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So... I went out for a little ride this morning. Started up the Burke from Ballard. Joggers... roller bladers... the usual fodder. I get past Fremont and the Purple Gates of Hell open with Dawg People all over the trail, hogging the whole thing, up until about 25th. Then after moving at just about walking speed for the last two miles, I just open it up, feel good, and decide to get to the end of the Burke, which I'd still never seen. From there I decide to see where the Sammamish River Trail goes...
I ended up coming back on the I-90 trail, apparently the whole I-90 trail. 55 miles, all told, and the most I've ever done in one ride is 25 before this, and 30 in a day. I'd pay $20 to have my legs feel as solid as jello. I think they feel more like that stuff you find under your toilet rim. And for the first time ever I've got the bicycle glove tan.
Now my ambitious plan is to spend my Saturday Night laying on my floor nursing a six pack. At least I have lots of good music.
Crap, and I'm supposed to go and climb a mountain tomorrow. Anybody have a syringe or adrenaline?
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MikeOD
Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 9:24 pm
Joined: 04 Feb 2006Posts: 545
Congrats on the long ride. At the risk of stating the obvious, you need to a massive infusion of complex carbs and water before you go to sleep, and again before you hit the trail tomorrow. Where are you climbing?
Raindog
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 8:16 am
Joined: 12 Sep 2007Posts: 51Location: Fremont
Nice work, sir! I will share my dumbass Burke story as well ...
About two months ago I did a round-trip on the Burke-Sammamish from Fremont. It was the day my boss came to town. Around 3pm I hit the trail, having plenty of time for a nice ride down the Burke before I was to meet him for dinner. When I got to the weird pseudo-playground thingie a mile or so into the Sammamish I was inspired to finish the whole trail, having never done it before and obviously lacking any sense of time.
Needless to say, at the end of the Sammamish, where I discovered it was 4:45pm (interesting sidenote - it it always 4:45pm at the end of the Sammamish River Trail; this is a true fact of science), I realized I would not make it back in time for dinner with bossman. I busted my ass getting home, passing Lance Armstrongs on the trail with impunity and endangering small children, and actually made decent enough time to get home, shower, and bus to QA by 7pm (1 hour late, but bossman was 30 minutes late so my net :30 was hardly noticeable).
The moral of this story is that when Raindog's friends bail on him for Sunday-morning hiking, he will post lame stories on the forum.
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vaticdart
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 10:46 am
Joined: 02 Aug 2007Posts: 649Location: Inside a Bell
MikeOD wrote:
Congrats on the long ride. At the risk of stating the obvious, you need to a massive infusion of complex carbs and water before you go to sleep, and again before you hit the trail tomorrow. Where are you climbing?
I drank a couple bottles of Propel before starting in on the beer, and didn't feel too crappy waking up this morning. Luckily, my gf, who was the person I was going to climb Alpine Lookout (out Hwy 2) with, is exhausted this morning from running spot at the Keith Urban do-da at the Key last night, so the hike is off.
I just ate an order of chicken fried steak at Vera's... and a shittone of coffee, and now I feel less like the stuff under your toilet rim and more like the scum the collects along the rim of your sink. A few more centuries of evolution and I'll be human again.
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Eric_s
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 1:09 pm
Joined: 07 Mar 2007Posts: 1691Location: the dirty south
vaticdart wrote:
, is exhausted this morning from running spot at the Keith Urban do-da at the Key last night, so the hike is off.
I was WONDERING which country star was at the center, cuz it was sure crawling with bad drivers in pick 'em up trucks in lower QA last night.
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vaticdart
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 6:32 pm
Joined: 02 Aug 2007Posts: 649Location: Inside a Bell
Eric_s wrote:
vaticdart wrote:
, is exhausted this morning from running spot at the Keith Urban do-da at the Key last night, so the hike is off.
I was WONDERING which country star was at the center, cuz it was sure crawling with bad drivers in pick 'em up trucks in lower QA last night.
The gf said it wasn't as bad as she was expecting, but then she was 40 feet up and wrestling with a big light for the entire show.
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Eric_s
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 8:55 pm
Joined: 07 Mar 2007Posts: 1691Location: the dirty south
vaticdart wrote:
The gf said it wasn't as bad as she was expecting, but then she was 40 feet up and wrestling with a big light for the entire show.
It wasn't as bad as the last time there was a big country show at the key, I have to say. I'm still glad I wasn't biking.
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