jimincalif

A double? Very cool. You, Russell and Dori. It's very gratifying to roll in after a long ride with something left in the tank. Breathless is really 70 mile climbing ride, then a 30 mile recovery ride with about +1000/-7000 elevation, I recovered pretty well and felt good by the time I got back. I also felt like I had a lot left after the Cool Breeze double metric. For me it's mental. After the double metric I could have physically kept riding, but mentally I was done. Not mentally exhausted, but just ready to get off the bike and do something else.

TrojanHorse

Jim's got a good point - did you have anything left at Onyx or just after coasting for 2 hours down the hill.

jimincalif

In good weather it's probably only a bit over an hour to get back from Onyx. I think it took me about 1-1/2 hrs last year, but I had to go slow through the rain, sleet and fog from Angelus Oaks down to the hairpin turn.

tunavic

I don't coast downhill

jsigone

I'm so bummed that PJ isn't be here to lock up the shenanigans at the end of the month

TrojanHorse

tunavic

You mentioned Russell. He finished up a 600K brevet last night. 35+ hours.

jimincalif

OMG! I can't even imagine how my butt would feel after that. Here you are working up to a double and he goes and nearly doubles a double!

Give him my congrats!

TrojanHorse

That's impressive. Crazy, but impressive. I think I saw some of them riding through Redondo beach on Sunday. It's not so common to see people all decked out in reflective gear, packs on bikes, lights etc on a bright Sunday morning.

DrIsotope

That's conditioning, mental as well as physical. I've done a could of double-metrics now, and it's... mostly manageable. When I did my 250k, the last 7 miles were just torture. I was literally talking to myself aloud, convincing the part of my brain that was done to keep going-- because I simply did not want to do it anymore. I talked myself through that last 30 minutes. Physically, I felt OK. I ate well, I paced well. But I had been alone, turning pedals, for almost 8 hours. It's easy to think, "My legs have still got miles in them," right up until you try to ride those miles. The you find out there are other factors.

The century I did with my wife is the only ride over 100 miles I've done start-to-finish with another person. And it was the easiest one I've ever done. 6+ hours by myself and I get way too far inside my own head. That's why I'll never grasp how guys who do double-imperials manage it, or how Coker did what she did last year. I'm too busy ruining everything with my thinking.

tunavic

That's a good description of what they looked like

jsigone

um yah I'll stick to my century-ish range for the long rides. One year BWR was 144 miles and 12k vert, I've yet to come close to that distance again outside of BWR. Closet was on my SF to LA ride when I rode thru the 101 valley to get to Paso Robles

ill.clyde

Was literally just thinking the same thing

jimincalif

Dang, that's a 12.6 mph average. Amazing.

TrojanHorse

****. Anybody posting in this thread after today will get haunted and probably have nothing but flats all May.

Keep out!