Your ride today.... (part 1)

[Freds Dad]

My longest ride to date, over 25 miles just and not any hills but after all I am only a beginner.

http://www.strava.com/activities/197569624

 

[nickyboy]

My longest ride to date, over 25 miles just and not any hills but after all I am only a beginner.

http://www.strava.com/activities/197569624

Good effort. Won't be long before you start heading East instead of West

 

[Freds Dad]

Good effort. Won't be long before you start heading East instead of West

I will do it next year but at the moment I am getting time in the saddle cycling on quiet roads and trying to get some weight off as it will be easier to climb hills when I'm lighter.

 

[watchtowergoggs]

Cycled from my bit in the west of edinburgh out to North Berwick. Started off at Cramond and kept heading east all the way along the coast to North Berwick and then back again. Roughly about 60 miles in total which is the furthest I've ever cycled, so I'm pretty happy with that.

Managed to get back home in time to watch the Formula One, which was mainly due to my ridiculous early start time for the cycle. Beautiful day for a cycle but a little bit cold.

I'm planning another cycle later on this week to go see the Kelpies at Grangemouth and and a wee bit of Fife too.

Now feeling a bit knackered!

 

[ColinJ]

My longest ride to date, over 25 miles just and not any hills but after all I am only a beginner.

http://www.strava.com/activities/197569624

You'll get over the hills in the future - just keep riding!

Looking at the ride profile ... Did you phone for a lift home or get a lift to the top of the hill to start with?

 

[suzeworld]

I've had a (ridiculous) 5 week lay off .. too many family plans plus the ToB weekend and a nasty virus .. suddenly 5 weeks has taken the edge of my super-fit-summer-form ..

But we did 30 miles out from up the hilll behind our house across country towards Leek, cutting round by Rudyard Lake and the side ofTittesworth Reservior (coffe break and the Lazy Trout) then up Gunn Hill .. and loop back home

I just felt pleased I'd got back out, and what a nice day it was too, weather wise .. so hopefully we can keep this loop up over the coming months and not get too nesh about cycling in the winter!

 

[Bryony]

Todays ride ended up being totally different to the one planned. David and I should have been doing a 14 mile sky ride from Whitstable to Canterbury and back setting off at 10am but we both overslept this morning so that plan went out the window!!

We decided to take a trip to Deal and set off just before midday. Before we had even set off we got stopped by the band of the Air Cadets marching up our road, followed by the Sea Cadets and Army Cadets! Once they had passed we set off. It was a sunny but blustery day but it was a lovely tail wind on the way out, which meant I was dreading the head wind on the way home!

We stopped off in Sandwich and sat by the river for a little breather. We then set off for Deal via Sandwich Bay. David wanted to try a route he'd never been down before as he's always been on his road bike and it's a bit of a dodgy surface. Well its safe to say we won't be going that way again unless we're on mountain bikes, it was pretty much all pebbles and the further we went down it the more like a pebble beach it was turning into, our poor hybrids couldn't take it so we turned round and went back!! The weather was also turning, it got a lot colder and was starting to rain so we decided to cut the ride short and go and find a cafe in Sandwich and have cake and coffee. A nice slice of chocolate cake and a cup of coffee devoured, we headed home. (i hated every minute of the head wind)

The Air Cadets

This impressive fellow was at Ramsgate Harbour today

Bikes on the sea front

By the river

 

[Freds Dad]

You'll get over the hills in the future - just keep riding!

Looking at the ride profile ... Did you phone for a lift home or get a lift to the top of the hill to start with?

I phoned SWMBO for a lift from Siddington Crossroads as I'm not yet up to riding up Pexhill Road but I will do it.

 

[Cyclist33]

0.3 miles to the offy for a 4 pack of Export, and back.

Knackered!

 

[Elybazza61]

Short little dash to wicken and back on the NCN route 11 as I had done nothing since Thursday;

http://www.strava.com/activities/197655647

 

[Turdus philomelos]

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Heugh Rd, North Berwick, East Lothian EH39/@56.0521396,-2.7038502,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x4887076e30a6669b:0xdbfb9b83d7d86d50 Started off here to cheer on guys taking part in the Poppyscotland East Lothian Sportive
Though most riders appreciated my support, I did get some questionable looks from others. As I explained to a few as they were wheezing up Hughie Brae( in scot's translated means feeling sick) that since le Tour of Yorkshire, I have this overwhelming compulsion to stand on steep gradients and cheer on cyclist. Hope I'm not cured as I quite enjoy myself.

I'm sure, but not positive, Mark Beaumont said I looked dramatic standing on my wall with the sun shinning from behind in my Irn Bru cycle top.

After that, another 45mile tour round glorious East Lothian.

 

[Old Plodder]

Todays ride ended up being totally different to the one planned. David and I should have been doing a 14 mile sky ride from Whitstable to Canterbury and back setting off at 10am but we both overslept this morning so that plan went out the window!!

We decided to take a trip to Deal and set off just before midday. Before we had even set off we got stopped by the band of the Air Cadets marching up our road, followed by the Sea Cadets and Army Cadets!.....

Looks like a few of them are way out of step........

 

[surfdude]

2 rides over the weekend for a local charity i work for . 70 miles yesterday and 40 today and a sore butt to know it was a hard 2 days over the small hills of cornwall from bube to landsend .
will be doing it again soon as one of the guys daughter was taken ill so could not make it so a few of us have said we will support him when he can do it .
best of all no aholes ruined it and all drivers very good to us .

 

[Crackle]

Saturdays ride. Well most of it was a ride, I walked some talking to a friend before I left him and then walked other bits to take my time. It was on the old byway that runs from Capel Curig to Ogwen. Ogwen was being moody when I got there.

 

[albion]

I try to make the most of perfect weather days so again it was west across to Hexham, SW past Stublick onto the Alston road and then the Ninebanks route to Nenthead. From Nenthead, new to me was the grunt over to Garrigal for a walk up the short very off road section to reach the Middleton-in-Teesdale road for Langdon Beck.

The views along there were amazing, a very thin mist in the sunny distance making the dual towering hills to my right look like dark silhouettes you see sometimes in unreal looking paintings. I was already quite high up so checked the map on my return to find one of the big brutes at the back was the Great Dunn Fell, the number 1 ranked climb in England.
Near Langdon Beck it was over Harthope Head to St Johns Chapel, down to Stanhope for Crawleyside Bank then mainly road to Leadgate(east Consett) for my usual C2C route back.

104 miles in all, and if I get the chance to be done again this year. Northumberland, the North Pennines, Cumbria, Weardale and Teesdale do bake perfect scenery.