Ride the Ladies of Massachusetts

[paulthenurse]

I didn't think fishing was allowed in the Quabbin? Doesn't matter, that's not what this thread is about. We will stay on topic here, cycling, training fitness and charity fundraising.

Fish we can talk about elsewhere.

PTN

 

[paulthenurse]

Went to the Y today. Swam 3/4 mile in 25 minutes, went upstairs to the gym and rode 10 miles in 27 minutes. Then I got on the treadmill and burned the paint off with 1/2 mile in 9 minutes.

Then I did some speed work and went to a nearby drinking establishment and polished off two beers in under three minutes while I waited for my hamburger with blue cheese and grilled onions. The subtleties of my exercise program need some refinement.

PTN

 

[babalu87]

I didn't think fishing was allowed in the Quabbin? Doesn't matter, that's not what this thread is about. We will stay on topic here, cycling, training fitness and charity fundraising.

Fish we can talk about elsewhere.

PTN

No, certain areas can be fished.

http://www.mass.gov/dcr/watersupply/watershed/fishguide.pdf

 

[paulthenurse]

Don't make me open up a can of whoop-ass on you. You coming riding with me? If not then begone.

PTN

PM me your fishing schedule.

 

[paulthenurse]

Well guys, the ladies might let us ride but we're gonna be big time saddle sore when they're done with us. I've been doing some map work. Picking arbitrary points at teh center of each downtown I mapped out routes between the girls, staying off busy roads. (Impossible to do in Chelsea, BTW!) Marion to Sharon comes in at 47 miles. Sharon to Beverly is 45, including going through Chelsea and Lynn. Beverly to Shirley is a very disjointed 50 +/-. (The roads don't go in the right direction, they all seem to go in a generally Northwest to Southeast direction and we need to go Northeast to West Southwest.)

That is all do-able.

The ****** comes from Shirley to Lee. Staying on roads that are safe and avoiding the worst of the mountains I got 126 miles, including a 1600 foot elevation net gain, most of that net gain found around Mile 85, where a 4% grade just goes on and on for miles and miles. I called Joe up with the numbers and he laughed at me. And I quote, "When you get to the point where you can do 75 miles in the saddle for two days in a row and still walk afterwards you let me know. Until that point you're honestly never going to be capable of making that last section. Not trying to burst your bubble but that's the honest truth. You'll just bonk."

Hmmmmmm.


As Gimly said in LOTR, "Certainty of death versus small chance of success. What are we waiting for?"

I did 10 hard miles yesterday at the Y, my legs are still sore today. Swam 3/4 mile this afternoon to switch things up.

PTN

 

[Hippie]

Like I said at SAUC2, I'm interested. August is quite a ways off for me to commit to anything, and thru-hiking the Long Trail was/is on the calender for that month, but I'll start training now to get saddle tough. I think that we may want to route plan to hit brewpubs for a sampler stop (I taste sponsors ), though I understand the obvious problems this may entail. One problem I have is I don't have a road bike... anyone else gonna mountain bike it, or just be slow?

 

[paulthenurse]

It's a damned good thing I'm as good looking as I am, 'cause I'm not that freakin' smaht.

Ain't no reason we can't go the other way, West to East. Start out in Lee with a long ass first leg (but it's mostly down hill,) ease thru the middle of the state and end up with a nice swim in Buzzards Bay. We could even do it in three days this way since we wouldn't need to save ourselves for a final killer day. What do you guys think?

 

[paulthenurse]

Buehler?




Bueher?




Buehler?

 

[paulthenurse]

Like I said at SAUC2, I'm interested. August is quite a ways off for me to commit to anything, and thru-hiking the Long Trail was/is on the calender for that month, but I'll start training now to get saddle tough. I think that we may want to route plan to hit brewpubs for a sampler stop (I taste sponsors ), though I understand the obvious problems this may entail. One problem I have is I don't have a road bike... anyone else gonna mountain bike it, or just be slow?

While I'll certainly manage to find a pub or four over the course of the ride I want to keep the ride focused as a charity ride, not a beer ride. That said, I'm all over the idea of being charitable to myself in a pub in the evenings.

Sorry, I don't have another road bike, but I don't expect to be setting any speed records, no matter what I'm peddleing

PTN

 

[the_bird]

I am so badly out of shape, there isn't a prayer in hell that I'd be ready to do anything even CLOSE to a ride like this by summer. Not a prayer. I might buy myself a bike in the spring, but I'm in horrible shape and not sure how I'll be able to rectify that in any reasonable amount of time. Out.

 

[Hugh_Jass]

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.

 

[paulthenurse]

You just want to be around so you can volunteer to apply the bag balm and chammy butter to the sore spots.


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[paulthenurse]

So I can put you down for $2.00 a mile?

 

[the_bird]

Two buck a mile? That's pretgty awesome. Either you're really generous just or not very good at math.

 

[paulthenurse]

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

 

[paulthenurse]

Two buck a mile? That's pretgty awesome. Either you're really generous just or not very good at math.

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 **** 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 ****ies in pairs.

PTN

 

[Hippie]

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!"

 

[paulthenurse]

"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!)

 

[Hippie]

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.

 

[brewmonk]

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! ....

 

[Hippie]

Trying to motivate myself for today's ride. tuesday's was in the high teens and last night I did about 22 miles.

 

[brewmonk]

Christ, I got winded the last time I tried to ride 10 miles from Lake Massapoag to the State Forest in Foxboro.

 

[Hippie]

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

 

[paulthenurse]

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.

PTN

 

[Hippie]

Feel the burn, baby!

 

[brewmonk]

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

that's my plan for the new york marathon, too!

 

[brewmonk]

Hey brewmonk... I gotta get a pic of the new "Tun Barrel-Jacket" posted.

The thing is saaa-weeet. Oh that tun is holdin' temp like a mutha now.

cape: nemme SEEEEEE, nemme SEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[paulthenurse]

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

 

[brewmonk]

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.

 

[paulthenurse]

Go see Mike at Foxboro Bike. He's a WB regular, brewer and a good guy. He'll get you set up

PTN