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Did my first double ton yesterday with a solo ride from Vauxhall to Newtown in Mid Wales Including getting lost and heading the wrong way towards Milton Keynes (the horror!), it worked out as 211 miles.
It was so long/I was so slow I needed 2 phone batteries and to record it as 2 trips.
http://ridewithgps.com/trips/634784
http://ridewithgps.com/trips/634785
I was a bit unsure I’d make it, 150 miles being my previous longest distance but I’ve only done one 100 mile ride since September. Amazingly feel fine today, bit of a general ache but not as bad as I was expecting, but oh my poor arse, I really need to sort a long distance saddle as the last 50 miles was really uncomfortable.
Made good time on the first half, the bit after Worcester though, ooooof that B4204 had some really nasty climbs and after 150 or so miles they finished me off and I basically limped home from there. There were some great descents though.
The mantra of long distance cycling seems to be eat, eat and eat some more. I eat a lot normally so was unsure how much to take. Luckily my brother came up last week so I gave him a bag of clothes so most of my rucksack space was given over to food. I’m still amazed how much I need to bosh through, a train fare is almost cheaper!
I left at 4am after only 2 hours sleep due to being too excited/nervous, so not exactly the best ride prep. And trying to force down a plate of pasta and bowl of muesli before leaving at silly o’clock was hard work.
On the way I ate:
2 full soreen malt loafs sliced with lashings of butter on each slice
5 frusli fruit and nuts bars
200g of pre-shelled pistachios (amateur status, I guess the pro’s shell their own on route)
2 large bags of jelly babies
6 hot cross buns
3 bananas
3 energy gels, the caffine ones.
And I had a full chicken dinner when I got here.
Oh and I had 1 pint of lager in a pub on the way, and 3 afterwards so reckon my calorie intake for the day was off the chart. And I think I still lost a bit of weight, (guessed rather than evidenced) bloody amazing. We just need to get all the obese people to cycle 200 miles, obesity crisis solved.
And finally although my ride times are nowhere near pro status, I felt I became a pro cyclist yesterday with the achievement of one simple thing, having a piss on the move without crashing or pissing on my shoes. Fuck yeah! Success baby fist pumping jpeg alert. You do need to just have cycling shorts on though, if I was struggling with zippers or trying to undo over-shorts I’m sure I’d have stacked it. And of course I wait till no ones around, I did’nt wack out the hosepipe and water Uxbridge road! After experimenting with this newly found skill I concluded that for me personally I prefer pissing to the right, you live and learn.
Edit: oh bloody bollocks, photo got some dumb ass ‘its not official watermark’ when I just downloaded it from their own site, harrumph.