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Next to last training ride before PMC weekend
Pemiquid light near Damariscotta Maine on July 25. Not quite the halfway point on my 48 mile training ride exactly one week before the 192-mile PMC ride begins. This year has been harder than any I can remember for getting ready for this ride. Cold and rain is why. Very early on we were able to ride but then in May and especially June it was terrible riding weather. And I need prep time more than anyone.
The real secret to how I can ride this far on one leg is very simple: hard work. If my leg is not ready for the ride I try to do, I suffer mightily. Anyone who is a rider knows that after you get exhausted the ride becomes miserable. I just have to get out there and put up with pain and push through mile after mile to get the leg strong enough and to have enough endurance to be ready for long rides.
So how did I feel yesterday? Not so good. I had done a 50 mile ride on Thursday which felt surprisingly good so that gave me some hope. Then two days later for this ride in Maine I felt pretty subpar. But strangely, I felt better and better as the ride went on so in fact my best segment was the last 20 miles of the whole ride. The physiology of the body doing exercise is very complex and the overlay of one’s mental attitude make it even more so.
My final prep will be a short ride Tuesday and a medium but hopefully fast ride on Thursday (birthday) and then a full day of rest before the 110 mile first day next Saturday.
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