Empire State AIDS Ride this year or ever??

[maryellen]

hey MM_QFC, thx for the background. Very helpful and inspiring.

Now I just have to wrap up a few details, including scheduling and making an educated guess whether I can get my butt in shape to sit on a bike saddle hours and hours a day for a week!

[Trek420]

maryellen writes: "Now I just have to wrap up a few details, including scheduling and making an educated guess whether I can get my butt in shape to sit on a bike saddle hours and hours a day for a week! "

sure you can! more details needed I guess.

I'll try to throw in some tips as I think of them. This was my second time riding also crewed in '97.

First off, and this goes for any multi day ride as soon as I registered I treated every ride as a training ride. You want to work out all the equipment issues.

Always be asking "what hurts?" and if anything does take steps to fix it, is it technique, fit, equipment? Don't even ask how many gloves I went through till I found the perfect ones. Small problems will become big ones and no pain is going to get better over 7 days.

You want to go into it feeling that everything fits poifectly ;-) More later, gotta get to work

[spazzdog]

Thx Mary! Good info to know.

Good luck Maryellen... you'll be fine.

[maryellen]

hey, spazzdog . . . your "you'll be fine" was particularly helpful--as you've actually seen me ride . . . even if just to starbucks from central park.

I love the chili peppers. I'll have to come up with one of those thingamajigs one of these days.