breaks excluded, which makes for a long first day. I know it may be prohibitive for some people, but maybe doing something like a wed-sat ride with a sunday recovery day would work and move the end of leg 1 to the start of leg 2 so that it would go something like 100-70-50-40.

Welcome to the road work crew. I can't get much vertical work in here in Florida, but actually being on the bike makes you balance it, fight headwinds and dodge traffic! I got in around a 4 mile walk, but here is something you don't deal with at the gym, my ride got canceled due to a torn tubeless tire! I didn't even know my new setup was tubeless until after I bought the new tube... now it is a $45 repair instead of $6:eek:
 
Did 14.6 miles on the stationary bike at the Y yesterday in 50 minutes. Tried to maintain a steady cadence to keep my heart rate in check. Before I would just power thru the 'downhill' sections and my cadence would rise. Yesterday I tried to keep it more like a real bike and eased up on the downhills and kept my cadence at around 88 - 90 for the entire time. It felt good, it allowed me to recover and keep my heart rate at around 140 for the entire hour (counting cool off time after the 50 minutes of hard riding.) That gives me an average speed of around 16 MPH. That doesn't seem very fast to me but I was really cranking it. I suppose I could have got the cadence up a bit faster and that would have increased my average speed but I don't know taht I could have maintained that for the entire time. Oh well, that's going to come with more time in the saddle. Still and all, a good work out, especially considering that I haven't done anything for a week.

PTN
 
There aren't enough threads with outrageous post counts that nobody reads past page 3 from you guys ****ting on each other? how about we start one called "Cape & Paul's snipefest" that everyone can read because they are out of alcohol to kill braincells... How much money is going into the "Off-topic jar"?

To get back on thread, I finally repaired my tire. yesterdays work out was a 3 mile walk, quickly followed by a 20 mile ride, watched the US men's hockey game then went for a 25 mile ride. My legs were pretty sore (nevermind saddle issues). Today was 2 advil and a 4 mile walk so far, and I expect to be on the bike shortly, right after I check the Olympic schedule.
 

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