Your ride today.... (part 1)

[Angelfishsolo]

Good on you and your mates

Thing is fella, you didn't reckon on a few other cyclists hearing the commotion and cycling back and confronting you and your behavior did you? You soon got back in your car and skulked of.

 

[longers]

Was that your first race Gavin?

Well done for starting the ball rolling so to speak

 

[snakehips]

Also managed to find a farmtrack absolutely inundated with liquid cowshit,

There was a bit of whiffy surface water to be savoured yesterday. I went out with a bunch of guys from another forum and we encountered a completely submerged road. Cue smiles from the guys with mudguards !

Snakehips Bikes

 

[fossyant]

What's happened to the weather - woke to blue skys.....now blowing a gale and hissing down....so much for getting out ? - had a couple of jobs to sort first (taking 2nd lot of hedge cuttings to the tip)...lost my chance...booo....

 

[gbb]

What's happened to the weather - woke to blue skys.....now blowing a gale and hissing down....so much for getting out ? - had a couple of jobs to sort first (taking 2nd lot of hedge cuttings to the tip)...lost my chance...booo....

Don't you look at the forecast . I took my ride yesterday evening, knowing it was going to be blowing a gale today.
So, about 30 miles last night...but then there's no fun in the dark, but then there's very little traffic.
Nothing else to report really...thats the trouble with riding in the dark

 

[colly]

8 o'clock start in the sun and did a loop just north of Leeds. 37 miles.

www.bikehike.co.uk/mapview.php?id=4839

I abandoned any idea of going further afield once I got started and felt really 'dead' from the off. I'm glad I didn't go any further and was happy to get back when I did in cold rain/ sleet.

 

[dan_bo]

Motivation plunged as soon as I opened the curtains, so I feel slightly less soft reading a few of today's..........The bike's strapped to the turbo, winking at me as I slurp a milky coffee.......................

 

[Auntie Helen]

Very windy 41 miles today - VERY windy. As I got home just before a colossal rain storm I came to a halt outside the back gate and 'plop', a pigeon pooped from the heavens and it went on my leg and on my garmin GPS. Lovely!

 

[Aperitif]

Very windy 41 miles today - VERY windy. As I got home just before a colossal rain storm I came to a halt outside the back gate and 'plop', a pigeon pooped from the heavens and it went on my leg and on my garmin GPS. Lovely!

Now you know what GPS stands for Helen...Gooey Pidgeon $h1t!

 

[montage]

dropped in team TT as I slowed my pace down faaaaaaar to much after comming off the front. Bonked, 9 miles from home. 50 miles - was first up all the hills though until around 35miles when I began sufferring - damn today's wind!

 

[longers]

A breezy 32k for me today with a few laps down at the Velodrome at the halfway point.

It was soooo much fun

I now wish I'd worn my CC shirt but I didn't fancy looking like I might know what I was doing.

Right up the top of the banking several times

 

[HLaB]

A short slow 36.7 miles in the a gale I'd thought that I'd have the wind behind me on the way home but that wasn't the case. On the way back I paused to watch the start of a local time trial, not surprisingly a few riders never turned up, the weather rapidly deteriorated to a Blizzard. I saw a club rider so I hanged around to see him off. I then cycled the uphill section of the tt (Id done the other section in the morning). I had to laugh where the tt went left I went straight on only to have a marshal desperately telling me to turn left, its not as if I had a bright orange number on my chest or I was going fast.

Edit: I forgot to say I lost my Mars 4.0 in the middle of a busy junction, I went back for it but several cars had made it toast. I wanted to rescue the rechargeables but there was no break in the traffic and visibility was poor (blizzard conditions) so after a five minutes I gave up

 

[HLaB]

I was in the race and did not manage to catch the peleton up again after losing them on the 1st lap. We made a small group of 7 'failed' riders and ran our own race. Bloody hard, strong wind and leg sapping hills. I am not sure where I came - but not well enough. It was hard.

I thought I saw you at the start. Congrats for having the dedication to race

 

[vernon]

Did the Birdwell 100km audax. Not exactly flat but was a fast outward leg with lots of time available for the return leg. I needed most of the 'slack'. The weather deteriorated to give a horizontal hail stone storm for a while. And the wind assistance on the outward leg was an energy sapping impediment for the return leg. Still, I got round with time to spare though still in my customary lanterne rouge position for this particular ride.

 

[RedBike]

I froze on a ill advised ride over the pennines