Wow!!! I Did A Century!!!!!
02-06-06, 05:30 PM
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Wow!!! I Did A Century!!!!!
On saturday I got up as usual, grabbed some gels and some bars, inflated my tires and did 5.5 hours of base miles. I did 104 miles.
LET THE PRAISING BEGIN!!!
does that count as being orginized enough?
LET THE PRAISING BEGIN!!!
does that count as being orginized enough?
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Well, you managed to find your way home (I assume), so you were organized. 
And you clearly covered 100 miles. So it's a century. Congrats! 
And you clearly covered 100 miles. So it's a century. Congrats!
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Originally Posted by The_Convert
but wait, I did it solo so there was no pack to get dropped from...
what does THAT mean
what does THAT mean
You were the entire pack!! You didn't drop yourself, did you?
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Originally Posted by The_Convert
but wait, I did it solo so there was no pack to get dropped from...
what does THAT mean
what does THAT mean
Congratulations
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that's awesome. almost 19 mph average. even better.
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Originally Posted by richardmasoner
Well, congats. Did you go east or west from Boulder?
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Originally Posted by Machka
You didn't drop yourself, did you?
maybe I did...I don't really know
I'll be tearing my hair out over that one for weeks!
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Originally Posted by The_Convert
maybe I did...I don't really know
I'll be tearing my hair out over that one for weeks!
I'll be tearing my hair out over that one for weeks!
Maybe you'd better go retrace your steps and check. You could still be out there!
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How was the weather? The thought of riding in Colorado in February is a little daunting. Did you take the road along the foothills up through Lyons? That was one on my favorite rides 20 years ago when we lived there.
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Super cool awesome!!!!!!! Opens a beer for you...... woooohooooo !!!!!!
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Originally Posted by Machka
You were the entire pack!! You didn't drop yourself, did you?
You know you have the racing bug real bad if you start trying to drop yourself.
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Originally Posted by Olebiker
How was the weather? The thought of riding in Colorado in February is a little daunting. Did you take the road along the foothills up through Lyons? That was one on my favorite rides 20 years ago when we lived there.
Weather was OK. The training has to happen so unless its single digits or snowing I ride anyways. However, it has been the warmest january/feb on record and it really isn't bad riding at all. I think it was a high of 45 that day and a couple of days have been close to 55.
You can actually do most of the climbs around here too as long as you don't go up too high to peak to peak.
I rode 36 up to Lyons then on a very convoluted route past carter lake to big thompson canyon.
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100 miles. What a blast. 
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Was he biding his own time or was he being cagey with the pack?
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Originally Posted by TRaffic Jammer
Was he biding his own time or was he being cagey with the pack?
He kept attacking all the uphills trying to break up the group. I tried to explain that it was only Febuary and that there was no group. He wouldn't listen, but then he flatted and couldn't bridge back up anyways.
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I almost burst out laughing in the middle of my Art class a couple weeks ago. We are studying modern art, and the instructor was telling us about Andre Derain, a painter from the early 1900s. In his description of Andre Derain, my instructor gasped out, "And he once rode ONE HUNDRED miles in ONE DAY!!" . . . . . . as if doing so was accomplishing the impossible.
So, congratulations, if that was your first, you've joined the ranks of those of us who accomplish the impossible!!
So, congratulations, if that was your first, you've joined the ranks of those of us who accomplish the impossible!!
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Originally Posted by The_Convert
...no pack to get dropped from....
At that pace, you'd have been the one doing the dropping.
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Originally Posted by The_Convert
Dude was being a real tool.
He kept attacking all the uphills trying to break up the group. I tried to explain that it was only Febuary and that there was no group. He wouldn't listen, but then he flatted and couldn't bridge back up anyways.
He kept attacking all the uphills trying to break up the group. I tried to explain that it was only Febuary and that there was no group. He wouldn't listen, but then he flatted and couldn't bridge back up anyways.
That'll teach him for messing with improbable paradoxes.
Maybe next time he'll play nicer with the physics of the impossible.
seriously though dude .... good goin' ..... so early in the year too.
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True enough, quite some people have accomplished centuries, but i can't help but wonder on what bike and with which equipment Andre Derain did it in the early 1900s...
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Originally Posted by v1nce
True enough, quite some people have accomplished centuries, but i can't help but wonder on what bike and with which equipment Andre Derain did it in the early 1900s...
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