Alberton _ JHB South Riders

[Slave]

I have been known to have similarly "magnetic tyres".

 

After the TDS (Tour de Soweto) last year, on my way home, I managed to get one single staple into my rear tyre. If one calculates that by this stage I had done 115 km, and takes the surface area of the roadways I had covered, then calculate how much of that was actually covered by my tyres, It is truly an amazing feat, that one staple managed to find my back wheel. At the time, I was not impressed and only wanted my ride to end. I was too NAAFI to do anything at the time.

 

And, another thing, for that one peice of wire 1mm thick and 5 mm long, (or the staple for that matter) to have found the tyre at all is quite a feat of achievement.

 

Kid, no SBR next weekend. Maybe I take of several days from work and spend them taking one tour de SBR. (It will take me three days at this point to get around.........Ahh, I see where you're going with this one. We have a long weekend coming up. Cool, give me the weeke headstart to get there. Then the rest of the weekend to do one lap. Then another week to get home.

[Andyr249]

Wow, amazing Slave!!

Well you could always drive there instead of trying a Ha Ha Kieran and then wanting to go lie in the ditch next to the road near the parking. Kid can witness that!

[Cyclewizz]

 

Kid' date=' no SBR next weekend. Maybe I take of several days from work and spend them taking one tour de SBR. (It will take me three days at this point to get around.........Ahh, I see where you're going with this one. We have a long weekend coming up. Cool, give me the weeke headstart to get there. Then the rest of the weekend to do one lap. Then another week to get home.

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I was thinking more along the lines of driving there doing a loop and driving back but I see/read that you still have this obsession to ride there do the loop & ride back.

 

You could always join our friend Kieran who's planning to do multiple laps of SBR

 

I'm beginning to think that I'm surrounded by CRAZY people.

[Slave]

Yeah Kid. I tend to agree. You must be crazy number one. The rest of just try to keep up with you.

 

Back in my days when I was fit, it was fun to ride to the reserve, do a lap and then ride home again. Gave me about 120 km with some awesome hills thrown in for good measure. Pity it needed a three day nap to recover from such exertions.

 

Now I am at the bottom rung of the ladder again and have to work my way back up. It will be a while before I threaten any improvements on my seeding index.

 

Point of fact is I was contemplating just taking a few months off during winter to make a full recovery, but I figure I been married too long and I need to get out of the house more often, so it's back to cycling again.

 

I just won't be doing it in minus 4 big freeze conditions again. Since I can no longer keep up with the B bunch, I might as well ride when its warmer. Come spring, I will be fit and strong again, ready to take on the challenges of getting up the steps without being jacked.

[Andyr249]

I agree! Kid is crazy number 1!!

Kid, you fit and do long rides. Why don't we do that Friday?

[Cyclewizz]

Slave, you'll be back before you know it.

It's called muscle memory.

GreyOwl says 1 week off = 2 weeks to get back to where you were and I think it snowballs.

 

Seems the tables have turned, I'm currently fitter / stronger and you starting from scratch.

 

Let me know if you want to go for a ride

[Tachymeter]

LSD

[Slave]

Yes please Tachy. But I want the non addictive stuff this time 'k?

 

Kid, I was off the bike for ten weeks two days. That means about 20.7 weeks to make my comeback to fitness. I must admit, the legs hardly hurt at all. I am quite impressed that my muscles can remember more than my brain.

 

You sure you want to go ride with a crochety old fart?

[Andyr249]

Slave, then you should do the ride to SBR, round SBR and ride back. That will be excellent LSD. ;-) Btw, I think both kinds are addictive!

[Slave]

Andy, it was bad enough just doing 20 km. On Friday, I failed to time myself and did not measure the distance exactly.

 

On Sunday, I pushed it a lot harder and it took me 45 minutes. To do a loop that I was doing in close to 32 a while back.

 

I think I would need a crash cart with a mobile ICU when I get to SBR, never mind still doing a loop after riding there and getting a kick start from a crash cart on arrival.

 

Give me a few more days and I might just manage to do 30 km. I might just ride a bit with the "B" bunch this weekend. But if I get dropped on the steps, I have big problems. (Or maybe a bike jacker will have big problems.) I'd love to kick a few dents into their shins with my shoes.

[Andyr249]

Slave. Don't ride for distance yet. Ride for time. Also I know it will be hard for you since you like chasing down trucks but ride at a slower pace rather than the fastest you can. Build up the time at the slower pace. And please do not look at anything that displays speed etc. as that is what landed you on the crash cart the last time!

[Slave]

Er, Andy, there is a bit of a misconception here. I never landed on the crash cart, I landed on the pavement.

 

And yes, I was doing a time trial. I was trying to find out just how much a new bike was doing for my ability to ride faster. It's not the speed that hurts. It's the sudden stop.

 

Andy, I have always trained the way I do. Go out and do X distance, time it. Nect time you do X distance, time it again. If faster, then I must be getting fitter. Remeber, I was a runner long before I became a cyclist.

 

Right now, I have no speed or distance measuring stuff on the bike. So I am just riding. Next time, I plan to go a bit further, and so on until I am comfy with trying to ride with the bunch again (Only the "B" team for now.)

 

It would be good to know distance and time because then I can plot all that junk on my graphs again. It is a measure of fitness, no matter what anyone says. 

 

[Andyr249]

Yes, you landed on the crash cart via the pavement.

We know that is how you ride. BUt maybe a new start. Look at Kid and his polar program which calls for lower intensity rides. Now rides which Trubie says are fast Kid says are slow. Maybe you need to ride slow to become fast.

[Slave]

 Riiiiight?

 

No,I bounced off the pavement, into ICU via the casualty ward. No crash carts involved. My ribs hurt so much I think I would have taken those paddles and shoved them if anyone came near me with any of them about 11 weeks ago. (Not that I was capable of doing anything more than breathing and that was very difficult at the time.)

 

Oh, I found out the other day that a "pneumothorax" is not a punctured lung but a collapsed lung. So, I never had a punctured lung. Stoopid doctor had me thinking I was hurt more than I was. Put the frikking fear of the devil into me. Silly tart.

 

 

[Cyclewizz]

Slave no stress we can do the same ride as when I got back on the bike after my broken wrist.

We'll ride to Heidelberg and back.

 

Seriously, let me know. If you want to ride a little later in the day then I'll go out do a few km's then meet you for a slow 30 - 50km.

 

As far as proper training goes I would strongly suggest you do base training through winter, then come August you pick up the pace.

[Slave]

Base training? Seriously. I come off a 9000 km base from last year.

 

No way Kid, the berg is still a long way off into the future. I am going to do this one slowly and enjoy it. Do some SSD and then graduate onto LSD.

 

I just might surprise you and take you up on that berg ride but it really will be a while still before I do.

 

Sunday, I went out for my ride at about 10h15. I might just go out this Sunday and join the B group and see how I fare. Turn around at the Lido and then head back home. Although I read in the paper that two old toppies training for the Argus were taken down on that section of road. (Knocked over by some tosser in a car.)

 

So far I have ridden past my 'farm" twice and I am now over the terror of falling. Now it's just mild panic.