Originally Posted by
mstateglfr
Yeah, that could be the issue, but I sort of wrote it off a bit due to some things-
- my miles are up this year over prior years and I havent had this sort of cramping in past races.
- the prior incident was a 100k race on the first Saturday of August and I had just ridden 640mi in July. Admittedly, those miles often times had a break halfway thru for regrouping and while they were hard ridden, they werent race effort.
I am guessing it was largely due to not enough riding with race effort leading up to the race.
I did a more strenuous ride than usual this weekend, and pretty much just ran out of gas around 45 miles. If I'd had any sense, I'd have stopped for 10-20 minutes to eat and drink; but I wanted to get back before the rain hit, you know? If I'd stopped to refuel I'd have probably finished the ride sooner.