Going Long and Hard.

Here is a picture shared from Jeff Oatley on the ITI. Holy crap!
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my core body temp dropped a degree just looking at that.

i watched a vid a while ago of Jay P showing his gear and he had rubber cemented his gaiters onto his shoes so he could just walk right thru those stream crossings unscathed
 
Happy Creek I think. What's crazy is you ride over huge frozen rivers and lakes and these little streams don't freeze?
 
jimvreeland said:
Holy fuck was that hard. Yes, I skipped the last checkpoint in an attempt to close an hour gap. I made up a ton of time and caught a bunch of 350 milers but never saw the 2 in front from the gun.
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Hey Jim - I'm really proud of you! That took some big coconuts to attempt and well, to podium; I'm almost teary-eyed to see that. Congratulations!

All the best,

Ted
 
BTW - forgot how much I miss your writing style; great story as always.

Now 'splain me the no front brake thing so I don't have to go back 93 pages to see where the decision was taken bike a bike wrench to use a skid brake instead of a stopping brake on ice paths. Thanks.
 
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Second HbHammer in the books.

Just after the Neutral Rollout I dropped it into the 53x11 and attacked the group with everything I had. One of my former TT nemesisi took the bait and went right by me. I struggled to get onto his wheel but I could already tell my body doesn't have a lick of fast twitch at the moment. Daniel caught us and in only a couple miles the group was all together. Not too much recovery before we hit the first punchy climb and my legs shut down. I just watched the group ride away from me. Fuck.

I hit the swamp solo and did what I do, big gear pursuit. Before we made the right out of the swamp, I was back with part of the group, 1/2 of them were still a minute plus up the road.

Our group didn't work well together and kept attacking each other, dick punch after dick punch. The lead group just kept gaining ground. With a few miles to go in the ride I attacked in a last ditch effort to bridge to the leaders. David chased but I didn't let him catch on. My legs gave up the ghost for good just out of reach and David caught me. I jumped onto his wheel for a free ride back into town. We finished about 2-minutes behind the leader.

Power was low at just over 300 watts, as was my HR. I'll need a few more of these efforts to get some sort of XC form back so I can at least fake it during the shorter races.
 
Yes. Well at least at the very top end. I can sit at 20mph for something like the Longest Day but struggle to average too much more than that regardless of how short the ride is. Sprinters and Marathoners are 2 different people.
 
jimvreeland said:
Yes. Well at least at the very top end. I can sit at 20mph for something like the Longest Day but struggle to average too much more than that regardless of how short the ride is. Sprinters and Marathoners are 2 different people.
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I find it really fascinating that the top 350 guys are also that fast. Training to grind miles is one thing, grinding that many miles at race pace is another. Crazy stuff.
Thanks!
 
wish i had some local dudes to do that stuff with, i gotta go into the city and latch on to the ralph coffee rides

though @wyakinflow always kicks my ass when were on the trails so i guess that counts
 
jimvreeland said:
I hit the swamp solo and did what I do, big gear pursuit. Before we made the right out of the swamp, I was back with part of the group, 1/2 of them were still a minute plus up the road.
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Word - I saw you chasing the lead group through the swamp on Wednesday - I even yelled out to you as I passed the other way. I was wondering if you were able to catch up to them or not. Now I know! Seems like with a little cooperation from the others you might have been able to reel them in but that group is no joke so you never can tell.

Hope to see you out there on one of those Wed hammerfests once I get my butt into shape.
 
jimvreeland said:
Thanks Norm, I ordered a Revelate Harness from here last week. After doing some measuring I didn't think the Larger Sweetroll would give me the space I need. The hunt for the perfect gear combo is never-ending.
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Hey Jim! I'm trying to figure out the bag setup for my bike (planning to go with Revelate bags). I'm trying to decide whether to get a Large Sweetroll or a Harness and a dry bad (Saltyroll or another brand). It looks like you and @Mumonkan went with the Harness because of space needs and I'm wondering if that's because you guys carry more gear than I would (since you were heading out in very cold weather and Mumonkan is carrying kitchen gear). Any thoughts on one vs. the other?

For my total storage space I'm thinking to go with a Large Sweetroll in the handlebar, two Mountain feedbags, a Gas Tank (on top tube/stem), a Jerry Can (on top tube/seat post), a frame bag (small, as is the only size it will fit my Niner Air 9 Medium frame) and a Viscacha seat bag. I might add a Pocket to the Sweet roll if I need more space. My main concern with all this is if the handle bag will interfere with the shifter and brake cables. I guess there must be a way to make it work since a lot of people are using these bags...
 
I run the harness just for ease. I keep my sleeping bag and an insulated pad rolled up inside a bivy so it's very easy to set-up. With the SweetRoll you'll need to separate the pad and bag from the bivy so it'll take longer to set-up. Also, the Sweetroll isn't large enough to run a winter sleeping bag inside.
 
i stole jims idea of keeping the sleep system together and just rolling it up, which saves like 20 mins of stuffing shit into a bunch of separate tiny stuffsacks

"oh my sleeping bag compresses to the size of a fosters can, thats so cool!" - till you have to actually do it
 
Pampa said:
My main concern with all this is if the handle bag will interfere with the shifter and brake cables. I guess there must be a way to make it work since a lot of people are using these bags...
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BarYak.com

Or, the more common set-up for TD is to run an aero bar and then mount your bags to that.
 
jimvreeland said:
I run the harness just for ease. I keep my sleeping bag and an insulated pad rolled up inside a bivy so it's very easy to set-up. With the SweetRoll you'll need to separate the pad and bag from the bivy so it'll take longer to set-up. Also, the Sweetroll isn't large enough to run a winter sleeping bag inside.
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Mumonkan said:
i stole jims idea of keeping the sleep system together and just rolling it up, which saves like 20 mins of stuffing shit into a bunch of separate tiny stuffsacks

"oh my sleeping bag compresses to the size of a fosters can, thats so cool!" - till you have to actually do it
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Thank you both. Harness + Dry bag it is then.


jimvreeland said:
BarYak.com

Or, the more common set-up for TD is to run an aero bar and then mount your bags to that.
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The BarYak system looks interesting. Will look at that in more detail. Thanks!
 
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New HED BAD rims, because, summertime. Instead of rocking the narrow Nexties this year I'm staying fat because these are still lighter than any carbon rim out other than the BFDs. The plan is to ditch my current rims and build hundos for winter.
 
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