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Happy ending ?Just had an appt with the sports therapist massage and stretching lady this morning. I feel so much better.
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Happy ending ?Just had an appt with the sports therapist massage and stretching lady this morning. I feel so much better.
Did you book that before or after your double century? I've never done anything past stretching and soaks in a spa, but as many hours as you spent in the saddle easily justify something more.
I've been fighting an inner ear infection for weeks and haven't ridden anything with two wheels due to some concerns about my balance. I think I've finally turned the corner on it and may finally get some regular time in on both bikes next week.
Have you used pepper spray before? It's effective, but you'll end up eating some, too.
Mixed two different groups together for a Sunday 'relaxed' gravel ride ... that became no relaxed pretty gosh darn fast, lol. And the dude with the 4" or 5" wide tires? Kept up just fine until the speeds maintained 19 MPH or over. Strong as all get out rider, says he rides five days a week.
A stop to allow the slower riders time to catch up, and taking a break in the only shade out there - it's a little electrical building that casts a long shadow in the early morning. Somehow we boosted the speed to 19 or 20 MPH on the gravel, and that dropped a lot of folks.
This isSPARTASOUTH FLORIDA!!!!!!
We few - we don't cower to the UCI.
Do you at least treat the socks with permethrin?
South Florida insect pressure is likely a little worse than what the Swiss face.
Screwed up a 93-mile gravel ride by getting the mix wrong with the sticky rice squares. I added a bit too much coconut oil, and I suspect that eating too many of those squares at one time coated my stomach / internals with the oil, preventing nutrients and water from absorbing fast enough. First half of the ride went just fine, then we stopped for a break at the halfway point at Lake Okeechobee. I ate too many squares at one time, could tell they were oily. Tasted great tho.
Here is me at my lowest ... soft sand (that the others could maintain about 11 or 12 MPH on), into the wind, me just not being able to push hard at about mile 75. That next bump in speed was a paved road , North, not directly into the wind where I could spin out my RPM's (which is my default back-up mode when I can't lay down power). By this time we were all low on water (forgive me, but I didn't expect a 90-mile gravel ride without a water stop... I was ill-prepared), so we took this route to get to a Palm Beach county shooting range which we knew had water bottles for sale. I downed a bunch of water, but I still am not sure that is what the problem was as much as the coconut oil preventing the absorption of both water and carbs/sugars. Or... maybe I felt great at the mid-way point for no great reason, and really did just tire out - but I don't think that is what it was. And my legs weren't hurting.
This carried over to the next day where, again, seemingly no matter how much water I was taking in, I wasn't peeing like I should before or during the ride. No matter what I did, it didn't seem to be enough water. Perhaps I was feeding my body too many electrolytes?
So there's this morning - blood draw for physical testing. I drank water last evening and two bottles this morning with and after a light breakfast because I thought they were going to take many large tubes of blood. They ended up taking two tiny tubes of blood. In fact, the girl taking the blood asked me if I had fasted. I told her 'Nope - nobody told me to fast.' So she suggested rescheduling. Well, the entire medical system is such a pain in the ass anymore with such distant scheduling that I told he to just take it, and that hopefully it would affect much.
I also learned that my Wahoo Bolt V2 is even worse at elevation than my old Garmin watch is.
If I get a vote, keep talking about flying machines.
I don’t feel quit as old and out of shape as when you folks talk about your bicycle rides.