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Austin LiveSTRONG Challenge 2006
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Darby Collier
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Oct 10, 2006 17:21 PDT
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Well after just under 6 hours (a lot quicker than I thought I would do it),
I completed my first century today in the Austin LIVESTRONG Challenge. It
was my first organized ride of kind. Wow did they have some hills or what!?
Anyway, the Fuji Roubaix was fabulous. The challenges were the hills that
had a few of the others walking their bikes up. I just grunted through
somehow and found a way to make it up them all, albeit many with my pedals
moving a gazillion rpm. I only had to shift to the third crank once all
day. I think I hung in there okay considering all my training was here in
Houston - all on flats. I will start training for another century in the
next couple of weeks, and I think in preparing for this one I am going to
take someone's advice and find a nice steep garage or something and do some
hills and repeats (once I learn what those are). I definitely recommend that
anyone doing one of these has a good training plan ahead of time. I think
it made all the difference for me.
This was a great thing for me to do, having lost my stepfather and
stepmother both to cancer, and watching my young neice get diagnosed at the
age of 2 and have to go through treatments and lose all her beautiful hair
for the next 2 years. She is a survivor and soon turning 8 years old. I am
kind glad it was tough and kept with the name LIVESTRONG CHALLENGE, because
it made me appreciate it more.
GodSpeed!
-Darby
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