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I’m registered, but I’m not nearly as prepared for it as I was last year. It’s going to be an interesting training month…
Brendan
@5555624 21089 wrote:
M Street is a breeze — ooh, wait, you mean M Street NW! Yeah, it sucks. (Although I hear it’s not bad at 3:00 a.m.)
Move that to 3:30am or 3:45am and that may be true. At 3:00am, there are still some roving bands of drunkards randomly spilling off the sidewalk into the street and shouting that anything that moves (real or imagined), plus taxis making swooping u-turns trying to collect them.
And while M Street is pretty horrific, it is quite the survival skills builder. I take it several times a week from Key Bridge to the far end of Georgetown when I am biking into into the Northwesterly parts of NW.
Brendan
@Dirt 20839 wrote:
DaveK posted this elsewhere. I thought it was interesting.
The part of the diagram labeled “Extreme: 3.7 quarts”? That’s me.
Brendan
@Dirt 20832 wrote:
Many bollards removed and lovely new pavement as of yesterday.
Heh, I meant to post about that: it was changed sometime before Sunday at 7pm.
Which reminds me, I still need to document the empty/damaged bollard collars on the Bluemont Junction trail.
Brendan
Some friends and I did a DC->River Road->Poolsville->White’s Ferry->Leesburg (lunch)->W&OD->DC ride on Sunday, about 90 miles. I rode the cargo bike, mostly to haul an extra 2.5 gallons of water for us and because I knew we’d be taking it slower due to the heat.
We stopped for rehydration, shade and food every 10-15 miles. I spent at least the second half of the ride riding about 3-4 mph slower than I usually do and my break requirements kept getting longer and longer. Probably spent an hour or so at the Whole Foods in Vienna trying to get my core temperature down and my water levels back up closer to the normal range.
Heat exhaustion isn’t something to play around with.
My goal is to do some shorter morning or evening rides (30-40 miles) on hot and humid days, until I’m acclimatized, before attempting longer rides on those days.
Brendan
@dasgeh 20476 wrote:
As for child transport, we’re considering options. I’m pretty anti trailer (cars seem blind to bike, how can they see trailers? Plus, I like being able to see/talk to the kids). So we’re considering bakfiets or similar, but are a little concerned about gearing in (hilly) Arlington. Of course, we do front seat now, and we could probably manage a front and back seat for a while…
Xtracycle w/ Peapod in back, and baby carrier up front (when he or she is ready). That way you can watch the youngest and converse easily with the oldest. If they’re close enough in age, you may later be able to do a dual peapod for a while before graduating the oldest to just sitting in the back and hanging on and then to their own bike…
Brendan
@consularrider 20459 wrote:
As far as increasing bone density, I’ve been told and seen a couple articles that actually the opposite may be true, that competative cyclists and swimmers may have lower bone density due to the low impact nature of the sports. Of course like everything else there are also articles contradicting this, so your results may vary.
Interesting. I was mulling over this during an internet-free (read: semi-undirected-research-free) time and wondered if my mix of 6 hours of higher-intensity walking per week was complementary to the cycling, with regards to bone strength.
Can’t hurt, I suppose.
Brendan
