I've got a 56th birthday coming in June and my wife has to go to San Diego for some work projects so I've decided to knock off one of my bucket list items by going with her. My bucket list choice of poison is a Century Ride (100K or 62 miles), I was wondering if anyone was interested in attempting the fete with me? The information can be found here (http://www.shadowtour.com/Subnav/Course_Maps/Fiesta_Metric.htm). Other than one relatively steep incline, the course looks promising. I'm not out to set any records and any one can turn back at any point if they don't feel like they can make it. I'm going to attempt this a week after another triathlon I'm currently training for so I don't have any expectation other than just trying to finish in under 5 hours. Let me know if anyone is interested and maybe we can meet up there.

Hi, massindex

I am looking at what your starting weight and surgery date was.

I started a little higher than you and my surgery was a year after yours. 01/31/12 ( which happened to be my 45th birthday) I weighed 476 on 12/26/11 and was 436 on day of surgery. Right now I am 375 down 101. and am feel great already. my surgeon set my target weight at 268. I am hoping to get below 200 and seeing where you are at I am sure I will be able too.

It good to see someone close to me drop so much and doing so well. I'm not quite ready to make that sort of a bike ride and never even thought of it till I saw your post. I hope you have a great time it sounds like it would be a blast.

Hi, massindex

I am looking at what your starting weight and surgery date was. I started a little higher than you and my surgery was a year after yours. 01/31/12 ( which happened to be my 45th birthday) I weighed 476 on 12/26/11 and was 436 on day of surgery. Right now I am 375 down 101. and am feel great already. my surgeon set my target weight at 268. I am hoping to get below 200 and seeing where you are at I am sure I will be able too.

You are doing great! I made myself some goals when I started this to keep me focused on hitting my weight loss goal and that's what worked for me. This is one of those items. Keep going and you'll be at your goals soon enough!

how much cardio do you do i use to do 4 hrs a week but i lift weights an hr a day 6 times a week and have cut my cardio back to 3 half hour sessions of treadmill at highest incline at 3.7 miles hour i burn over 500 calories a session i do one hr ride on bike on sundays doing intervals going as fast as i can for 1 minute cruising around 2o mph the next 3 im up to about 22.5 mph on hr bike ride

how much cardio do you do i use to do 4 hrs a week but i lift weights an hr a day 6 times a week and have cut my cardio back to 3 half hour sessions of treadmill at highest incline at 3.7 miles hour i burn over 500 calories a session i do one hr ride on bike on sundays doing intervals going as fast as i can for 1 minute cruising around 2o mph the next 3 im up to about 22.5 mph on hr bike ride

I'm not lifting at this time so all my work is cardio. I'm still building bulk in my shoulders by swimming open water swims, 1-2 miles per day about 4 times a week. I also run about 3-4 5Ks per week and ride about 30-50 miles per week, depending on my schedule. My training is for triathlons so this works around for me. I just got in from doing a practice tri and burned 1800 calories over the course. The incline work you are doing intrigues me. My run today, after the swim and bike, was a sharp incline for the first 1 1/2 miles. I didn't have the stamina I needed for that so I'm going to include that in my work out and see if it helps. Thanks.

i switched from bike and elyptical to that it really gets your heart rate up fast because of incline but without the pounding on joints of jogging and i burn more calories with that then same time on a bike

Hi-

I am in Nor-cal if you want to come this way and ride- hit me up.

yesterday I did a 50 miler on my fixed gear road bike.

It was around Napa valley.

my time was 3 hours and 20 minutes on bike or 14.14 mph avg.

for those that don't know, the bike has 1 speed- and you always have to pedal- always-

never stop, unless you want to. I flew the coarse and sucked a total of 4.5 Water bottles some diluted with sport drink, had more sugar free drink after- hydration was spot on the whole day, considering the breeze and heat.

Now I start to train for the Grand Fondo, in Sept.

104 miles and 9000' of climbing!

will be using my geared road bike.

what I have wondered is how I would do- coming out of surgery, and getting back into riding, and my stomach... It gives me issues on a normal diet- wow! I am happy- G-2, sport beanz, sport drink, trail mix-

and goo packs all go down well- so I can ride as fast as I want... even after ride dinner went down well...

it was a chickenstew and beans- with some salad, there was other things- but I stayed with safe foods.