OC July 30th ride

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Heya Pam!

I haven't ridden a lot of long rides either so we can hold everyone up together! I did the metric in Ventura (55 miles - a bit short) but since then, my longest ride has been 35 so you are definately not alone. I'm starting to think the really long stuff is just not my thing... I love the metrics but anything longer than that just doesn't sound fun. I think that the only way I'll want to go longer is at an organized ride (as opposed to me just trying to get in a training ride).

Brandy and Caligurl know this, but I've been sorta job hunting so my training time is more limited than it was. I do plan on doing a 25 miler either tomorrow or Wednesday (our A/C has crashed so I am NOT missing the technician - I'll be at their mercy) and maybe a few short hill repeats one day... its been 112 so there is a very small window for me... don't have childcare until 9am... so maybe an hour or two in the morning OR if DH is home, maybe an hour or so after the sun goes down a bit... I will just keep plugging away and get as much in as I can!

How 'bout this Pam... we'll hook bungies to each other and flip-flop our way up and down the hills! hee hee hee, sorry, that sounds pretty comical if you think about it

No worries, they'll wait for us

Trac'

[caligurl]

I'm starting to think the really long stuff is just not my thing... I love the metrics but anything longer than that just doesn't sound fun. I think that the only way I'll want to go longer is at an organized ride (as opposed to me just trying to get in a training ride).

tracy.... i've never done a non-organized century... cuz i just don't have the.... willpower? or whatever the word is.... i use the sag stops as my movitation and it makes it easier (easier?) for me... at least mentally! cool breeze is good cuz there are a lot of rest stops... so a lot of little interim motivators!

heck.... i set out on a ride around here and say i'm going to do 40.... and i'm bores and "done" after 20-25.... it really IS different doing it on your own rather than at an organized ride (and yes... even if you ride that organized ride "by yourself"... cuz you still have the little minit goals of the sag stops!

however... that said... if YOU don't want to do a century... then don't... cuz riding one is a LOT mental... and if you aren't prepared mentally... then you probably won't do it... (for me... i have NO desire to do a double century... even though i've had people badgering me to do them... i don't doubt i could.. just like i have NO doubt whatsoever that you could complete a century... but i don't WANT to do one... so that means i most likely wouldn't finish... MENTAL!)

but please don't write off the century yet.. you have almost a month to change your mind and ride.. you's all are worrying way too early about cool breeze!


p.s. brandy has permanently banished me from all future TE rides! shes a big ole MEANIE!

[Brandy]

p.s. brandy has permanently banished me from all future TE rides! shes a big ole MEANIE!

That's me!

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That's me!

troublemaker....

[Brandy]

troublemaker....

I'm not really a mean girl. I just play one on the internet.

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I'm not really a mean girl. I just play one on the internet.

.... that's not what Tiffanie said....

hee hee hee

[Brandy]

.... that's not what Tiffanie said....

hee hee hee

Please don't take the word of someone who abandoned our Cool Breeze Century in favor of Tim McGraw's butt!

[bcipam]

Somehow I feel I've missed out on something... you guys are too weird!

Trac... I have to say before each of my centuries I rode no farther than 50 miles, OK maybe a metric here and there, but generally 40 miles or less and I have never had any trouble finishing a century. OK some I was more tired than others but I did it. Mental is the key. But I have an advantage over you - I have done centuries so I know what it's all about. First time is tough. I almost like the way I did mine - I had only planned on doing 75 but forgot to turn off to cut the ride short and accidently did the full century. OK about 80 miles in I was in tears for a short period and when I hit 100 on my odometer I stopped and looked for the sag wagon but since one did not come, I kept riding and the last 8 miles (the ride distance was 108 miles) was not all that bad. After I finish I felt really good.

I have no idea how I'm going to physically do on this ride but I'm just going to ride. If I get out there half way and don't feel good, oh well, I sag or turn around. No worries. This heat is really cutting into my riding time but hopefully Cool Breeze will come through and will have that wonderful, cool, usually overcast weather to ride in. That's a motivator as well.

I'm hoping Brandy will have a route slip for this Sunday and scheduled stops and we each ride to her own ability and regroup at the stops. I can hang on downhills and flats but am very slow on hills, especially with heat.

[Tiffanie]

.... that's not what Tiffanie said....

hee hee hee

Hey now don't be bringing me in to this cat fight!

Please don't take the word of someone who abandoned our Cool Breeze Century in favor of Tim McGraw's butt!

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tracy.... i've never done a non-organized century... cuz i just don't have the.... willpower? or whatever the word is.... i use the sag stops as my movitation and it makes it easier (easier?) for me... at least mentally! cool breeze is good cuz there are a lot of rest stops... so a lot of little interim motivators!

heck.... i set out on a ride around here and say i'm going to do 40.... and i'm bores and "done" after 20-25.... it really IS different doing it on your own rather than at an organized ride (and yes... even if you ride that organized ride "by yourself"... cuz you still have the little minit goals of the sag stops!

however... that said... if YOU don't want to do a century... then don't... cuz riding one is a LOT mental... and if you aren't prepared mentally... then you probably won't do it... (for me... i have NO desire to do a double century... even though i've had people badgering me to do them... i don't doubt i could.. just like i have NO doubt whatsoever that you could complete a century... but i don't WANT to do one... so that means i most likely wouldn't finish... MENTAL!)

but please don't write off the century yet.. you have almost a month to change your mind and ride.. you's all are worrying way too early about cool breeze!


p.s. brandy has permanently banished me from all future TE rides! shes a big ole MEANIE!

That's why you're da bomb CG! You are so good at 'getting' what I mean! I am not writing off the century at all; I've got to do at least one and it would probably be really good to do it when we all have each other as support! I am pretty sure I could do one even now under good circumstances. But, I'm exactly like you... those longer training rides are really tough for me. I do like that one w/the hills that I talk about though because once you get to the turn around point there isn't really a choice about finishing it up

I'll be doing the ride on Sunday then if the weather cools off or I can bribe DH into watching the wild things so I can leave early one time I'll probably hit that 40 miler again too; other than that, its gonna be 10-35 milers.

Trac'

ps. I'm over-riding you Brandy; Caligurl can never be banished!

[caligurl]

ps. I'm over-riding you Brandy; Caligurl can never be banished!

neener... neener... NEENER!!!!!!!!!!!!!