I suppose that in hindsight, the Fair Hill 50 went pretty well. My body behaved (a
better test is coming this weekend though), but my bike did not. About 10 mi in, I noticed a wobbling in my right shoe area. Thinking it was my cleat because I had put new ones on a few weeks ago, I hopped off and tightened it. Still wobbling. I was immediately brought back to 2010 TransSylania Epic Stage 3 and my epic walk-a-thon after a bottom bracket implosion that started as the same feeling. And of course, the XX crankset on my bike needs a 10 mm allen wrench to tighten, so I had no way of easily fixing it. And neither did the three people who stopped and tried to help. Pedal on...
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| Wes |
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Mile 35. My freehub started to go again. Not only could I not shift into my big ring because the crankarm was not attached, the freehub was skipping a few pawls and the bearing were beginning to make an awful noise when I wasn't pedaling. Also when I was pedaling. Pretty much all the time actually. I made it to the finish though. 4hrs 52 min.
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| Ms. Geology-approved blurry effect. |
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| Cheese??? |
Now I am nursing a swollen and/or knotted up right calf, most likely from pedaling with a wobbly crankarm for a whole day, and a pretty sore body in general. Also, I feel like I can't eat enough food. Ever. I think I've had three dinner's tonight and I am still hungry. Guess I need more food. And less limping. Hopefully there will be less limping my Sunday and the latest for the Iron Mountain 100k, which I am super looking forward too. It will be our third long trip of the year (Ms. Geology is coming because I doubt my ability to drive myself back in time for work on Monday), although this one is only taking us one (so close to two though) state away.
Hopefully I can find time to pick up my bike too, as it is currently at
le Shop. I'm getting a shiny new hub for my race wheels as I am done dealing with
light weight, low durability West Coast crap. Having a hub blow out less than a month after completely rebuilding it is unacceptable, especially because I only had like a half a dozen rides on it. It will be replaced by a
Michaux-tested, Brett-approved hub, which will match the rest of the bike. Hooray for unintended repairs taking my bike fit money.
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| Part of the C3 army at the start. Photo by Dennis |
