Going Long and Hard.

Hammer Ride is back in full swing. Having Sergey in the mix is pretty painful. The ride has always been hard but now it's just silly. I made it about 28 of the 34 miles before my legs said F This. Of the 14 of us that started I was 6th to last to pop so my short game is still better than at least 8 other people.

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Today was a nice shake down ride to see if the Tarmac is working after the rebuild. Feels fast and comfy so Cranbury should be a good one. Did almost 60 miles with 2800 feet of climbing in just over 3 hours. Cranbury has less than that for the entire 200k so at today's pace we'll be just over 6 hours moving time. Shouldn't be an issue getting under 7 hours all in. Would be nice to score a minimum time Brevet but that might be a tad optimistic.

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jimvreeland said:
Hammer Ride is back in full swing. Having Sergey in the mix is pretty painful. The ride has always been hard but now it's just silly. I made it about 28 of the 34 miles before my legs said F This. Of the 14 of us that started I was 6th to last to pop so my short game is still better than at least 8 other people.

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Where does this ride depart from? Not too keen on riding road these days but love any “yes” drop ride of attrition.
 
Jmann said:
Where does this ride depart from? Not too keen on riding road these days but love any “yes” drop ride of attrition.
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Summit HB. 6pm Wednesday. There is one 2 minute long regroup at whatever the first big climb is. If you're farther back, dropped. If you fall off after the regroup, dropped. Get a flat, dropped. Reach down for a drink out of your water bottle, dropped.
 
Cranbury 200k.

Yay, Brevet season is back!! This is my favorite course so I always look forward to this event. Had good legs today so I pulled the group apart early. 5 of us made the break about a mile out of the start. I kept pulling the pace up over 22-23mph to see who would be in it for the long haul. 1 guy and myself were taking double and triple pulls so I made a plan to ditch the group at the first Control. I hadn't drank any water up to that point so I literally had my card signed and just rode off, alone.

The other guy, also Jim, bridged across to me and we took turns pulling through to the 2nd Control. There I once again did a short stop and went on solo for the next 100k.

Bill Russel in his Velomobile went by me just after the last Control because I was riding into a pretty stiff headwind and he's super aero in his little missle thing.

I was aiming for an R50 and ended up missing it by 6 minutes, but as a consolation prize I set a new Bicycle course record of 6:51, 19 minutes faster than an 8 man group last year.

Fitness is really good right now, I honestly didn't feel like I was putting out an effort all day. It was nice to just go out and drill a 200k like it's a normal thing. 2nd place bike was over 40 minutes back, I was only 7 minutes behind Bill. Everyone else is still on course :)

The Tarmac is FAST!!

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Mooch Madness.

The boy raced Mooch while I rode around yelling at people. I mean, "heckling".

He likes riding in rocks and was looking forward to this race for a while, hopefully it stokes his fire a little and he remembers how much fun mountain biking is when you stay out of pine tree land.

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