MC's Cycling Diary

Date: 18 June 2016 Total distance: 404 Kilometers Start Time: 5:45 am Return Time:  6:15 am With: Rajkumar Khot Altitude Profile: Lavelle Road – Arasikere – Hassan – Channarayapatna – Lavelle Road All the plans with respect to preparing for the ride could not be executed. The plan to work on the quads before the ride had also not been executed. To add to it, the trek to Kudremukh the previous weekend had left me physically drained. Not feeling right about the ride got me down mentally as well. Deliberated quite a lot and looked for reasons to cancel the ride. However, decided to go for it so that even if I don't finish  I will know that it was not due to lack of trying. Knew that I would struggle, however, as I knew 40% of the route, was hoping that the  knowledge would serve me well during the ride. I got the cycle ready for the ride. Removed the stand, got rid of the medical kit with the exception of Savlon and band aids. Essentially, I tried to do away wi

Date: 2 June 2016 Total distance: 233 Kilometers Start Time: 3:45 am Return Time: 5:30 pm With: - Altitude Profile: It has been quite a while since I have gone on a long distance ride other than the brevet's. Cycle rides have been restricted to the city only. The 400 km brevet is round the corner and I wanted to get some preparation done for it. I wanted to test where I am physically when it comes to completing rides of that distance. Although the brevet needs to be completed in 27 hours, since this was going to be a practice ride I did not want to push too hard and opted to do the distance over 2 days. I chose Yercaud as the location over Coorg, since Yercaud has a climb involved as well. The planning to cycle to Yercaud had been done quite  a while back, however it could not be executed due to various reasons. Finally I had the opportunity to execute the ride and I did not want to miss out on it. I planned to leave at 3:00 am and quickly drew up the schedule