Comments on: Death Valley Marathon Report

By: Tom Stormcrowe

Tom Stormcrowe — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 03:53:33 +0000

Get a training stand for the bike, preferably one with fluid resistance and a computer to preset the resistance on a variable pattern to simulate hills! Best thing for ya!

By: Claire

Claire — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:23:47 +0000

Living in the Far North, in a land called Canada, the cycling season is limited to May (if we’re lucky) through November (if we’re very lucky). So to stay in shape I run. Usually on the treadmill to avoid lung freeze. I’d rather be biking, and the only thing that gets me through those non-cycling months is dreaming of when I can bike again. The only way I could maintain my weight without alternate exercise is starvation, and I’m not into that. Chocolate and I have a very close relationship!

By: Unknown

Unknown — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 03:31:29 +0000

I rode the Death Valley to Mt. Whitney bike race back in 1978. It was a two-day event. The first day was 80 miles from Stovepipe Wells to Lone Pine. The second day was a hill climb up to Whitney Portal. It was great fun. The elevation profile for the ride looks like this: http://www.1134.org/gallery/bikeracing/aam Death Valley is beatiful in its own way. And a bicycle is the best way to see it. I don’t run for exactly the reasons you state. It hurts too much, and it’s just Not Fun.

By: Zed

Zed — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 15:40:28 +0000

You ran up 1,000 feet in a single mile? That would be awesome! … on a bike. That’s the crazy thing about cycling, you think you’re using all the muscles in your legs until you start running. Do you run at all as part of training for the LT100? Certain sources suggest it as good training for standing up on the climbs (cf. http://www.adventurerace.com/eng/training.htm).

By: Angel

Angel — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 15:11:42 +0000

The beauty of the scenery and the low-key nature of the whole event sounds like exactly my kind of race!! Oh, except for the…errr…running thing….oh, and the…errr…hill thing…I find that I keep coming back to your space; in part because it’s very satisfying for me, a self-described couch potato, to read such detailed, expressive, and well-written accounts of another’s dance with the physical fitness devil. I exercise when….oh oh here’s a good example…my husband throws a presumably empty Bic lighter into his ashtry because he’s too lazy to get up and then rests his lit cigarette in the SAME ashtry and the resulting explosion makes me think the bombs are finally dropping. My husband commented idly after this fiasco had played out that he’d never seen me move so fast.You made me laugh, as usual, but I made sure no RC was readily accessible before I started reading and there were no embarrassing accidents;)