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Another weekend without a ride.
Your ride today.... (part 1)
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WobblyBob
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- Blyth,Northumberland
Well i just thought sod it & went out with my buddy for a few miles, we ended up doing 52 miles with 3500ft of climbing & it was savage with the wind (we ended up with an average 11.6mph!) & snow/ice.
We started at Jarrow (just south of the Tyne) & headed up through Gateshead along to Consett & back anyway we could trying to avoid the worst of it.
I ended up on my arse twice slipping on the ice aswell
A little pic of my buddy from today
We started at Jarrow (just south of the Tyne) & headed up through Gateshead along to Consett & back anyway we could trying to avoid the worst of it.
I ended up on my arse twice slipping on the ice aswell
A little pic of my buddy from today
Spartak
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153kms today.
Very cold ! Temperature never got above 1 degree C all day, but luckily no ice
Rode the LVIS Audax from Long Ashton. Going via Hill, Doynton, Keynsham & Dundry.
Best food I've had on an Audax with wonderful cakes, sandwiches & soup on offer
Very cold ! Temperature never got above 1 degree C all day, but luckily no ice
Rode the LVIS Audax from Long Ashton. Going via Hill, Doynton, Keynsham & Dundry.
Best food I've had on an Audax with wonderful cakes, sandwiches & soup on offer
totallyfixed
Veteran
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- The only county without a McDonalds
I'm working very hard on another type of training
followed immediately by
and am thinking of changing my forum name to Mr Blobby.
3x 1 hour on turbo. It's so boring I had to work my way through two films. Real actioners of a 2nd world war variety where I thoroughly enjoyed watching people in Nazi uniforms get shot or blown up, the bloodier the better. Got up to 180 BPMs each time by successively increasing resistance and hammering the pedals down and up and down and up. I didn't have headphones long enough to go from computer to my ears so had to turn sound up so loud, it could be heard all over the house and by our neighbours when they went outside but was just audible by me over the noise of the turbos whining.
Old Plodder
Living at the top of a steep 2 mile climb
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- Surrey/Hants border
My turbo sessions only last 20 mins, just enough to do good, not long enough to get too bored.
Marshmallow_Fluff
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Since you're there, if you fancy some Italian fusion cuisine, pop in to Tiberi!
(on the inside plaza, behind the main one by the marina.. or pm me for tel/address)
SatNavSaysStraightOn
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- ɐᴉlɐɹʇsn∀ 'ɐɹɹǝquɐƆ
Another day on holiday in Scotland dawned bright & cold with sunshine. A fresh 'layer' of snow (nothing major) left us wanting to get out this morning, so we packed lunch after various 'talks' about what route to cycle and headed off for Rannoch Station. It did not take long for us to find wildlife out on the roads and today was red deer on the northern shore of Loch Rannoch - this is actually quite uncommon. Usually they stay much higher up the mountains and rarely come down to loch level. Next followed the geese & oyster catchers in the fields and then much to our amazement at the first photo stop, we spotted 2 really rare sights. 2 road bikers out for a morning (?) ride. As usual I was in the process of stripping and trying to take photos when this rare occurrence occurred, but I have to say I am not sure who was more surprised!
We had been under the misguided assumption uphill was harder work than downhill and that generally it was slower but with a friendly tailwind we sailed up the climb not even noticing it was there on a mountain bike with winter tyres on... To give an idea on the tailwind/headwind fun, our average speed up the climb to Rannoch Station was higher (by quite a margin) than our average speed back down off Rannoch Moor to Loch Rannoch.
Arriving at Rannoch Station we were hot, sweaty and seriously considering loosing our leg warmers and had already removed hats, cycling gloves and buffs. It was not to last long. The best of the weather had been and gone and lunch was taken seeking out shelter from a lunch length snow storm. Strangely lunch and it lasted exactly the same length of time
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Coming back from lunch downhill off Rannoch Moor is usually something to look forward to with nice tailwinds and good views. Today it was a bitterly cold headwind that had us with a slower average downhill than uphill, but we still stopped at the Frog Rock for a quick picture.
When it came to turn off to extend our ride, neither of us needed second thoughts. We did despite the fact it meant at least 18 miles of nasty headwinds. We were enjoying the ride too much - when the sun was out, it was great and when it was another snow storm it was simply a case of returning to day dreaming and waiting for the next patch of sunshine/sun light to warm things up again.
We stopped off at the icicles of yesterday to have another look. they have improved overnight quite a lot, and the polo fairy also paid me a visit in a sheltered corner....
(click on the image for a larger view if you are interested).
From there it was a case of nice patches of light and day dreaming some more when the weather turned nasty. Thankfully the nasty periods were often accompanied by really great patches of light just before and afterwards and when the sun was out, it was actually too warm. We also spotted a herd of red deer close to Kinloch Rannoch and a blue pheasant which has a very healthy survival instinct, so no photos... (My OH cycling back towards me... hence why he is not looking very happy!)
Then after a little shopping and some more patches of excellent light which my little camera struggled to handle (not helped by the fact I had left the polarising filter back in the holiday cottage) we decided against stopping at the holiday cottage and carried on to start a 2nd lap of the loch - I kid not. We were cycling at exactly the same speed (tailwind again) as this wonderful patch of light down the entire length of the loch and I did not want to miss it...
Sanity was saved some time later when we started to consider what we were actually doing - it wasn't that we couldn't do it, we had more than enough clothes and food/water/hot drinks with us. It was just that in the bitterly cold wind, my front light died and we would need it to get back in the dark in... so after a couple more photographic shots, a couple more encounters with deer and a buzzard which landed less than 10 foot away from us on a fence post, we called it a day and headed back...
Somehow we have covered 65.6km today and I have 3 QOM's and 1 PR from Strava and yet we wanted to do more. Instead we came home and have given the bikes the tlc they need for a good ride tomorrow. A good day for a great ride and very enjoyable at that.
We had been under the misguided assumption uphill was harder work than downhill and that generally it was slower but with a friendly tailwind we sailed up the climb not even noticing it was there on a mountain bike with winter tyres on... To give an idea on the tailwind/headwind fun, our average speed up the climb to Rannoch Station was higher (by quite a margin) than our average speed back down off Rannoch Moor to Loch Rannoch.
Arriving at Rannoch Station we were hot, sweaty and seriously considering loosing our leg warmers and had already removed hats, cycling gloves and buffs. It was not to last long. The best of the weather had been and gone and lunch was taken seeking out shelter from a lunch length snow storm. Strangely lunch and it lasted exactly the same length of time
.Coming back from lunch downhill off Rannoch Moor is usually something to look forward to with nice tailwinds and good views. Today it was a bitterly cold headwind that had us with a slower average downhill than uphill, but we still stopped at the Frog Rock for a quick picture.
When it came to turn off to extend our ride, neither of us needed second thoughts. We did despite the fact it meant at least 18 miles of nasty headwinds. We were enjoying the ride too much - when the sun was out, it was great and when it was another snow storm it was simply a case of returning to day dreaming and waiting for the next patch of sunshine/sun light to warm things up again.
We stopped off at the icicles of yesterday to have another look. they have improved overnight quite a lot, and the polo fairy also paid me a visit in a sheltered corner....
(click on the image for a larger view if you are interested).From there it was a case of nice patches of light and day dreaming some more when the weather turned nasty. Thankfully the nasty periods were often accompanied by really great patches of light just before and afterwards and when the sun was out, it was actually too warm. We also spotted a herd of red deer close to Kinloch Rannoch and a blue pheasant which has a very healthy survival instinct, so no photos... (My OH cycling back towards me... hence why he is not looking very happy!)
Then after a little shopping and some more patches of excellent light which my little camera struggled to handle (not helped by the fact I had left the polarising filter back in the holiday cottage) we decided against stopping at the holiday cottage and carried on to start a 2nd lap of the loch - I kid not. We were cycling at exactly the same speed (tailwind again) as this wonderful patch of light down the entire length of the loch and I did not want to miss it...
Sanity was saved some time later when we started to consider what we were actually doing - it wasn't that we couldn't do it, we had more than enough clothes and food/water/hot drinks with us. It was just that in the bitterly cold wind, my front light died and we would need it to get back in the dark in... so after a couple more photographic shots, a couple more encounters with deer and a buzzard which landed less than 10 foot away from us on a fence post, we called it a day and headed back...
Somehow we have covered 65.6km today and I have 3 QOM's and 1 PR from Strava and yet we wanted to do more. Instead we came home and have given the bikes the tlc they need for a good ride tomorrow. A good day for a great ride and very enjoyable at that.
After salivating over SatNavs fantastic photographs it hardly seems worth the bother mentioning my 20 miler this morning in Essex. I had on about 5 layers and a balaclava under my helmet and I could still feel the cold. I went round a route that is 10 miles out, then 10 miles back on a parallel road. I had a headwind all the way out and was looking forward to a fast run home with a tail wind. I should have known better. Head wind all the way home as well. I have never been able to work it out this wind business, I just accept that wherever I go will be a headwind most of the time.
Spartak
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153kms today.
Very cold ! Temperature never got above 1 degree C all day, but luckily no ice
Rode the LVIS Audax from Long Ashton. Going via Hill, Doynton, Keynsham & Dundry.
Best food I've had on an Audax with wonderful cakes, sandwiches & soup on offer
Photo of me from yesterdays ride !!!
Spartak
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Link to a write up from yesterday's ride ......
...... http://road.cc/content/blog/79546-190km-rule-five-and-22km-our-own-rules
...... http://road.cc/content/blog/79546-190km-rule-five-and-22km-our-own-rules
EltonFrog
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I have just been for a 21:48 mile bike ride. I have, according to my HRM burned 1589 calories, I am cold and I got another puncture 2 miles from home. This weather is becoming something up with which I am finding it very difficult to put.
I'm gonna eat cake now.
The End.
Edit: Just discovered this
I'm gonna eat cake now.
The End.
Edit: Just discovered this
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SatNavSaysStraightOn
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twas one of those days today where it has snowed more than it has been anything else, yet we have less snow now than this morning!
The 43km ride started in a blizzard and ended in a blizzard. In between there were several more blizzards, hail storms and numerous disturbed buzzards, several flocks of fieldfares and 1 cormorant - I am assuming it is lost given we have not seen one here before. We also spotted 2 roe deer, a couple of white throated dippers, several docile pheasants that could not be bothered to move out of our way and 2 daffodils that have decided it is time to flower - they are confused - it is most certainly not.
We had decided originally to do the Schiehallion road but somewhere between the first blizzard which lasted 8km and the turn off less than a km later, we decided against it. It was probably a sensible decision, the headwind has not been kind again today and it was hard work.
Around Carie Walks my OH (currently not known in this household as the better half) decided an off road excursion to see if his route up to Glen Lyon was an option for another day.
Forestry commission tracks are not the best of things to follow uphill in snow in a blizzard and this one was more like superglue until we met the 'snow line'. Then it became more like an ice-rink and after 2 forestry vehicles came through rutting up the snow & ice badly, I called it a day and pushed my bike to where he was waiting "Why didn't you say something?" he said. my thoughts were not printable and best left not mentioned.... Coming back down the track was almost as slow as going up it - at least it has clarified one thing, my rib still hurts even with the painkillers. Any ideas of off-roading for me are out for the moment.
Getting back to the holiday home found a spot of sunshine which was nice for the 5 mins it lasted, then we were hit by yet another blizzard and left confused as hell when Schiehallion's summit was visible yet we were still in snow at the time.
Once back at the holiday home, the sun has come out again which is typical - so the last photo is from the holiday home looking away from the latest blizzard and into the sunshine...
The 43km ride started in a blizzard and ended in a blizzard. In between there were several more blizzards, hail storms and numerous disturbed buzzards, several flocks of fieldfares and 1 cormorant - I am assuming it is lost given we have not seen one here before. We also spotted 2 roe deer, a couple of white throated dippers, several docile pheasants that could not be bothered to move out of our way and 2 daffodils that have decided it is time to flower - they are confused - it is most certainly not.
We had decided originally to do the Schiehallion road but somewhere between the first blizzard which lasted 8km and the turn off less than a km later, we decided against it. It was probably a sensible decision, the headwind has not been kind again today and it was hard work.
Around Carie Walks my OH (currently not known in this household as the better half) decided an off road excursion to see if his route up to Glen Lyon was an option for another day.
Forestry commission tracks are not the best of things to follow uphill in snow in a blizzard and this one was more like superglue until we met the 'snow line'. Then it became more like an ice-rink and after 2 forestry vehicles came through rutting up the snow & ice badly, I called it a day and pushed my bike to where he was waiting "Why didn't you say something?" he said. my thoughts were not printable and best left not mentioned....
Coming back down the track was almost as slow as going up it - at least it has clarified one thing, my rib still hurts even with the painkillers. Any ideas of off-roading for me are out for the moment.Getting back to the holiday home found a spot of sunshine which was nice for the 5 mins it lasted, then we were hit by yet another blizzard and left confused as hell when Schiehallion's summit was visible yet we were still in snow at the time.
Once back at the holiday home, the sun has come out again which is typical - so the last photo is from the holiday home looking away from the latest blizzard and into the sunshine...
coffeejo
Ælfrēd
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- West Somerset
Those photos aren't helping my feet defrost. Just been for a chilly 28 mile loop up on the Blackdowns. Got my navigating a bit wrong and came down Corfe Hill, one of the few hills I intensely dislike in both directions. It's a fast descent - or it would be if I were braver as it's ruined by sharp corners and pitted with potholes. I've never dared come down there faster than 30mph and this evening was no exception. I should have turned round and found my way to Staple Hill as originally intended but my legs said they liked the freewheeling. 
Just been for a chilly 28 mile loop up on the Blackdowns. Got my navigating a bit wrong and came down Corfe Hill, one of the few hills I intensely dislike in both directions. It's a fast descent - or it would be if I were braver as it's ruined by sharp corners and pitted with potholes. I've never dared come down there faster than 30mph and this evening was no exception. I should have turned round and found my way to Staple Hill as originally intended but my legs said they liked the freewheeling. 
twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
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- Over the Hill
Did one of my easier loops today but the battle with that arctic blast over 20 miles on the way back took its toll. My speed dropped below 10 mph on occasions. Cruel is the cold wind. My legs are telling me - enough!
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