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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
He finished in about 12 and a half hours.
He's not as good as I thought.
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Or he took it easy, or he bonked.
On that ride, if you bonk, you bonk. So a twelve hour ride is not out of the question and not indicative how good he may or may not be.
Anything under eleven hours is good. If he waited for friends, had some long meals, you just never know.
I wouldn't judge his cycling abilities based on an endurance ride. Most Cat 3s train for races, eighty miles or shorter, and if he's a crit guy, he's training for short hard rides up to an hour. Morever, Lotoja has hills, and you don't what those are in Texas.
When in Buffalo Springs, the locals were calling the ride, "hilly". It has some dips, lots of rain and lots of wind, but "hilly", it was not. A few rollers, that is all. The run had hills.