Ride your bike for at least 30 minutes at least three times a week, every week, for a year

[Ming the Merciless]

W7R3 - 19 Feb - 1:34
Blustery ride for the sake of it rather than for pleasure. I’m quietly pleased though to have made it to W7R3 on a continuous run - this is the longest streak of my riding history.

Excellent work. Sometimes it’s just a little thing needed to encourage you to get that extra ride in.

 

[FrothNinja]

W8R1 - recovering from a rather excitable bout of food poisoning so I didn't want to go too far from the comforts of home. Decided to link up an off road green way to W7R3. I have to confess I hadn't demudded my kit from last time - just as well because the snow has made things muckier. The off road stretch was just over a mile long but it took over 20 minutes and my back aches like billyo. Every time I put my foot down I slid. Excellent balance practice, didn't fall. Bit more of a work out than I realised. At under 3 mph average I wasn't expecting to get out of warm up on heart rate - but look what it came in as
Zone 5 > 164 bpm • Maximum - 0:00 0%
Zone 4 146 - 163 bpm • Threshold - 0:23 1%
Zone 3 127 - 145 bpm • Aerobic - 13:31 38%
Zone 2 109 - 126 bpm • Easy - 20:48 59%
Zone 1 91 - 108 bpm • Warm Up - 0:08 0%
Who'd have thunk it?
Makes you wonder about the sludge you've been traversing

Probably the deepest bit - no sign of other bikes by this stage, though the tracks reappeared later. My 33s were not really up to the job - or maybe it was just me.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

W8R1 - recovering from a rather excitable bout of food poisoning so I didn't want to go too far from the comforts of home. Decided to link up an off road green way to W7R3. I have to confess I hadn't demudded my kit from last time - just as well because the snow has made things muckier. The off road stretch was just over a mile long but it took over 20 minutes and my back aches like billyo. Every time I put my foot down I slid. Excellent balance practice, didn't fall. Bit more of a work out than I realised. At under 3 mph average I wasn't expecting to get out of warm up on heart rate - but look what it came in as
Zone 5 > 164 bpm • Maximum - 0:00 0%
Zone 4 146 - 163 bpm • Threshold - 0:23 1%
Zone 3 127 - 145 bpm • Aerobic - 13:31 38%
Zone 2 109 - 126 bpm • Easy - 20:48 59%
Zone 1 91 - 108 bpm • Warm Up - 0:08 0%
Who'd have thunk it?
Makes you wonder about the sludge you've been traversing
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Probably the deepest bit - no sign of other bikes by this stage, though the tracks reappeared later. My 33s were not really up to the job - or maybe it was just me.
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Bit confused week 8 doesn’t start till Monday

 

[FrothNinja]

Bit confused week 8 doesn’t start till Monday

The year started on a Saturday & I rode on the first so I am mostly counting Sat to Fri

 

[Gibbo9]

W7R1
Tuesday 15 - Another wet and windy one, 36 glum minutes

W7R2
Wed 16 - A little better out today, dry for the most part

W7R3
Sun 20 - Typical of me to leave it until the last day to get the final ride in. Although the weather has been appalling this week and today is the worst of all. A very soggy and very cold 32 mins was all I could muster.

 

[figbat]

W8R1 - 21 Feb - 1:11
The streak continues with a ride taking in a couple of miles of the Ridgeway, the highest, most exposed trail in the area, heading directly into an unfailingly robust headwind, all gradually but increasingly uphill. 🥵

Still, the homeward leg was nicer.

 

[FrothNinja]

W8R2 - Night excursion on local roads after dindins. Actually warmer than Saturday's effort. No wind and the sky was starry and faded Bible black.

 

[bluenotebob]

Week 8

Ride 1 – Tues 22 Feb – 1 hr 4 mins/15.18km – very windy again but not quite as bad as the last 4 days. Hope to be back on my road bike tomorrow and go for a longer ride

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Week 8 ride 1 - Tue 22 Feb

Afternoon outing after rain had passed. Still windy out, but not as much a peak. 1 hour 21 mins of pedalling action.

 

[bluenotebob]

Ride 2 – Fri 25 Feb – 3 hrs 15 mins/53.62km – second of three rides today – more info in the 2022 HMCAM Challenge thread and some photos in the ‘Your Ride Today’ thread

Here’s a not very good handlebar pic from today – my minimalist handlebars – no TV, microwave or ashtray in sight

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Week 8 ride 2 - Thu 24th

An audax permanent which I didn’t finish due to one too many mechanicals. Rain, hail, sleet, sun, headwinds you name it I had that weather. Managed 212km before the ride ending mechanical.

One of my other bikes will be deployed to get ride 3 in over the weekend.

 

[FrothNinja]

W8R3 - First decent ride of February this arvo, included over 4,300 ft / 1,300 metres of ascent and a visit to a friend near Whalley. Went over the Nick of Pendle four times en route.

Pendle from Noggarth

View west from Spen Brook

 

[bluenotebob]

Week 8

Ride 3 – Sat 26 Feb – 2 hrs 13 mins/34.32km – another blustery ride but blue sky and no clouds at all. I saw a few butterflies too

 

[FrothNinja]

I saw a few butterflies too

That is remarkably early, even for your bit of the world. Though I suppose they could have woken from dormancy if the weather has been unseasonably warm

 

[figbat]

W8R2 - 26 Feb - 1:01
And that’s me out . Planned a long one today but a recurring knee pain cut it short and has put an end to my streak; I’ll have to rest a while while I recover and seek advice.