Quite a few pairs on ebay at 21 quid each including delivery which is a good price.Quote:
Originally Posted by daz h
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Quite a few pairs on ebay at 21 quid each including delivery which is a good price.Quote:
Originally Posted by daz h
Where's it at Ady?? Good luck :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Ady In Accy
A6, Stakepool, Inskip, Cockerham area. 6:30 kick off :)
Ah will be on the way back from Fort William doubt I'll be back by then or would have popped over to hurl abuse errrr shout support!! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Ady In Accy
30 miles on geared crosser up and around Stoodley Pike, front wheel vanished in a bog, bike stopped dead, i turned into a bird and landed head first in another bog, great fun!
Bike washed in res, then back to Ripponden for Guinness and peanuts, good day out with great company:cool:
Cream crackered now:eek:
Just over 227 miles in todays 12 hour TT. Will post report tommoz to bore you with ;)
Brilliant stuff Ady - respect is due!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ady In Accy
Legend, Ady, Legend;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Ady In Accy
Lancashire RC 12 Hour 6/9/09
I quite enjoy a long ride so decided to enter the 12 (along with 3 other club members), quite a niche event which reflects in the number of entries – just 38. There aren't too many 12 hour races annually in the UK and this one was local(ish) to me out on the A6/Fylde. Everything on the run up to the event went well apart from lack of training miles so off I set at 06:34 on a dry and overcast Sunday morning. I had decided to ride to a HR and for the 1st 3 ½ hours I seemed to be moving very well with nobody passing me. My 50 split was just over 22mph but then at 3:25 I started to feel terrible. I was on a section into the wind and I had to drop onto the small ring and my speed dropped from 20 down to 16. For 40 minutes I felt like my body had had enough – little energy, aches, cramps, the voice in my head shouting stop. The keyword to this event seems to be ‘just keep going’ which sums it up very well. I carried on but left it in the small ring and soon rode through the bad patch. After that I felt good all afternoon with no other lows. I rode on the small ring for around 4 hours before banging the 53 back in and then it stayed in. After the 4 hour mark my HR dropped 10 into the high 140’s (around 45 less than max) and stayed constant at that for the rest of the day so I suspect I had set off a little too quickly. Around 20 club members were out on the course at various times of the day shouting support and offering up bottles which really gave a boost and put me on a high. In the last 4 hours of the race I was able to wind it up and managed to finish very strongly, getting my average back up from the morning’s slow section. My eating/drink strategy went without a hitch and 2 hours from the end I stuffed a Zipvit caffeine gel into my cake hole which was like pressing a turbo button. For around an hour I was flying, leaving behind 3 guys that I had been close to for an hour or so – great stuff but tasted bloody awful! This morning my left hand is still tingling and my legs are a little on the stiff side and I expect I will eat like a horse today! I Am yet to look at my Garmin which should have recorded the ride and managed to stay on for 12 hours, albeit with a battery low alert for the last hour. A few days off now before some running and cycling in Sunny Mallorca and fingers crossed for some fell races when I get back!
Stats:
5 Litres of fluid (mosty PSP22 & GO)
5 Bannanas
6 cold sausages
5 PSP GO gels
1 Zipvit caffeine Gel (turbo tackle)
2 Terys Chocolate orange bars
227.94 miles covered (19 average as near as damn it) with 3,500' of ascent.
1st Team (twenty quid each)
2nd team counter (got beat by 3 miles from an 18,000 mile a year clubmate)
Winner did 253 miles
brilliant AdyQuote:
Originally Posted by Ady In Accy
Top effort mate. I was thinking about you yesterday.
A serious question. Do you think you ate enough. ?
Well done
Yes, did not have that empty feeling at all, also good food & drink intake 2 days leading up to event which is important. Bad patch was due to 1st 3.5 hours at too high a HR, just been looking at Garmin stats. Fluid intake just right too, did not have to stop. Another clubmate had to stop for a slash and went in a field and fell over backwards wetting himself :DQuote:
Originally Posted by daz h
That first bit must have been a tremendous pace mate. But jeez thats a bloody long way on a bike.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ady In Accy
Be interesting to see what you would do in a 24;).
Well done and enjoy your break.
145km yesterday. We did the Tour of Britain stage 5 (from Stoke) 'pro' tour ride - for charity. It was very well organised, including drink and food stops and mechanic support. I think we did it in about 5 hours 20 (not including time stopped while drinking, eating, going to the loo etc).
I was King of Gun Hill (among our 5-man team), but paid for it at the end as I was dropped by my team-mates for the sprint finish.
A very enjoyable day. I'll put some pictures and stuff on my blog later today - I was too tired yesterday.
Excellent result Ady - well done! :D was thinking of you, but figured a text mid circuit might not have been best!!
onthe subject of bikes, does anyone know of any sites giving details of good trail/bridleways for bikes in lakes or Yorshire?
40 miles road, "undulating" 2.5 hours.
Home, Skipton, Gargrave, Thorton, Elsack, Colne, Oakworth, home
got a pinch puncture towards the end of the ride and carried bike home last mile.
A pinch puncture on a road bike - wtf?
You need a bike maintenance course!
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Originally Posted by Antisocial
It was due to riding in the dark without lights, I hit a metal thingy in the road I did not see. I would have been home in the light had I not ridden so slowly with you for a mile or so.Quote:
Originally Posted by brett
You didn't see the road:confused: Or the metal thingy??????Quote:
Originally Posted by Antisocial
If you didn't see the metal thingy, how do you know it was a thingy made of metal:confused:
Should have gone to Specsavers:p
One of the nicest bike rides I have had the pleasure of doing this morning. Met at 8.30 at Tollos and about 20 riders set off on some fantastic back roads eventually stopping in Sinue for a coffee. 5 of us opted for a longer ride and ended up climbing up to lluc from Campernet. A fantastic 12K climb under sunny skies with views that are hard to describe in words. Another Coca Cola & coffee stop at the garage whilst we re grouped (I got dropped by an ex Welsh international rider, middle name is Jeramhia so Hanneke will have seen his name in the results no doubt, rides for Team Jiff in Cardiff). A good old descent down to the coast and a spot of lunch and a beer followed by a couple of hours laid out on the beach (got bored of that now hence Interweb cafe). For me that was a day that dreams are made of, think I´ll have another one tommorow :)
WOW! That is impressive stuff... Do you have any idea what caused the dip in pace/power? Lack of food, general tiredness, lack of high mileage training volume??? Good to see you managed to ride through it though!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ady In Accy
I was tempted to do the Welsh 12hr, which was on last weekend... But decided it was too close to Three Peaks and I wasn't prepared enough for it, not enough long hard rides. Maybe next year. Very few women do it...
Just under 90 sunny miles for me yesterday. Amazing weather and a bit too hot.
I managed to get to Buxton and back in a round about way.
Its funny though how things happen.
I stopped for an ice cream at White Lodge on the way back and realised Id forgotten my cash so didnt have one.
So I pressed on when suddenly 2 x time trial riders whizzed past on there PLANET X machines:eek:. So i thought im no having that and gave chase. I caught them at Bakewell and rode away from them as we left the town. I paced them for about 3/4 miles and they went past again. Suddenly another guy came past me and i kept with him for a while and we had a chat.
Turns out the two on the Planet X bikes where being chased by some of the academy GB ladies.
Within seconds I was surrounded by eight women on bikes:). 3 of them had GB kit on.
They guy asked me if I could pace them down to Ambergate from Cromford . So I went to the front and didnt let off until the wire works. The girls all coasting behind me. God knows what speed we went but it was fast.
Well it must be about 7 miles and at the Hurt Arms the girls said a very nice thankyou and I watched them ride off as I turned left for home.
A great experience.
As usual I bonked at Heanor , no food again.
Those planet X bikes look a bit hi tech for me.
And I maintain that there is no finer sight than a woman in LYCRA.
:):):)Quote:
Originally Posted by daz h
cleaned the rourkie today
crap all over the patio and her indoors nagging:confused:
okay i did use 2xtowels
well what the hell are you supposed to use
holey race t-shirts surely?? :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by daz h
Another wondefull ride out on the back roads to Inca and then some very very quiet cycle lanes to Selva for a short stop in front of the impressive looking church in the square decorated with blue bunting. 5 of us opted for a ride up Lluc and I rode up with an ex pat called Liz who was out yesterday also. Went up briskly to very briskly and was well impressed with her riding but it turns out she is an ex national UK RR champ!!! There are some very dark horses riding out over here. I believe there is also a V50 Cat UK Tri champ that lives down the road that gets out on the rides on a regular basis. Fantastic riding over here, X2 more trips planned already for next year.
I can only put it down to going too hard for the 1st 3 hours or so. Have looked at Garmin stats and it seems I would have been best trying to maintain 80 percent throughout. See how it goes next year Hann.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hanneke
Do you know the guy in Cardiff that has the Cyclopedia bike shop? Ian Jeramhia? He is over here at the moment and is very strong.
The Original Mountain Bike Challenge at Hade Edge above Holmfirth on cross bike.
Approx 30 miles on/off road 2h 34m. Good fun and good training session for the 3 peaks cyclocross, no guinness in local boozer though:(
Nice t-shirt though:)
Well said that daz;):DQuote:
Originally Posted by daz h
I have to say, I rather have a man in LYCRA... and boy, did I see enough of them today, all covered in mud as well...Quote:
Originally Posted by daz h
Transpires that my long Three Peaks CX ride I plotted today crossed with the route of the Beast of the Beacons or something like that... a mountainbike race... and I kept bumping into the riders... 600 of them in total so no getting away from them :eek:
At least they weren't mad enough to do what I did... I rode up to the 'Gap' on some nice rideable forestry tracks and the Roman Road... Which, I was reliably informed, is unrideable on a cross bike. So I proceeded to prove them all wrong by riding up AND down it without getting off :)
At the Gap I turned for my steep grassy ascent to Cribyn... carrying the bike. Took a pic of the bike with Pen-y-Fan in the background, shouldered it again and ran down to the saddle and up Pen-y-fan... well, once I started going up I soon stopped running :D
My photo was taken, bike and all, on the summit cairn of Pen-y-fan, by a helpful walker... Then I ran down and along the Beacons Way. Unrideable, too rocky so ran carrying and pushing the bike, until I got back to the Gap, jumped back on and rode down the Roman road...
Then took some more or less rideable trails back to Talybont Reservoir where I had started off...
In total it was just over 35 kms and took me a little over 4 hours...
One exploding tube and loads and loads and loads of MTB-ers did slow me down a little, but very happy with the result, as I thought it was going to take me about 5 hours to do this route!
I got one hell of a lot of comments from both walkers and MTB-ers... mostly in the realm of: completely insane, are you mad, do you want to break your neck... The walkers seemed to think it was funny asking if I had taken a wrong turn :rolleyes:
Anyways, some good comments too from the MTB-ers... as in I got a LOT of respect for riding what I was riding on a crosser... Maybe I should give MTB-ing a try... ??? It was suggested that if I could ride what I was riding on a crosser I'd be very good on a MTB???
Blimey Hanneke, are you mad? Why ruin a brilliant run by taking a bicycle??!:eek: (seriously, well done..)
p.s. Pedwar won a trophy today :)
Second time in two weeks she's been dragging a bike round Welsh hills! Sounds like this one was a bit more successful than last week - good stuff!Quote:
Originally Posted by Longdogs
Did a 10k in France last week, we all got a fleece lined coat. Then there was a raffled where all our entries were put in a box and they gave away microwaves, ipods, mountainbikes and the like.Quote:
Originally Posted by merrylegs
didn't win anything though.
Are you doing the Keighley mountain bike challenge next Sunday , 31 miles off road for our local hospice.
http://www.sportkeighley.com/?p=302
Can't make it AS, busy:(
Ohhhhh, well done Pedwar :) what did he have to do to win the trophy? Eat loads? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Longdogs
Yep, no bonking this time... Mind you I kept eating frantically every 20 minutes or so :)Quote:
Originally Posted by dominion
So are you saying if you go on a diet, you'll get more sex:confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Hanneke
70 mile on the Focus today,Llangynog and over the top into Bala to watch the Olympic distance triathlon.Then back a different way over the top(Rhos-y-gwaliau)down into Lake Vyrnwy to watch the half marathon:)
Lovely day but pretty cool this morning at 8.15 before the mist lifted.
I've a mtb for sale...mates rates! :D;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Hanneke