Your best HTFU ride - JP Fitness Forums

silly · 06-09-2008, 09:07 AM

Had one yesterday, but what is that one ride that really made you Harden the F*ck up and pushed you mentally waaay more than physically?

Mine? 5 hour, 72 mile road ride yesterday in hills and 100 degree wind.

emartin10 · 06-09-2008, 10:29 AM

Not a ride, a run. Chicago Marathon 2007. 90+ degree heat and they ran out of water. Owie.

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ODB · 06-09-2008, 11:43 AM

100 mile Trail of Tears mountain bike race. Trained and trained more than I had for anything. Puked anyway. But made my goals, top half finish under 10 hours.

ODBSGIRL · 06-12-2008, 09:26 AM

You people are crazy. I'm not doing that. Perhaps that is why I never fail to disappoint myself in race situations. Obviously I need to puke more. Tough ride Sarah, but I would nominate 36 hours of adventure racing on bloody feet as your HTFU.

HTFU for me: An adventure race in Missouri. In December. Cold, wet and next to no sleep the night before, tent camping in below freezing temps. It should have been a 12-14 hour race. I was going on a bad ankle sprain from late Nov and 18 hours into it, I was using trekking poles and walking backwards downhill because I could barely stand. Dude cruises up in a truck and asks if I want a ride.
"F*&k No mister, if I have to crawl over the finish line that's what I'll do" But I din't puke.

Okay so that one isn't a ride either, but it did involve like 30 miles of mtbiking. does that count?

FishrCutB8 · 06-15-2008, 10:23 AM

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savg99 · 06-15-2008, 03:34 PM

Wow, Fish. Amazing.

Thank you for sharing.

FishrCutB8 · 08-17-2008, 07:26 AM

Gonna do it again next Sunday! WOOT!

Mark57 · 08-23-2008, 01:57 PM

Good luck tomorrow Fish.

JoshDunn · 10-19-2008, 03:27 AM

Only just read your review Fish. Not sure what to say, except your determination once again inspires me.

Espi · 10-19-2008, 04:39 AM

The hardest ride I ever did???

Hmm what about a 600K (375mi for you imperialists) brevet in N-France where I got partially swiped by a car , had to replace my bottom bracket as the pedals were bent on a Saturday evening where I had the good luck to find a bike shop where the mechanic was willing to help me out.. and still make it back in time before time ran out, viz. 40 hrs for all of the ride. I did that one alone w/o any help 90% of the time.

But that was a mentally hard ride.. physically hardest ride? Hmmm MtVentoux is supposedly the hardest climb I did due to the height & length of it, but I didn't feel it that way since it only required consistant peddling in the lowest gear.
Much harder are having to battle headwinds w/o any respite for hours on end.

In conclusion.. many rides are hard or can be hard for different reasons. Mentally challenging rides tend to be harder than physically challenging rides. The one I'm proudest of would be that almost-DNF-but still-persevered-600K ride or LEL (London-Edinburgh-London) that I rode in 1997.

perrogrande007 · 10-20-2008, 01:29 PM

You endurance people are crazy! I rode my bike 3 miles to the gym one day and it almost killed me, then I had to ride it back home! I thought I was going to die!!! lol

Pman · 10-26-2008, 07:34 AM

Had mine in September. I did a solo organized ride sponsored by a group that helps physically disabled people learn to ride bikes.

I did not train properly for this century ride but I have done several in the past. So at about mile 7 I get a bee that hits my glasses and proceeds to sting me right below my eye. I was glad to find out that I am not allergic to bee stings.

Then around mile 30 I came to a stop at an intersection next to a participant on a specially built adult tricycle. He asks me if I could help him get his cool weather gear off. So I help him as we chatted about the fantastic weather we had for the ride. As he is telling me that he is also doing the 100 mile ride I am noticing that he only has the use of one hand and one leg.

I then proceeded on my way and about mile 50 my body was screaming at me. At the 50 mile rest stop I refueled and began thinking about getting a ride back to the start and call it a day. Then guess who rolls into the rest stop. You guessed it, my friend from earlier in the day. We exchanged pleasantries and I got my butt back on the bike and started riding. It was the most miserable ride I had been on, but I completed the 100 miles spurred along by the mental image of my new friend and inspiration.

That was my HTFU ride and a good reminder to train better for these rides.

ash05 · 10-29-2008, 01:05 AM

As part of biking, one thing I have learnt is to listen to my body. You know intensity, eating and drinking before you bonk or dehydrate etc etc. I got the flu last week and still got some lingering aftereffects with sniffles, sinuses and such. My mind wants me to HTFU and put a session on the trainer to clear the airways and get a decent sweat. The body, though, doth protest and says "mucho take it easy". The muscles are sore, there is still some congestion and all it wants to do is rest. My common sense wants to take it easy and not bike but my brain wants to me to HTFU and go ride like crazy.

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