Dear Tim, Congratulations! It sounds like a great day outside. There's a card?
Besides, What is more "unracer" than racing? Consider the following. Tying into the "eat bacon, don't bonk" thread, short-ish racing efforts (especially criterium racing and CX racing, shockingly enough) are a whole lot closer to the HIIT exercises and Tabata sprints touted for the unracing crowd than the moderate long-distance riding most of us do for fun. Consider: Criterium: Bug-eyed for a minute or so at the start, settle into the rhythm and recover if you're near the front, or get cross-eyed four times a minute if you're in the back and having to hammer out of every corner; get redlined for a minute or so to establish a break, a few minutes criss-crossing into the red to hold off the charging pack, then see purple stars for fifteen seconds at the sprint, recover gently? All in under an hour. Cyclocross: Bug-eyed for fifteen seconds or so at the start, floating in red haze and for a few seconds on the runups and barriers (so eight or ten times in 45min, tunnel-vision on the finishing straight for ten seconds or so, recover gently. I'd keep the corner of your card. Cheers, Will William M. deRosset Fort Collins, CO On Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at 10:28:27 AM UTC-7, Tim Gavin wrote: > > (Off-topic due to no Riv content, but an Unracer discussion kinda fits in.) > > I competed in my first race ever this Sunday, so I guess I should cut a > corner off my unracer card as penalty. :) > > The Triple D winter endurance race is 63 miles (100k) of gnarly snowmobile > trail single track, B-roads, and the crushed lime Heritage Trail outside of > Dubuque, IA. It was 40F, and the surface conditions ranged from sloppy to > extra sloppy. 95% of the riders (including myself) chose fat bikes. Steve > (owner/operator of Thirtieth Century bikes in Iowa City) is friends with > Ira Ryan and rode a rigid steel Breadwinner 29er single speed. > > I took comfortable breaks to warm up and chose a relatively sane pace, so > my time was near the bottom of the finishers at 8:45. Considering that > almost half of the riders don't finish the race (there is an associated > poker tour you can flex to if you drop out of the race proper), I feel very > proud for finishing at all! > > Overall, a challenging but fun experience. The "race" concept did act as > a motivator to push myself a little harder, but I wasn't aiming for a > place. I was racing the sun more than any other rider, and I still got in > long after dark. > > Riv-ish accessories: Brooks flyer, Crane bell, German mirror, Aardvark > saddle cover. I have to clean and re-wax the Brooks, as the elastic saddle > cover disappeared really early in the race. > > Tim Gavin > Cedar Rapids, IA > > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
