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Another amazing ride and full of new discoveries full of fun and challenging roads.
This is not a ride that I would do again if I wasn't training. This ride included much of the ride that we will be riding on for the MS 150 ride after already completing roughly 70 miles on the first day, so the challenge is as clear as day for me, but at least I have a good idea of what I will face on that first day. Alga road, from what I understand is where many riders decide that the ride is just too much of a challenge and wait for sag vehicles to take them to the finish. NOT ME! I'll walk back before I take a sag vehicle. I would have to be physically injured and unable to complete before it came to that.
I managed to let peloton after peloton go by yesterday without a chase. I'm glad I did, because I needed what reserves I had yesterday to just finish. The only problem that I ran in to yesterday was the lack of nutrition. The carbo-loading I did the night before was not followed up with a large enough meal just before the ride. I wont say I bonked but I did not finish as strong as I would have liked to.
This was one of the longest rides I have ever done and it included door to door for me which means I did not start from the bike trail, where I usually start, so I had 450 feet of elevation staring at me on the last two miles of the ride. I finished, but was not happy with the finish. I'm confident that I needed to take a break or two which should have included more carbs instead of the bars and blocks that I was consuming. I was hydrating myself. I just did not give my legs what they needed to get me back as strong as they could have.
I'm just glad that I am learning these lessons before the big MS ride.
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