Today's Bike Ride

[Hanneke]

And I maintain that there is no finer sight than a woman in LYCRA.

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...

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

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

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

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???

[Longdogs]

Blimey Hanneke, are you mad? Why ruin a brilliant run by taking a bicycle??! (seriously, well done..)

p.s. Pedwar won a trophy today

[dominion]

Blimey Hanneke, are you mad? Why ruin a brilliant run by taking a bicycle??! (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!

[Antisocial]

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

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.

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

[stevefoster]

Can't make it AS, busy

[Hanneke]

Blimey Hanneke, are you mad? Why ruin a brilliant run by taking a bicycle??! (seriously, well done..)

p.s. Pedwar won a trophy today

Ohhhhh, well done Pedwar what did he have to do to win the trophy? Eat loads?

[Hanneke]

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!

Yep, no bonking this time... Mind you I kept eating frantically every 20 minutes or so

[stevefoster]

Yep, no bonking this time... Mind you I kept eating frantically every 20 minutes or so

So are you saying if you go on a diet, you'll get more sex

[Rodders rambler]

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.

[emmilou]

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...

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

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

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

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???

I've a mtb for sale...mates rates!