65 MILES WILD FLOWER

 Well here we go :D   Flat flower 60.     It turned into the 65 because I rode in from home and back.   Got up a 6:00 and headed out the door at 6:30.  So by the time I got over their I was ready to roll.    Had everything I needed.   
It was glare nation.  LOL   What ever.   It was a great ride.  I made my goal of not stopping till the second rest stop of 35 miles.   But I steered clear of going into it.   I did not want to be tempted in eating something my stomach might not agree with.  Or the other thing I was thinking of having a full stomach and trying to ride.    So I ate a cliff bar got off the bike and stretched.   I also did a lot of stretching on the bike, that felt so good.    Had to make sure no one was around me.
They don't call it the Flat flower for nothing, wow flat, flat and more flat.   Going was easier, but coming back was a little more challenging.    Their was a head wind.   I push my

 self really hard as I always do, but around 45 I started to feel the burn and get fatigued.  I managed to join a pace line.    They were super nice.   I was focused, so I hope they didn't think I was a jerk.    They ended up leaving me behind.  No big deal.   I had to slow down and take a few breaks.

But here the results.  I've done  60 ish miles 3 times.
1.  4:00   65 miles  April 30th. 2017
2.  4:14   61 miles  April 9th 2017
3. 4:22     61.2  Miles January 1st 2017

And now let me tell you what happened the night before the ride.  OMG  I was almost in tears and almost Hyperventilating.   Oh boy.    Well I miss read a text from Bike Dr Mike and missed seeing him for a quick check of the back tire.   Well I use to be good at truing the wheels, the optimal word being use to.    Ahhh well I thought I still had the skill, and I don't, I basically (****) up the back tire to the point I could not ride it.    I was so stressed out, my stress had stress.    I was feeling sick to my stomach.      I text Bike Dr Mike one last time and he opened shop.   THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   Saved By the DR.   Because to day would not have been possible with out him.

I did not stay for the feed.  I want to eat things that my stomach is use to. 
Their is a few more pictures to come.  But I don't have them yet.      

Managed to join a pace line.  They were really nice.   I feel kind of bad, because I was focused and concentrating so I was a tad rude.  :(     But they got their revenge they left me behind.  ;)

If your wondering this is down hill.  So I cheated. 

WILD FLOWER 2017 SIGN UP!

At the WILD FLOWER signing up got my green wrist band so I can eat the food and my swag bad, with old event swag.  Kind of bummed out that it's older, oh well.  

We got here pretty early so it was not that crowed yet.  All the food vendors were vendoring.   The music band had not even set up. But all the cars had bikes on them.  Lot's and lot's of bikes.    

Getting up a 6:00 tomorrow and the ride starts at 7:00 am.  

Excited.

200 POST :D :D :D

I was not even paying attention.  I have made 200 post sense I started this Blog.  Yippy.   Ok this is actually my 201 post, but sense I was not paying attention.  I'm still celebrating.    

 

This guy doesn't even know who I am, but when I told him 200 post he was just so happy.    :D    

Yay me!!!!

HEALTHY RIDING TIPS (HUMOR)

When riding long distances you want to make sure you eat plenty of healthy food, like the food shown above.   And be sure not to skimp out, add extra mayo, ketsup and any other sauces you can think of.  In fact just cover said food in sauce so you can't see it.   And hork it down as fast as you can.  Chewing is over rated. 

And as soon as your done scarfing down your healthy meal make sure not to drink any water of any kind.  Soda pop is were your going to get all your energy.    And mind you this is only the pre-ride meal.    

What do you want to take on the ride it's self?   Donut's lot and lot's of donuts.  Make sure you have a Jersey with extra pockets so you can stuff and cram donut's every where.   And as you ride stuff away.  Don't worry about excess crumbs. They will fly into the face of your competitors and slow them down.   So donuts is where it's at.   

 

What to eat post ride?   Glad you asked.   To start off a bacon donut dog followed by a Donut hamburger.  

After this you should be just find for any ride.   


P.s   I made my self sick looking at these pictures.    BLLLEEEHHHHH!!!!!!   LOL

MY TAKE ON ENERGY BARS OF THE CLIFF'D IN KIND.

This is just my take on Cliff Bars. 


When I started looking for a energy bar I was a bit overwhelmed with all the choices.    And in the beginning of my first long 1 hour rides I was listening to all the advice eat 1 bar per 1 hour.  So I was consuming around 250 calories, per ride.   And I was feeling a energy boost.   Over time I did try every thing else, and for me I was not feeling that boost, from Luna bars and a random selection of others.  I did not start off with Cliff Bars.  But in the end of being really dissatisfied with the other bars just not doing any thing for me I gravitated back to Cliff Bars.  

However as of now I no long consume one  whole bar per ride.  Instead 1/2 bar per ride is enough.  So one bar is good for a 2 hour ride.    And after 75 mile a Cliff bar become total taste bud nirvana.      
I really love the Nut Butter Filled Cliff Bars, because their smaller and even are less calories and work just the same.  1/2 bar is great. 

My favorite flavors are  Chocolate Almond fudge, Peanut Toffee Buzz & Cool mint chocolate as for the 

Nut butters I like Chocolate Peanut Butter.  Yummy. 
Now for the shot's. I use to like them, but their is just one side effect that I don't like.  After you consume it your suppose to consume a lot of water.  One a ride that is not good.   So I don't get these anymore.   

BLOKS?   I have never tried them, but just looking at them I can see them being a problem, like the gel shot.  Drink lot's of water.   So I have not tried them for that reason.









And now for the part why I like Cliff bars.  It's kind of gross, but in a world were hamburgers have a self life of  180 days a years, you don't want your energy bars to have a longer life than you do. 
I am happy to inform you CLIFF BAR, if not eaten will decay pretty fast.   So they are not meant to be saved.  And it also means that what every they are using is good stuff, with out a chemical trail.

So if you have a energy bar and leave it out and it does not die in a natural way.   I would not eat it. 

KEEPING TRACK

This is the miles total so far. 2,877.58 miles.

This April 474.1 miles
March 248.4 miles
Feb     183.93 miles
Jan      305.38 miles 

In March and February I was no doing so hot.  But I'm super happy with April.   And April includes the 60 with the addition of 2 miles going and coming to the event.  

21.7 Miles AMPED UP ON CYCLING

 Ahhhh the faces of shock and utter disbelief when people realize what I can do.   These are the faces I thrive off.  I love seeing people go WTF?     Yeah the Fat Chick on the bike can move. Because I do not have the traditional cyclist physique.     I've had so many people just stop and stare at me like wait this is not suppose to be happening.    And here some scary to think about.  I'm fast now and weight 255.  If I lose more weight I'll be lightning on two wheels.  BWAHHHAHAHAHA!     But I'm not their yet. 
 Soon............
I've got to build up more stamina.  I remember when I could do 14 mph only for a little ways before being winded and totally out of breath.  
I can do 25 to 26 mph for a 1/2 mile, but the more I practice the better I'll get.  

 WOW Yesterdays ride really catapulted me into a riders high today. Today I was feeling really super good.    Happy, Happy, Happy.  I could not resist getting one the bike and trying to do a small ride of 21.7 miles.     But now I'm going to be smart and take two day break.    Two hard ride and now two days of rest, to recuperate.    I want to be fresh for the Chico Velo. Flat flower 60.  I want to be their early right at the 7:00.    I Doubt anyone will ride with me... oh well. Nothing I'm not use to.        3 More days till the ride.  

50 Miles & Beating my speed record. :D

 I ROCK I went 30.2 miles an hour.  :D   
Today was a really good day.   Started with a 17 mile warm up ride.   It does not feel right if I don't do this.    Met up with the Fun 50 at 5:30 and it was a new group.  The lead guy was kind of meh to me.  The back guy was friendly.   But once they realized I could keep up he was a bit more friendlier.   But can't blame them who want to be stuck with the Fat Chick on a bike.   What ever.  So I don't take it personally.
We started out going really really slow, and then things got cooking once the fast 50 past us.   Finally we were going at a good pace.    I am really not use to going 50 miles on the bike with only two very short breaks.  My butt was on fire, but not as bad as last time.   So this was a fun hard ride.   All in all it was a great ride and I got a lot of complements from the guys, as it was only my second time in a pace line.  
The lead guy invited me to for free training program at Cycle Sports, and the other guy suggested LTD Sports.  So I've got to think about it. I know so many choices.   I want to train more, but I don't want to kill my self.  I got a system down and it's working for me and I've got to stick to it.    
  

 I almost started to cry on the way home, I got out my cliff bar to dig in and I hit a bump and it flipped out right into the mud.  Nooooooooo!    That was a bummer.   Then I was like wait theirs another half of one, but it was open in a way I never open it.  Ok what ever...chomp....chomp...spit.  Yeah it was old and sour.  Yuck.

I took the long way home to make it a even 50.  Yeah I'm nuts.   Well it was a FUN 50.  ;)  

12.1 miles Bleh...

 Not that great of a ride today.   Had a slight headache that I thought would go away during the ride, it didn't.  So I just did once around.   Want to do the Fun 50 tomorrow, so taking easy today.  Going to do my warm up ride again, before I get their, that really help.    I just hope my headache goes away, before tomorrow.    

40.4 miles & 16 miles

 Great day for a ride today, the weather was perfect.   Went 16 miles with hubby to Durham and back.  Then he drops the bomb on me.   He takes a medication called Bystolic for his high blood pressure.  Well one of the side effect is fatigue.  :(  :(    I did know, because it a relatively new medication he's on.   I really wish he had told me about it sooner,  I would have never had him go out to Butte college.  But he told me he wanted to to that.  So he's going to still cycle, but no more long rides, just short ones like 12 or 16 and when he feels up to it.  I also notice he needs to take a lot more breaks during the ride.  

On the way back to Chico he went home and I continued my ride though the park. 
I came upon a scene of a young teen about 13ish 14ish on his hands and knees with his head to the ground.   I stop and ask if he was ok and the mother told me he was fine, they had just got done with a 21 mile hike.  The poor kid did not look fine at all.  He was looking dazed and out of it.   But what am I going to do that was his mom and dad.  ????   She thank me for the concern and told me no more hiking today, I just went on.   But check this out when I got back down from Horse shoe lake they were still at it.  That kid looked messed up.  I felt so bad.  But what can I do, nothing.    Down toward 1 mile their was a guy trying to surf under the bridge.  A whole bunch of people were watching him.   Funny.  

 Ahhh I'm dead.  LOL Had to reset my speedometer.