Yeah, that's right, two and half times round trip. Thanks for the clarification.
Man, a fixed century, to me, is truly a feat. I doubt I'll ever get to that one. Actually, I did notice on the long downhills that my body became more fatigued on the longer downhill coasts. It's nice to give your knees a rest but my weight distribution is better while I'm pedaling. My high gear is 68.3 inches and my low 54.6 or close to it. I'm not sure what my day average was as I twice erased my computer flipping the bike over to change gears. Annoyance! It was a good thing that there were mile markers or I would have been really peeved. I was probably cruising around 14 mile average for the first 60 miles or so and then for the last 40 I think I dropped down to around twelve. The last ten I was hanging around ten miles per hour or less. Ugh. It's tough to see that and think that that last ten miles is going to take an hour to finish. This was my first go at any kind of century and I did realize early on that I'd have to be strategic in my gear changes. I didn't want to change willy nilly but did want to use the low gear for some of the longer climbs and to conserve some energy. Balancing the need for some speed to finish in a reasonable time and taking the time to change gears for a lower energy conserving gear gave me some thinking to do as I rode. One of the fun things a Quickbeam provides. I do like the idea of doing some more dirt centuries. I know a dirt loop south of Mason, Texas that runs about 40 miles. Some pretty good hills and about five miles of washboard would make it quite a bit tougher than the Mineral Wells Trailway. I'd love to find a dirt loop that's 100 miles. I've driven on some dirt roads north of Taos that are beckoning me real hard right now. On Dec 5, 9:17 am, "PATRICK MOORE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Elfardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It's a 20 mile run one way and I was figuring on doing the trail two > > and a half times. > > I think you mean 2 1/2 times *round trip*, ie 40 miles X 2.5? > Congratulations. I've been promising myself a fixed century, but I've done > so for so long without actually doing it, that I doubt I will do it any time > soon; that's ok, since I like my short distance fixed urbanish type of > riding -- errand riding. > > What gear is High on the QB? And what did you average? One think I shall > have to come to grips with if i ever want to ride more than 30 miles at a > stretch is to slow down dramatically; not that I am particularly fast, but > my mode for 35 years or more has been to ride full tilt, and that don't work > for any distance. (Slow *and* exhausted; that's bad!) And I'll probably have > to gear down to a 65 inch or less and just twiddle away patiently. I am a > very impatient and "type A" person, so this will be quite an adjustment. > > That is a big frame; what size? > > Lessee: If I were to do 100 miles on the Rio Grande path, that would be > roughly 7 1/2 laps, one way, excluding the final, southern, junkyard stretch > of this path. Put that way, and given that the path is wholly flat, it does > seem feasible, at least on a relatively and un-typically windless day. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
