Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Perspective

Got in 90 miles of riding today. It felt mostly nice to be out on the bike for almost 7 hours. There was a lot of wind. Also quite a bit of rain. And I made the typical mistake with 20 miles to go that even though I was hungry I would just wait until I got home to eat anything else. Finally with less than 5 miles from home I was getting dizzy and light headed so I sucked down some peanut m&m's and sunflower seeds which was just enough to get me home. Six weeks from now a 7 hour ride will hopefully feel short, but right now this is the longest ride I've done since October and I'm definitely feeling good and tired out tonight. Something tells me the GDR might be a little bit difficult :)

3 comments:

FixieDave said...

Gotta eat! Hard to do but I find if i don't eat at least something every 2 hours so much ezer to bonk!

make sure you have 400-600 cals really ez to get to in your kit... tt bag or something on the handlebar...

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Anonymous said...

Hi Geoff--
The virus people must love your blog. Looks like another one hit you (above). Wish those folks would just take up riding ore sumthin'