400km Brevet Started!

[Sreepathi Pai]

Nine riders riding out there!

Of course, Mordor is just beyond their turn-around point.

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[mohit kumar]

Aman messaged he was around tumkur sometime. Its raining on and off.

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[mohit kumar]

Aman, Prashant and Deepak have reached Sira and are riding together. Around 120 kms done. Nirmal , Mustafa and Sandip are ahead. 

[Arvind Ganesh]

Super! Good luck to them. Thanks For the update

[Mustafa]

All 9 of us riding the 400 finished in time.

Nirmal and I were riding very well at night. The next day I was having a hard time after 260 km, but was able to continue with Nirmal's support. Seeing Chiddu and other 1000 km riders ride past strongly also helped in pushing myself.

Mustafa

[anilk...@gmail.com]

Mustafa,

Congratulations to you and to 9 others on completing Brevet 400 kms.

aNIL s kadsur

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From: Mustafa <mustaf...@gmail.com>

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Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 13:16:02 -0700 (PDT)

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Subject: [BBC] Re: 400km Brevet Started!

[Basker Ramachandran]

Hearty congratulations on your achievement.. Terrific feat indeed !!

Basker
(Basker Ramachandran)
rba...@gmail.com,
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[Kishan Kumar]

Congratulations all!

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[Prashant Sharma]

Hi Friends , Very happy to report that the ride was very satisfying. Most importantly was able to finish strongly, no pains, no stiffness of any kind. Decided to ride back home(~40 Km, sarjapur) over mounting the bike on the car. Off-course, In hindsight this decisions deprived my wife  to miss the lively events @ CCD.she wanted to come to pick me up but then I decided to ride back.

Thank you all for your encouragement and support. Special thanks to my fellow riders for their support. Thank you Vikram, Aman,Mustafa,Niraml,Joshua !!!!

Regards,

Prashant

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 1:46 AM, Mustafa <mustaf...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[nirmal]

Was a very satisfying ride. Big thanks to Mustafa who helped a lot by pushing me on when I was tired, pulling and shielding me from the winds when I could not take them and being a very good companion on the ride. Some highlights of the ride being :

1.  At the toll both in Guilalu, 15kms after Hiriyur, Mustu and me were given a royal treatment. Cold water from the fridge, a place to rest and relax for a while, coffee served free and all this at 2am in the middle of the night. the toll fellows were very happy just to help. Mustu suggest recommending this place as a possible stop in the cue-sheet next time :)

2. On the return, the jack-fruit sellers between Dobbespet and Nelmangala were awed by so many cyclists passing by. A couple of them were offering jack-fruits to every cyclist passing by. When I offered to pay for the fruits I at, they simply refused, saying it was their pleasure to help us. Wonder how many other riders made use of this impromptu but un-anticipated service.

3. At Hiriyur ATM, Mustu, Joshua and myself also ran into police-men. About 4 of them. But they were very friendly, helping us find water, and also agrreing to let other riders to follow know of the ATM location. They were( as most passer-bys are) very curious to know what the event was about, and thought the idea of gettind atm slips as time stamps was a very clever one by the organisers ;)

4. The winds at Chitradurga were tough, as usual. However, since I was anticipating them, they did not feel as bad as last year, when I was caught by surprise. In fact they seemed relatively gentler as compared to last year, and I could dash of through them at a modest pace. Giving expected wind speeds at a given point on the ride for a given duration may help a lot for people who plan their rides. Could anyone let us know how to get this information?

And finally the 400km was the only ride with no DNFs and a 100% completion record. Yaay 400ers.

nirmal

[Kishan Kumar]

40k more after a challenging 400 is awesome Prahanth! Congratulations!

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[Ali Poonawala]

Well done guys.. you all are inspiration to other future aspirants..
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[Shankar Shastry]

Kickass stuff, you guys! Most of you finished quite early too! Looking at him being so relaxed, I thought Nirmal didn't ride at all. And I was happy to meet Sandeep on that ultra barren road and we chatted for quite a while since he had a lot of time left to finish. The route was so boring except for the occasional pitstops and cyclists waving from the other side of the road. 

[Vikram Bhat]

My ride report:

http://vikrambhat.wordpress.com/2012/06/27/400K

[Prashant Sharma]

Well written report Vikram! Thanks for sharing.

Regards,

Prashant

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Vikram Bhat <vick...@gmail.com> wrote:

My ride report:

http://vikrambhat.wordpress.com/2012/06/27/400K

[Mustafa]

My report: http://t.co/VYBSkUTK

Mustafa

[S Chidambaran]

Tremendous brave effort despite what looks like dehydration. You should have watched for it , and hydrated well

Regards,
Chiddu

On 06/28/2012 05:30 PM, Mustafa wrote:

My report: http://t.co/VYBSkUTK

Mustafa

[Uday]

Kudos on completing the ride Mustafa! Brave effort in battling the dehydration!

When you are fueling up, it is better to know that food takes time to digest, and becomes available as energy later on. If you plan your food intake, 3-4 hours before the ride, and keep topping up with easy to digest food, you should do well.

+Uday

[Satya Balakrishnan]

Congratulations! I am enjoying reading all the ride reports! And also inspired to try it myself ....

[Mustafa Khandwawala]

I am not sure, but I don't think I was dehydrated. I regularly had
water and gatorade at the night. And later on I was surviving
completely on liquids.

Is there a way to determine how much salts we should intake?

I will have to think about how to avoid this in future.

Mustafa

[vijay _ A]

Great determination Mustafa, I would have quit, if i were in your place, great motivation..  :) cheers

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Mustafa <mustaf...@gmail.com> wrote:

My report: http://t.co/VYBSkUTK

Mustafa

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"Stress is better than Frustration..!!"

[Uday]

One packet of gatorade for 1 litre of water.  The company's suggestion to mix for 1/2 litre, gives a concentrated mix. Thats about 30-40g per litre.

If you are drinking plain water (without salts) also, it might dilute the sodium content in your blood. That is an extremely dangerous situation. Google for hyponatremia. 

+Uday