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My top tube que sheet worked pretty well except for one, where I totally missed most of the segment. The only other screw-up was a close head-on encounter with a large truck hauling oversized farm equipment on its trailer. I decided that pulling off to the shoulder and soft pedaling while it passed was a far better idea than playing chicken. Otherwise, it was a successful training ride in both intensity and QOM achievement- Reverse Enduro Strava Terrorism Fartlek<\/a><\/p>\n Sunday morning, Turbo the old, deaf Malinois decided to give me a mother’s day present.<\/p>\n Apparently, after pulling the giant rice bag out and spilling it all over the place, she found the taste of raw rice to be unsatisfactory and went back in for a ziplock bag of oatmeal, which she consumed most of, save the handful of oats that escaped to underneath the stove and cabinet ledges.<\/p>\n After cleaning that up and mainlining some coffee, I hurried up to get started on my prescribed 6 hours of riding. I picked a route I like a lot because of its remote-ness. My legs weren’t really feeling it when I started, and, though I hoped the cobwebs would work themselves out after the first hour or two, I ended up cutting it short at 5 hours, 25 minutes. I’m happy to say, though, I figured out that loading up on sodium before a long ride is making a noticeable difference in being able to maintain copious amounts of nice, watery sweat later in the day. My recently-adopted strategy is to drink a bottle full of\u00a0Gu Brew Blueberry Pomegranate<\/a>\u00a0(contains 2x the sodium than other flavors) mixed with\u00a0Elete Citrilyte drops and Pure Clean beet powder as I’m preparing for my ride. It should be a big help staying less overheated at Kanza.<\/p>\n After my ride, I laid around on the couch and snacked a bit before I visited my dealer for a sack…<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n