Ep. 144 ~ Patrick's East Texas Showdown ITT
Bikes or Death
Patrick Farnsworth
4.8 • 563 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2023
⏱️ 205 minutes
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Summary
During the pre-race meeting for the 2022 East Texas Showdown Hannah Simon asked me, "have you ridden the entire course?". Even though I'd ridden many of the roads over the years and was very familiar with the area and the route, I had to say "no". I hadn't ridden this particular route. The fact that I couldn't answer that question in the affirmative stuck with me. It ate at me. So I decided to do something about it.
Two weeks before 200 riders descended upon East Texas, I set out to pre-ride the course as an ITT. For me, ITT stands for Individual Timed Tour. While I wanted to push my own personal limits, I knew that it wouldn't be anywhere near what most people would consider "race pace".
On this episode I take you along for my journey.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends, and welcome back to the Bikes for Death podcast. As always, my name is Patrick, |
| 0:04.7 | and I'm your host. And on today's episode, I am riding the East Texas Showdown 400-mile route. |
| 0:13.7 | I'm doing an ITT, or as I like to call it, an individual timed tour of the route. By no means means was I ever racing or intended to race but I did |
| 0:26.3 | intend to push myself I intended to ride the entire route and push myself and yeah just see how |
| 0:35.3 | it went I was super curious it's been a while since I'd ridden this far and |
| 0:40.7 | tried to kind of go this hard without stopping and taking pictures and enjoying the scenery and |
| 0:46.9 | camping and all that stuff. But in true East Texas showdown spirit, I thought I'd give it a go. |
| 0:57.7 | So I decided to do an ITT about two weeks before the actual event started. And it was my hope to have this episode out before the East |
| 1:04.7 | Texas Showdown. But it is the week after the showdown. We had a fabulous turnout. |
| 1:11.9 | We had a fabulous event. |
| 1:13.9 | It started out a little rainy in the morning, but then the weather got absolutely beautiful. |
| 1:19.8 | And we're going to be talking a lot more about the East Texas Showdown. |
| 1:23.1 | In fact, on April 5th, I am recording a live podcast. |
| 1:30.1 | This will be only the second time Bikes for Death has ever done a live episode. |
| 1:35.0 | So that episode is going to be all about the East Texas Showdown, |
| 1:39.1 | and I have four great guests that are going to be joining me, |
| 1:42.1 | and we would like to invite you to join us as well. |
| 1:46.3 | That episode is going to be recorded live at Cycle East in Austin, Texas on April 5th, |
| 1:53.5 | which is a Wednesday at 7.30 p.m. And we are setting up an RSVP. It's all free. We want you to come and enjoy and be a part of the |
| 2:04.2 | conversation. But we would like to have an idea of how many people are coming so we can |
| 2:09.8 | plan accordingly. So we will be throwing up an RSVP soon. It's not ready yet, but just watch |
| 2:15.8 | our social media channels, newsletter, that kind of stuff. |
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