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Wow, Corsair... great, great job! I'm so sorry about the SAG situation, but what a treat for your friend to try out such a sweet ride. I test drove a Roubaix Comp before I bought my bike (a Roubaix Elite... aluminum frame with carbon fork, rear triangle and seatpost and Ultegra components... no DuraAce on mine!) and it pretty much spoiled me for any other bike.
So have you scopedout the metric century you're going to train for??
Again, great job. Thank God for informed cyclists like you!
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Thread: My first 50 mile ride!
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05-01-2005, 05:01 PM #16
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Congratulations!
If you can do 50, you can definitely do a metric. Usually a 50-miler is the longest training ride even recommended as necessary for a metric, so go for it!
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Congrats! Great job!
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05-01-2005, 09:26 PM #19
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You all are so motivational - I may just try a metric century next weekend! Of course, that would be After my next MTB'ng experience!! The three of us took a "recovery" ride today of about 17 miles and it was no biggie. The legs were fine, the butt was fine, the bike was fine. It's funny how once you do a 50, it just becomes another ride!
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05-02-2005, 08:58 PM #20
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It is amazing how miles just fly by on the bike! Originally Posted by CorsairMac
Now days when I go 40 miles... it is great... and the time flies by! It's 4 hours later before I know it (the group I am with stops twice!)!
Sounds like you are ready to tackle more serious miles!
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05-03-2005, 01:23 PM #21
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You know, I have discovered that there is a real training effect from doing the event. The century I did, tho' definitely not fast or terribly gnarly, really pushed my riding up a notch, I noticed this weekend Now, 50 miles is no big deal, AND my spinning is more effective, it is as though the base level of fitness is higher. Verrry interesting that one's body can still have a training effect at my, ahem, advanced age!
Corsair, I am so glad that you had the experience of drafting, and that you have good riding mates. Although they are all (happily) married, I really appreciate all my riding boyfriends who practice with me.The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart. ~Iris Murdoch, The Red and the Green
