Achievement unlocked, day 2, RTCC
Intellectually I understand that 40 kph winds gusting to 60 is pretty windy. The reality of it is something else entirely. Hell of a day to do my first 100k…
| Date | August 30, 2020 |
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| Time | 09:43:16 |
| Duration | 05:15:59 |
| Distance | 105.86 km |
| Average Speed | 20.1 km/h |
I’ll paint a picture for you. Imagine waking up in bed on a Sunday morning and hearing sudden, intense gusts of winds buffetting your house. The light level is a bit low and you realize it’s because it might be pretty cloudy outside. Leaning over, you grab your phone and check the weather: part cloud, 8C, and westerly 40 kph winds gusting to 60.
These are normally the kinds of days where I would take an extra rest day.
But, see, here’s the problem: I signed up for the Strava 100k August challenge. And I really wanted to do a full 100k ride for the Ride to Conquer Cancer. And so it was that, after much waffling, I found myself on the road, buffetted by winds I’ve never before faced, attempting a distance I’d never before done.
And I gotta admit: it wasn’t anywhere near as bad as I thought!
Obviously it was long. My average pace, here, was just 20 kph, well under my normal target. But I was smart and chose a new route that lead to headwinds for the first half of the ride and tail winds for most of the rest.
I won’t lie, physically it was extremely demanding. My knees were very sore by the end of the ride and continued to be so for the next couple of days. But overall, I enjoyed this a lot more than I expected. And as a bonus, finally tackled a route Strava had been suggesting to me for a while, and for good reason, as the roads west of the city really are very nice!
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Matthias Gromann favorited a tweet https://blog.b-ark.ca/2020/08/30/achievement-unlocked.html
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