Tales from today's commute....

[Andrew_P]

Finding the commute easier these days. Only been doing it for 4 weeks, and it is only 3 miles each way. It does have small inclines in each direction, but when I first started riding I was only able to crawl up them at about 9mph. This morning I found I was riding at almost 18mph.

Also started waving "Hi" to a fellow commuter who is always travelling in the opposite direction from me on my way into and home from work.

Hugs
Archeress x

Brilliant, I think that is fantastic. I only thought today whilst going up one of my hills I can remember 3 years ago getting less than halfway and my lungs were coming out and my legs screaming, I would have to get off and walk the rest of it and still be out of it at the top. Now if I take it easy I could have a conversation and if I go at it I get 26 out 400 on Strava, which I am chuffed with. Honestly keep at it and you will start extending the commute and looking for hills.

The key for anyone reading this to making commuting easy is keep at it, but come August buy your winter kit and keep going through the winter, made the world of difference to my cycling each time Spring arrives and winter brings its own pleasures (mostly the pain!!)

 

[BSRU]

Sorrry to hear BSRU and Fossy, I am ignoring all the crap driving (and boy has there been some )just because the weather is so perfect, a little less wind would make it even more perfect.

Fortunately I forgot about incidences a few seconds after they happened only to recall them whilst drinking a cup of tea.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

This morning it was a bit chilly with a cold headwind, tonight was an I cant resist it night, forget about only just doing enough to get home in a reasonable time, the sun was shining and it had warmed up, the wind was in my face but wasn't strong, the sweatshirt and jacket were in the work bag, and I was in shirt sleeves, I was flat chat everywhere I could, spinning the fixed up wherever I could, spinning like a demon in places, seeing speeds in the mid twenties in places, riding out of Bedworth towards Ashgreen I would have touched 30 if the traffic hadn't been so slow, I didn't get home much faster but arrived grinning like the proverbial Cheshire Cat.

 

[potsy]

ride home, lots of traffic, busiest it's been all week, saying that it's the first time I've stayed on road for the whole ride home.
Had a nobber in a queue start to pull left when he saw me making my way up the inside of the traffic jam, loads of room or I'd have been on the outside, he got a headshake and a 'gesture'

 

[Lyrical]

I can't believe it, I made it down tooting high street without having anyone walk out in front of me or cars pull out/hook me.

Beautiful weather to and a KOM t'boot http://app.strava.com/segments/2362209

 

[kevin_cambs_uk]

What a cracking ride home, overtaken at a junction, but caught the guy up, shared the work home at 23 mph each section.
Knackered when I got in !
Sometimes I would like to go slower to enjoy the cycling experience more !
But finally a great weather week

 

[Glow worm]

Nice ride in and I'm really enjoying the sunshine at last. Had to go to the bank in central Cambridge on the way in, so cycled alongside the river for 2 or 3 miles and it was idyllic. Cambridge was manic coming home though- looked like a problem with the A14 as I passed underneath it at Quy. The outskirts were full of dangerous rat-runners trying to avoid the jam. Lot's of dodgy U-turns. I was glad to get past all that lot and enjoy the ride home through quieter country.

 

[DCLane]

@ianrauk & @HLaB - thanks. I'm hoping I can manage it prior to the Etape du Dales, Wiggle Dragon Ride Gran Fondo and the Yorkshire Olympic Triathlon I've got coming up in the next 2 months. Otherwise I'm out of all 3.

Where did all the numpties come from whilst I was off the bike for 2 weeks? This evening, going down Queen Street in Leeds, one rider pulled across the lane 5 times without looking or signalling, nearly caused 4 accidents, meant I had to do emergency braking twice and did 0 shoulder checks in 1/2 a mile = future Darwin award winner.

 

[ianrauk]

@ianrauk & @HLaB - thanks. I'm hoping I can manage it prior to the Etape du Dales, Wiggle Dragon Ride Gran Fondo and the Yorkshire Olympic Triathlon I've got coming up in the next 2 months. Otherwise I'm out of all 3.

What I found helped was to wear a tight support bandage around the knee when off the bike.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

What a cracking ride home, overtaken at a junction, but caught the guy up, shared the work home at 23 mph each section.
Knackered when I got in !
Sometimes I would like to go slower to enjoy the cycling experience more !
But finally a great weather week

I use that excuse for my inept performances

 

[DCLane]

What I found helped was to wear a tight support bandage around the knee when off the bike.

Agreed - been doing that for the past 3 weeks. It's slowly getting better.

 

[MisterStan]

Absolutely splendiferous run home. Traffic was heavy, even out of town; filtertastic! Tan is coming along nicely too.
Wifey cycle commuting update; not only did she bike to work this morning, she popped home at lunch and did some housework! She told me it was too lovely to sit in the office at lunch, so she went for a ride! Around 10 miles for her today.

 

[HLaB]

@ianrauk & @HLaB - thanks. I'm hoping I can manage it prior to the Etape du Dales, Wiggle Dragon Ride Gran Fondo and the Yorkshire Olympic Triathlon I've got coming up in the next 2 months. Otherwise I'm out of all 3.

Where did all the numpties come from? This evening, going down Queen Street in Leeds, one rider pulled across the lane 5 times without looking or signalling, nearly caused 4 accidents, meant I had to do emergency braking twice and did 0 shoulder checks in 1/2 a mile = future Darwin award winner.

I find lying on the edge of the bed, lower leg straight and upper leg bent and then pushing it down behind the straight leg is good; or standing up, cross thighed and leaning to the side the best ways of stretching it. IHTH and Ive explained them right, good luck for the rides.

All the numpties didnt appear until the end of my evening ride, perhaps they had just driven down from Yorkshire

 

[wiggydiggy]

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YEP is a bubbling cesspool of comments sometimes I dont know how you have the patience to reply to people, as for the YEPs policy of deleting comments they dont like....

Ive done your route home and then across to mine a few times just to put more miles on my clock, more often though I'll do a long loop up Otley Road as far as Eccup then treat myself to the downhill from there to town.

Enough about Leeds sorry CC

 

[kevin_cambs_uk]

Anorther glorious morning, even detoured round cambridge to enjoy the new tarmac on East Road!