Your ride today.... (part 1)

[gbb]

46 miles at 16.4 mph average. Fabulous ride, Peterborough, Wansford, beyond to the A43, stayed on there till 2 miles from Corby, then back via Oundle and various villages.
Absolutely sweeping round bends at 20 to 25 mph in a couple of places...very exciting for round here
Saw a couple of Red Kite, one was bloody huge...got me camera that i'd been carrying for 25 miles...low battery . Somethings wrong with it...it always says low battery even tho i put new ones in.

Wish i'd had my computer on...i'd have done the 50

Everyones tomatoes should be safe...i've never seen so many greenfly...musta swallowed half the UK population.

 

[ianrauk]

no problems mate, glad to have shown you some lovely places so close to Bromley. And it was a hilly ride to say the least. Myself I ended up doing 61 miles. Was going to go on but thought better of it seeing as it was 'er indoors 40th birthday today

48 miles today with Ian and I was going well until about 30 miles in. My legs for the first time really started to hurt and I tried to keep going but it was no use so I officially bonked. Even after 2 gels my legs just wouldn't go any further. I have done 65 miles before in one go so I put it down to not riding for a couple of weeks.

Some amazing scenery, saw Lullingstone Roman Villa for the first time in 20 years and fantastic weather made up for my bonk moment.... cheers for the ride Ian and sorry again for the bonk !

 

[Fairweather]

As Lard says, the new start was far better at the Dragon. Very quick to get from carpark (once you managed to get into the car park of course) to the start. So much better than last years lane covered in cow ####!!!!

The weather was a bit warm for me today, especially as we got to Cimla Hill which was described as "a cheeky little one" by the chap I was riding with - not what I call it....
I went up Bwlch 2 on autopilot, somehow I got to the top but had to get off and lay flat on my back for 5 mins - not eaten enough cake I reckon?. Once we got to Bryncethin I got my legs back and made a good pace to the finish - thank heavens for Torq gells....

The one thing that really did dissapoint me though; probably the most dangerous bend - a very tight left downhill hander on the approach to Bryncethin (where I went off last year) still had no sign or a marshall on it. There was a SLOW sign about half a mile before it, one chap past me at a fair lick just as we were getting there - I yelled "TIGHT" several times until he realised what I meant, he slammed on the anchors and managed to stay on the road. He slowed down to thank me, still no sign.....

A good day was had by all............. excpet for the chap that was returned to the car park in a taxi after trapping a nerve in his back - bot it looked painfull - and I didn't know you could get a road bike in the boot of a Skoda Ovtavia - amazing!

 

[vernon]

63 miles on the Boothferry 100km Audax. It was one of the fastest that I've ridden yet I still came in as lanterne rouge.

Great cycling teeritory though at the edge of the Yorkshire Wolds. My two riding partners both enjoyed the ride as they'd not been in the area before.

Roy from Leicester did it on a single speed bike and only had to dismpount once on the climb out of Brantingham. It was his fastest Audax of the year and he too was last - joint last with me.

I'm very pleased with the way that the Flying Gate bike is working. I'm sure that it is contributing to my faster times - it can't all be due to fitness improvements....

 

[a_n_t]

105 miles............ lancashire>cheshire>derbyshire>staffordshire.

I'm shired out! http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/episode/view.do?episodePk.pkValue=8448377

 

[fossyant]

Lucky lot, still no ride because of the shoulder. Hope its ok for the commute

 

[Cubist]

Waheyyy! Six weeks after the injury and I have been tentatively trying out progressive rides. last weekend I rode a 10 mile road route and discovered that i didn't fall apart or collapse screaming. On Tuesday I rode 12 miles around Derwent Res and found that I could hoon it down the last half and jumping the rain bars didn't kill me. Today I rode several technical sections of moorland track, including a great half-mile of downhill rutted singletrack with drop-offs and some great little jumps. The back is getting better, so I'm going to try the Thursday evening club ride and see how I get on.

 

[iGaz]

bastard

Ditto on that front!!

Oh well, a nice 38 miler along the north Cornwall coast as the sunset over the St Ives Bay, lovely,,,,

 

[Auntie Helen]

Not today's ride, but Saturday. Cycled down to my local village fete (2 miles!) and saw and had to photograph this other three-wheeled vehicle parked there.

 

[rchomba]

81 miles of the Dragon Ride. Now bring on the London Brighton.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

hot as it gets today.

 

[swee'pea99]

Clearly brewing up for a mighty storm as I left tonight...might make it, might not....couple of miles in, PFSSSSSSHHHHHHHH. Bugger. Missus was kind enough to pick me up half an hour later, soaked to the skin (hailstones at one point, the size of peas - actually quite painful as they bounced cheerfully off my thinly-covered scalp) and frozen. It's all about timing...

 

[Renard]

Was out a walk with doggy tonight and huge black clouds on the opposite side of the valley. Apparently it was pissing down out that way but totally dry this side. Very localised!

 

[willhub]

Did 73 miles today, went to Hazel Grove, Kettleshulme, whaley bridge, then I went onto the long Hill climb, turned off into Goyt Valley, this real fast decent to Errwood Reservoir, then I climbed up a road called the Embridge Causeway, top of that there is this car park, then I decended Hooleyhey ln to blaze hill which took me to bollington, I went to Alderly Edge then, did Swiss Hill, then the decent back into Alderly, went along to Knutsford and through tatton park, this took me to Altrincham and from there back into Manchester.

73 miles, hilly, 17.3mph average.

 

[PatrickPending]

first commute for 6 days....47 mile return journey, sunshine, wind behind me on the way in and back bliss......