Today's ride

[biggs682]

Back on the Lee cooper after swapping the freewheel for a 20 hopefully it will help me out on the hills

 

[3narf]

So annoyed I didn't manage to get out today. I was really rough yesterday with congestion and sore throat, I felt awful. I decided I'd give it a miss today as I also had loads of stuff to catch up on.

I feel fine now, but still... Back to work tomorrow so I won't get out again til the weekend.

 

[biggs682]

A breezy 16 mile loop tonight on the Lee Cooper the freewheel swap seems to have helped

Could have done with a sail tonight

 

[3narf]

I just got back from a 33 miler; I'm on a diet, cutting right down on carbohydrates and really felt it!

Having said that, my thighs lasted long enough to do the sprint right at the end, and I got 11 PRs which I really wasn't expecting...

 

[Pennine-Paul]

A 25 miler up to Hyde and back via the Fallowfield loop,Rochdale and Ashton canal towpaths,definitely a bit nippy coming back

 

[3narf]

I just did my first fixed-gear ride for 5 years; it was quite good, just not as good as freewheel!

I did forget a couple of times- have you ever noticed how expletives bounce off dry stone walls louder than ordinary words?

I was overtaken too close by not one but two grey-haired old coffin dodgers in rubbish cars. They are without doubt the worst drivers on the road. They mostly don't do it on purpose but that won't help matters.

 

[3narf]

If you're wondering why I'm riding fixed (what with hating it and everything), it's because I'm planning on doing a track session at Newport Velodrome in the near future and I want to look like I know what I'm doing.

I just don't see... How do you actually sprint? I mean, how do you use that last 1% of effort, if you can't stop pedalling when you cross the line? I know you're supposed to let your legs go limp, but can anyone actually do that?

 

[colly]

An easy run out this morning. No intention of 'pushing it' but rather a bit of a hilly ride instead. Whatever, seeing as I had no breakfast before I went out the last 5 miles seemed like 105.

View: https://ridewithgps.com/trips/11895913


Some really glorious views of Wharfedale with the early sun low in the sky setting everything in relief. Left my phone at home so.....................take my word for it.

 

[3narf]

Today was freezing cold and the roads were treacherous; 1/2 inch of crystallised frost covering everything. I had to wear the gimp mask for the first time since last winter, but I managed 25 miles of good, fat-burning trudge before breakfast (which was a fried egg toastie). Mrs Narf had just finished on the turbo when I got back.

 

[Lochen]

Good God I have such a lot of work to do

https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/from-humble-beginnings.211073/

 

[3narf]

Positively tropical compared to last week, and a great hangover cure!

 

[3narf]

Wild and woolly today..

 

[3narf]

...and today, for one of the shortest rides of the year! 7.8 miles; OK for a blow through before getting on with Christmas dinner (I'm working tomorrow).

 

[3narf]

Put some real effort in today and got a load of PRs! Good morale booster after feeling a bit miserable.

 

[3narf]

41.5 miler today for my 50th birthday! The first 32 or so was really quick but the last 10 was hard...