mr b's comeback

[mr brightside]

New session tonight, kenyan hills, luckily Tinshill Lane and Carr Bridge Drive came up with the course. The route is a 0.6m/125' loop with equal profiles for both uphill and downhill legs, starting and finishing at the bottom of CBD. So allowing for errors, 8 loops is a nice 5m with a good 1000' of climb stuck in there, all run at a starting pace of 3 steps per breath which rises to 2 on the final part of ascent.

Only 4 laps tonight as i've got a medial peroneal tendon niggle in my left foot, but the aim is to do 8 every time and keep the pace level, which i gather is the requirement for kenyan hills. Sorry Travs i don't have a time for the loop, but i can get one if you want.

[Travs]

I think keeping effort level is preferable to keeping pace level. Always going to see an increased pace on the downhill parts, but the main thing is its a constant effort.

[mr brightside]

Awful Bramley parkrun today, 21.02, had that feeling of oxygen starvation again, probably due to worsening chest problems with the flu. I made easy pickings for the 'around 21m' gang.

[mr brightside]

34m on the bike today; Leeds-Leathley-Beckwithshaw-Fewston-Otley-Leeds. There was probably 2500' of climb in this one, and i definitely had 3 slices of cake and a bit of tiffin. I could do with getting back into the biking a bit, all the racing has got in the way.

[Graham Breeze]

34m on the bike today; Leeds-Leathley-Beckwithshaw-Fewston-Otley-Leeds. There was probably 2500' of climb in this one, and i definitely had 3 slices of cake and a bit of tiffin. I could do with getting back into the biking a bit, all the racing has got in the way.

I fell off in bizarre circumstances a week ago (other riders were involved) and I was bashed about a bit so just 26 miles today (no calorie intake) but I rode up Black Hill (Arthington to above Bramhope) to restore my manhood. Black Hill passes a quarry and a farm so adhesion can be a problem, along with the 20+% climb - so the climb is invariably nasty, always brutish and certainly never short.

[Llani Boy]

I fell off in bizarre circumstances a week ago (other riders were involved)

The "bizarre circumstances" need to be made public Graham, so that the bizarreness can be judged!

[Graham Breeze]

The "bizarre circumstances" need to be made public Graham, so that the bizarreness can be judged!

Although I have never kissed the tarmac before on my Italian bike I think further detail would be otiose. Suffice to say I was riding in close proximity with two younger ladies - which fact you may consider bizarre enough in itself.

[mr brightside]

Although I have never kissed the tarmac before on my Italian bike I think further detail would be otiose. Suffice to say I was riding in close proximity with two younger ladies - which fact you may consider bizarre enough in itself.

So a born again cyclist swerved out as you overtook and wiped your front wheel out?

[anthonykay]

Although I have never kissed the tarmac before on my Italian bike I think further detail would be otiose. Suffice to say I was riding in close proximity with two younger ladies - which fact you may consider bizarre enough in itself.

So a born again cyclist swerved out as you overtook and wiped your front wheel out?

No, Mr B, I think the clue is in Graham's use of the expression "kissed the tarmac", followed by the mention of two younger ladies. I think we can assume that tarmac wasn't the intended object of the kissing.

[Marco]

Although I have never kissed the tarmac before on my Italian bike I think further detail would be otiose. Suffice to say I was riding in close proximity with two younger ladies - which fact you may consider bizarre enough in itself.

I'm rather late to this, as I had to look up what otiose meant, but I have to agree with Llani Boy that more details are required as it seems far too interesting to remain secret.