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Laszlo said:It depends on what the average ride is; when 120 kms is the typical ride an extra 40kms does not let me regard that as a long ride... a long ride is when you go an extra 50% (time or distance) or so more than usual; it's a just a way of thinking about a ride or ones riding habits. Long rides are nice.
Rough rides are a different thing- for example,this is when the weather changes unexpectedly for the worst and one is ill-prepared for that, and one really suffers on the remaining part of that ride. Those are rides that ones spose becomes bored of hearing about, years later.
BroDeal said:I come down more on the side of absolute time/distances qualifying as long instead of relative amounts. Even if I were totally out of shape and 99% of my rides were an hour, I still would not call two hours a long ride. In that case I would just acknowledge that I don't have the time to do long rides. Talking with other cyclists I would feel like a fool trying to convice a serious rider that a two or three hour ride is long.
When you talk about percentage increases over usual then it becomes more of a question of what is a hard ride for your fitness level, not a long ride.
Laszlo said:7hrs is not really long when you do 14 hr rides; see ? it's all personal ability
BroDeal said:The only people doing fourteen hour rides are crazies with beards and Brooks saddles.
Laszlo said:It depends on what the average ride is; when 120 kms is the typical ride an extra 40kms does not let me regard that as a long ride... a long ride is when you go an extra 50% (time or distance) or so more than usual; it's a just a way of thinking about a ride or ones riding habits. Long rides are nice.
Rough rides are a different thing- for example,this is when the weather changes unexpectedly for the worst and one is ill-prepared for that, and one really suffers on the remaining part of that ride. Those are rides that ones spose becomes bored of hearing about, years later.