Yes TMN, you are correct. As a guy myself that rides a decent amount of miles per day (not on Steve's level of course) I am very impressed with what Steve is achieving.
Riding on the flat is ok but you are constantly turning that crank. A little up hill and down dale can be less exhausting as you get coasting opportunities.
Steve is fairly clear that he doesn't do coasting. Constant heartrate up hill and down dale...
So, as he finds himself avoiding patches of ice at 10 miles into the day, only another 170 to go, into a headwind, with the temperature still resolutely below zero, and no sign of dawn yet, does he think to himself "I've only got to do this for a bit longer, soon it will start getting warmer and lighter"; or does he think "*** me, in a year's time I've got to go through all this again..."?
noooooo! I am the one being negative. Sorry for the misunderstanding
Okay back to my point. My negative Point. I would definitely do at least 20% better mileage in winter with 2015 clothing and LED lights, compared to whatever tommy was wearing or using
a bit breezy in the flatlands and there is nowhere to hide from it. The fens (apologies to people who live there) are boring to ride, in the extreme. Just mile after mile of GBBA, tractors all over the shop and numpties who close pass as the road is so straight and dull they feel that they have to do something to liven the journey up - or so a friend who lives in the fens tells me.
TMN? Too much nudity? Tell me now? Too many nightclothes? Not sure what TMN means. Can you elucidate?
TMN. An award given to someone who has posted something but has been ignored, only to find that shortly afterwards someone else posts the very same thing and gets the credit. Named after, ahem, User13710 - TMN, to whom it was happening a lot at the time (January 2013, so it's been around for a while).
I've not been on here since Wednesday and I miss this trip to pretty much my front door! Teaches me to not keep checking out his routes. Was off work today so could have gone out to cheer him on and shield him a bit.
Thanks for that I was wondering what it meant as well!TMN. An award given to someone who has posted something but has been ignored, only to find that shortly afterwards someone else posts the very same thing and gets the credit. Named after, ahem, me, to whom it was happening a lot at the time (January 2013, so it's been around for a while).
There were other forum awards or measures of various things (see https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/new-si-measurements-as-proposed-by-ccers.121263/post-2243923) all named for different forum characters and their foibles, but this one seems to have stuck for some reason.
