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Crankyfeet

I'd be flat out doing that profile on a bike on pavement.

My right knee is farked for running. Three arthroscopies due to sports injuries. That's why I cycle. Running will just make my knee worse. But hats off to you if you can do something like that.

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Crankyfeet

That last hill wouldn't be much fun. And I just realized, running downhill would be a lot harder than riding downhill.

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Bro Deal

Some of the checkpoints have drop bags. I usually get most of my calories from various types of sugar. Sports drink, gels, and such. Currently I am using Ultrafuel powder that is supplemented with the contents of a Saltstick electrolyte capsule. I will mix the sports drink with water provided by a checkpoint, and that way I know how many calories I am taking in as well as know that my stomach will tolerate the drink since I train with it. I'll take enough small bags of Ultrafuel and gels to get me to the next major checkpoint. Anything that looks good at a checkpoint, like fruit, is fair game.


I think I am like most people who come from a cycling background: I suck at running. It turns out, though, that these types of races are so long and brutal that endurance and the ability to just keep moving forward, no matter what the speed, are just as important as running. The true mountain courses have a lot of sections that are too steep to run anyway; you hike to the top and run downhill to gain time. End result is that while I have no doubt that the majority of people I race against could smoke me in a 10K on asphalt, I do well on rough trail races that last longer than eight hours.

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jhuskey

I have been out of town on a little vacation and having time reflect prompts me to make a confession.
I am responsible for a lot of the cow blood as I developed a process of quick vacumning the cows to produce jerky.
The device sucks the blood directly out leaving dried meat ready to be seasoned.
I had a lot of cow blood left I didn't need. I thought they were using it in shoe polish or something when I sold it.

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nns1400

No need to if you're trying to impress me. I'm an American girl, so I'm just as happy with the perfect cheeseburger and fries (those are french) and an ice-cold longneck bottle of Bud, outside, with a great blues band playing.

Not that I'm turning down any invitations to Paris, mind you.

Hope that doesn't ruin my mystique. And before any of you snobs start in about Budweiser, I live in St. Louis, as in Busch Stadium, so don't bother.

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helmutRoole2

A lot depends on your age. When I was 22 I broke my wrist and healed up in six months. When I was 40 I broke my elbow in a jacked up crash. Okay, I've got to tell how jacked up it was.

I was headed to a morning ride. It was dark. I rained the night before, but, this being Miami, the roads were mostly dry. I was going about 2mph, timing my momentum with a car that was going through a green light so I could slip in behind it while running the red -- standard procedure in Miami.

I looked down at what I thought was a puddle from the night before and rolled through it. The next thing I remember was laying on my side in the intersection with traffic approaching and watching my water bottle roll by. I got up and scrambled out of the intersection. I didn't go back to look, but it had to be motor oil.

Anyway, in the fall I landed on my extend arm and cracked a part of the lower arm bone the inserts into the upper. I never regained full extension/flexion and that was three years ago. It bothered me for about 18 months.

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limerickman

I agree with your point - it much harder to recover even from the most innocuous of spills, as you get older.

I'd a fall six weeks ago - crashed "slowly" landed on my forearm/wrist.
Six weeks later, my wrist isn't fully healed.
So with age, it is harder to recover more quickly.

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morelike hypocrisy.

cyclingheroes

I am sorry about the shoe polish story. I used it with an associate from Madrid as a code word. We did not know that people would actually realy start to put it on their shoes.

I wasn't out of town working to restructure my work for 2008. I will organize a bike tour for kids from a childrenhome (from Cologne to the final Tour stage). My other associates (they have nothing to do with the cow blood deals, they drink beer ) will cover the final 10 days of the Tour, I will be at the Tour in the days before....

There will be a weblog with a daily diary of the Tour to Paris (with the kids) in German and English...

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Crankyfeet

With the girl of my dreams, we could be eating bread and water and she would turn it into steak, with ice-cream for dessert . However, the meal would be background noise.

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Crankyfeet

Welcome back guys. There's no rules in this thread now that the troll has been slayed. Post whatever takes your fancy as a prompt for discussion. Its light banter. But you may have to wade through some blather at times .

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Crankyfeet

+1. That's one of the reasons why we cycle I suppose. But the flip-side of cycling being one of the gentlest sports on your joints is that if you fall off your bike onto pavement, its about as gentle as being tackled by six NFL linebackers at the same time wearing spandex without padding.

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jhuskey

That sound like a rewarding venture as long as you test them daily for ped's
I wonder if cow blood mixed with Vodka would be called a bloody dairy or something.

CF:As far as wading through various rhetoric on this forum goes, I always dawn my hip waders before entering.

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Crankyfeet

LOL So does that mean another name for straight cow blood is a "virgin dairy".

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jhuskey

It's "udderly" possible.

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