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How far?

How far do you go? I don't mean how far you go to end up with 200lbs of drugs: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ifMoaUbKGuxS55TAJ11h1lZ8f4nAD98TB57O0

I mean how far can you ride? Some crazies do the C&O canal in a day and rack up 180 miles or so. I'd like to give it a shot, but the stars never aligned for me. I did do 130 miles of it one day, but it rained so hard for the last four hours that I got sand in my shorts and mangina and it has taken me a while to remember the experience fondly.



This weekend I did get my best two day total. I am pretty sure of this because whenever I have done a century previously the next day I have sat around and "recovered". So I thought it sounded like a good idea to do TOMRV. http://www.qcbc.org/tomrv/route.html Its 106 miles day one and 89 miles day 2. I rode the fixie:



But its all I have. I thought I was making things hard for myself, but one guy was riding on some sort of BMX without a saddle or seatpost.

The first day was fun, I tried to take it easy and we even had a beer stop in Galena.






Surprisingly I felt great the second day. Well I felt great for 50 miles or so attacking the climbs and passing other riders like they were standing still. The last 30 were more of a struggle. I couldn't seem to ride quicker than really very slow. One of my buddys caught me and his computer (which is always over optimistic) said 14 miles an hour. It was fun in a way being humbled by riders who if you looked at them you would really not imagine then making 200 miles a weekend (or possibly a year)

So another challenge ride crossed off. I wonder what the next challenge will be? I better get some miles and fitness before SSWC09.....

posted by markie @ 6:49 PM