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N0bodyOfTheGoat
Über Member
- Location
- Hampshire, UK
Just finished at 10 race series - think the 4 Tinies, but 10 instead of 4!! The last one finished at the top of Fox Hill.
I didn't set any records, but that was a blinkin good workout
I may sleep well tonight
~2 hours of super sprint racing sounds fun, hope that series is still going around October, when my outdoor season will probably be coming to an end.
It was pretty brutal. All cats race together too so lots of wheels to follow and chase. My legs hurt now haha
steverob
Guru
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
One final post regarding LEJOG from me. If you want to see what a single day on tour looks like but faster, here's a video of my Day 1 from Land's End to St. Austell, but sped-up so the it takes only 30 minutes instead of 5 hours.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOAD_i421ks
All stops over a certain length have been edited out and while I've tried to eliminate camera wobble as much as possible, it gets worse on the steeper climbs as I'm weaving the bike from side to side. Speeding up the footage also makes me sound like a panting dog at times!
Probably won't do the remaining days as it took an age just to get this one edited, plus I'll admit that I don't have complete footage of all the days either - sometimes forgetting to start the camera (or re-start it after lunch) or the battery running out before the end of the ride.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOAD_i421ks
All stops over a certain length have been edited out and while I've tried to eliminate camera wobble as much as possible, it gets worse on the steeper climbs as I'm weaving the bike from side to side. Speeding up the footage also makes me sound like a panting dog at times!
Probably won't do the remaining days as it took an age just to get this one edited, plus I'll admit that I don't have complete footage of all the days either - sometimes forgetting to start the camera (or re-start it after lunch) or the battery running out before the end of the ride.
alex_cycles
Guru
- Location
- Oxfordshire
I'm not doing any events this year apart from Condordax on 15th August. It's a 200km Audax which several of my club BMCC are doing.
It's also good timing for me as I will be taking a medical break in September for a few weeks. So hopefully going into that I will be super-fit, having had something to aim for.
(I'm currently carrying a CTL of 74, which is the highest it's been for at least 3 years 🙌 )
No, still not heard from Andy .. very worrying
What did you do?
I'll PM you as have heard back off Andy
If anyone else wants to know how Andy is please PM me and I'll update you
Sending you a PM
mjd1988
Guru
Oh standard stupidity. Jumping into swimming pool with kids and trailing foot hit a low metal bar at full pelt. The usual!
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Ouch - GWS!
I had the opposite experience as a teenager... I was swimming around underwater at the shallow end when somone else's (extremely large) kid jumped in without looking and her trailing foot hit my low non-metal 'bar' at full pelt, and pinned me to the bottom by it! I gasped with the pain, and wrenched myself free, half-drowning in the process, and ending up with a hernia.
mjd1988
Guru
Okay I'll concede that's worse 🤣Ouch - GWS!
I had the opposite experience as a teenager... I was swimming around underwater at the shallow end when somone else's (extremely large) kid jumped in without looking and her trailing foot hit my low non-metal 'bar' at full pelt, and pinned me to the bottom by it! I gasped with the pain, and wrenched myself free, half-drowning in the process, and ending up with a hernia.
I did once get 13 stitches on my head from someone jumping on my head into a pool in Mexico. I'm fairly injury prone!
Foot should be grand, just soft tissue injury, just hope it doesn't linger too long
