100 Miles of Nowhere.
May 21st, 2009
Elden over at Fat Cyclist is hosting the second annual “100 Miles of Nowhere” this Saturday.
“Hosting” is potentially an inadequate term, since we fortunately don’t have to make the trip to Fatty’s cave to ride 100 miles (though any ride in that neck of the woods would be a great one, no doubt), or ride 100 miles with Fatty, or even ever see the F.C., or any of the other 400-some-odd riders participating. I say “some-odd” not as an indication that it is some number over 400 riders (it is) but that every one of us is in fact very odd.
We’re odd because we agreed (nay: paid good money) to participate and ride in this event. We’re even more odd because the 100 miles goes (as, er, the name implies) officially nowhere. It stays right where it starts. On a trainer. Let me repeat that: on a trainer.
Back to Fatty “hosting” the event. He is the host, since he lined up a spectacular goodie bag for participants. It includes
An event t-shirt, designed and produced by Twin Six.
A tube of DZ-Nuts.
A Banjo Brothers Seat Bag.
TWO Garmin / Slipstream Camelbak Podium Bottles.
CarboRocket Single-Serve packs.
Clif Shot Bloks.
ProBar.
Truly this is a nice package, for all told $84, to your door (not to imply that you can still register, because you can’t, you missed your chance). So.. $84 to my door. Which in fact happened today.
I have ridden 100 miles at once before. The next year I tried the same ride again and failed, after about 60 miles. I’ve decided it had something to do with the new shoes I was wearing (not “brand-spankin’ new,” but new enough). Anyway. Couple that with having not ridden nearly as much this year… Should be an interesting time.
So I’m looking at a solid 5 or 6 hour effort on the trainer on Saturday. Also I’ve only used my trainer about 5 times total. For maybe 5 hours total. Yeah, it’s a 1up. I like it. Seems to work nicely, based on my limited experience on trainers (having never used any other…). It will be my instrument of torture this weekend. Thankfully Monday is a holiday and I will get to recover.
I’ll try to get my lovely wife to take some pictures of my suffering. She has already agreed / planned on doing lots of fun stuff to support me. She’s going to have sag stops. And cook muffins. And plan breaks. And hopefully change the dvds, whatever it is I decide to watch in the suffer-fest. Also, I fully intend to run the cooling at or near full blast for the entirety of the event. Fortunately my house is small.
I’m open to suggestions for what movies to fill the 5-6 hours with. I have netflix and can stream so a “Watch Now” would be ideal. No bike movies please (I’ve seen them), and not “Lord of the Rings” because I did that one New Year’s Day, and it actually takes 9 hours… which I hope not to require to finish my ride.
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