What a freaking understatement! The definition of horrible: 1 Arousing or tending to arouse horror; dreadful. 2 Very unpleasant; disagreeable. The word just doesn't do it justice. Something about the torturous depths of hell would be a better description of this ride. AND I ONLY DID 100K! There was a 200K distance as well. It would have taken me all day. The 100k took just over 5 hours of riding time and required numerous stops to rest and stretch my aching back. I have yet to meet a hill that I can't handle by standing up out the saddle. But man did some of these hills come really close. I really wish I had a few more gears. I didn't walk up any of the hills. But that's not much of an accomplishment when you have to stop every 10-15 miles to stretch your back. That gives you plenty of time to recover aerobically. I really expected my legs to be sore as shit the next day but they weren't. I took the day off expecting to stiffen up but I didn't. That's a huge representation of how much running wears out your legs since my legs were sore for two days after the 1/2 Ironman the previous weekend. And they were still out of juice when I did a midweek run workout four days after the 1/2.
Anyway, I posted the route below. If you click the "view full screen" at the bottom of the map it'll open another page. Then click the "show elevation" at the bottom of the map to see the hills. Not sure where they got the ascent totals since my Garmin said 6600 feet of climbing. The final hill up the back of the park (which we did at the beginning as well) was just sick. It was never ending and a total cardiac killer. It was like running an all out 5k at the end of a five hour workout. I stuffed my face at the finish. Garmin said I burned 4100 calories. I probably took in only 1000 during the whole ride. I also iced my back at the finish. After almost figuring things out during the 1/2, I was back to total suffering again. It must have something to do with the intensity of the ride. I'm scheduled to see an Osteopathy docotor next week.
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Hey Art! Thanks for the comment! If you want to see more photos of you on my blog (whoa, that sounded a little creepy), check out the "WIBA" links on my side bar under the 2008 events. There's a lot of you in "Part 3" when we ran together - including the great nipple band-aid transfer from Stu.
Happy training!!
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