YahudaMoon
Über Member
Anyone cycling over from Manchester ? I really havent got the mojo at the moment though a company ride to the start from Manchester would swing it.
Season of Mists 2011 (Hilly 100km audax from Hebden Bridge)
- Thread starter ColinJ
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Sorry, I'm already here at the start! (Well, not far from it.)
I've been suffering from lost cycling mojo for nearly 2 years now. Only forum rides and the odd audax have really kept me riding.
As a mojo booster - if you are not familiar with the route, I can highly recommend it! Apart from a few kms out through Burnley, and a few back through Nelson, the rest of it is over lovely scenic roads.
potsy
Rambler
- Location
- My Armchair
phil_hg_uk
I am not a member, I am a free man !!!!!!
The ride itself would kill me, never mind riding there and back too
Just think of all those jaffa cakes
YahudaMoon
Über Member
Hi Colin. Ive just done enough audax this year. I think Im on my 20th 200km this year with audax and getting fed up with seeing Hebden Bridge on the bike lol. Maybe I should move there ? It s not only that Im chasing distance points not AAA this season:-D
Saying that Ive still managed to accumalate nearly 30 AAA points somehow ?
Im doing Fleet Moss 200km from Todmorden on Wednesday or Thursday so its no loss, It would have been nice to see old freinds though
Saying that Ive still managed to accumalate nearly 30 AAA points somehow ?
Im doing Fleet Moss 200km from Todmorden on Wednesday or Thursday so its no loss, It would have been nice to see old freinds though
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I'm sitting around with my windows open at 08:00 on October 2nd, in shorts and short sleeves and I'm actually sweating! What a contrast to the usual SoM temperatures. I'd normally have leg and arm warmers and a jacket on and still feel very chilled for the first hour or so.
Good going!
I rode The Other Fleet Moss comfortably in 10 hours in 2006; how far my fitness has fallen since then - I'm only averaging about 12.5 kph these days! Must try harder next year...Im doing Fleet Moss 200km from Todmorden on Wednesday or Thursday so its no loss, It would have been nice to see old freinds though
potsy
Rambler
- Location
- My Armchair
Is the slow train back yet? 
tubbycyclist
Senior Member
- Location
- Hebden Bridge
I am sure that was lumpier than last time. Ended up riding much of it solo. Saw a few others from here at controls but lost touch with Colin and Alan after missing the first info control.
I did not have that much time in hand but I think they were behind me. Not the glorious sun fest but still very warm..and wet.
A cracking route but relentlessly hilly.
I did not have that much time in hand but I think they were behind me. Not the glorious sun fest but still very warm..and wet.
A cracking route but relentlessly hilly.
potsy
Rambler
- Location
- My Armchair
Well done tc 
Think Colin and Alun must still be eating Svendo's share of the buffet.
Think Colin and Alun must still be eating Svendo's share of the buffet.
oldfatfool
Guru
Great fun, could do without the ride from sunny cleckheaton and back though. Very little fodder left by the time I got into Hebden Bridge, and the buggers had eaten all the cake at the last check point as well 
As said wet and warm and managed to lose Colin on the first hill somehow
Glad my knee held out and only ended of walking for couple of hundred yards after some bleeding ramblers walking four abreast forced me to stop on the steepest bit Oh and the last bit of the hill after Cadwell, christ that is steep
see you on the next one ... probably
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As said wet and warm and managed to lose Colin on the first hill somehow
Glad my knee held out and only ended of walking for couple of hundred yards after some bleeding ramblers walking four abreast forced me to stop on the steepest bit
Oh and the last bit of the hill after Cadwell, christ that is steep see you on the next one ... probably
Hills
and more hills
Well done tc
Think Colin and Alun must still be eating Svendo's share of the buffet.
Got back at 17.35, buffet all packed away! Only Colin's powers of persuasion and me looking like I was going to fall over got a cup of tea and some cakes.
Beaker39
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Denton, Manchester
I think I prefer this route to SITTD. It was a generally good ride yesterday that was until I bit the tarmac on an incredibly smooth, wet and diesel ridden patch on a 90 deg bend at the bottom of a fast hill. Thought I had managed to miss it as I rounded the bend but then just caught another bit with my front wheel and that was it. I was down sliding along the road and into the grass on the side.
So I now need a new pedals, new bar tape, new bib shorts and some new skin for my thigh, calf and elbow
Not a happy bunny especially as didn't get much sleep and everything is a bit oooozing now. Could have been worse I suppose.
So I now need a new pedals, new bar tape, new bib shorts and some new skin for my thigh, calf and elbow
Not a happy bunny especially as didn't get much sleep and everything is a bit oooozing now. Could have been worse I suppose.
phil_hg_uk
I am not a member, I am a free man !!!!!!
What happened to colin then ?
