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"On my 60th birthday, I skated 60 miles then rode my Time Trial bike the same 60 miles. That was 7 years ago, before I started riding recumbents."
"My first race with of all things, a full fairing on a bikeE! That was my first year racing recumbents."
"The MuleE, which started out as a kids mountain bike. MuleE has been through a lot of phases, first a full Coroplast body, then the foam body then finally a PET plastic but it is going to be retired after I rebuild the Moby. MORE PHOTOS OF RICHARD'S BIKES AND TRIKES CLICK HERE.
This is Richard at the Indianapolis 500 speedway finish line after completing a 4 hour, 6 minute century riding his MuleE streamliner.
"I am finishing the national 24 hour in 2003. I was riding my WizWheels. I finished fourth in the recumbent class with 331 miles and was the second trike to finish. I was 31st overall."My race modified WizWheels trike. CLICK HERE."
"Garrie Hill gave me this body to use on the WizWheels trike but it fit better on the Catrike Speed until I changed the front wheels from the 305 to 349, raising the front which put my head to low. I may still be able to do something with it maybe just use the nice tinted wind screen and build from there.
Here the shell is fitted on a Wind Cheetah which is much more upright.
A streamliner trike will not be as fast as MuleE is on the trail system I ride here in Ohio, but it will still blow the roadies away.
This is the Battle Mountain 71 MPH Coslinger. I had a big part in building.
This picture shows what it looked like before Sean crashed it in North Brook. There is a lot of HPV's using the 406 drive wheel. The Coslinger went over 70 mph using FWD 406 and I have a LWB under construction that has a 406 drive wheel.
Not one to just purchase a trainer, Richard made his.
Keep yourself hydrated. I drink about every 10 minutes; I use two bottles, one water and the other an electrolyte replacement drink. I use GU and PowerBars, mints, Tums, crackers, turkey sandwich, aspirin, caffeine pills.
I test everything before I use them on a long ride. Watch your sun exposure and dress warm in the night and be prepared for rain. If you get wet, hypothermia will set in very quick when you are tired.
It is important to get plenty of rest two nights before a race. Taper your training a week before the race and concentrate on easy rides, paying attention to your form. Set up your ride for comfort, stretch, wiggle your toes and hands, rotate your neck.
Do not over extend yourself too much or ride someone's pace to catch a draft. Do not let adrenaline draw you into too fast a pace at the beginning. Plan a pace, I know how many miles I should have in every 1/2 hour. I break down an endurance race in small sections; I never look at it as 24 hours.
I play mind games when I get tired, if I have twenty miles to the next checkpoint and I am slowing, I think back to my training trip to Podunk Junction which is only a 20-mile trip. Heck I can make that easy, so off I go to Podunk Junction.
When I am really rung out and need that extra boost to make it to the end I use adrenaline by thinking how much work I have put into this and now I am going to fail. This starts me crying and the adrenaline flowing and my speed picks up again. You can not keep this up to long or get too deep into your emotions because it will backfire.
I never use a radio but do math problems, figuring my average speed and other such things. Stay on the bike or trike.
The 24 hours races I have been in have gone by so fast. There has not been one ultra race that I have started that I have not had doubts I would get through. I am always asking myself " how did I ever do that" and I have no answer. Sometimes I wonder if I did do all those miles but I did.
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