Today's Bike Ride

[Hanneke]

MTB for a couple of hours I hope... it is way too cold for the road at -5 :-O I'd freeze within an hour!

[Hanneke]

At the moment though, my printer has stopped collaborating, si I am not going anywhere until it is fixed, which rpoabbly means I end up on the track

[Hanneke]

And breathe.....

Before I actually killed the printer by throwing it out streight through the window, I shut it down, and the latop... and went home, got changed and got out on the MTB, streight up the hill Wasn't too muddy and 2.5 hours of lovely play on the hill sees me feeling calm and composed again!

Now I need to go back to work and face that printing job.... < beathe in, breather out > < checks lights for potential night ride >

Ok, I am off, laters!

[Toffer]

Dilemma for today:
do I go out on the road this afternoon, for 3 hours, in the freezing cold but sunshine?
do I go out MTB-ing at a local(ish) trail centre for a couple of hours?
do I go to the velodrome for 3 hours?

Road, defo, so I went after the ice melted for a cool but bliddy gorgeous 2hrs in the sun. Main road mainly, lanes looked a bit dicey:w00t:
Would have gone out on the cross bike.....if I had one!
That could of course change............

[ratfink]

Yes! First post baby ride, ok only to the cafe to meet club run on it's way back in. So 8ish uphill miles out. But hard work! And got overtaken by a mountain biker ( sob).

Talkin of which ordered £250 mountainbike in wiggle sale

[Hanneke]

Whoop Ratfink As I said elsewhere, popping babies is hard work, well done on getting back so well and so soon

I managed 4.5 hours on the road... through MOnmouthsire from home to Abergavenny, Usk, Chepstow, Devauden, Trellech, MOnmouth, Rockfield, Cross Ash, Campston Hill, Llanvihangel Crucorny, Pandy and home. Toffer will know what I mean... Little de-tour to follow hounds... nice ride, but well cold...

I was using some cheap gadgets I bought the other day: heated insoles, in my neoprene and goretex winter boots... I thought they weren't doing much, as they didn't feel warm, until I ran out of batteries (they only last 3 hours) and suddenly had iceclumps for feet

[Fleeter]

I passed a mountain biker whilst running today,amazing feeling! :w00t:

[ZootHornRollo]

Saturday: 80km, 1,000m climbing. 60km club ride with Dulwich Paragon into E.Sussex plus 20km return trip from home. Av speed 24kph.
Sunday: 115km, 2,000m climbing. 95km club ride with DP into E.Sussex and Kent plus 20km. Av speed 27-28 kph.

Both glorious days, frosty fields bathed in sun and mist, but no ice on t'roads.

[ratfink]

So my saturday ride was 23k/450m

Sunday got out for another 17k/340m

Today 20 min on turbo in the yard til bambino woke up

[Stagger]

Blumming heck Zoot and Ratty, gunner have to start a serious cycling thread and leave this to the semi nutters.

PS two good efforts though.