Quote Originally Posted by mr brightside View Post
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.