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I've been having some strange interactions w/ the humans during some of my rides lately. As I was coming out of my building the other day this old dude was coming in. I got the typical gaping mouth, walking stupor look that is all too a familiar site from them. Except this time he actually said something instead of acting like I'm interrupting their lives by wearing colorful spandex and mirrored lens glasses. He asked, "Do you ride for the Postal service?" Unfortunately he continued by saying he thought I was the new Postal guy; meaning that I was the dude delivering the mail. My thoughts went from, "Wow, he actually knows about the Postie team!", to "Good God that was sad." Later that day I had another question regarding my Postal (circa 2000) kit. They asked if I was on the team and if I was riding in the Tour. I responded by saying that unfortunately no, I wasn't because I'm too slow! I had to, it's just too much fun playing w/ the tourists down near the National Mall.
attack of the old dudes!
Yesterday's ride was a good one if not a good schooling. Hard effort day. 45 minutes into the ride as I finally started to warm up but hadn't started to force the pace yet an old dude looking all Hinault passed me. Since I wasn't going fast I didn't think much of it. Yet as I started to pick up my pace I realized that I wasn't able to catch him. I was passing everyone else including other road bikers, but I couldn't bring back the gap that Hinault got on me. He never left my sight, but that was about it. Then as I was doing a couple of laps down at Haines Point I met up w/ another 60+ dude and we rode together for awhile. I mentioned that I was running at 170bpm while we were doing 20+ he responded that he was at 145! His max is the same as mine! Granted I haven't put in too much continuous effort days like this but DAMN! He was working on getting out his words like I was, but to be running that low is pretty good. I have some work to do.
The overall ride was run at over 16mph average, but it went down as I had to climb back up the hill to get home. I really want to get faster. I want to be able to keep up w/ the 12:00 rides that meet here daily. Very fast paceline riding. I have some work to do.
I've been having some strange interactions w/ the humans during some of my rides lately. As I was coming out of my building the other day this old dude was coming in. I got the typical gaping mouth, walking stupor look that is all too a familiar site from them. Except this time he actually said something instead of acting like I'm interrupting their lives by wearing colorful spandex and mirrored lens glasses. He asked, "Do you ride for the Postal service?" Unfortunately he continued by saying he thought I was the new Postal guy; meaning that I was the dude delivering the mail. My thoughts went from, "Wow, he actually knows about the Postie team!", to "Good God that was sad." Later that day I had another question regarding my Postal (circa 2000) kit. They asked if I was on the team and if I was riding in the Tour. I responded by saying that unfortunately no, I wasn't because I'm too slow! I had to, it's just too much fun playing w/ the tourists down near the National Mall.
attack of the old dudes!
Yesterday's ride was a good one if not a good schooling. Hard effort day. 45 minutes into the ride as I finally started to warm up but hadn't started to force the pace yet an old dude looking all Hinault passed me. Since I wasn't going fast I didn't think much of it. Yet as I started to pick up my pace I realized that I wasn't able to catch him. I was passing everyone else including other road bikers, but I couldn't bring back the gap that Hinault got on me. He never left my sight, but that was about it. Then as I was doing a couple of laps down at Haines Point I met up w/ another 60+ dude and we rode together for awhile. I mentioned that I was running at 170bpm while we were doing 20+ he responded that he was at 145! His max is the same as mine! Granted I haven't put in too much continuous effort days like this but DAMN! He was working on getting out his words like I was, but to be running that low is pretty good. I have some work to do.
The overall ride was run at over 16mph average, but it went down as I had to climb back up the hill to get home. I really want to get faster. I want to be able to keep up w/ the 12:00 rides that meet here daily. Very fast paceline riding. I have some work to do.
posted by Chris Huller at 10:39 AM
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