Your ride today.... (part 1)
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willhub
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A cadence of 7 less is not grinding.
Not like that. I know it is spinning to most people - the context of what Admin was asking was did the overgearing mean I was grinding more than usual or spinning more than usual? My clubmates would have commented that I was pedalling far slower than usual - my average road cadence on a solo ride is ~98-100 even over several hours. I started off at 96 yesterday and found myself dropping to 86 on the way back. Hell, I climb most hills faster than 86rpm!
BigonaBianchi
Yes I can, Yes I am, Yes I did...Repeat.
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Hooked up with Richp who kindly showed me around some of the nicer roads around here...up through the south downs and through some nic evillages....perfect wevver...little windy but then it always is here. Most of the route was down hill....I like downhill...then had a drink at the airport.
Cheers Rich.
Cheers Rich.
HLaB
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I had a fast (fast for me anyway) ride this evening although I cheated after 38 miles, stopping at my parents to refill my water bottle, knowining fine well my Dad would make a cup of tea and a banana sandwich. I'd rushed home from work in brilliant sunshine 
in the 5 minutes though whilst I got changed it clouded over 
, oh well you can't win them all (or in my case you can't win anything) it was a good ride. Some technical details for Noodley 
17.4mph for 53.01miles and 3200ft of climbing (28.1km/h for 85.4 km and 975m of climbing).
in the 5 minutes though whilst I got changed it clouded over , oh well you can't win them all (or in my case you can't win anything) it was a good ride. Some technical details for Noodley 17.4mph for 53.01miles and 3200ft of climbing (28.1km/h for 85.4 km and 975m of climbing).
willhub
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HLaB said:I had a fast (fast for me anyway) ride this evening although I cheated after 38 miles, stopping at my parents to refill my water bottle, knowining fine well my Dad would make a cup of tea and a banana sandwich. I'd rushed home from work in brilliant sunshine, oh well you can't win them all (or in my case you can't win anything) it was a good ride. Some technical details for Noodley
Thats good going, I keep thinking when I see results like that I wish I could do it but I managed 17.3mph over 68 miles of around 4500ft of climbing in the peaks, but I came back with such a horrendous headache and drained out mega!!
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
17.3mph for 68 is nothing to sniffed at, bravo!willhub said:Thats good going, I keep thinking when I see results like that I wish I could do it but I managed 17.3mph over 68 miles of around 4500ft of climbing in the peaks, but I came back with such a horrendous headache and drained out mega!!
willhub
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No, I always perform better in york though, 18mph average over 128 miles with a large chunk of that in the hills .
I want to be averaging 20mph in the peaks though
Bet you can tell I'm too obsessed with averages?
.I want to be averaging 20mph in the peaks though
Bet you can tell I'm too obsessed with averages?
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
I could only dream of thatwillhub said:No, I always perform better in york though, 18mph average over 128 miles with a large chunk of that in the hills
I want to be averaging 20mph in the peaks though
Bet you can tell I'm too obsessed with averages?
Auntie Helen
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Yesterday I returned from my 11 day cycle tour in Germany along the Rhine & Moselle rivers, which was supposed to help me improve my spoken German a bit.
Today (my first full day at home) I decided to cycle to Manningtree for some groceries on my 20 mile loop via Wix. As I approached Wix I saw a chap on a touring bike looking at a map with a puzzled expression. I asked if he needed any help and he said he was going to Portsmouth and looking for a good route there. For some reason I thought he was from Denmark and talked to him a fair bit - his English was reasonable. I thought his map was rather unhelpful as it was a very large scale map with only motorways and A-roads but he said similar maps had got him fine through Holland. I asked where he had come from and he said Augsburg. Not Denmark after all!
So we switched to German, which surprised him greatly that this random passer-by woman could speak it, and had a nice chat about cycle touring for about half an hour. I recommended that he went to Danbury (south of Maldon) for his campsite today as he said he likes to do about 60-70km in a day. I started trying to describe the route and in the end offered to cycle with him to Tiptree, which he seemed to think was a top idea.
So off we pootled the 20ish miles from Wix to Tiptree, chatting all the while in German (his facility in English had mysteriously disappeared), and then he bought me a cream tea at the Wilkins & Sons jam factory (and also insisted on paying for a pot of jam I was buying for my husband). All very friendly, he was a very interesting chap who had previously cycled across Australia and the USA and was now cycling to Portsmouth and then getting the Ferry to France and going down the Loire valley, ending up in Bavaria again eventually.
When I set off home again after setting him off on the road to Maldon, it occurred to me that I had probably spoken more German today than in the entire previous 11 days of my tour. Ho hum! I did point out to him that, although this was his first visit to England, he shouldn't assume that any cyclist he randomly bumps into will speak German. How likely was that, after all! And that I had been cycling in his country the week before.
He also, by the way, said my German was 'Perfekt' (they are so polite!) although I could tell the longer we spoke, the worse it got. Perhaps it's a concentration thing but by the end it had turned into some weird form of Denglish, but we were chatting for the best part of 5 hours I suppose!
Anyway, the ride itself was 40ish miles and very enjoyable to ride in company for half of the way. And he, with his fully laden panniers, was slower than me up hills which was a nice change!
Today (my first full day at home) I decided to cycle to Manningtree for some groceries on my 20 mile loop via Wix. As I approached Wix I saw a chap on a touring bike looking at a map with a puzzled expression. I asked if he needed any help and he said he was going to Portsmouth and looking for a good route there. For some reason I thought he was from Denmark and talked to him a fair bit - his English was reasonable. I thought his map was rather unhelpful as it was a very large scale map with only motorways and A-roads but he said similar maps had got him fine through Holland. I asked where he had come from and he said Augsburg. Not Denmark after all!
So we switched to German, which surprised him greatly that this random passer-by woman could speak it, and had a nice chat about cycle touring for about half an hour. I recommended that he went to Danbury (south of Maldon) for his campsite today as he said he likes to do about 60-70km in a day. I started trying to describe the route and in the end offered to cycle with him to Tiptree, which he seemed to think was a top idea.
So off we pootled the 20ish miles from Wix to Tiptree, chatting all the while in German (his facility in English had mysteriously disappeared), and then he bought me a cream tea at the Wilkins & Sons jam factory (and also insisted on paying for a pot of jam I was buying for my husband). All very friendly, he was a very interesting chap who had previously cycled across Australia and the USA and was now cycling to Portsmouth and then getting the Ferry to France and going down the Loire valley, ending up in Bavaria again eventually.
When I set off home again after setting him off on the road to Maldon, it occurred to me that I had probably spoken more German today than in the entire previous 11 days of my tour. Ho hum! I did point out to him that, although this was his first visit to England, he shouldn't assume that any cyclist he randomly bumps into will speak German. How likely was that, after all! And that I had been cycling in his country the week before.
He also, by the way, said my German was 'Perfekt' (they are so polite!) although I could tell the longer we spoke, the worse it got. Perhaps it's a concentration thing but by the end it had turned into some weird form of Denglish, but we were chatting for the best part of 5 hours I suppose!
Anyway, the ride itself was 40ish miles and very enjoyable to ride in company for half of the way. And he, with his fully laden panniers, was slower than me up hills which was a nice change!
Crankarm
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Ich habe gern deine Geschichte. Typisch! Wem sagen Sie das. Willkommen Sie zuruck nach Hause .
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Met Jasper the Surrea at Horsham for another recce ride to Bognor.
We took the route that I'd used last week, leaving Horsham on the B2237, taking a right just after the railway, and then another right and a left down to Brooks Green and Coolham, where the road becomes the B2139, widening and flattening out. All very pleasant - indifferent road surfaces, but nothing horrible, and little ups and downs under an overarching canopy of beech. In August we'll see dawn somewhere south of Horsham, and that promises to be quite lovely.
At Storrington the B2139 turns southwest and is less pleasant than before. We lost about 40 metres in height between Storrington and Amberley, but the road goes up and down, up and down, and the traffic is pretty much continuous. I suspect that there'll be a fair few cars on the road, even at six or so on a Saturday morning. At Amberley we pulled in beside the museum and discussed our options before deciding on the ascent to the Hikers' roundabout, and the steep descent to Arundel. This isn't as high as I thought, but it's still a bigger climb than the Beacon, although less steep. Given that we expect riders to arrive in Amberley a bit puffed from the haul from Storrington we're going to give the Arun gap another go later in the month...
Picture postcard settings in Arundel, and then more flat roads to Ford and Yapton, where suburbia reached out to us and wrapped us in the loveliest front gardens, all looking really lush. Jasper had worked the route through to Felpham (which is our seaside destination rather than Bognor) in such a way that whoosh! the sea (and the cafe) is suddenly there, ahead of you, and looking particularly blue
so, this is what awaits us in August....
We took the route that I'd used last week, leaving Horsham on the B2237, taking a right just after the railway, and then another right and a left down to Brooks Green and Coolham, where the road becomes the B2139, widening and flattening out. All very pleasant - indifferent road surfaces, but nothing horrible, and little ups and downs under an overarching canopy of beech. In August we'll see dawn somewhere south of Horsham, and that promises to be quite lovely.
At Storrington the B2139 turns southwest and is less pleasant than before. We lost about 40 metres in height between Storrington and Amberley, but the road goes up and down, up and down, and the traffic is pretty much continuous. I suspect that there'll be a fair few cars on the road, even at six or so on a Saturday morning. At Amberley we pulled in beside the museum and discussed our options before deciding on the ascent to the Hikers' roundabout, and the steep descent to Arundel. This isn't as high as I thought, but it's still a bigger climb than the Beacon, although less steep. Given that we expect riders to arrive in Amberley a bit puffed from the haul from Storrington we're going to give the Arun gap another go later in the month...
Picture postcard settings in Arundel, and then more flat roads to Ford and Yapton, where suburbia reached out to us and wrapped us in the loveliest front gardens, all looking really lush. Jasper had worked the route through to Felpham (which is our seaside destination rather than Bognor) in such a way that whoosh! the sea (and the cafe) is suddenly there, ahead of you, and looking particularly blue
so, this is what awaits us in August....
Flying_Monkey
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dellzeqq said:
Ah, Felpham... God's waiting room. It was where my grandparents ended up... I spent many happy days there as a kid, and many bored out of my mind too. If I was organising a cycling trip, I might want to start there and ride away as fast as possible!
Listen, young fellermelad, there's nothing wrong with Felpham. You can get a nice cup of tea on the front for 80p, and they keep the shelters swept clean. Mind you, it's not what it was, with all those windsurfers and their gear blocking the prom...Flying_Monkey said:
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