Bill, Last year (mid-2017), I decided to up my Eroica California (EC) 2018 stakes and signed up for the the 89-mile Coastal Route (89 miles, 7000' of climbing) this April 15, after riding the EC 40-miler in 2016 and 2017. This April, I was only able to complete 62 miles and about 5000' of the Coastal Route before being swept off the road at 5:00 pm. I had ridden 731 miles training for it--in retrospect, clearly not enough training miles, not enough climbing work, and not enough dirt/gravel road work, either. (I started my serious training in August, 2017, for EC 2018.)
My EC 2018 success-and-failure (successes = not injuring myself and having a great time riding significantly farther and harder than I had at EC 2017; failure = not completing the Coastal Route) spurred my 2018 goal--to try the EC Coastal Route again in 2019 but significantly increase my pre-event training. So far in 2018--since April 15, 2018--I have ridden 1137 miles on my Eroica bike, a 1970s Windsor Profesional with wide (28mm F, 32mm R) 700C clinchers. With four months to go, it is possible that I will double my pre-Eroica 2019 training miles over EC 2018. I am looking. forward to riding 1-2 centuries before EC 2019 on April 6, 2019. I am losing weight and losing belly inches--both a little bit at a time-- as I firm up and work myself into better shape, and am having more fun, especially since the ir cleared up last week and I can get back on my bike after a three-week layoff! Jon Spangler Alameda, CA 94501 On Monday, November 26, 2018 at 2:49:05 PM UTC-8, Bill Lindsay wrote: > > Steve Palincsar shared some info about himself that I think is awesome. > Unfortunately that great info was in a thread that was otherwise generally > icky. I'm breaking out the inspiring nugget out. Specifically, Steve said: > > "I and many, if not most, of the folks I ride with are well over 70" > "2018 was a bad year weather-wise, and my mileage is way off from last > year; instead of just missing 11,000 as was the case in 2017, I think I'm > going to finish 2018 with only 9,000. " > > Regardless of one's opinion about "Just Ride", septugenarian cyclists > putting down 10,000 mile years is freaking fantastic in my book. Steve is, > I think, very close to my father's age (if my father was still alive). I > hope to be laying down the big mileage of a Steve Palincsar when I'm in the > neighborhood of 75. 2018 is already my biggest mileage year ever. I've > got a puncher's chance at reaching 10,000km by year's end. I turn 50 in a > couple months, and I still work full-time and am still raising two > teenagers, so I'm anticipating major gains in the free-time department as > retirement approaches. My goal was to put down my first ever documented > 5000 mile year, and I've done that. I've got a little more than 1000 miles > to go to reach 10,000km. I also have wanted to do a half-million feet of > climbing in a calendar year. That won't happen for me in 2018, but I'm > about to hot 400,000 feet for the first time. > > What 2018 cycling goals did you set and achieve (or not-achieve)? What > goals will you place for 2019? > > Bill Lindsay > El Cerrito, CA > -- 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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
