- Location
- Egham
Bread run as usual. 3 mile trip extended to 7 miles which uses me just over 1000 miles for the year so far. So in spite of all the issues, I'm on track to achieve my lowest goal.
Your ride today....
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gavgav
Legendary Member
Been feeling dreadful all week, some sort of post viral thing after my cold, with extreme tiredness and no energy, feeling really anxious, horrid snot, etc. Resting hadn't improved things and so decided to try a short ride and see if it would clear the snot a bit and at least cheer me up if nothing else.
It was nice and warm yesterday, so braved the shorts and a light jacket, but it quickly became clear that may have been a mistake as it was freezing
yet again. Please will somebody find where the warmth has gone 
Legs felt like lead and still no energy as I headed over Lyth Hill and down through Great Lyth, taking the slightly longer route to Exfords Green than normal, as the road I usually take is becoming a rutted track in places and not nice. There was a funny moment when I met 2 cyclists and a chap walking, along with a cat who strolled into the middle of the road, forcing us all to stop and just stood there looking at us, as much as to say "what, you think I'm getting out of the way?"!!
I then continued on to Dads and spent a couple of hours chatting to him, had some lunch, before heading for home.
I took the short route home, through Great Ryton, where I followed a squirrel that was going like the clappers up the middle of the road for a good 200 yards or so, before it leapt up a tree, Condover and Betton Abbots.
To be honest I was glad to get home, which isn't my usual thought on a ride. Will see if it has done me any good or bad over the next few days. Spent a lot of the ride blowing my nose and so maybe it has at least cleared my head out a bit....
15.4 miles
It was nice and warm yesterday, so braved the shorts and a light jacket, but it quickly became clear that may have been a mistake as it was freezing
yet again. Please will somebody find where the warmth has gone Legs felt like lead and still no energy as I headed over Lyth Hill and down through Great Lyth, taking the slightly longer route to Exfords Green than normal, as the road I usually take is becoming a rutted track in places and not nice. There was a funny moment when I met 2 cyclists and a chap walking, along with a cat who strolled into the middle of the road, forcing us all to stop and just stood there looking at us, as much as to say "what, you think I'm getting out of the way?"!!
I then continued on to Dads and spent a couple of hours chatting to him, had some lunch, before heading for home.
I took the short route home, through Great Ryton, where I followed a squirrel that was going like the clappers up the middle of the road for a good 200 yards or so, before it leapt up a tree, Condover and Betton Abbots.
To be honest I was glad to get home, which isn't my usual thought on a ride. Will see if it has done me any good or bad over the next few days. Spent a lot of the ride blowing my nose and so maybe it has at least cleared my head out a bit....
15.4 miles
Goonerobes
Its okay to be white
- Location
- Wiltshire
Today so far has been the good, the bad & the lovely!! The good was getting up to an email to let me know I'd won £100 on last nights Thunderball (look out Wiggle), the bad was I'd run out of flipping porridge & I also spilled P20 suncream all over the carpet (whoops) & the lovely was the weather for today's ride.
Leaving home around 10am as usual the planned route was to cross the border & head into Dorset & Wiltshire again for a mix up of new & previously ridden roads & in particular a 6 mile stretch of continuous going up, something we don't have around where I live.
The New Forest was, as expected, very busy with cyclists & after 16 or so miles I was onto the quieter country roads of east Dorset & the lovely little villages of Cranborne, Gussage St Michael & Tarrent Hinton before coming to the planned climb which turned out to be a bit of an anticlimax as it was easier than I'd thought but at least it made a change from the short punchy climbs of the forest & Test Valley.
Lunch was taken at the top whilst enjoying the views before heading through the Wiltshire countryside villages of Berwick St John, Fifield Bavant & then up the hill at Broad Chalke & heading back towards home through Martin, Damersham & Fordingbridge.
80 miles in the
, what could be better!
https://www.strava.com/activities/310042742
Leaving home around 10am as usual the planned route was to cross the border & head into Dorset & Wiltshire again for a mix up of new & previously ridden roads & in particular a 6 mile stretch of continuous going up, something we don't have around where I live.
The New Forest was, as expected, very busy with cyclists & after 16 or so miles I was onto the quieter country roads of east Dorset & the lovely little villages of Cranborne, Gussage St Michael & Tarrent Hinton before coming to the planned climb which turned out to be a bit of an anticlimax as it was easier than I'd thought but at least it made a change from the short punchy climbs of the forest & Test Valley.
Lunch was taken at the top whilst enjoying the views before heading through the Wiltshire countryside villages of Berwick St John, Fifield Bavant & then up the hill at Broad Chalke & heading back towards home through Martin, Damersham & Fordingbridge.
80 miles in the
, what could be better!https://www.strava.com/activities/310042742
Donger
Convoi Exceptionnel
- Location
- Quedgeley, Glos.
Only 7.1 miles today - one of the shortest rides I've ever posted. But this was a little different, as it's that time of year for the Tall Ships Festival in Gloucester Docks. Rode into town along the towpath on the West bank of the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal. Took out my No. 2 bike "Big Red" for the third consecutive ride ... it is just so comfortable and practical when you want to take a camera with you, and I'm starting to enjoy the relaxed flat bar approach to cycling. A few images of Gloucester Docks ....
Masses of people around today, and quite a few other cyclists with the same idea as me.
This dock crane was made from steel made by Dorman Long's steelworks in Redcar, so for all i know, my Grandad might have made it.
Had to get at least one shot of "Big Red" in....
Walked the bike through the crowds, and carried on towards the bridge over the Severn, stopping to take one final shot of Gloucester Cathedral from the ring road.
Closing in on 1,200 miles for the year now, averaging 30+ miles per ride. Funny how sometimes the shortest ones are the most memorable, though. Thoroughly enjoyed this one. Enjoy the weather while it lasts, everyone.
Cheers, Donger.
Masses of people around today, and quite a few other cyclists with the same idea as me.
This dock crane was made from steel made by Dorman Long's steelworks in Redcar, so for all i know, my Grandad might have made it.
Had to get at least one shot of "Big Red" in....
Walked the bike through the crowds, and carried on towards the bridge over the Severn, stopping to take one final shot of Gloucester Cathedral from the ring road.
Closing in on 1,200 miles for the year now, averaging 30+ miles per ride. Funny how sometimes the shortest ones are the most memorable, though. Thoroughly enjoyed this one. Enjoy the weather while it lasts, everyone.
Cheers, Donger.
43 miles today, out to the coast and back in a loop. 17.6mph average over the entire ride, which is my best yet over that kind of distance.
Looks like rain tomorrow morning, so hopefully I'll get a similar distance in sometime in the afternoon, and hopefully a better Monday for another 100KM+.
Yearly total is now 1500 miles from 53 rides; I really need to get more rides in! Maybe a 30 miler is in order tonight.
My bike, which I bought in May 2014, has now done 5100 miles in total.
Looks like rain tomorrow morning, so hopefully I'll get a similar distance in sometime in the afternoon, and hopefully a better Monday for another 100KM+.
Yearly total is now 1500 miles from 53 rides; I really need to get more rides in! Maybe a 30 miler is in order tonight.
My bike, which I bought in May 2014, has now done 5100 miles in total.
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gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
A whole 7 miles 
...with the wife and 10year old grandaughter, to a local pick your own farm for some strawberries. Excellent, walked up a hill(for the sake of the grandaughter...honest)...and sped down it, legs ridiculously sticking out and laughing all the way down, she loved it.
PYO my ass, they were ready picked and twice as expensive as some really quite nice ones we've been buying from Asda? £6 a kilo...no thankyou. Good ride, teaching a little road craft, well path craft anyway.
...with the wife and 10year old grandaughter, to a local pick your own farm for some strawberries. Excellent, walked up a hill(for the sake of the grandaughter...honest)...and sped down it, legs ridiculously sticking out and laughing all the way down, she loved it.PYO my ass, they were ready picked and twice as expensive as some really quite nice ones we've been buying from Asda? £6 a kilo...no thankyou. Good ride, teaching a little road craft, well path craft anyway.
Diggs
Veteran
- Location
- Billericay, Essex
Popped up to the local shop this morning as I noticed that they were having a ride out. Nice bunch of guys and good to get out in a group again. I stuck the camera in the back pocket but once the rain started it didn't let up. I've nicked this shot from the shop's twitter feed, plus one of me about to peel my gear off.
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Garry A
Calibrating.....
- Location
- Grangemouth
The familiar route out to Culross today. Been running a lot lately but now have a sore knee, unaffected by cycling though :-)
https://www.strava.com/activities/310113260
https://www.strava.com/activities/310113260
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Racing roadkill
Guru
Spartak
Powered by M&M's
- Location
- Bristolian
Out on the MTB this afternoon riding some South Gloucestershire bridleways.
Rode along the Dramway as far as Siston stopping to enjoy a pint outside the White Harte on the A420 - watched a plethora of Subaru's !
Then rode a section of Overcourt Woods - very peaceful in the mid afternoon sunshine, a short climb took me up to Pucklechurch where I skirted the cricket pitch before stopping of at The Star for a pint of Thatchers Dry
Onto some more bridleways towards Wapley before finally heading home via the Westerleigh RUPP.
https://www.strava.com/activities/310189703
Rode along the Dramway as far as Siston stopping to enjoy a pint outside the White Harte on the A420 - watched a plethora of Subaru's !
Then rode a section of Overcourt Woods - very peaceful in the mid afternoon sunshine, a short climb took me up to Pucklechurch where I skirted the cricket pitch before stopping of at The Star for a pint of Thatchers Dry
Onto some more bridleways towards Wapley before finally heading home via the Westerleigh RUPP.
https://www.strava.com/activities/310189703
sgl5gjr
Senior Member
- Location
- Huntingdon
Still suffering the Sciatica..... but improving all the time but so slowly...... I know my Physio is doing her best but I get so annoyed that this damn thing isn't sorted...anyway.... I did the Tennis Ball technique again today, and decided to do Mrs Sgl's favourite Sunday morning 12.1 mile ride.... faster than I have ever done it and I'm not 100% and 3 personal best segments....so I'm a happy badger for those.... I just wish the Sciatica would go... so it was Hartford in Huntingdon start....through to Godmanchester, then through the Hemingfords and into St Ives, through the Town then take the Thicket path through to Houghton & Wyton and then back to Hartford..... and I did the 12.1 miles in 56 mins.... at 12.8 mph average...not bad for a weak left leg, tight calf and sciatic pain....
Saluki
World class procrastinator
- Location
- ...Norwich over the water.
We didn't mean to go this way. We meant to loop upwards after lunch at the Recruiting Sargeant at Coltishall! I think that my GPS is menopausal. It got in a right sulk when we went off route by 100 yards for a sit down and some food. Better luck next time we ride this route.
Lovely ride around the coast and then inland for lunch and then to home. Not quite as planned. The weather forecast lied so I had my longs on and boiled for 3/4 of the time.
Gt Yarmouth to home was 41.51 miles in 3:43:00 ish, the ride to the station was 3.72 miles in 17 minutes so all in all quite good. I nearly didn't get off the train at Gt Yarmouth as people seemed to be desperate to leave the town. Can't say that I blame them, it's a shithole. But I feel that letting people off the train before you knock them backwards in your haste to get on the train - the door being blocked by a push bike - is unhelpful. The guard had to come. Bunch of chavvy muppets!!
It's supposed to rain tomorrow, but the weather forecast now says that it won't. Heigh ho. I've managed to do 266.66 miles of my 200 mile May target. Just 33 1/3 miles to go then. Coming over all George Harrison now.
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Only a short post-fettle ride today. I replaced the freehub body as the pawls were playing up.
I rode a circuit around some local woodlands and byways to iron out any problems.
All I had to do was nip up some play in the rear hub when I got home.
Only 6.5 miles, but I now have confidence in the bike once again. (after a few problems with it recently)
https://www.strava.com/activities/310088872
I rode a circuit around some local woodlands and byways to iron out any problems.
All I had to do was nip up some play in the rear hub when I got home.
Only 6.5 miles, but I now have confidence in the bike once again. (after a few problems with it recently)
https://www.strava.com/activities/310088872
theloafer
Legendary Member
- Location
- newton aycliffe
just a short trip to see no1 son and the g/kids(4) at West Auckland went via Shildon along the new cycle path 
its very nice and as I had my rocks with me 
(no1 son thinks I have rocks in my head) when I told him I was going back up the little drag called Bildershaw bank..... want to try out the new gearing..
leg must be better than I thought as there was no need to use the lowest then back via Heighington .. just over 15 miles https://connect.garmin.com/activity/782614485
at West Auckland went via Shildon along the new cycle path its very nice and as I had my rocks with me (no1 son thinks I have rocks in my head) when I told him I was going back up the little drag called Bildershaw bank..... want to try out the new gearing.. leg must be better than I thought as there was no need to use the lowest then back via Heighington .. just over 15 miles https://connect.garmin.com/activity/782614485
Thought I'd try and sort this strava climbing challenge.
Plus I've got a hilly 150 coming up, so I rode the route of the mendip transmitter 100, but went from my house. (Can't reccomend this audax enough).
5000 ft of climbing including blagdon hill and cheddar gorge, bacon, coffee, mendips and sunshine. 77 miles of fecking lushness.
