Group ride in one hour
Originally uploaded by mozealou
Hope it warms up
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Archive for February, 2009
I just found out that my friend Mark and I got accepted into this years Ride the Rockies. The ride is 380 miles over 6 days and promises to be an epic adventure. I am so stoked for this I can’t even begin to explain it. I need to start training.
Check out Firger and Wakefield on the National MS Society website:
http://www.nationalmssociety.org/chapters/CAS/fundraising/index.aspx
Finally warm enough to start riding outside again. Just did a short 13 mile ride up to the top of old stage and back.
Also, friend Arlyn (www.adventuresonabike.com) was just informed that he was selected to ride in this years Leadville 100, which is an epic 100 mile ride at the top of the rockies. Arlyn has also asked me to be his crew chief which I gladly excepted.
Go Arlyn!
Yesterday morning as I was waiting in my car I was googling around on my iPhone about the Ride The Rockies. I was looking for blog posts from people so that I could really get a feel for the experience. I stumbled accross DDublog’s post about Ride the rockies in years past, and now I am officially nervous. He has a really good blog btw, and an interesting team (a beef advocacy team).
I always find it very inspiring reading of stories like his where someone lost a lot of weight by going out and being healthy (cycling, running, swimming), and not just doing something like eating a 6-inch sub a day from subway. It actually takes effort to do what Daren did, and for that I applaud him.
Well, anyway, in his post he mentions about how he actually had to go to the hospital one year after a night in Salida, which is a town on the ride this year. This is what he says:
I’m also looking forward to returning to Salida, but not the ride from Salida to Leaville. It’s 60+ miles (all uphill) along the Sawatch Range, which boasts 15 of Colorado’s 14ers. The views are awesome but the problem is that Salida is just too much fun. Four years ago on my first ride we closed down The Vic and I struggled the next day with dehydration. I ended up in the ER at the hospital (conveniently located across the street from Leadville High School, the overnight campground) with a swollen uvula (yes, men do have uvulas). I thought I had strep throat, but the official diagnosis was hypoxemia, or low blood oxygen saturation. My pulse ox reading was 87% when I got to the hospital (normal is around 95%). But the doctor hooked me up to oxygen and “topped off my tank” so I could finish the ride into Breckenridge the next day
I commented on DDublog’s post, and said that it made me a tad nervous reading that (he assured me in his response it was due to drinking the night before, which I can attest, can really kill you see Rosarito to Ensanda ride). From what DDublog and others recommend, I can see that I need to work my way up to about 200 miles per week by the time of the ride. Which is much higher than the 100 I was averaging leading up to the MS 150, and working up to that distance in cold February weather might be a bit difficult, but hopefully spin classes, and the new indoor bike trainer I purchased will help get me there.
That is all for now. Till next time kids.
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