40 miles today

[Enw.nigel]

None of the family in the house when I got home so I have to tell someone about it. 40.88 miles in 2 hours 51mins 30 secs at an average of 14.3mph. Been planning this mentally for weeks and picking the brains of many of you on the forum by reading your chats. At my age (62) I didn't want to let myself down. Before today my longest was 28.7 miles and I just take water on that ride. Any shorter rides I have never bothered with anything.
So today it was a homemade drink 50/50 fruit juice/water & pinch of salt plus a banana and Nutrigrain fruit bar.
As it turned out only ate the banana after 16 miles and sipped on the drink. Checked when I got home and found that I only drank 150ml. Perhaps I need to up this in future. Body feels fine as well (might not look it though)
Bye for now from chuffed me.

 

[alci4]

congrats

keep up the good work

nice weather for it today as well


would have been out myself except hunting round for a new canondale caad10

 

[lavoisier]

Very well done. What an achievement.

Paul

 

[ianrauk]

nice one. well done.

 

[Rob500]

Fantastic Nigel.

 

[Enw.nigel]

Many thanks for the kind comments and hope you had good luck with the cannondale caad10 alci4.

 

[aberal]

Congrats! Not a bad average speed either...

 

[Ajax_Gaz]

Excellent stuff Nigel!

I remember you saying you're down my neck of the woods, what sort of route did you do?

 

[numbnuts]

Well done I wish I could do an average of 14.3mph

 

[HLaB]

Congrats Nigel If you only needed 150ml and didn't feel bad, you weren't going hard enough, you can go longer, faster, harder

 

[Angelfishsolo]

A great milestone indeed

 

[Angelfishsolo]

Congrats Nigel If you only needed 150ml and didn't feel bad, you weren't going hard enough, you can go longer, faster, harder

 

[Enw.nigel]

Thanks for your comments and support. In reply to Hlab and Angelfishsolo the main reason I did not drink more was that it was the first time that I had taken a 50/50 mix of juice and water with a pinch of salt. I stopped drinking when I felt some heart palpitations. I,m not sure if it was the drink or whatever but i never had them again when I stopped drinking. In future, I am going to stick to water or perhaps a weaker solution with no salt. I should have experimented with the drink beforehand.


In answer to Gazp I live iin the Llandaff area of Cardiff so my route was - http://www.cycle-route.com/Cycle-Route-Planner-Pending/enw.baker@sky.com/23658/ Let me know if the link does not work. I messed up my mileage when planning this and you can see at the end I had to deviate through Radyr and back and also loop between 2 roundabouts to get the distance over 40 miles.
Since planned a better route on mapmyride to avoid this http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/49391644

 

[Angelfishsolo]

Thanks for your comments and support. In reply to Hlab and Angelfishsolo the main reason I did not drink more was that it was the first time that I had taken a 50/50 mix of juice and water with a pinch of salt. I stopped drinking when I felt some heart palpitations. I,m not sure if it was the drink or whatever but i never had them again when I stopped drinking. In future, I am going to stick to water or perhaps a weaker solution with no salt. I should have experimented with the drink beforehand.


In answer to Gazp I live iin the Llandaff area of Cardiff so my route was - http://www.cycle-rou...0sky.com/23658/ Let me know if the link does not work. I messed up my mileage when planning this and you can see at the end I had to deviate through Radyr and back and also loop between 2 roundabouts to get the distance over 40 miles.
Since planned a better route on mapmyride to avoid this http://www.mapmyride...s/view/49391644

Ah Ok. I would suggest 25/75 mixture especially if the juice had added sugar.

 

[HLaB]

Thanks for your comments and support. In reply to Hlab and Angelfishsolo the main reason I did not drink more was that it was the first time that I had taken a 50/50 mix of juice and water with a pinch of salt. I stopped drinking when I felt some heart palpitations. I,m not sure if it was the drink or whatever but i never had them again when I stopped drinking. In future, I am going to stick to water or perhaps a weaker solution with no salt. I should have experimented with the drink beforehand.

Fair enough, I thought you were just superfit and didn't need it Good Luck!