Motivate me please!

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mrbadexample

mrbadexample

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I can see this getting quite addictive (though I'm mainly interested in seeing if I can beat my own times)

Hopefully I can change that 119/125 tonight! :bicycle:

It's very addictive! I haven't got a posh phone so can't upload to Strava. I think it would probably depress me more than anything, as the times I post on my big fat hybrid can't compete with road bikes. I do like looking at the segments and profiles of the bits of road I've been along though. It seems that whatever hill I find, someone's already been up it and made a segment. :laugh:
 
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mrbadexample

mrbadexample

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The clouds do seem to be going around you and circling you during a hurricane. The sky can be a strange yellowish color, a little surreal but nice to observe. When you get a direct hit the rain is horizontal.
I might wimp out tomorrow if there is a lot of wind and rain. Today was the most wind I have ridden my drop bar bike in, the wind can really push the front wheel hard and try to pull the bars out of your hands.

Ooops, I managed to miss this post! :blush: I guess you get all the points for Rule #9! :laugh:
 
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mrbadexample

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Today I commuted to work. I won't get chance very often as I generally work out of cycling range, have no shower facilities and a bootload of kit I have to lug about.

However, today I had to work with a colleague who lives in Tamworth so I agreed to meet him at his house at 0900. I was planning to drive the route to see if I thought it was rideable, as there's a few hills on the way. Last night I decided that I'd just go on the bike. Set off at 0730, arrived at about 0845. My hips were hurting, as I'd had to keep pushing on so as not to be late. It's a lot easier to ride without a deadline! I managed the 16 miles at 14.1mph, which I was pretty pleased with for that distance.

Getting home was tougher. More uphill, plus I took a wrong turn and did 20 miles instead of 16. Had to stop and play with the TomTom to find my way back on course. Have I mentioned that my navigation's crap? :blush: Nearly came to a standstill on the short climb up Beacon Hill near the end. Average for the 36 miles was 12.4mph, which I was quite pleased with considering the messing about on the way home.

New bests for single trip, (twice) and biggest daily total by almost 10 miles. The thing is, after 20 miles I was shattered. I still can't see me getting to 30 any time soon. I should at least be able to manage the round trip to the bike shop for its free service though. All in all, a pretty good day. I'll sleep well, that's for sure. :tired:
 

Old Plodder

Living at the top of a steep 2 mile climb
Bloody hell fatmac, you knock out these thirty-milers for fun, it seems. :thumbsup:

I'll be doing the same as soon as I find a road that's downhill for 30 miles from my house. Bus back, naturally. :laugh:
You'll soon be there doing 30 & more, just takes doing some miles, (which I have done in the past).:bicycle:

My motivational problem was actually to get me out of the house with bike!
(Although I had had some other problems like a buggered up knee to get over. :smile:)
 
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mrbadexample

mrbadexample

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Damn you DaveyM, damn you to the hills I say!

I've just had to go and do 15 miles in the cold and dark, including the Sedgley Hill climb, to bring up my 400 miles. That's YOUR fault, that is! 40 miles indeed! :cursing:
 

DaveyM

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Damn you DaveyM, damn you to the hills I say!

I've just had to go and do 15 miles in the cold and dark, including the Sedgley Hill climb, to bring up my 400 miles. That's YOUR fault, that is! 40 miles indeed! :cursing:

But the likelyhood is I won't get chance on Mon Tues or Wed to ride at all :thumbsdown:
So I am sure that you'll sneak a few in. :secret:
 
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mrbadexample

mrbadexample

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Another 14, to the girlfriend's and back. I seem to have developed an obsession with Sedgley Hill. Even though I have to ride past her front door, turn round at the top and come back down again, I have to climb it.

And today, as a first, I didn't need bottom gear. Churned all the way up in second. :wahhey:I am about 18lb lighter than when I first started though, which helps. ^_^
 

RWright

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North Carolina
Nice work on going after those hills. When I was first getting back into riding in August I went a nice route that I like about everything about it except one hill that made me get off and walk to the top, in the rain. I have since avoided that route, even in reverse. It is a small two lane road but at the right times there is very little traffic. After reading your post I was reminded of it. I am going back to slay that beast...this week. :thumbsup:
 

Licramite

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reading your posts I can see how addictive cycling is, - and you all sound like a bunch of mad buggers - whats this with hills !.and wet .
I've got that deprived feeling, any good days on the weekends I've been to busy and on weekdays its pitch black by the time I finish - and I don,t cycle in the dark. - but really tempting mornings!
so its hit the exercise bike every night - but I want to get out on the beast
 
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