Time is drawing near for the Furnace Creek 508.\u00a0\u00a0 Three weeks away.\u00a0 Training has been going great, I’ve got several 100 plus mile rides in, 130 today and finished feeling strong.\u00a0 My legs feel good.\u00a0\u00a0 The heat\/humidity here is causing problems, just making it difficult to train as hard as I’d like.\u00a0 In the humidity, the profuse sweating does no good, it doesn’t evaporate, so it’s not cooling you, it’s only depleting your body.\u00a0 I manage it, and am getting good workouts in, but I so wish I could spend a couple, three weeks out West in the dry air.\u00a0 Oh well.<\/p>\n
I got my Cervelo time trial bike put together and it’s working well.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s very fast, but also pretty exhausting to ride.\u00a0 My neck gets very tired because of the very forward, low position.\u00a0 But it’s good.\u00a0 I’ll be riding it for most of my rides between now and race day, and will actually raise the front about a 1\/4 inch right before the race, to relieve some of the steepness.\u00a0 With the Cervelo for the flat\/rolling sections, and the Cannondale Six-13 road bike for the big climbs and decents, I think I’ve got the equipment part covered.\u00a0\u00a0 And my training has been good, so hopefully, I’ve got the physical part covered.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The race itself is going to be so\u00a0difficult though, I have no illusions that it will be\u00a0easy.\u00a0 I expect the most difficult event I’ve ever done.<\/p>\n
\u00a0I’ve had interviews last week with two different publications, that are doing stories on my Badwater\/Furnace Creek races.\u00a0 As those come out, I’ll post them.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Time is drawing near for the Furnace Creek 508.\u00a0\u00a0 Three weeks away.\u00a0 Training has been going great, I’ve got several 100 plus mile rides in, 130 today and finished feeling strong.\u00a0 My legs feel good.\u00a0\u00a0 The heat\/humidity here is causing problems, just making it difficult to train as hard as I’d like.\u00a0 In the humidity, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}