Your ride today....

[Elybazza61]

Eek!

Oooh, Ouch! Hope you heal soon.

Ouch! GWS.

Thanks again.

Should say that the shoulder bump is an old injury from a couple of years ago so was lucky I didn't re-do that,got to go back tomorrow for more re-dressing and to see if I'll need further visits.

Gave the bike a clean and check yesterday and it's ok apart from a couple of scuffs on the pedals and rear mech,gears working fine and the rear mech is in line as it should be so only cosmetic damage.

Actually rode to the clinic yesterday so should be properly back on soon.

 

[cosmicbike]

Some very light spots of rain after I got home from work last night, so headed out for my routine 30 mins in shorts and short sleeves. 1 mile later it was raining somewhat harder, I was soaked through but it wasn't cold, so I plodded on. 7.2 miles last night. Up early this morning and out in the cool air, little longer out there today as I misjudged my route somewhat and ended up at 10.9 miles. On the plus side, that's a 70 mile week for me, been a while since I did that.

@Elybazza61 good to hear your doing OK and back on the bike quickly.

 

[i hate hills]

Todays ride very nearly wasn't due to a sleepy old boy motorist coming within yards of taking me out at a roundabout in the first mile. Thankfully I had a feeling he wasn't going to stop & a loud shout of oi plus a few expletives seemed to wake him from his slumber & he slammed his brakes on to allow me to pass unscathed! (he did drive along side & apologise rather sheepishly afterwards, I'm guessing after an ear bashing from his wife!).

Carrying on on a beautiful sunny day it was my now regular route across the New Forest to Wiltshire to explore another new hill that I had found on Stava maps & once the forest was behind me it's quiet country lanes with the odd B road for the rest of the day.

Crossing the river Avon, it was on through the village of Cranbourne & up to Sixpenny Handley where the new hill awaited although when I say hill its only 374 feet over 1.7 miles but we have nothing like that where I live so its nice to explore new routes & challenges & this was a goodun with a reasonable surface & not a car in sight.

Lunch was taken admiring the views on the downside where another cyclist coming up stopped for a chat as he was new to the area & he subsequently turned back & rode with me for a while whilst we talked so hopefully we'll meet up again & I can show him around the bits that i know in that region. We said our goodbyes at the bottom of climb number two for the day, Chalke Hill which thankfully finishes in shade as it was getting rather warm at midday as I made my way back to Fordingbridge & across the forest again for another very pleasant 65 mile ride.

https://www.strava.com/activities/374773046

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Trust the tractor but not them John Deere types for they be the colour GREEN,,,,,,aaaaaaarrrrrrr

 

[cyberknight]

mercia cc medium pace ride
https://www.strava.com/activities/380855914

 

[HertzvanRental]

Kent is the best kept secret and if you were to have dropped further down into East Peckham, Yalding, Marden and beyond you would have realised why we don't shout about it

Amen!!

 

[mybike]

Amen!!

Used to catch a train down that way & go for walks along the Pilgrim's Way. It was wonderful countryside then.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Usual 29 mile Sunday morning pootle with our lass. Overcast but dry apart from the last four miles or so when it started to rain. Big Sky Ride event in Leicester today, I reckon we passed several hundred people out and about on bikes and Bede Park were the event was starting from was absolutely heaving.

 

[sarahale]

67 miles from Hanworth to Surrey hills and back. All on the mtb

 

[Deleted member 1258]

52 miles the journey Earlswood the destination, originally I was going to to head for the Waseley Hills but I'm still carrying a back/hip injury, its taking its time settling down, and the forecast for later in the day wasn't very good so I decided to be sensible and settled on Earlswood. Got my timing slightly wrong at the cafe, I turned up just after the Cov Road Club, gave me a wait for my food, but it was good to see a decent turn out and see a number of friends I hadn't seen for a while. I left at the same time as the club and rode back home with the easy group, the first group ride I had done for a couple of years, I had forgotten what fun they could be, it also showed up how unfit I am these days, I used to find a group moving at easy pace made for an easy ride but today I was having to work to stay with them, I did enjoy it though. Riding across Coventry to home at the end of the ride the rain started and the legs faded so I got my timing right there. It turned out to be a good morning on the bike and now its p****** down.

 

[PeteXXX]

Yesterday I squeezed in a swift 9.8 local miles on the road bike after work.

Today I had a day off, so after a few errands I had a bit more time.

Decided to take the hybrid - several roads that I'd normally use on the road bike are closed or subject to restrictions due to the Leeds Festival this weekend, so a mainly off-road circuit seemed a better idea as I didn't fancy getting snarled up in traffic or arguing with officious traffic management numpties.

So, Wood Lane to Scholes, Bog Lane to Manston Lane, the Barrowby Lane to Garforth and onto NCN R66. Blast down Barwick Road and over the M1 bridge, then onto Parlington Lane and through the woods to Aberford - then up to the Almshouses for a drink and a photo:
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Refreshed, back the way I'd come as far as the bridleway over Garforth Golf Club, then Barrowby Lane, Manston Lane and across Pendas Fields to home.

15.14 miles in 1hr 14m at 12.2mph and 601ft climbed.

That will do for me and gets me a bit closer to my target of 300 miles this month - only 57 miles to go...

Love the light in that photo!!

 

[PeteXXX]

So jealous reading about the rides as I've not had the chance to get out for a week due to w*rk, life, MOT's and babysitting (a pleasure in itself, but in a different way)getting in the way

Tomorrow might be the day I can pedal somewhere and back

 

[Saluki]

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2 QOMs. That's 2. I couldn't quite believe it myself. I'll ride in a filthy mood more often I think.

11.11 miles to Freelands Corner, on the Marriotts Way and back. Drizzling so I didn't want to be out long but I did want to get out of the house. Gym later with my gym buddy so that's another 2 hours out of the way. 13.8mph, through the mud on my CX is not too shoddy in my book.

Lovely ride, I am lovely and muddy. Eric is filthy. I'll pop him outside and clean him off in a min. I want to dry off first.

 

[MiK1138]

31 miles around north Glasgow then got caught up in the Harris Tweed charity ride, Harris Te=weed cycling shorts doesnt bear thinking about

 

[toffee]

It's been a busy week on the bike. 223 miles done in the week, been rained on 3 times gone up hills that were too steep to get up with panniers on. The GPS hit 23% at one point, which is when Mrs T banned me from any more unsupervised route planning.

The other mile stone passed during the week week was to exceed the total milage of 1900 that was achieved last year.

Today's ride was 34 miles, which was a variation of the one we did last Monday. We got wet both times, although last Monday I had so much water in my shoes they took two days to dry out. One of the reasons for part of the route today was to go up a couple of hills I tried 18 months ago and had to walk up them both. We got up both easily showing how much fitter we are.

Quite a few cyclist out this morning. My legs will be quite pleased that it is back to work on Tuesday.

Derek

 

[SteveF]

Went to our friends for the weekend so two ride (there on Friday and back today), slightly different routes outward and inward, don't quite know how I managed to go wrong on the way back, adding a bit of a loop to South Woodham Ferrers , anyway the countryside was fairly nice even though a hill got in the way...