Nigelnaturist
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Didn't realise it was Sat-Mon, its Monday before it starts to dry here.
Show us your.......newbie progress! [4 Sep 2012 - 4 Oct 2014]
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Supersuperleeds
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Good luck Reece, that stage 3 looks like it could be lumpy
Mr_K_Dilkington
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I grew up in the region (Glastonbury) - stage 3 will be tough for them - the Quantocks and Exmoor are buggers.
Nomadski
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I'm surprised you manage to get any semblance of a TT round those parts! (Kew Gardens, Richmond etc)
Absolutely brilliant to see you back on the bike. Slow and steady as she goes, its all progress, and not a bad little starting ride at all, given your condition, and the lay off you had. Congratulations Spokey.
Blimey, that looks like torture lol!
Good luck @Reece hope the showers don't affect you too much, it will certainly be beautiful out there. Eager to see your results.
Popped out in a rush as I was late meeting with Suj and her newly arrived (and fixed) steed. Both sides now read Sensa rather than ensa on one side, and the gearing was fixed anew. Yay! She was with her cousin who was on her mountain bike, and they were out doing some training for an Isle of Wight Hike n Bike. Needed to give them some guidance on how the gears worked, why they should raise the saddle off the seat post :S and a bit of help with hill climbing and endurance (basic stuff like spinning / cadence etc).
After a short while they both seemed to be getting it pretty well down, though obviously there were many times we had to stop and let the mountain bike catch us up, at one point getting snapped by a google streetview map car! We avoided Dark Hill, not so much because of the up, but because the down is perhaps a little intense for riders getting used to their bikes, so we did a U turn and went a new route (for me) back through the middle of Richmond Park. Cutting out the big hills, will consider this as part of a flat(ish) route around Richmond Park when I want to concentrate on mileage rather than hills. Lose about 1.5 miles of the route, but could quite easily do 5 or 6 laps of the park this way.
As we got back to the car park, the heavens opened, and as I ride to and from the park I had a fun time getting back. Decided to complete the lap of RP including the hill, and tried my best to avoid the hail and lightning that someone upstairs was throwing at me.
Had to replace the buff with my backup as it was soaked through, and had rain in the eyes for the descent back towards Raynes Park.
At some traffic lights a woman turned rather haphazardly to the side of the road where I was waiting at a pedestrian traffic light to cross to ask for directions. Despite telling her which rough direction Sutton was, and that I didn't know where Sutton Prison was I asked her kindly to let me go as I was rather wet. Plus she had a smartphone in her hand that no doubt had google maps on it...
Got home, ran a bath, looked outside and was hit with beautiful blue sky.
http://app.strava.com/activities/144334428
Happy riding everyone
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L14M
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Snap, I saw the google streetview car this afternoon too.. Me and my mate were walking to the station and decided to mock fight as it drove past us. Propper boxing style XDI'm surprised you manage to get any semblance of a TT round those parts! (Kew Gardens, Richmond etc)
Absolutely brilliant to see you back on the bike. Slow and steady and she goes, its all progress, and not a bad little starting ride at all, given your condition, and the lay off you had. Congratulations Spokey.
Blimey, that looks like torture lol!
Good luck @Reece hope the showers don't affect you too much, it will certainly be beautiful out there. Eager to see your results.
Popped out in a rush as I was late meeting with Suj and her newly arrived (and fixed) steed. Both sides now read Sensa rather than ensa on one side, and the gearing was fixed anew. Yay! She was with her cousin who was on her mountain bike, and they were out doing some training for an Isle of Wight Hike n Bike. Needed to give them some guidance on how the gears worked, why they should raise the saddle off the seat post :S and a bit of help with hill climbing and endurance (basic stuff like spinning / cadence etc).
After a short while they both seemed to be getting it pretty well down, though obviously there were many times we had to stop and let the mountain bike catch us up, at one point getting snapped by a google streetview map car! We avoided Dark Hill, not so much because of the up, but because the down is perhaps a little intense for riders getting used to their bikes, so we did a U turn and went a new route (for me) back through the middle of Richmond Park. Cutting out the big hills, will consider this as part of a flat(ish) route around Richmond Park when I want to concentrate on mileage rather than hills. Lose about 1.5 miles of the route, but could quite easily do 5 or 6 laps of the park this way.
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As we got back to the car park, the heavens opened, and as I ride to and from the park I had a fun time getting back. Decided to complete the lap of RP including the hill, and tried my best to avoid the hail and lightning that someone upstairs was throwing at me.
Had to replace the buff with my backup as it was soaked through, and had rain in the eyes for the descent back towards Raynes Park.
At some traffic lights a woman turned rather haphazardly to the side of the road where I was waiting at a pedestrian traffic light to cross to ask for directions. Despite telling her which rough direction Sutton was, and that I didn't know where Sutton Prison was I asked her kindly to let me go as I was rather wet. Plus she had a smartphone in her hand that no doubt had google maps on it...
Got home, ran a bath, looked outside and was hit with beautiful blue sky.
View attachment 45874
http://app.strava.com/activities/144334428
Happy riding everyone
Went out for a quick spin today, not my fastest ride, but a decent enough one. http://www.strava.com/activities/144337162 Happy enough considering im tired.
Liam
Nigelnaturist
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Phoenix Lincs
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Nope, don't think you went on the Sleaford time trial route did you?Wouldn't have been me by any chance
You need to go through the start point and end point within a certain distance and cover I think its 90% of the segment, there is one near here you can cut a good section out and still (short cut) and still get a time, I have at least one where if I go through the start and end points there are a few different ends and it still records.
Phoenix Lincs
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Thanks for this. I assume I need to be on the computer to do this. Will aim to do it next time I load it up
Phoenix Lincs
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Are your pictures from strava? I need to do some more digging around to find out how to do stuff like this
On my way to work tonight I tried to take a sneaky look where the club started the TT from, but I didn't see a single, solitary cyclist out in the pouring rain, thunder and lightening - funny that!!
Stonechat
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Yes you will need to save the amended version where you can snap it onto the roads where the gps position was wandering a bit/ It can then be loaded into Strava. of course you would need to delete the originalThanks for this. I assume I need to be on the computer to do this. Will aim to do it next time I load it up
Only used it once myself
Sorry @Nigelnaturist said this some way back
It is nice of them to save the lumpy route til last lol. At least I've got next week off work to recover haha
Nigelnaturist
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Sorry different play on words, it just so happened when you wrote it I had just done a local TT segment the day before.Nope, don't think you went on the Sleaford time trial route did you?
@Stonechat its ok, things get lost and its good to repeat.
Well back down to 14.5mph @Mo1959 catching you up, mind a couple of kg's of shopping rack and panniers and a touch more elevation i guess its ok, and in case I forgot it rained, again.
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Nigelnaturist
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Not going to say what I have been thinking about changing
SatNavSaysStraightOn
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countries or gear ratios again?Not going to say what I have been thinking about changing
Nigelnaturist
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@SatNavSaysStraightOn show you later I have to go to my group therapy, but its the latter.
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