Cumbrian Christmas Cracker
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PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
Bugger thought it was next Sunday. Mind you as I fell off this morning perhaps better to have missed it!!
Yeah I don't think risking a fall or any damage to yourself/bike will be any good. It will only hinder riding overall if that happens so best off waiting till it's reasonable in my book. I'm still waiting for my bike to get built, the only bonus of this weather hitting during this wait.
Fiona N
Veteran
No I didn't do the sportive - I was too much of cheapskate to pay the entry when the weather might have been horrid 
But since it was a lovely sunny but cold morning, I did head up towards Ambleside but cut round to Hawkshead before getting as far as Grasmere. So a shortened ride - about 70km - round Lake Windermere.
But it was enough for my feet - even with the electric foot heaters, they weren't exactly happy after the first couple of hours. I was on a mtb with knobblies, for the record
and it's a bit more of a work out than on the road bike with slicks. The road bike would have been OK as I only went off well-treated roads where I knew I'd be OK with the mtb and I wouldn't have done that if I'd been on the road bike.
I don't know what happened with the sportive - did it go ahead?
But since it was a lovely sunny but cold morning, I did head up towards Ambleside but cut round to Hawkshead before getting as far as Grasmere. So a shortened ride - about 70km - round Lake Windermere.
But it was enough for my feet - even with the electric foot heaters, they weren't exactly happy after the first couple of hours. I was on a mtb with knobblies, for the record
and it's a bit more of a work out than on the road bike with slicks. The road bike would have been OK as I only went off well-treated roads where I knew I'd be OK with the mtb and I wouldn't have done that if I'd been on the road bike. I don't know what happened with the sportive - did it go ahead?