Your ride today....

[sevenfourate]

I do hope this Chesty Cough isn’t a sign of my weekend to come 🤧☹️

Beautiful Morning to be out on 2 wheels though. Friend of mine mentioned using arm-warmers on early rides now ? Not here ! 🌅😁

Gorgeous Sunrise this am ❤️

View across the fields in Worlingham, Suffolk:

Today’s numericals:

 

[cosmicbike]

A bit of exploring today which found me at the McLaren Technology Centre, then a decent length of the Basingstoke Canal before picking up the Pirbright Military Heritage trail and finding a way home via Bagshot. Rather a nice pedal with not a great deal on roads which is nice. And my first 50km ride since getting back in the bike, they used to be easy!

 

[postman]

The ride did not go as planned,i only got 15 miles in,and never got near Otley.I was huffing and puffing and had nothing in the legs,so i asked my mate to pack in at Golden Acre Park.We had a latte there then came back via Otley Road and a fantastic woodland path that brought us through to King Lane Alwoodley,that was great because there was a fabulous cafe called York Gate just down from Adel Church,a place we can take the f i l to,anyway a nice tootle back before dinner at my favourite local cafe,and a good natter with my cycling pal,about looking after myself and stopping volunteering for things,which is a great idea,that was mentioned on here a few weeks ago.All in all not getting to Otley turned out better than i thought.

 

[PeteXXX]

I dropped the dog off at the groomers & had some time to kill so I drove to Riverside retail park and rode towards the town centre (ish)

Third day on the trot for riding my bicycle!!
10 miles done before I got a call that she was ready to be picked up.. 👍

 

[VinSumRox]

Took myself out for a solo spin, out to Over Dalgleish via Yarrow Valley and the Berrybush Climb, back via the Ettrick Valley. 100km and 883m, a bit chilly at 13C, glad I had long sleeves. Cafe at the Beehive, met a group of guys on a long day out from Brampton near Carlisle.

 

[postman]

Took myself out for a solo spin, out to Over Dalgleish via Yarrow Valley and the Berrybush Climb, back via the Ettrick Valley. 100km and 883m, a bit chilly at 13C, glad I had long sleeves. Cafe at the Beehive, met a group of guys on a long day out from Brampton near Carlisle.

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Love the photos.

 

[ColinJ]

Beautiful Morning to be out on 2 wheels though. Friend of mine mentioned using arm-warmers on early rides now ? Not here ! 🌅😁

I had to nip over to Hebden Bridge at 19:00 this evening. It was pretty cool by then - a minimum temperature of 11 C, and wind chill made it feel less than that. I wore a long-sleeved base layer, a long-sleeved jersey and a gilet, and I didn't exactly overheat!

 

[wafter]

A slightly sub-12 mile out-and-back to the bars this morning for a bit of a hang.

The main goal however was the distance itself because, thanks to last Saturday's significant 62-miler and five consecutive days of reasonable rides since, last night I found myself on 188.82 miles for the rolling week.

This put me a whole 0.01 miles over my previous 7-day rolling max (scored in the halcyon days of Covid) however more importantly with no ride last Friday the 200 mile goal was there for the taking with a mere 11.18 miles to cover today.

I'm still down on the rolling month / year values this summer, and while the 188-odd miles covered over seven days during Covid was probably faster / more exerting, I'm still very happy to have tagged that elusive 200 miles this time