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From: hxe@rayssd.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Request Advice on Training for a Bike Trip
Message-ID: <697@rayssd.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 12-Apr-85 16:38:34 EST
Article-I.D.: rayssd.697
Posted: Fri Apr 12 16:38:34 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 16-Apr-85 06:52:42 EST
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Organization: Raytheon Co., Portsmouth RI
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I recently injured my knee and have decided to take up bicycling as
my primary exercise (I used to run).  Ever since I read the brief
description of the bike trip around Prince Edward Island that was
posted here recently, I've become enamored of the idea of doing it
myself.  My sports medicine doctor says it will probably be okay,
and the athletic trainers gave me a few a tips, but they're mostly
runners and don't know the finer points of training for a bike trip.

What sort of things should I be doing to get ready? (I'm not going -
if I can go at all - for at least three months.)  What kind of
regimen should I start now?  What sort of things should I watch out
for?  How do I know I'm over- or under-training?  (I have a tendency
to overdo.)  What do you do to get your rear end prepared to spend
all day on a bike for a week or so?  (only half (-: ) Does anyone
have an actual schedule that they followed?  Remember, I'm coming
from zero exercise following the surgery to a 300-mile bike trip,
if that gives you an idea of how far I have to go.

I'd sure appreciate any advice you experts could spare, including
pointers to books, magazine articles, etc.

Many thanks in advance,

--Heather Emanuel {allegra, decvax!brunix, linus, ccice5} rayssd!hxe
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--Heather Emanuel {allegra, decvax!brunix, linus, ccice5} rayssd!hxe
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   I don't think my company *has* an opinion, so the ones in this
                  article are obviously my own.
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"Ain't life a brook...
 Sometimes I feel just like a polished stone"  -Ferron