Things you don't want to hear 1 minute before the agreed departure time. "I don't know what to wear", "Where's Adam's truck pump", "The silence of TY not being around". God, how do I miss the ones in this group that are on time.
I know my navigation skills have a (unfair) bad reputation, but, in case you were wondering, I didn’t get lost. The route is like that. Including going twice up the Fromberg.
Turns out I am not a sprinter. Today I saw what a real sprinter looks like and they don’t look like me. They are big human beings that ride very fast in the flat and the descents, use raw power to pass small ramps and hills and are dropped if the climb is longer than a few hundred meters. The being dropped bit I see in me, what I struggle with is riding that fast in the flat. They are scary machines, even my mother laughs when I say I am a muscular guy.
This ride was 237.59 km. If I add the 3.85 km I rode to the start, that makes 241.44km, that is: 150.023861 miles. Enough to take me to E132 AND, crucially to count towards my lifelong objective of E150. 3 more rides to get to E133. 56 more rides to get to E150. You’ll need to google “eddington number in cycling” if you don’t know what I am talking about.
This takes me to the classification of this ride. This is a ride “Worth to be Recorded” (Any ride longer than 241.402 km (150 miles)) and Not-Flat (Any ride that is between 1000m and 2000m of climbing per 100km). I thought I had signed up for a short, flat and easy ride in The Netherlands. I even took my bike with fitted aerobars.
Next weekend we are riding Liege-Bastogne-Liege. Everyone tells me it is longer and harder than this ride.
At least it will also count towards my E150.
The ride in Strava: https://www.strava.com/activities/18162044422
Take care of yourself
Javier Arias González
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