Your ride today....

[sevenfourate]

Apre Winter ‘refurb’ complete (Tyres, Chain, Cables, Jockey Wheels and much cleaning / lubrication) - so a short 6 mile loop today to test all was working as it should. And of course that meant making sure I took in the sight of the sea on my round-trip to the LBS for some final fine tuning.

This bike rides soooo good. Belies its price / value 5-fold 👌

 

[VinSumRox]

Did a recommended route for dunes, flower gardens and bulb fields, 58km and a whole 177m up(ish). Pretty windy so some slogging against headwind. Great lunchstop with fried egg, ham and cheese sandwich and some varied croquettes. The coffee came with separate whipped cream and Kahlua! Sunny all day as well.

 

[HLaB]

Too much to do last night to get time to post but I was reasonably happy with my TT effort last night which was 98s faster than my recce last Thursday. Part if that were helped by it being a fast night but also by having fresher legs. I hadn't had a rest day in about 9 days, which included a 73 miler the day before last Thursday's effort. That gave the obvious signs of not being able to raise my MHR much over 80-85% and barely peaking at 90%. Last night I averaged 92% MHR and peaked at 98%.

 

[sevenfourate]

My Son is first group out: along with 42’000 others at the Manchester Marathon Sunday. So I’m away from early tomorrow until very late Sunday supporting the prodigal sprog…

So: I took the opportunity to stretch the legs this Morning before work because of that. Very pleasant it was too 👌

River Waveney approaching daybreak:

The Pound at Beccles:

And the plaque explaining what it was:

Imposing (Shame about trees blocking the view) St Michael's also at Beccles….

The Vitals:

 

[Elybazza61]

Went in to Cambridge from Waterbeach this morning (train from Ely) on the river path to pop in to the old workplace as well as looking in at Bicycle Ambulance, both very busy so not able to chat for too long ; also popped in to the O2 shop and the Apple store to get some advice on a few things with the phone (able to pop the bike in each shop and especially good at Apple as the security guy was standing next to it!).
Then made my way home via the Lodes way and took in the re-done path to Soham (still not finished and some bad loose gravel in one section.
Nice tail wind until Barway when the route turned in to the wind that was a pain going in to Cambridge.
51km in total and reminded me how much harder it is on rough surfaced roads and droves.

Three main bridges along the way including the infamous 'cock-up' (to be replaced hopefully)

Konic ponies;

Highland cattle (probably wondering where the high land is!)

And the ship of the fens to guide me home (Ely church spire visable on the left)