Dark & Dirty night ride
Went for my second night ride with the Dark & Dirty guys. These rides are more social and the focus is on fun rather than training. Good thing too, because I’m still suffering from fatigue. Fatigue or I’m getting sick, but I’m quite sure it’s fatigue.
I feel like a bit of a pansy. I did three different races (MTB, AR and trail run) the previous three weekends and it proved to be too much for my body. After this week’s Polar HR workshop, I know what I’m doing wrong during training, so it isn’t any wonder I’m feeling fatigued. But still… I feel like my body should have been able to keep up. Three races isn’t that tough.
Anyway, I’ll work on my base and build, and then I’ll be able to gun it again!
(P.S. The total ride time was closer to 3 hours, but just to keep track of my actual training time, I’m logging 1:30.)
Logbook Activity
- Type: Cycle
- Date: 05/22/2008
- Time: 19:00:00
- Total Time: 1:30:00.00
- Average Heart rate: 135
- Max Heart rate: 170
- Calories: 806
- Distance: 26.48 km
- Average Speed: 17.65 kmph
- Ascent: 240 m
Filed under: Cycle, Mountain Biking, Night Ride
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Dark & Dirty night rides
I’ve heard a lot about a bunch of guys that meet every Thursday evening and go out for night rides. They call these rides Dark & Dirty, which it is. I wanted to start going to these rides since November last year, but never got around to it until last night. Man, have I been missing out!! These rides are awesome!
It is really hard to describe the entire sensation. The entire ride consisted of single or jeep track. Some of the highlights were a twisty single track through the tall grass with the wind blowing them from side to side. It felt like a scene out of the movie the Gladiator. Indescribable how cool that was. At times you can’t see the track at all and your bike just manage to find the smooth path through the grass.
Another highlight was around half-way through the ride where we came across a huge heap of dirt (size of a small house). It looked like it should have been used for construction, but has been laying in the field for ages. One cycles around the back of this gigantic heap, over the top, and finally down a drop of 2-3 meters. I’m not used to this sort of (almost) stunt riding, but it was actually so easy and it came so naturally. No one fell on that part of the course, even though it looks like the place were you should get a few broken bones. I went down the drop a couple of times and got too cocky towards the end. I went down with a bit of speed and landed on my front wheel… bad idea. I didn’t fall, but I was lucky.
I did manage to wipe-out along another route, where I cut a corner through the grass and through a dip. Unfortunately there was a hidden ditch there and I ended up flying over the handlebars and into the tall grass. Luckily the grass broke my fall and it hardly hurt.
My Edge 305 fell off during the fall, but luckily I noticed it 20m down the trail. I ran back and found it lying between the thick grass. Pheeew… it would’ve sucked if I had lost it. I think my Garmin is worth more than my bike at this stage. The old Schwinn has a couple of km on it and would need replacing this year… or maybe I’m just looking for an excuse to get a new horse.
Well enough of that. I just wish everyone could experience a ride like this. It’s so much fun!
Logbook Activity
- Type: Cycle
- Date: 02/07/2008
- Time: 19:00:00
- Total Time: 1:52:00.00
- Average Heart rate: 134
- Max Heart rate: 171
- Calories: 737
- Distance: 22.6 km
- Average Speed: 12.11 kmph
- Max Speed: 41.5 kmph
- Ascent: 239 m
Filed under: Cycle, Mountain Biking, Night Ride
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