Your ride today....

[Elybazza61]

Slightly different route for the commute today as I took the main road from Ely to Sutton rather than go the Witchford/Grunty fen way;didn't feel like I really got going today so will have to see how the ride home goes.

https://www.strava.com/activities/323029871

 

[postman]

First of all,there are some fantastic photos on this thread,keep them coming.Now i was given a clean bill of health on my blood tests.I was ok to go out to Otley for a couple of lattes.Short but wonderful ride.Now next week i have a blood test for vitamin d deficiency.It seems a lot of people are having the same probs as me,including people the cafe owner knows.So our ride from Skipton to Yockenthwaite goes ahead next week,hooray.

 

[theloafer]

had planned to see how the legs would cope with the STANG today (think I should have asked them first) LOL as I climbed out of Richmond (beans on toast stop) they were not very happy ...and when I saw the sign foe Ravensworth I bailed

and as I have not been this way for ages and meant I could call for coffee and cake at Eppleby

..... only 44 miles

https://connect.garmin.com/activity/800744543

Aldbrough st john

my fav kind of road

 

[derrick]

A nice easy ride tonight 6 of us set out for a nice 31 miles, changed the route as there was a lot of traffic.Found some new lanes and ended at a different pub tonight, our local wetherspoons, so cheap we had an extra one or two, another really enjoyable ride with some good mates and my other half, she was on fire tonight, she is getting stronger on every ride.

 

[gbb]

Day off in lieu of this weekend working, suns up, its warm, modest breeze...I'm off.
37 miles spinning, no dramas or pushing, 14mph average, arrived home feeling really quite fresh.
Peterborough, Marholm, Newborough, onto Crowland, , a good few gloriously quiet and pretty miles alongside the Welland river, began to lose my bearings of which direcrion Peterborough actually was... onto Deeping St James, now ive got a fix, Deeping, skirting Northborough, Glinton, back to Marholm and home.
Glorious, best ride for an eternity it seems.
Stopped at a shop at one point and brought some lucozade, filled my bottle with it. 2 miles later....BANG....what the hell, my bottle lid flew off, showing the bike with a mist of sticky lucozade....bloomin eck, leave the teat open in future.
10 miles and a bit last night, 37 ditto today, 48 miles in the last 24 hours.
Fitness is truly returning.....

 

[Sandra6]

It's

been a long time since I rode anywhere worth talking about, but yesterday I dressed up like a cyclist with padded pants and everything and did a whole 23miles.
I'm helping with a children's party at this place www.watchtree.co.uk, on Sunday so figured I better see if I could make it there! Turns out I can, I just hope nobody's put off by my red face when I do.
It was a lovely day and there was very little traffic, and I only got scalped once. I planned on taking more photos but I didn't want to cut short the wheeeee moments of downhill and wasn't sure I'd get going again if I stopped before the up.
Things I learned on this ride are
I can't reach all of my back with sunscreen.
I don't cycle fast enough to get past the roadworks before the light at the other end goes green
Roads that look flat on a map probably aren't.
My 29er is my favourite bike.

 

[Billy Wizz]

I went out today, down the Thames on the work bike, a industrial ride
Came across the best cycle path annoying hoop ever,getting through made me lol.
Thoughts ?

 

[robjh]

Thursday night was just made for cycling, and with a warm south-westerly breeze blowing I set out after work in Coventry and headed south-west towards the Malvern hills. The Malverns are about 50 miles from Coventry as the crow flies, and quite a bit further on the route I took. I left work just after 4 and headed out of town westwards, towards Chadwick End, then turned south west towards Lowsonford and Wootton Wawen, but careless mapreading led to a few wrong turns and I added on a few miles round here, and made up for it with a dash down the A3400 through Henley in Arden.
Back on quiet roads, I went almost to Alcester before turning south towards Bidford on Avon, and the quiet B road on the south side of the Avon as far as Evesham. Up to this point I had had the Cotswolds on my left horizon, but I followed the Avon to Pershore and then Upton-on-Severn, where the Malverns reared up ahead. The sun was about to sink behind them as I covered the last few miles, and it was about 8.30 and with nearly 70 miles behind me as I climbed up towards Malvern Wells.
The commanding views back eastwards were looking rather dusky by this time but the sun was still up on the western side, so I slogged up the last couple of miles to the Malvern Hills hotel at the southern end of the range, and rode back up the western side where the sun was still big and red and low in the sky. The final fast drop back to Great Malvern felt like a just reward for the effort, and I was at the station in plenty of time for the 21.56 train back to Birmingham.
I got back to Coventry just before midnight and had a few more miles to get home, and I bombed down the empty A road which all felt like part of the fun. 87 miles in total and quite a late evening. I've been catching up with my sleep this afternoon.

Approaching the Malvern Hills

The route

 

[Elybazza61]

Two commutes on the Planet X cross bike today with routes more in keeping with it rather than the usual tarmac rides.

Ride in was down the straight route A10 but then diverted off at Waterbeach to take in the path along the Cam(saw a Grebe and a Swan in full take-off mode),nothing too strenuous just a nice easy ride in;

https://www.strava.com/activities/323712469

Ride home was a mix again via Bottisham and turning off at Swaffham Prior to take in some Droves from Reach to Wicken;bike handled it with aplomb although the Vittoria Randonneurs struggled for grip on some of the rougher sections(might look in to some Panaracer gravel kings).Nice to get off the beaten track for a change and take in some warmth for a change too;

https://www.strava.com/activities/323975905

200K's done for the week just got to decide if I go on the club run tomorrow.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Ashamed to say today was my first ride of the year - a new job has been pretty intense and the few breaks I've had coincided with bad weather. But what a great feeling it was being out again: glorious day, deer bounding out in front of me, swallows (or swifts) swooping alongside and an easy rhythm on the pedals taking me round my 14 mile loop in what I consider a respectable 6 minutes off my best pace. Lovely.

 

[biggs682]

An early 20 slightly damp miles this morning on lightly treaded tub's meant being more careful than usual, but it was a great ride and could almost have done with some lights .
At least being on a steel bike I knew it was not going to melt

 

[coffeejo]

An early 20 slightly damp miles this morning on lightly treaded tub's meant being more careful than usual, but it was a great ride and could almost have done with some lights .
At least being on a steel bike I knew it was not going to melt View attachment 91771 View attachment 91772

Early's not the word for it. I'm still in bed!

A few photos from my rides this year, just to remind myself that it will be lovely once I'm out there, even if it is grim and grey this morning.

 

[Simontm]

Urban ride today with a 32 miler into London and back via Wimbledon-weir road-Clapham-vauxhall-Victoria-A4 to Chiswick-Richmond Park-tow path to Hampton Court-home.

Nice fast ride with only one hairy moment when just past Clapham a 4x4 turned into a road nearly taking me out of the cycle lane as there was a traffic jam.

Also, how busy is Richmond Park? Boy, thems a lot of cyclists . I was behind a speedster who for reasons only known to himself decided to take the outside overtake right at the turnoff for Ham gate, how he didn't get totalled, I'll never know.

Also had a wash courtesy of a Beemer which closed passed me underneath John Lewis then chucked his washes on, covering me and leaving me with some blotchy skin and itchy eyes

Never this eventful when I head south into the hills

 

[Apollonius]

Rode our village sportive today. 34 miles of non-stop downpour. Soaked and covered in mud. The bath looks like the Thames Estuary after the tide has gone out. Had a ball!

 

[13 rider]

With me out all day tomorrow wanted to ride today .pulled backed the curtains this morning and it was chucking it down just pottered about all day checking the weather .At 2pm I thought this is as good as it going to get. So out with the bike ,leggings ,long sleeve top and gillet . Off in the drizzle through Newtown Linford and on to the climb at pollybotts and on around the back of Markfield on to Thornton down pass the reservoir and back home 13.9 miles at 15.7 mph strava pb s a plenty including the climb at pollybotts which I had been trying to beat for weeks .Even got a top ten (ninth) kom all time unheard of for me must try riding in the rain more often it appears to make me faster. Lovely ride despite the weather not many cyclist out today don't know why ?