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April 24, 2005
Iron Man, or Bronze Boy?
This morning I joined my co-worker and friend Dick and his wife Meg for the Iron Man Bike Ride in the southern suburbs of Minneapolis. This ride is often the first of the year for many people and often the weather is crappy so I hear it has a reputation for being rather nasty.
The weather was very nice today, if not a little cold. It was in the upper thirties when Dick and Meg picked me up from the house but I was prepared with a stocking-cap under my helmet, gloves, and a neck-warmer. The cold was no deterrent to the number of participants; people really seemed to take advantage of the clear weather and showed up in force. I heard there were as many as 5,000 riders riding one of the three routes.
We had set off to do the 30 mi. route, new for this year to attract a greater set of riders. I am far to wimpy and undertrained to pickup the 60 mi. or 100 mi. option in April but it was still grueling. I don't know how they managed to do it, but the route planners seemed to have either a climb or a head-wind for the duration of the route.
It was still a lot of fun, however, and we finished about 34 mi. in 2:11:00. I got pretty beat up on the last steady incline. It was five miles of 15-20 m.p.r. head winds for about 5 mi. It felt great to finish and they gave me Gatorade and a cookie. That made all the difference.
On an aside note, I'm sorry for any connectivity issues you may have been having to the site. It seems my nameserver took this past day. I'll have to try and see if I can get a back-up setup off site somewhere. Would anybody like to do a peering DNS exchange with me? I'll be your backup if you'll be mine!
Write me an e-mail or leave a comment if your interested.
Posted by jordanh at April 24, 2005 12:39 PM
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