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September 11, 2006
SVBC Century
I rode in the 24th annual Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Club (SVBC) Century yesterday.
From the SVBC website:
"The Shenandoah Valley Century is a special bicycling event sponsored in conjunction with a number of bicycling organizations nationwide that are offering similar rides during September. The term “century” refers to the longest ride being 100 miles (a century of miles). Century rides originated in the late 1800’s. Cyclists would attempt to ride 100 miles in under 10 hours. Now, rides of various lengths are offered to suit all abilities with no time limits set."
I rode 104 miles that included 2.8 miles from my house to the start, and no I didn't ride home AFTER the ride. I left about 8:10AM and finished around 3:30PM (7:20), we probably rested at different rest stops for a total of 45 minutes. My only real GOAL was to finish, second to that I wanted to finish with an average speed above 12 mph, so I'm happy to say that my moving average was 15.1 mph. My GPS/Altimeter says that total climbing for the day was 6547 feet, but the mapping software that crunches my GPS data says 4189 feet. I'm pretty sure the ride organizers had the total climbing at over 6000 feet, so that's what I'm going with!
If you're curious here's a map of the ride.
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Comments
wtg, man. Miss you guys and hope you are all well!
Posted by: Nate at September 11, 2006 10:09 AM
Wow! Very impressive!
Posted by: Kara at September 11, 2006 1:07 PM
I've done a century before, and even after several months of prep training it was an exhausting workout. 15.1 is respectable, especially considering the 6000' ascent. Well done!
Posted by: alan at September 11, 2006 5:42 PM
I can't imagine doing one of these in the 1800's on a nasty old one-speed bike.
Posted by: Topher at September 12, 2006 8:03 AM
Alan: I had no idea that you were into cycling! That's pretty cool. We'll have to chat at the conference.
Topher: Yeah, there was a guy on the ride who rode the whole thing on a fixed gear/single speed bike. On the downhills he was pedalling like a maniac to keep up with the pedals.
Posted by: Mark Veerman at September 12, 2006 8:11 AM