bikerteam
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Exceed Your Limitations
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Steve, LOL... you're so right. It was about 6am as I drove up to the start at Joe Pool. The radio announcer said the wind chill was 18 degrees. I didn't want to hear that. I have a bag full of extreme cold weather cycling gear, and utilized them to their fullest. We started in the dark at 7am sharp. I wore a under armor base layer, Craft cold weather shirt and my Sugoi jacket. As Nelson said, it was sunny, and even though it was probably in the 30's at the warmest (with the wind chill) the sun made the "apparent temperature" much warmer than the "true temperature". Since we dressed appropriately, it was a great day. Around noon I had to take off the Craft shirt as I was sweating. After about mile 110 it was getting near dark again so I put it back on. One of the deceptive "ride awareness" lessons of ultra distance riding in the cold weather is that riders tend to forget to hydrate enough. Many of the veteran riders bonk. So if any of you ride in excess of 8-10 hours in the extreme cold (as Nelson and I did yesterday), drink, drink drink. and pee, pee, pee.
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