Buy Walking VideosLisa Williams Finished Her 100k!
I told you about Lisa some time ago when she was training for her Century Ride:
Well, she finished it and here are her thoughts about it:
She did pretty well until the last five miles:
“I was fine up to the 50 mi rest stop, but the last 5 miles were very, very painful — I felt like my legs were on fire from just above the knees to just below the hips from all the lactic acid built up in my muscles; my hands had started to go numb, and my neck and shoulders hurt. I ticked off every little bit of a mile during that last stretch. It came on very suddenly — maybe I was bonking (experiencing muscle failure due to depleting glycogen, a condition that happens when you’ve used up all your body’s available quick energy stores).”
We’ll talk more about bonking tomorrow.
Congratulations, Lisa!
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September 2nd, 2006 at 5:28 am
Oh you have to love the differences between American and British English … another one here. In British English “bonking” is a synonym for “shagging” — i.e. having sex with.
So you can imagine me chuckling when you end with the line “We’ll talk more about bonking tomorrow.” — suppose it’s one kind of exercise, eh? 😉
September 2nd, 2006 at 9:26 pm
Huh, I’m in the US and the only time I’ve heard the word “bonking” was in the sexual sense… Apparently it means something else to running people…
Then again, I thought “fabulous and thick” meant “stupid” too. Perhaps I watch too much British TV.