I've been sat in work all day looking out at glorious sunshine thinking I should get out on the bike when I get home. I've got home and it's started raining.... :(
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I've been sat in work all day looking out at glorious sunshine thinking I should get out on the bike when I get home. I've got home and it's started raining.... :(
Cycled back from the old workplace with a fat cheque in my back pocket, didn't weigh me down though, got home quicker than ever:confused:
I'm free of the b@st@rds for good:cool:
Is anyone else from 'up north' considering popping down for a tootle (Tour De Galles)?
I finish work at midnight on the Friday and am then free from several days after........................Dom, Em, Alan T........?
Mudguards?Quote:
Originally Posted by dominion
No, that would spoil the look of an otherwise rather nice bike... :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Ady In Accy
Toff, HUMBLE bike? Is that the divorcocycle you talk about?
I shall be out for an easy potter around the lanes later, no cols, as I have a 2 day stage race this weekend and I don't want to come last...
Whimp!Quote:
Originally Posted by dominion
Stop chatting on your computer with 'virtual' friends, get out in the REAL world, get wet ;)
I wouldn't mind doing something somewhere on part of TDG. I'm supposed to be on a training course in Croydon for the previous week, but I think it's been cancelled so it might be a possibility. Not sure how much I can actually manage though!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ady In Accy
What about 1 stage Dom? I am hoping to get down and do one/two maybe................pity I am working at the start of it or could well have used my store of brownie points to do the whole thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by dominion
Ok, I bimbled out for 1/2 hour on the MTB. Promise to do something properly tomorrow.
Easy high cadence 40ish minutes on the bike, to loosen up the legs for tomorrows races... exactly 20 kms, don't know how I did it :D
Good luck Han. Don't forget pain is only temporary :)
You missed the punchline....Quote:
Originally Posted by Ady In Accy
Glory is for ever....
Still hurts like hell near the back and there aint no glory there :eek:
Monmouth/Hay/Gospel Pass/Cross Ash/Monmouth.
60 miles of back lane hell, 5,400 feet of climb (max 18%). 4 Hours.
Did not bonk. Discovered secret = 1 flapjack per hour!!:D
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Originally Posted by Wheeze
well one wheeze
10 mile run for me today and 40miles on the bike
Ahh you have learnt the second hardest thing about riding the bike,
eating on one.
If you get the hunger knock just down 2x cans of coke and well i prefer a mars bar
I heard that a certain pony / forumite did day one of a 2 day bike race today.... Stories to be told I heard.... :)
A subtle clue to their identity in the colour of your post dom? ;):D
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Originally Posted by dominion
Opted for the early hard ride this morning and wasn't dissapointed. A bumpy ride up to Settle, Clapham, Caton, Quernmore and Scorton for a fuel stop after 55 miles. Only 6 of us out so more time working on the front and less time 'resting' on the back. Returned via Chipping hard to very hard at times. Couple of top local runners where out preparing for the Bolton Ironman in August and going well but nobody got dropped and everyone felt the burn.
87 miles at 19.5mph average.
15 miles at 17.5 average . and that hurt !
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Originally Posted by Ady In Accy
good ride Ady
well done
Still missing the bloody running though Daz - not long now I hope :confused:
I believe one of the cyclists was going for a 16 mile run when he got back today - lucky git!!
How far at what pace??? :eek:
That's it, I quit! Bike's are all going on ebay!
Mine most certainly aren't... After a weekend of brilliant racing, I am hooked... not sure what to do about that bl**dy Everest Marathon that I should have started training for already... Can't combine the two, it is just too much!
quick little 15 mile hilly route around Skenfrith. 1 hour, 1500 feet climb, 14 mph average. 5% ave/21% max climbs. Hard work but pleased to be able to grunt it out after yesterdays work out.
Whoever invented the 'love channel' needs a bloody medal! My perineum is quite happy!:p
12.5 mile with eldest son just an hour with 1500' climb.
He has a good turn of speed just not the strength to keep it going, but that will come.
Just a 35 mile trundle this afternoon to recce the southernmost point of Wales and the easiest route home. Sorted:)
A short tentative run followed by just over an hour on the cx bike. Picked up some good very rough trails, only came off the once. New territory for me this off road biking mallarky so still unsure what's attemptable and what is'nt.....................:confused:
Hann,
The bikes will wait, Everest Marathon is this year. A month treking, the monastery, Base Camp, the race, the take-off from Lukla (spelled wrong), D&V, altitude headaches and leeches; all marvellous. Almost the ultimate fell race and this is a Fell Forum after all so go on get running.
Big hugs
xx
Thank you Lola xxQuote:
Originally Posted by Lola
I am checking myself for ticks at the moment...
Which must mean I have been out for a run through fields and onto a hill :D It was great and it wasn't as bad as the last couple of times I tried... so another one is on the schedule for Wednesday morning!
Interestingly, after some tea and a few slices of toasted fruit loaf, I am off on a little trundle on my x-bike. New territory for me too. Am going to attempt to ride up onto Hatterall Ridge from Trewyn, then down behind my house... may need to walk a bit...Quote:
Originally Posted by Ady In Accy
No idea if it is viable on a cross bike. It is on a MTB though...
Keeping with the off-road malarky, 18 miles on the MTB, some road, some canal bank and a stretch of bridleway. Trying to fathom out how long it'd take me to get to work by bike, which would be 28 in total - 13 mile canal, 9 mile road, 5 mile river bank. Not this week though!
Still my favourite bike of the collection!
Little jaunt on the x-bike... hard getting up the hill, then decided to go streight over the top and back down on the road, as the legs felt too tired after the run and the weekends bike racing... It was supposed to be recovery, so there :)
Scary stuff, going downhill... brrrrr....
Much more so than on a 'normal' bike Han - I didn't have the lid on this aft as it was just a bimble out but in retrospect was not the best idea!Quote:
Originally Posted by Hanneke
Mine was also just a bimble and I normally don't wear a helmet, but decided to do so on this occasion...Quote:
Originally Posted by Ady In Accy
You should always wear a helmet to protect your pretty head, i always wear one cos i don't want to get any uglier:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Hanneke
I hate them Merry...
I was thinking about you on the way home... You have done 3 Peaks Cyclocross race haven't you? Is it very scary? I really thought what I was doing was pretty hairraising and riding down the hill was even slower than going up it, because of the steepness and roughness of the path...
I used to ride sans lid all the time but several guys in the club had offs and 1 lad got clipped with a car and landed on a kerb head first (wearing lid). His lid was mashed but he was OK(ish). Decided to get one after that. I also have a good dint in mine after my incident last Spring . Does feel good without though :)
You'll have to wear one on that, i'm afraid, it's the law, it's as scary as you make it;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Hanneke
Entries open July 1st:cool:
Too right mate, i love to feel the wind in my hair:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ady In Accy
WHAT? Hair? :eek: HELP, I am going blind ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by merrylegs