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May 11, 2008 / Sunday
Hungry Half-Century
Can you say BONK? How about Major BONK? I set out to ride my usual easy ~35 mile Portola Loop and wound up tacking on an extra 15 miles plus a climb up Alpine Road. The good news is I did this because my knees felt great. (The glute still hurts, but screw it, I'm sick of babying it.) Unfortunately, I needed more food than usual and was hungry the entire ride. Total food consumed: two GUs, one mini Luna bar, and a soy latte from Peet's. The latte was too little, too late. The last 10 miles were torture, but I made myself ride them because I wanted the mileage. Final stats: 50 miles and 2041 feet of climbing. Alpine Road was super pretty. I feel like crap now, but it was totally worth it. ;)
Made myself a blackberry lassi when I got home. Now it's time for a hot shower. I'm so bonked I can't even keep myself warm. Brr...
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Back from my shower. A couple other notes:
My HRM is working again. I did a final test to decide whether to send it in to Polar for repairs and it magically started behaving. Why am I not surprised?
I was so low on heat I lost circulation to my fingers. They were numb and white. I stood under the hot water and swung my arms until my fingers looked normal again, then did it twice more because they kept draining back to white. I think they're finally okay now. And to think last weekend I was having trouble with too much blood going to my fingers. Hello? Circulation control? Where'd you go?
Comments
Holy cow. That sounds less than enjoyable.
Posted by: Mike at May 12, 2008 10:11 AM
Yeah, I should start bringing more food with me on rides. I haven't had to eat much on rides in the past, so I was caught off guard.
Posted by: Viv at May 12, 2008 10:16 AM