Ride your bike for at least 30 minutes at least three times a week, every week, for a year

[Ming the Merciless]

Every single time I have visited Taichung it has rained. EVERY TIME!

You are the rain God from Hitchikers Guide To The Galaxy.

 

[bluenotebob]

Week 3 - Ride 3 - Fri 21 Jan 2 hrs 9m/34.58km ... a similar ride to yesterday - same conditions: dry but very cold with a NE wind .. so why not do the same ride? .. out to Ménéac again but home directly from Brignac - feeling cold and hungry, I let the wind carry me home. Just scoffed a large sandwich and I've lit a big fire - and I'm slowly regaining contact with my feet and hands

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Week 3 - Ride 3 - Fri 21 Jan 2 hrs 9m/34.58km ... a similar ride to yesterday - same conditions: dry but very cold with a NE wind .. so why not do the same ride? .. out to Ménéac again but home directly from Brignac - feeling cold and hungry, I let the wind carry me home. Just scoffed a large sandwich and I've lit a big fire - and I'm slowly regaining contact with my feet and hands

Bitterly cold here today as well. Mostly down to the wind.

 

[figbat]

W3R3 - 21/1/22 - 1:02
Another daytime quickie, slotted between meetings. Cloudy, cold but not Baltic.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Week 3

Ride 3 Sat 22 Jan

A 200km audax across Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Hampshire. Pretty cold at western end but ice free. A good if long and tiring day.

 

[Gibbo9]

Sadly back to Taipei on Friday due to work. I honestly thought I would be failing this challenge at week 3 but...

Week 3

Ride 2 Sat 22 Jan, a 41 minute effort down by the river, very wet out so very slow indeed.

Ride 3 Sun 23 Jan, still very wet out so I ventured into the basement and brought the mountain bike out of retirement. A solid 31 min 02 sec effort around town. It's in the rules

Hopefully this rain will go and I can get back to normal next week.

 

[FrothNinja]

Week 4 Ride 1 - Goat Lane, Stainforth, Langcliffe, Settle, Rathmell, Wigglesworth, Forest Becks

A rather odd assemblage of stones SW of Settle

Rathmell Church

Forest Becks bridge

 

[FrothNinja]

Very nice looking bike that

Thank you - its a work in progress

 

[bluenotebob]

Weeks 1 to 3 completed

Week 4

Ride 1 - Mon 24 Jan - 2 hrs 1 min/33.06km - sunny for a change but still cold (particularly under the trees). A loop out through Brignac, la Corbinais and Evriguet

Looking back down the road from Brignac to Evriguet

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Week 4 Ride 1 - Goat Lane, Stainforth, Langcliffe, Settle, Rathmell, Wigglesworth, Forest Becks
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A rather odd assemblage of stones SW of Settle

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Rathmell Church

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Forest Becks bridge

Stayed at the YHA in Stainforth in the 80s

 

[figbat]

W4R1 - 24 Jan - 1:07
Quickie after work - 0°C all the way round but didn’t feel it; had a great ride over mixed road and gravel type terrain, posted an encouraging PR up a bête noir climb.

 

[FrothNinja]

Stayed at the YHA in Stainforth in the 80s

Been a poncey private house for a few years now, well, it is no longer YHA in any case.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Been a poncey private house for a few years now, well, it is no longer YHA in any case.

Shame made a nice weekend loop from Malham.

 

[Gibbo9]

Week 4

Ride 1 - A trundle through town then onto the riverside. Had to cut it short due to a short notice meeting, 55 mins.

 

[yello]

I'm going to join in the spirit of this thread by doing the 30 minutes, 3 times a week on my home trainer. I shan't post because, well, the photos won't be very interesting!

Fact is, I need to do some form of rehabilitation and it's an impossibility to keep my heart rate down cycling the roads around here. But rest assured that I shall be thinking of picturesque vistas as I pedal steadily to no destination!