Training ride Saturday March 2nd / Strhathmore 200

[Peter]

I am planning to ride the SM200 coming Saturday as a training ride. Plan would be to ride easy for a time of 8 hours. If anyone would like to join in I would stay with him/her. I would shoot for a 9am start and be back before dawn (5.30pm at the latest). If I rush I could be ready for an earlier start as well.

If you want to join send me an email to phoelt...@hotmail.com and post here.

This is not a brevet, only follows the course.

Peter

 

[Dan]

I may join you for start but only plan to ride 100 or so If anybody wants to ride that distance at a little slower pace

[Relentless]

Peter : I'm going to join the Speed Theory group for the Wheeler training ride leaving at the same time, shorter distance 100-130Km but my guess it's going to be intense :)  Check out the Speed Theory race team blog, training forum, if you want the details.  You should have no trouble hanging in.

Stephen

On Thursday, February 28, 2013 9:42:21 PM UTC-7, Peter wrote:

[Peter]

We rode it! A friend of mine, Gunnar, and I started out in freezing fog. It was Gunnar's first 200 and I strongly advised him not to rush, it can get back to you very badly in the last third of the ride.
It was supposed to be a sunny day with temperature between 5 in the morning and 12 in the afternoon.....it was always below freezing with ice in the water bottles.
Anyway, Gunnar and I were up to the challenge and did it, discussing sometimes whether we should take a shortcut. Well, we didn't and in the end we were proud. We had to take two extended breaks to warm up the feet, also, Gunnar had a flat tire around km60.
I paced us at an average speed just under 28 km/h, we were moving just a bit more than 7 hours of the 9 hours.
Elevation gain / loss: 830 m
steepest grade: 7%
average temperature: -2.5 C (between - 4 and -1C) with freezing fog
 Peter

[Gaylene]

Peter you are a crazy man. 

G

Gaylene Halter

A clean house is the sign of a broken computer. 

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[Bill Bakke]

Peter,

Of course if the weather was as forecast, the training benefits for the AR brevet season would have been minimal.  This way you got a real good dose of what is soon to come.   And I've never known anyone named Gunnar who is not a tough Viking!  Good job, guys.

See you in the warmer climate in two weeks for some enjoyable cycling.

Bill