Capitano's Isle of Wight folding bike ride

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Re: Capitano's Isle of Wight folding bike ride

Post by Newtsalad » Fri Jun 17, 2016 11:30 am

Wondering why this is in deleted? :?

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Re: Capitano's Isle of Wight folding bike ride

Post by OK-PJ » Fri Jun 17, 2016 1:05 pm

Newtsalad wrote:Wondering why this is in deleted? :?
Is it in deleted ? ...... I still see it. I was wondering why it was in bikes for sale :?

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Re: Capitano's Isle of Wight folding bike ride

Post by Capitano » Fri Jun 17, 2016 10:18 pm

Newtsalad wrote:I re-visited your Just Giving page to see how far the ride was.

:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

63 miles! On that thing! Jeez Cap, that's mental! No wonder it hurt!

Well done! :D
Thanks. It ended up as 71 miles after the bloody diversions! :lol:

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Post by Newtsalad » Fri Jun 17, 2016 10:42 pm

That is pretty astounding. Su and I did a 50 mile round trip to Aldeburgh on our mountain bikes, and it was hard. For Su particularly.

Then her brother did a 60 mile charity ride on a 'proper' bike, but he's a trainer at Billericay Boys Boxing Club and he's as fit as a butchers dog, and he was pooped!

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Post by Capitano » Fri Jun 17, 2016 11:23 pm

Well according to (now retired) renowned cyclist Jens Voigt, a man who really knows how to suffer it's all down to your mental approach.

What he used to do, he reckoned, was mentally tell his body to stop complaining when it hurt.

Unfortunately mine answers back, and loudly! :lol:

It must have hurt more to sit on a Cub for 24 hours though, just in a different area. :D

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Post by Newtsalad » Sat Jun 18, 2016 10:01 am

Oh yes. Definitely the cause of failure lies between the ears, not in the limbs or ability.

I've forever been inspired by John Hunts' book, The Ascent of Everest. He led the expedition in which Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tensing, Dressed in hobnailed boots, leathers, (No Goretex) made the first ascent of Everest. How they struggled, to make 7 steps at a time. :shock:

It switched something inside me, reading that. We are ten cylinder engines. Most of us are just firing on two or three cylinders.

It was the same with the four minute mile. It was struggled with for yonks. In the 1940's it stood at 4:01 for 9 years, and people believed it was impossible, that the human body had reached it's limit. Bannister achieved it in May '54, and barely a year later someone else achieved it. It's now expected of professional runners, and the record has knocked nearly 17 seconds off it.

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Post by Capitano » Sat Jun 18, 2016 10:51 am

^^ I hear ya! :D

The other thing that Laura's death brought home to me was, "Tomorrow isn't guaranteed to happen" ie sometimes I just need to quit planning and F***ing Do It! :)

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Post by Newtsalad » Sat Jun 18, 2016 11:01 am

Yes mate. I had 17 years walking out the door, wondering if I would ever come back. (1 in 66 fatality rate in the early days. Compared with 1 in a million fatalities driving, one in a hundred thousand in the construction industry, at that time. Early eighties.) It does rather make you live for the moment.

I do plan now. But you never know.

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Re: Capitano's Isle of Wight folding bike ride

Post by Diesel Dave » Sat Jun 18, 2016 11:42 am

I've done 600km in 30 hours on a bicycle, innumerable 400's 300's etc.

You will start to hallucinate, but so long as you recognise that it's going on you will be fine.

Far tougher was LeJog on fixed wheel, within Audax time limits...

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Post by Capitano » Sat Jun 18, 2016 11:52 am

Diesel Dave wrote: You will start to hallucinate, but so long as you recognise that it's going on you will be fine.
As most of my cycling is around Brighton, how would I tell that's happening? :lol:

My main issue turned out not to be discomfort, but the effect that my prostate meds have on my body's ability to regulate blood pressure.

In short, on long hills, pulling a high gear (the lowest of the 3 on m Bromton is stupidly high) I could pass out.

It's happened twice. The first time I fell into the road, rightwards which was quite dangerous. the second time I fell leftwards into a grass verge. I put that down to a natural survival mechanism kicking in! :D

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