Ride the Vuelta

[craig1985]

Are you going to do this? Ride everyday and then take a day-off for the rest day? I know BroDeal did this for the Giro and the Tour.

 

[nvpacchi]

I am going to try my best. Classes start Monday so I will be pressed for time, but its a great idea.

 

[Barrus]

I'm gonna try my best. But the weather is being quite terrible lately, so lets hope it gets better.

 

[Zoncolan]

Tendonitis in my right knee.

 

[BroDeal]

Are you going to do this? Ride everyday and then take a day-off for the rest day? I know BroDeal did this for the Giro and the Tour.

I'm going to miss a bunch of days , but think I will be climbing during every workout during the Vuelta. Maybe that makes up for the days off.

 

[BroDeal]

Tendonitis in my right knee.

See, that is what showing off during the "Ride the Tour" thread gets you.

 

[Zoncolan]

See, that is what showing off during the "Ride the Tour" thread gets you.

I felt really good after the Tour.
Took a 10 day trip to the mountains with my family (brought both my road bike and MTB) in early August, slept at altitude, got my hematocrit up to 50!
Got back home, went for a MTB race, had a fall, hit my knee. Sat out 5 days without riding (should have missed a few more).

Should be fully fit in about 4-5 days. Just to get my knee warmed up in time for the mountains.

You planted a nasty bug in my head

 

[craig1985]

I can't do this everyday, and during the week, riding to work and back will count as my ride, but today I got 117km in, including 43km of them was in a crit with the average speed of 41.5km/h. I was able to average more then 32km/h for the whole day. I rode more then 30km to get home and I got to enjoy the sight of all the pretty girls out riding their bikes.

 

[Andrichuk]

I wanted to do during the Tour but I quickly remembered how lazy I am.

I am gonna give it another go for the Vuelta, I doubt I'll finish, I'm far to lazy to ride consistently for more than a week.

I'm easily the worst cyclist ever.

 

[Barrus]

I'm already out tomorrow. During a short ride today I noticed a problem with my rear wheel and my local, regular bike shop isn't open 'till tuesday. So either I'll do a real short ride on a city bike, but probably, I'm out

 

[nvpacchi]

So far I've managed to ride everyday of the Vuelta 'cept for 2 days. (I rode yesterday during the rest day, which makes up for 1 I guess). My mileage isn't exactly as high as I would have liked, but hopefully I can pick it up in the 2nd half of the race.

 

[mikeNphilly]

Oh I didn't see this thread...was trying to ride every day with the Vuelta.

Stage 1: Since 3 of us were doing this at work, we decided to ride stage 1 as a team time trial. So we did the 13km time trial.

Stage 2: 65 miles
Stage 3 : Rides during the week are hard now since I can't get on a bike till around 6pm, and it gets dark quick. 25 miles
Stage 4: 20 miles
Stage 5: 27 miles
Stage 6 : 26 miles
Stage 7: 28 miles
Stage 8: 42 miles
Stage 9: 133 miles went from Philly/New Hope, PA/NYC
Stage 10: 26 miles