bikerteam
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Exceed Your Limitations
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Good write-up Robert. I too enjoyed riding with you. From the start, my goal was to simply have a fun ride for a change. Last year, while riding my Seven (DF), I finished 3rd in the 100k, and was with the lead pack until the very end. I've been traveling a great deal the past two weeks and literally unable to work out. While in Philly last year I became deathly sick (Wednesday/Thursday) with food poisoining. Then as I started recoving late Thursday, I came down with the worst tooth ache of my life. So bad, I couldn't sleep. I called my dentist to see if I could get an appointment Friday afternoon when I returned to DFW. Unfortunetly they close at noon on Friday. As most of you know I had knee surgery earlier this year. I was given a prescription for hydacodine (sp?) and never took a single pill for pain. However, as soon as I got home on Friday, I popped two of them bad boys so I could sleep. I was still pretty high when the ride started on Saturday, thus my goal to just have fun. I don't have the gearing for the steep, 19% hills on this ride, so I rode my DF Seven. While I fairly easily made the climbs, I didn't break any speed records. I'm fortunate to have even ridden 100k considering what I went through the previous 5 days. I worked out at LifeTime Fitness today and rode the indoor recumbent real hard for an hour. I'll do 90 minutes tomorrow, then I'm off to Wilmington Ohio for the rest of the week. Steve, even though this will be my "most out of shape, recoving from illness, 200k ever", I promise that I'll be slow, but 100% determined to finish, even if takes me the entire 13.5 hours!!!! We all need times like this in our lives. It reminds us not only how fortunate we are to have good health, but also reminds us to not take our accomplishments for granted.
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