Good Lass, Em. Up and at 'em. Can't keep a good 'un down for long.Quote:
Originally Posted by emmilou
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Good Lass, Em. Up and at 'em. Can't keep a good 'un down for long.Quote:
Originally Posted by emmilou
Ian.
Was going to take my bike on a little holiday, I can fly it out there but not back again :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by wheezing donkey
Got to flippin hire one now..... :thunbdown: AND it'll be a triple! :rolleyes:
Oh dear, a TRIPLE... :rolleyes:
I am still not riding after my op... :(
But there is hoping I don't need a follow up op, which would mean I can get back to training in February and will still have a season of racing, allbeit a late one, fingers crossed! :0
I am feeling a bit lazy today after 8 hr on fells yesterday only been out 20 mile on bike today and 6 mile run
Yeah very lazy. Come on, get a grip!! :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by vespa
When does the race season start or has it already :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Hanneke
Just getting into this road malarky after being an MTBer for many years.
I'm still in awe of how fast they are on the road...obviously, but its a big difference for me!
Just nipped round the Ribble Valley this afternoon, with the Pendle climb from Sabden and Whalley Nab thrown in to get the legs working a bit.
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Originally Posted by hanneke
Nothing Trev, it keeps your thighs all lean an svelte like and stops em goin like Chris Hoys! :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Stagger
Lets us know when you're out an about half the Bowland massif bike Hursty up that way too you'd be more than welcome just don't plan to back for a certain time as 'mad dog' is a bit unreliable in that department!!Quote:
Originally Posted by ukhursty
My first race is 10 March... alas well behind on training now :(
There is hoping I can still go on training camp though, first week of February... Fingers crossed! All dependent on needing a repair op or not...
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Originally Posted by emmilou
Cheers Em, will do!Quote:
Originally Posted by emmilou
Nice to see you Hursty!Quote:
Originally Posted by ukhursty
4 bowlanders headed off on a magical mystery tour covering a rolling 40 miles and 2000ft earlier today. Round the lanes longridge clitheroe Whalley ribchester bleasdale etc. finished in the cobbled corner for a refuel Pleasant it was too!
Well, I rode the MTB for half an hour, on the road. It was ok, so going to try the road bike tomorrow, for 45 minutes and see how that goes. Ride with a friend who is also convalescing after an op on a race injury on Sunday, idea is half hour out, coffee and cake, half hour back :)
Hopefully ok for commuting to the art fair in London next week, about half an hour each way, should be good for getting used to riding again... as long as the wound stays calm! Fingers crossed... Seeing a specialist for follow up and to assess if I need another repair op in two weeks time...
Lets hope I don't need one and can get back on the bike, been climbing the walls!
Did a 75-miler with the club last Saturday fairly steady (26kph av or summat) and felt like I'd been hit by a truck til Tuesday. That's what taking Dec off does.
Club vets racers' meeting tomorrow morning at Richmond Park for pre-season conflab and to see who's up for LVRC and who's suffering winter loss of form.
Hoping to get a couple of 3-4 cat crits under my belt in Feb to set myself up for some LVRC road races in the spring ...
Be prepared Zoot, LVRC road races are harder than 3/4 cat local races! Only, the standard of riding is usually way better in an LVRC race, which is why I preferred them... not as many risks of crashing due to stupidity from other, largely inexperienced, riders...
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Originally Posted by ZootHornRollo
yeah I've heard both ways though: 3-4 cat crits can be v intense if you've got a bunch of 25-year-olds who are essentially on their way to being 2nds.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hanneke
Whereas in LVRC the peloton tends to roll along a bit more sensibly ... but hey we'll find out.
Gonna target a 3-4 (or 4th only) for first weekend in Feb and then a couple more in the following month.
130km yesterday, largely on my own after getting fed up of stopping and waiting for people on the club ride ('I need something to eat' - for god's sake :confused:)
Av speed 26kph - just getting that base aerobic endurance ticking over.
You can eat something while you ride, ffs indeed Zoot :)
Be prepared in your first race to be shelled out of the back... It is normal and doesn't mean you aren't fast enough. Almost everyone has this expereince in their first race. I'd advise to stay near the front of the bunch at all times but not quite at the front and do not do any work, just look and see how it is done. If you stay near the front of the bunch you get dragged along, can see what racing is happening AND it gives you a buffer to drift back without being dropped. Also, the bungy effect is least at the front or near the front so again less chance of being spat out of the back around a bend or on a hill :) Also most crashes then tend to happen behind hyou and not in front so you are out of harms way!
I managed a little ride again today... building up slowly. Half an hour Friday, 50 minutes yesterday, today we did 1hr 45 minutes of riding time with a coffee and cake stop an hour in. My friend and I are both recovering from operations to a cycling race injury so both feeling a bit fragile and all that, so it worked well. Only, when we came to our original coffee point, 40 minutes in, we decided on a different route and coffee point which we later regretted as the ride really was about 25 minutes too long... ah well, the sun shone and we turned the pedals :)
it won't be my first Han, and I didn't get shelled out the back in that either ... :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Hanneke
120km yesterday into Surrey - Battersea out through Carshalton, to Box Hill, Coldharbour, Leith Hill, Walliswood, Ewhurst, Cranleigh, Barhatch Lane, Shere, Ockham, Cobham, Esher, Kingston, back home. Stunning but bloody cold.
(PS. Han, I didn't know there was a 'pack' in women's road races - I thought five was the maximum field and everyone went home with a prize? :rolleyes: )
lots of spin intervals training last week and a nice gentle 90k recovery roll around Surrey yesterday
tapering down a bit for race next Sat: one more intervals sesh as hard as I can tomorrow evening then just keep the legs turning over after that.
Happily,next Saturday also marks the end of my January booze-embargo - looking forward to that post-race pint a great deal... :p
Woohoo! I am allowed back on the bike for now and managed to get 4 decent rides in this week :)
Cross ride on Wednesday, about an hour
MTB ride Thursday, about 2 hours
MTB ride yesterday, 2.5 hours
Road ride today: 3 hours
Absolutely bloody brilliant! The cross ride was in the snow while it was actually snowing. The Thursday MTB ride was awesomely beautiful. Escaped work for a couple of hours in the middle of the day in the sun :) One trail was knee deep in snow, so I had to push the bike, but totally fab, pristine snow, no-one had been there :)
Yesterdays ride included some pushing and some carrying of the bike as well, as snow had driften up over knee deep... It snowed on the top, but was sunny further down.
Today all the snow has gone and roads and rivers are flooded and it was nice and sunny. The river Usk looks like the Okavango Delta though and has made a lot of roads impassible!
Great to be back riding and just in time for training camp in Majorca next week whoop I hope I can still catch up on 6 weeks of missed base mileage building...
Nothing massive for me today, but a nice 10km, mostly uphill, to get to tigger tor race, followed by about 13 km coming home the scenic route (via a nice pint and some sticky toffee pudding!).
Not really much of a ride but riding to and from a race always leaves me happy and tired
A good warmup and cooldown :)
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Originally Posted by PaulE
A sneaky 50 or so miles in the.......wait for it....... SUN
http://app.strava.com/activities/39355310
:thumbup:
I did about 80 kms... three hours out on the road, but it rained for the last hour. Got very cold and wet :(
10 miles on the road bike. Guy overtook me and said "nice wheels". Sigh, gone are the days of "nice arse" :-(
Road race on Saturday at Hillingdon cycle track: came in towards the front of a 40-man pack - about 12th or 15th or summat.
Had loads left in the tank just couldn't get near the front in the closing 2-3 laps - it's so tight round there and some of the handling very jumpy ....
36km @ av speed of 38.5kph.
saturday good run over leg 3 with reccee crew pulled hamstring at the bottom bowfell ,said sod it on sunday and did catbells and back via dalehead ,hinscarth,robinson with ferocious wind and ice conditions, this morning 20 mile bike along coast roker to south shields very open and very windy well from saturday i am now trotting and cycling what the hell gives you a feeling of a dead leg only when running in the hamstring area?
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Ian.
25k with 350m ascent in 61 minutes and cracking sunshine.
What a lovely morning to be out.
Zoot, are you about?
I am in London for work this week and have managed to sub-let the gallery on Friday for a photo shoot, so now have an impromptu day off... would like to do a long ride and was wondering if you can help with a sensible route out of London? I am not staying in Brixton this time, but in Notting Hill and I don't want to be doing laps of Richmond Park for 4 hours... Any ideas?
Well, I fished a GPS route off 't internet and rode out to Windsor via a scenic route... it was still very urban and busy with cars, but not as bad as central and west London and better than riding around RP for hours! 120 odd kms and 4.5 hours of riding in the freezing cold, biting wind and snow flurries... Had coffee and cake to warm up in Windsor... was a bit slow, but the course I set in my Garmin didn't allow me to turn it off while I was sight seeing in Windsor... i.e. pottering around on the bike aimlessly looking at the castle and being told off by a policeman/security guard for loitering with intent :w00t: I told him I loved my bike too much to rig it with a bomb, he didn't think it was funny... But I didn't have a lock on me and was on carbon soled road shoes, so could not walk... Cake was good though :)
Cracking 60 miler with the CTC Thursday Riders, yesterday (Thursday). The bright, dry conditions and good forecast induced me to leave the old 'crosser at home and get out the Ti Sportive bike. Rode to the meet at Crook o' Lune, N bank of the river through Aughton & Gressingham, across Loyn Bridge, Melling, Wennington and up Ravenclose to Ingleton (Inglesports Cafe) for coffee. Left the windproof off and was thoroughly comfortable in merino base-layer and l/s cycling jersey; to Ribblehead, H-i-R, Helwith Bridge, over by Wharfe to Austwick then Clapham for lunch. Stunning, clear, distant views on the circuit of Ingleborough. Home via Clapham Station, Keasden, Mewith Lane, Wray, A683 and the riverside path (disused railway) into Lancaster. Best Thursday this year, to press.
Ian Roberts, Bowland FR.
Good effort Ian, I'm green with envy, sounds a great route.
Well done Sir.
I am even greener with envy! Temperatures barely above zero hereb during the day with a biting wind. Snow still lingering on the hills. I managed to get out for a measly 1hr50minutes today, only ride of the week. Work and total lack of motivation getting in the way. I find it very hard to go out when you come home between 7 and 8 pm, cold, tired, hungry... somehow the idea of getting into cycling kit and going out there doesn't appeal...
Finding it terribly hard and barely manage up to two hours. I want it to be spring! I cannot remember when I last felt warm...
Eh?? Thought you were riding across a beach in Majorca 2 weeks ago!!!! :sneaky:Quote:
Originally Posted by Hanneke
It's the joys of early retirement. When I was given the option of an "early bath", I had 38 years & 9 months on the company pension scheme, out of a potential 40 years. I worried a bit, that I would have liked another 12 months to just "put the cherry on the cake". But 2 years on and I've adjusted pretty well, really enjoying it.
It was a beach, it was Majorca, it was the 4th of February, hardly warm...
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Originally Posted by dominion
Best to retire when you can fully enjoy it I'd say :D
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