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I’ve signed up for the Chain Reaction Challenge, a pretty epic cycling charity ride. To be fair, riding a bicycle for a week with a bunch of awesome people while raising money for two very worthy charities sounded like a pretty good time (it may also have been strongly suggested by James Marsden). Now that the reality of riding 1,000km across 7 days is getting closer… I’m slightly nervous.
From 26 April to 1 May I’ll be riding 1,000km over 7 days as part of the Chain Reaction Challenge Ride with the Sydney group in Adelaide.
In a previous life I raced a bicycle, but my events were things like 3,000m on the velodrome or a 20–25km time trial, generally short, intense efforts where you could usually see the finish line fairly quickly. This ride is… not that. It’s more along the lines of 150km a day, get up the next morning and do it again, and repeat for a week across hilly Adelaide. Now, if I can sit on the back of the bunch and get some free watts, that is likely 6 hours a day riding a bicycle… ouch.
These days most of my time is spent at a desk or doing school drop-offs, so it will be a bit of an experiment to see how the body responds to this much riding again. But the ride raises significant funds for children’s charities, which makes the sore legs feel like a pretty small contribution in the scheme of things.
Let the training begin (or continue)....
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