Author Topic: New member and differences between 100km and 200km  (Read 12692 times)

Re: New member and differences between 100km and 200km
« Reply #50 on: 04 March, 2016, 09:26:33 am »
Yes sir, after cycling, I can boogie - but I need a certain song
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Re: New member and differences between 100km and 200km
« Reply #51 on: 04 March, 2016, 09:47:19 am »
Just don't ride too fast  :thumbsup:
Does not play well with others

Re: New member and differences between 100km and 200km
« Reply #52 on: 04 March, 2016, 09:51:23 pm »
To be brutal. If it takes you more than a couple of hours to recover from an Audax event before going to your local dance, the distance was too long. Ride shorter distances until you can boogie the night away after, and then progress to a longer distance.
I have loved cycling for 40 years, but have very limited time when family, Scouts and church come first. So, I get round 100s as best I can, and each year step up to 200s as soon as I am above. All the time, I remember when I rode 12 hour races, doing rather more than I would in a 300, and also rode between Hertfordshire and Cheshire in a day each way, visiting family (and future wife!)

I can't afford to wait till I can boogie the night away after a 100. I'd never even manage a 200. But I do ride 100s until I know I'll be able to walk after the 200.

hellymedic

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Re: New member and differences between 100km and 200km
« Reply #53 on: 04 March, 2016, 10:03:12 pm »
I have never wanted to boogie after a long ride. Eat, sit, sleep yes but nothing else.
I was single when I did Audax rides.

Re: New member and differences between 100km and 200km
« Reply #54 on: 04 March, 2016, 10:21:05 pm »
I tend not even to boogie before rides. Or when no ride is in prospect for weeks, for that matter ;D

It remains the case that I fully expect to be able to feel tomorrow's 100km Audax still in my legs on Monday, though not to any incapacitating extent. Just a glow :thumbsup:

Re: New member and differences between 100km and 200km
« Reply #55 on: 07 March, 2016, 12:47:39 pm »
Hmmm.

The 2014 Tinsel and Lanes by Marmite Geoff was followed on that Saturday night by an evening at my local social club in company of my ‘then and one time’ fiancée. Dancing was a ‘must do’, no matter how lousy I did it. Done though, with admiration from friends when my ‘then and one time’ fiancée told everyone I’d ridden 125 miles on a bicycle earlier.

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Re: New member and differences between 100km and 200km
« Reply #56 on: 07 March, 2016, 11:15:25 pm »
Ride the Wiggy 300 - it may still coincide with the Annual Wigginton WI All-Comers' Ballroom Dancing Contest, and if you finish in more than 15 hours*, you'll probably be invited to participate.

*Well, 15-18 hours. After that you have to control at Keith Benton's house, and he'll be utterly charming despite you having just roused him and Anne from bed.