mcshroom
Bionic Subsonic
- Location
- Egremont, Cumbria
One of these?
Entered my First Audax - now what???
- Thread starter Fubar
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Fubar
Legendary Member
One of these?
Ah, I would never have known!! (you audaxers and your evil ways...)
I AM NOW LAMINATING A ROUTE SHEET - WHATEVER HAS BECOME OF ME?!?
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Well, you've gone and got me planning my next one now.
jefmcg
Guru
Is that some weird Ecosse Audax thing. I've never heard of it, or noticed it in a route sheet.
Have you got the 2015 one, or are you laminating last year's?
mcshroom
Bionic Subsonic
- Location
- Egremont, Cumbria
It's not an audax thing. That's just the name for that sort of signpost.
phantasmagoriana
Guru
- Location
- Glasgow
Sadly Galashiels is nigh on impossible to get to at audax o'clock on public transport - a shame, because it seems to be the audax capital of Scotland.
jefmcg
Guru
This just popped up in my fb feed
It's from PBP. Notice the peculiar contraption on the front rider.
On LEL I experienced numbness in hands and feet for a couple of weeks after the ride (a surgeon on the ride had to take a week or two off work) and I retained 5 litres or more of water - fingers like sausages, and no visible knees or ankles. But I didn't get, nor see anyone with Shermer's neck, where you neck muscles fail suddenly, and can no longer hold up your head. It's not permanent, but you need to find some way to hold your head up if you want to finish your ride.
(apologies for those who are trying to get @Fubar to ride)
TFTC TNLN
jefmcg
Guru
<spit> geocaching? Really?</spit>
There is one more abbreviation you need if you are being absorbed in the Audax hive mind.
SR - super randonnear. That's someone who's ridden a 200, 300, 400 and 600km in the same season.
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Pale Rider
Legendary Member
This just popped up in my fb feed
It's from PBP. Notice the peculiar contraption on the front rider.
On LEL I experienced numbness in hands and feet for a couple of weeks after the ride (a surgeon on the ride had to take a week or two off work) and I retained 5 litres or more of water - fingers like sausages, and no visible knees or ankles. But I didn't get, nor see anyone with Shermer's neck, where you neck muscles fail suddenly, and can no longer hold up your head. It's not permanent, but you need to find some way to hold your head up if you want to finish your ride.
(apologies for those who are trying to get @Fubar to ride)
Eeek.
I have no direct experience of recovering from such a long ride, but I did speak to a few riders/fellow volunteers at the Barnard Castle control.
Consensus was LEL is not something you recover from by having an afternoon nap on the sofa.
I was given the impression it takes a lot of riders anything up to a few weeks before they feel truly back to normal.
OP
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Fubar
Legendary Member
OP
OP
Fubar
Legendary Member
Last years' but it's for a possible experiment this weekend.
OP
OP
Fubar
Legendary Member
This just popped up in my fb feed
It's from PBP. Notice the peculiar contraption on the front rider.
On LEL I experienced numbness in hands and feet for a couple of weeks after the ride (a surgeon on the ride had to take a week or two off work) and I retained 5 litres or more of water - fingers like sausages, and no visible knees or ankles. But I didn't get, nor see anyone with Shermer's neck, where you neck muscles fail suddenly, and can no longer hold up your head. It's not permanent, but you need to find some way to hold your head up if you want to finish your ride.
(apologies for those who are trying to get @Fubar to ride)
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Fubar
Legendary Member
Now you're just taking the p1ss...
- Location
- Glasgow
I am greatly enjoying this thread: would like to do an Audax too, eventually
