Biscotti Madness
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southernerinnj
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While I understand what you are saying Ellbiddy my B6 intake is 1/2 of the upper limit at which the FDA states is a safe upper level daily intake.
Also Vitamin B1 which is the 3000% has no upper limit as no adverse side effects have ever been determined in sumplements that contain high B1 concentrates. While I know that these #'s are high believe me I took the %'s to heart and made sure (through research) I was not going to damage my body.
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Big bucks, no whammies:
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/7928680
Back later with comments.
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/7928680
Back later with comments.
damn fine roll there chief.
Had an opportunity to get some big miles in today, so I took it. Rolled out a bit before 8:00 and home at 2:00. The numbers from the link above:
5:58:18
15.6 mph
92.97 miles
7375 vertical
I'm a little surprised with that vertical, not sure I believe it. With the wind today though it didn't really matter. Even on the flats you were working like you were going uphill or downhill. From mile 20 to 50, I was going west. From the Watchung Reservation to Round Valley, it was wind wind wind. I just did my best to keep the effort where I wanted it.
The goal of today's ride was twofold: first to push my upper limit on saddle time; second to work on the whole "nutrition plan" for long rides. Obviously I was successful in the first, but not so much the second.
My plan was to drink 1 bottle an hour for the full 6 hours and eat fewer solid calories. After an hour I was bloated, so I had to dial that way back and adjust. In terms of calories I was aiming for 250 an hour:
* 4 Clif bars (1000)
* 3 Accelerades (360)
* 1 Accel Gel (100)
I was able to bring all of that with me, no problem. I was aiming to go with Accelerade for the first 2 hours, then maybe a water, then see how it went from there. But the temps were too low to sweat enough to warrant 1 bottle an hour. The 2nd bottle of Accelerade lasted 2 hours. Ditto the 3rd. So the 3 bottles got me 5 hours and even with that I stopped to pee 3 times so I'm not going to be able to really work on the whole hydration aspect of the long-distance riding until it warms up.
I intended to stop at the Stanton Mountain general store but it was closed. Surprise! I filled up a bottle at the Round Valley boat launch. Didn't need any actual food/drink other than water.
In the last hour I drank the straight water. I was surprised how easy it was to drink. The Accelerade bottles were not really tasting amazing. Ok, but not great. The water tasted flat out great. I think it was Ben who said he needs solid food on his long rides and that's something I've noticed on my last 2 rides, solid food just works much better for me. I may dose down the Accelerade and go with more solid foods. Plenty of time to play with that stuff.
I guess I should mention this is all with respect to thinking about giving the 24 HoA a solo attempt this year. Maybe at some point think about one of those 100 milers too.
For now, I think I'm good with keeping the ceiling at around 6 hours and seeing how well I can maintain it as the temps head upwards. Also, dropping as many pounds as I can would be of obvious use if I'm really going to give it a shot.
Tomorrow, group fun at Round Valley.
5:58:18
15.6 mph
92.97 miles
7375 vertical
I'm a little surprised with that vertical, not sure I believe it. With the wind today though it didn't really matter. Even on the flats you were working like you were going uphill or downhill. From mile 20 to 50, I was going west. From the Watchung Reservation to Round Valley, it was wind wind wind. I just did my best to keep the effort where I wanted it.
The goal of today's ride was twofold: first to push my upper limit on saddle time; second to work on the whole "nutrition plan" for long rides. Obviously I was successful in the first, but not so much the second.
My plan was to drink 1 bottle an hour for the full 6 hours and eat fewer solid calories. After an hour I was bloated, so I had to dial that way back and adjust. In terms of calories I was aiming for 250 an hour:
* 4 Clif bars (1000)
* 3 Accelerades (360)
* 1 Accel Gel (100)
I was able to bring all of that with me, no problem. I was aiming to go with Accelerade for the first 2 hours, then maybe a water, then see how it went from there. But the temps were too low to sweat enough to warrant 1 bottle an hour. The 2nd bottle of Accelerade lasted 2 hours. Ditto the 3rd. So the 3 bottles got me 5 hours and even with that I stopped to pee 3 times so I'm not going to be able to really work on the whole hydration aspect of the long-distance riding until it warms up.
I intended to stop at the Stanton Mountain general store but it was closed. Surprise! I filled up a bottle at the Round Valley boat launch. Didn't need any actual food/drink other than water.
In the last hour I drank the straight water. I was surprised how easy it was to drink. The Accelerade bottles were not really tasting amazing. Ok, but not great. The water tasted flat out great. I think it was Ben who said he needs solid food on his long rides and that's something I've noticed on my last 2 rides, solid food just works much better for me. I may dose down the Accelerade and go with more solid foods. Plenty of time to play with that stuff.
I guess I should mention this is all with respect to thinking about giving the 24 HoA a solo attempt this year. Maybe at some point think about one of those 100 milers too.
For now, I think I'm good with keeping the ceiling at around 6 hours and seeing how well I can maintain it as the temps head upwards. Also, dropping as many pounds as I can would be of obvious use if I'm really going to give it a shot.
Tomorrow, group fun at Round Valley.
Finally got to get out on the mountain bike today, Round Valley with 9 of my closest friends (Graveyardman, Kirt, ElBiddy, and Warcricket from the team, as well as Woody, Dr. Jim, Kush, Flecknoe, and Iggy). Started at the hike-a-hike-a-hike-a-bike lot, Cushetunk. Ride details here:
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/7940244
I expected my legs to be fried today, and they hurt, to be sure. I thought I would be sweeiping the ride and just tooling around, as best you can tool around at Round Valley. So as we pull out of the lot, Woody has some chain problems and suddenly I'm leading. It stayed that way the whole ride for whatever reason. I guess the shoe fit so I wore it.
Once in the park, aside from the Troll Bridge (tm, Kirt), I cleaned the whole park today. I have to say that I was pretty surprised at that, given yesterday's ride. For the most part Bill and I rode together, and Bill always seems to push me beyond my limits. I didn't really go nuts today but I ended up with a higher average than the ride there a few weeks ago when I said I felt really good. And I'd be lying if I said my legs weren't screaming on some of the climbs. Over 10,000 feet of climbing the last 2 days. Damn!
New stuff on the bike was good - the 11 degree bars felt fine, new front tire was good, new saddle good. All more or less good.
Physically, my back hurts like mad right now. It was sore Friday and I think yesterday's ride push it beyond hurting. I just took some Advil for it because I can't stand up straight. So while it was nice to be back pain free up until now, looks like all this riding is catching up to me.
Been beer free all week. I think that's about to come to an end right after dinner perhaps.
Tomorrow looks washed out but Tuesday I should be back in the saddle. Maybe Fred will love me again one day.
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/7940244
I expected my legs to be fried today, and they hurt, to be sure. I thought I would be sweeiping the ride and just tooling around, as best you can tool around at Round Valley. So as we pull out of the lot, Woody has some chain problems and suddenly I'm leading. It stayed that way the whole ride for whatever reason. I guess the shoe fit so I wore it.
Once in the park, aside from the Troll Bridge (tm, Kirt), I cleaned the whole park today. I have to say that I was pretty surprised at that, given yesterday's ride. For the most part Bill and I rode together, and Bill always seems to push me beyond my limits. I didn't really go nuts today but I ended up with a higher average than the ride there a few weeks ago when I said I felt really good. And I'd be lying if I said my legs weren't screaming on some of the climbs. Over 10,000 feet of climbing the last 2 days. Damn!
New stuff on the bike was good - the 11 degree bars felt fine, new front tire was good, new saddle good. All more or less good.
Physically, my back hurts like mad right now. It was sore Friday and I think yesterday's ride push it beyond hurting. I just took some Advil for it because I can't stand up straight. So while it was nice to be back pain free up until now, looks like all this riding is catching up to me.
Been beer free all week. I think that's about to come to an end right after dinner perhaps.
Tomorrow looks washed out but Tuesday I should be back in the saddle. Maybe Fred will love me again one day.
Off the bike entirely today. My back is better but still sore. My left knee, which never really got 100% better from when I mentioned it in February, felt good today. I think I'm making more of an effort to give it proper rest as opposed to ignoring it and hoping it goes away.
This week is looking very promising right now. Tomorrow looks like an early road ride, maybe 3 hours. Then 2 hours Wednesdsay at Allaire with Scalpel6 again. Thursday looking to do some big saddle time at Allamuchy. Then Friday looks like a family day and me off the bike and off work.
This week is looking very promising right now. Tomorrow looks like an early road ride, maybe 3 hours. Then 2 hours Wednesdsay at Allaire with Scalpel6 again. Thursday looking to do some big saddle time at Allamuchy. Then Friday looks like a family day and me off the bike and off work.
Tuesday morning, 3 hours on the road:
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/7950966
Pretty good day out there, though I'm in spring mode and this 35 degrees nonsense sure is cold on the summer shoes. Broke out some thicker stuff up top and on the hands but my feet were chilly. I'm done with Lake shoes for the year so they'll have to deal.
No real "point" to the ride today other than saddle time. My legs are not recovered from the weekend. For the first half of the ride I tried standing more on some of the climbs just to get comfortable again standing. I more or less sat all winter and now I'm not as used to being out of the saddle. The second half of the ride remained seated and just knocked out some mileage.
Overall, the hills are getting less steep and the distances seem to be shrinking, which is good. The plan is still tomorrow at Allaire and Thursday at Allamuchy. Also kicking around the idea of another MTB ride on Saturday to make it 3 off-road rides in a row. But I'm taking it 1 day at a time right now.
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/7950966
Pretty good day out there, though I'm in spring mode and this 35 degrees nonsense sure is cold on the summer shoes. Broke out some thicker stuff up top and on the hands but my feet were chilly. I'm done with Lake shoes for the year so they'll have to deal.
No real "point" to the ride today other than saddle time. My legs are not recovered from the weekend. For the first half of the ride I tried standing more on some of the climbs just to get comfortable again standing. I more or less sat all winter and now I'm not as used to being out of the saddle. The second half of the ride remained seated and just knocked out some mileage.
Overall, the hills are getting less steep and the distances seem to be shrinking, which is good. The plan is still tomorrow at Allaire and Thursday at Allamuchy. Also kicking around the idea of another MTB ride on Saturday to make it 3 off-road rides in a row. But I'm taking it 1 day at a time right now.
Allaire with Scalpel6, JDog, and Kush this morning:
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/7956582
Ride - the ride was good, good company. My legs don't seem to be completely juiced up now, things burned today more than they should have but I hung in there best I could.
Skills - JDog made a comment no more than 10 minutes into the ride that I'm not handling the bike correctly, which is something I know is a weak point for me. He said I should put the outside pedal down and knee in on cornering to get more bite. I've read as much but it's not a habit. So I slow down on the corners and make up coming out of them. This is something I need to work on.
Bike Setup - Today was the first ride to really test the new front tire (Toro 29er) and 11 degree bar. Overall my cornering was better (though obviously not amazing) with this setup so I'm happy with it so far. Jay also thinks I should drop the air pressure in my tires. I think I was in the 32-35 realm today. He's probably right.
Flat - tore another sidewall in a Python today. I think that's 3 so far. Since Jay is such a swell guy he would ride up behind me and pump up the tire in an effort to get back to the lot. I didn't want to waste a tube since the ride was more or less done anyway. Going to patch the tire and try to get it to stick for tomorrow's ride. If it fails I'll either throw a tube in it or try the Small Block 8 I just got from Kenda.
OTB - On the way back to the lot with a leaking tire I was putting as much weight forward as possible. That didn't work so well when I dropped down into a huge vat of mud. OTB and flopped right into the slop. What a mess.
Tomorrow - 20 miles of Allamuchy north.
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/7956582
Ride - the ride was good, good company. My legs don't seem to be completely juiced up now, things burned today more than they should have but I hung in there best I could.
Skills - JDog made a comment no more than 10 minutes into the ride that I'm not handling the bike correctly, which is something I know is a weak point for me. He said I should put the outside pedal down and knee in on cornering to get more bite. I've read as much but it's not a habit. So I slow down on the corners and make up coming out of them. This is something I need to work on.
Bike Setup - Today was the first ride to really test the new front tire (Toro 29er) and 11 degree bar. Overall my cornering was better (though obviously not amazing) with this setup so I'm happy with it so far. Jay also thinks I should drop the air pressure in my tires. I think I was in the 32-35 realm today. He's probably right.
Flat - tore another sidewall in a Python today. I think that's 3 so far. Since Jay is such a swell guy he would ride up behind me and pump up the tire in an effort to get back to the lot. I didn't want to waste a tube since the ride was more or less done anyway. Going to patch the tire and try to get it to stick for tomorrow's ride. If it fails I'll either throw a tube in it or try the Small Block 8 I just got from Kenda.
OTB - On the way back to the lot with a leaking tire I was putting as much weight forward as possible. That didn't work so well when I dropped down into a huge vat of mud. OTB and flopped right into the slop. What a mess.
Tomorrow - 20 miles of Allamuchy north.
ArmyOfNone
Well-Known Member
When did you pick the Toro up? Had no idea they were finally out.:hmmm:
How did you rip a sidewall at allaire?:hmmm::hmmm::hmmm:
How did you rip a sidewall at allaire?:hmmm::hmmm::hmmm:
Didn't we just have this conversation a few days ago? I'm sure we did.
I suspect I started it at RV on Sunday and it just blew open today on the other side of the street. Now I just need to try and figure out the best way to patch it. Just a tube patch on the inside of the sidewall?
Post up a pic. I've had good success with big ass automotive patches from wally world, they stick well to the inside of hutchinson tubeless tires.
ArmyOfNone
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Crap if we did I forgot. 😕
Norm; said:
Depends on the size of the hole Id say. I have used patches, tire boots, duck tape and rubber cement to patch up holes.
One of the tires is sitting here on the basement floor next to me. The hole is so small it's hard to believe the Stans didn't seal it up the first time. This one is actually in the tread - the one I got at Sourlands. It's possible there may not have been enough sealant left in the tire, I suppose.
Jay said cut a piece of old tube and crazy glue it. Ben has previously said to just use a tube patch. I'm willing to try either but the problem is that we're doing a big Mooch ride tomorrow and I'd prefer it not to STB halfway into it.
Leaning towards patch because my crazy glue seems to have disappeared.
I also prefer rubber cement, I've had patches far outlive tires that way. As for a piece of tube, sometimes it works, sometimes not, it depends on what the tube is made of. So I use automotive patches for big holes, it's inexpensive, you can cut it to any size, and it's the right material to react with the rubber cement.
ArmyOfNone
Well-Known Member
I would say you should be ok with a patch. If your really worried bout it I guess you could just throw a fresh one on for the day or wutev. Although a SB8 at the mooch is not ideal.