Your ride today.... (part 1)

[Shrimp_Stu]

Went out for one of my last rides for a couple of weeks, I've been looking forward to it all week but 3 miles in and I got a p*nct*re (small shard of glass straight through tyre and tube) and fell off bike (down in a heep as clips on). So fixed at road side and got home thoroughly peed off.

Now I'm going for a small operation this afternoon so I hope my luck has changed.

 

[GrasB]

Well my rides this week have been interesting due to an impromptu visit to my partner's parents, they live in a rather hilly area of europe. Oddly enough my ave speeds on a few 20 mile loops haven't been lower than my aves around Cambridge. I managed to shattered my ave speed record yesterday; 29.3mph ave down a 6.5mile stretch of road, all down hill up to 23% gradient I;m now debating if it's ethical to enter it into cyclogs or not .

 

[HLaB]

I went out on a good club run, a varied route which was nice, my mate then text me for a ride so I ended up doing over 125 miles.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

50 mile flat club run. quite flat, not especially fast, but for some reason i'm quite knackered…

 

[fossyant]

Now't, got a carp cold, feel like poo in the morning - stayed in bed till 10am..... took me till this afternoon to feel OK.... washed two cars, cut lawns, and washed the fixed...

 

[gbb]

Did my first 10 miler today - took a detour around the block to hit the magic 10! I just wish I lived somewhere flat!

I remember my first outings on the roadbike, 10 miles, red face, jelly legs and heaving lungs
Now i do 50 miles....red face, jelly........only joking

Before long, 10 will seem inconsequential, you'll see. Keep it up, it'll soon be 15, 20 and so on.

 

[Kirstie]

Same here fossyant. Still getting rid of a heavy cold so I've not ridden for two weeks now. I just cleaned the roadie, hardtail mtb and FS mtb instead.

 

[numbnuts]

31 miles today mostly raining so I got soaked when I got home the sun came out

 

[Will1985]

Hillclimb today - 1.3km with an ascent of 41m. This is Norfolk after all... It was a pretty good turnout of 41 riders (youngest was 4 on the back of a tandem).

Anyway, came 2nd with 02:06, 3 seconds behind the winner.

 

[HJ]

Decide to explore a few wee roads west of Balerno, notched up 30 miles, home with a following wind

 

[rich p]

Hillclimb today - 1.3km with an ascent of 41m. This is Norfolk after all... It was a pretty good turnout of 41 riders (youngest was 4 on the back of a tandem).

Anyway, came 2nd with 02:06, 3 seconds behind the winner.

Ah, first loser then Will

Well done, though, I suspect you may have won if it were hillier?

 

[Will1985]

Ah, first loser then Will

Well done, though, I suspect you may have won if it were hillier?

I'd like to think so This was more of an uphill sprint than a climb.
I'm not sure what his strengths are - I'm joining his (and HeartAttack's) club in a few weeks so I might get to find out.

 

[I am Spartacus]

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Weather too good to miss.
Macc Forest was a bit hard, was too busy chatting with 2 other guys from Manchester only realised near the top I was still in the 50 cr.. that'll teach me to concentrate a bit more.. as they spun away, I was thinking how they doin dat..?

All done on 300ml water as I didnt even fill my water bottle fully up... and a hi octane Lucozade and CoOp choccy brownie (recommendable) at the the finish

 

[Brahan]

I did a 25 TT yesterday so it was a nice slow light run in to work today. Lovely and cold this morning. Oh how I love wearing warm cosy tights.

 

[Brahan]

Hillclimb today - 1.3km with an ascent of 41m. This is Norfolk after all... It was a pretty good turnout of 41 riders (youngest was 4 on the back of a tandem).

Anyway, came 2nd with 02:06, 3 seconds behind the winner.

Good effort Will brilliant!