BigJim

It's not much to real athletes, but I did the bicycle leg of a International distance triathlon today. 40K in under 1.5 hrs.


Now I'm motivated to do a full triathlon by myself. (We'll see how long that motivation lasts).

Enlighten Me

Hey---Way to go! You SHOULD go for the full triathlon. Think how good you'll feel about yourself....

The Stranger

exercise is good for your sex life too.

pescifish

See now, I clicked on this thread expecting to see some braggin' on your bike.

And I wasn't disappointed! Muscle powered is even more impressive than the motorized kind. Great goin', BigJim!

BigJim

Thanks everyone. And the best part is that we did it to raise money for the Lymphoma & Leukemia Society.

There were 5 relay teams, we all finished, and we raised about $7,000.

Enlighten Me

.....Humanity at its best!

Shake

That's the best part! Way to go!

Worldtraveller

That's not a bad time for 40k! Being a former bicycling fanatic (10k+miles/yr) That's quite respectable.
I remember my first (last and only) triathlon well. 40k bike, 1.5k swim, 10k run. I was doing real well until the run. *sigh*
Of course I was working as a lifeguard at the time, with only my bicycle for transportation...and that was *cough cough* years ago anyway.
Out of curiosity, what's the longest ride you've made? I've done 140 miles (Tucson to Phoenix) a few times (in the summer of course! ). I get about 70 miles to the gallon (water that is!...hehehe)
First time I did it in about 9 hrs against a headwind *grumble* With a return trip two days later that took almost as long.
A couple years later, I got it down to just over 7 hours.
Keep on ridin'!!!
Lane

BigJim

Thanks. I'm pretty proud of it since I did beat my goal. The more serious guys were running under an hour, and of course that's after they got done with a swim (and the organizers screwed up the swim, it was 2km, when it was suppposed to be 1500m).

The longest I've even done in a single day was a 100km, and that was :cough: quite a few years ago. Actually, I may have done a longer day in the middle of a week long 250 mile ride. One day we had several flats and fell behind schedule, so we might have done around 70-75 miles the next day to make up for it. I can't remember the details.

Until I started my training for this ride about a month ago, I probably hadn't been on a bicycle in 15 years. And the longest ride I did in training was about 17 miles, though it was in the mountains of west Tucson. The Triathlon bike course was pretty flat, compared to where I trained, with only one steep hill (three laps around an 8.3 mile course).