That is really impressive miles and elevation per day, damn!
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You make this torture fest sound appealing. Love it.
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my strategy was to take as few breaks as possible. when the only thing you have to do all day is ride your bike, big days get a bit easier. I was still pretty cooked after the second day!
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Due to some half-assed navigation we took the long route to some petroglyphs and came down this mind bending road
The rock art was cool too
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thats awesome, where are you?
North of Bishop Ca
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It’s been a year and a half since I’ve ridden anything close to 100 miles so I decided to see what would happen if I tried. What happened is that I got my ass kicked for 9 hours straight. Started with 40 miles of pavement. I figured I’d be nice and in the zone by the time I got to the 60 mile gravel bit but I was already pretty cooked. The 7 mile/1900ft climb at the start of the gravel section absolutely did me in and I limped the 50 miles back home.
I guess I’ll try to get in some 50-60 mile rides before summer.
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impressive that you finished! i dont think i would even be able to limp for 50 miles
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Ha Being nowhere near cell service helped
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You rode the highway down to Birkenfeld & then logging roads back?
Yeah…202 to Birk then up and over Nicolai Mountain on logging roads to Knappa then logging roads back to Astoria.
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For me 100+ was a thing I could do no problem after warming up a few days to a week prior with like a 50 mile ride.
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Evening tarck century, tiny bit of snow but the lower elev trails are clearing fast and it was t-shirt weather once I got warmed up.
I was putzing along but even still it feels like my mellow hambiking this winter has helped me have a tiny bit of fitness, felt better than I expected on this loop I know fairly well.
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Still tarck centurying my way back to fitness (now with an ~4 month deadline before an enforced 3 months off the bike.):
… the miniskirt is because this is hot crone spring/summer.
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no step on big snek
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first ride after new drivetrain and brakes.
goddamn it’s nice. this thing was so clapped out that i didn’t realize how clapped out it was.
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