Your ride today....

[arranandy]

I was up at first light this morning as there was a storm due in Mallorca. Off I went into the grey, cool morning heading out of Pollenca. After 2 miles I was shivering so I stopped to put my waterproof on, this had me warm in a minute or 2. The road rises slowly and almost without letting on to you you're ever so slightly going up for about 8 miles and then the fun starts.
There is nothing ferocious about this climb, more a steady plod up a series of switchbacks with messages spray painted on the road (mostly in Russian). After a wee while the sun started to make itself known... View attachment 92093
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The waterproof had been off for a while now as it had warmed up nicely. I crested the Col de Femenia and stopped to take a rubbish

pic of the rubbish sign...
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There are a few downs from here to the monastery at Lluc which were fun. It was here that a Pine Marten crossed the road 50 yards in front of me! The monastery was shut at this early hour so I ate my apple and left.
Which way back...? I could have made a loop by going via Campanet but I didn't know when this storm was going to hit and I chickened out as I didn't fancy a soaking, so I came back down the lovely, smooth, swooping decent.
I carried on to Alcudia old town and stopped for tea. I asked the barman for a croissant and he gave me the wifi code...

Back along the bay to Porto Pollensa and I had an Osprey fly over my head! I also saw 2 Purple Herons.
Upon return I went for a walk up the Boquer valley, this was the view from it....
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There's been a bit of thunder and lightning..... But I think I'd have done the loop and stayed dry. Never mind.
http://www.strava.com/activities/326423486

Good ride Dave. My mate that lives on Mallorca posted a photo on FB of the hailstones they had yesterday

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Day off work today so did an imperial century. Found it hard work for the last 20 miles or so

https://www.strava.com/activities/327187885

 

[Racing roadkill]

Took this for a shakedown.

This was in the marina.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I've had to stay away from this thread recently, it was rubbing a sore spot with me no longer being able to get out on the trike (following surgery), then illness and more illness and more antibiotics and... oh and with the weather being so good. I was back to walking the same 2 paths and only seeing them and only a tiny little bit of them as well.

But all that changed today. On one of those short walks many weeks I met a lady on a bike. She asked directions and could not make up her mind if to continue on or return back the way she had come. With what she was wearing, the bike and everything else, I asked her if she rode often. I didn't get the response I had been expecting - it was her first ride since a kid. She had signed up to ride to Snowdon in August and though she had better start training. Anyhow to cut a long story short, we had a chat, and agreed to cycle/ride together when I wasn't just 10 days since major back surgery and I gave her my mobile number...

Well today, we went out together for the first time. I planned a route that was roughly 10 miles or so and she rode from Winsford to my home and we went out for a ride together. We seem to be averaging roughly the same speed (or at least will once it is not my first ride after surgery) and had a general chit chat as we rode (though it is somewhat interesting with me still having no voice) and well we managed to dodge the rain that some places clearly had had, and it was fantastic to be back out on the bike and seeing the world again. I kept the distance down, we kept the speed at what I could manage and well it went OK, I had some pain, but it is the same pain I am getting when I walk and wasn't any worse, so when I see the consultant I will ask him about it, but otherwise I am back on the trike and managed +10 miles in a stunning time of 1 1/2 hours. Yep... you read it 90 minutes... but I did it. https://www.strava.com/activities/327295087

I will see how I feel tomorrow and if OK, I will repeat assuming it is not torrential rain or something like that.

I'M BACK....





(you may even get a photo tomorrow!)

 

[Supersuperleeds]

I've had to stay away from this thread recently, it was rubbing a sore spot with me no longer being able to get out on the trike (following surgery), then illness and more illness and more antibiotics and... oh and with the weather being so good. I was back to walking the same 2 paths and only seeing them and only a tiny little bit of them as well.

But all that changed today. On one of those short walks many weeks I met a lady on a bike. She asked directions and could not make up her mind if to continue on or return back the way she had come. With what she was wearing, the bike and everything else, I asked her if she rode often. I didn't get the response I had been expecting - it was her first ride since a kid. She had signed up to ride to Snowdon in August and though she had better start training. Anyhow to cut a long story short, we had a chat, and agreed to cycle/ride together when I wasn't just 10 days since major back surgery and I gave her my mobile number...

Well today, we went out together for the first time. I planned a route that was roughly 10 miles or so and she rode from Winsford to my home and we went out for a ride together. We seem to be averaging roughly the same speed (or at least will once it is not my first ride after surgery) and had a general chit chat as we rode (though it is somewhat interesting with me still having no voice) and well we managed to dodge the rain that some places clearly had had, and it was fantastic to be back out on the bike and seeing the world again. I kept the distance down, we kept the speed at what I could manage and well it went OK, I had some pain, but it is the same pain I am getting when I walk and wasn't any worse, so when I see the consultant I will ask him about it, but otherwise I am back on the trike and managed +10 miles in a stunning time of 1 1/2 hours. Yep... you read it 90 minutes... but I did it. https://www.strava.com/activities/327295087

I will see how I feel tomorrow and if OK, I will repeat assuming it is not torrential rain or something like that.

I'M BACK....





(you may even get a photo tomorrow!)

 

[Hill Wimp]

I've had to stay away from this thread recently, it was rubbing a sore spot with me no longer being able to get out on the trike (following surgery), then illness and more illness and more antibiotics and... oh and with the weather being so good. I was back to walking the same 2 paths and only seeing them and only a tiny little bit of them as well.

But all that changed today. On one of those short walks many weeks I met a lady on a bike. She asked directions and could not make up her mind if to continue on or return back the way she had come. With what she was wearing, the bike and everything else, I asked her if she rode often. I didn't get the response I had been expecting - it was her first ride since a kid. She had signed up to ride to Snowdon in August and though she had better start training. Anyhow to cut a long story short, we had a chat, and agreed to cycle/ride together when I wasn't just 10 days since major back surgery and I gave her my mobile number...

Well today, we went out together for the first time. I planned a route that was roughly 10 miles or so and she rode from Winsford to my home and we went out for a ride together. We seem to be averaging roughly the same speed (or at least will once it is not my first ride after surgery) and had a general chit chat as we rode (though it is somewhat interesting with me still having no voice) and well we managed to dodge the rain that some places clearly had had, and it was fantastic to be back out on the bike and seeing the world again. I kept the distance down, we kept the speed at what I could manage and well it went OK, I had some pain, but it is the same pain I am getting when I walk and wasn't any worse, so when I see the consultant I will ask him about it, but otherwise I am back on the trike and managed +10 miles in a stunning time of 1 1/2 hours. Yep... you read it 90 minutes... but I did it. https://www.strava.com/activities/327295087

I will see how I feel tomorrow and if OK, I will repeat assuming it is not torrential rain or something like that.

I'M BACK....





(you may even get a photo tomorrow!)

please get those lovely photos coming back in, have you seen the entries so far ?

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

please get those lovely photos coming back in, have you seen the entries so far ?

 

[Alex H]

today, so out for the first time in a couple of weeks (short holiday to Pyrenees and continuing building veranda )

Nice shady bit on the way to St Brice-sur-Vienne

Well, it may not be huge (8 spaces, I think) but at least someone is using it. (covoiturage= Car Share )

On the way to St. Gence - this is Feeriland 'a wonderful miniature world' - it's not open in the mornings until July, hence the empty car park.

The church at St. Gence

Next stop, our local transportation hub - Limoges International Airport

There was a plane due, but after 15 minutes I gave up, so here's a pic of the control tower instead.

Home via the old St.Junien / Limoges road, and another of my not so favourite hamlet names.

Although there is a restaurant in Limoges with the same name - HERE

73km in 3 1/2 hrs

 

[gavgav]

I've had to stay away from this thread recently, it was rubbing a sore spot with me no longer being able to get out on the trike (following surgery), then illness and more illness and more antibiotics and... oh and with the weather being so good. I was back to walking the same 2 paths and only seeing them and only a tiny little bit of them as well.

But all that changed today. On one of those short walks many weeks I met a lady on a bike. She asked directions and could not make up her mind if to continue on or return back the way she had come. With what she was wearing, the bike and everything else, I asked her if she rode often. I didn't get the response I had been expecting - it was her first ride since a kid. She had signed up to ride to Snowdon in August and though she had better start training. Anyhow to cut a long story short, we had a chat, and agreed to cycle/ride together when I wasn't just 10 days since major back surgery and I gave her my mobile number...

Well today, we went out together for the first time. I planned a route that was roughly 10 miles or so and she rode from Winsford to my home and we went out for a ride together. We seem to be averaging roughly the same speed (or at least will once it is not my first ride after surgery) and had a general chit chat as we rode (though it is somewhat interesting with me still having no voice) and well we managed to dodge the rain that some places clearly had had, and it was fantastic to be back out on the bike and seeing the world again. I kept the distance down, we kept the speed at what I could manage and well it went OK, I had some pain, but it is the same pain I am getting when I walk and wasn't any worse, so when I see the consultant I will ask him about it, but otherwise I am back on the trike and managed +10 miles in a stunning time of 1 1/2 hours. Yep... you read it 90 minutes... but I did it. https://www.strava.com/activities/327295087

I will see how I feel tomorrow and if OK, I will repeat assuming it is not torrential rain or something like that.

I'M BACK....





(you may even get a photo tomorrow!)

Superb stuff.

 

[cosmicbike]

I've had to stay away from this thread recently, it was rubbing a sore spot with me no longer being able to get out on the trike (following surgery), then illness and more illness and more antibiotics and... oh and with the weather being so good. I was back to walking the same 2 paths and only seeing them and only a tiny little bit of them as well.

But all that changed today. On one of those short walks many weeks I met a lady on a bike. She asked directions and could not make up her mind if to continue on or return back the way she had come. With what she was wearing, the bike and everything else, I asked her if she rode often. I didn't get the response I had been expecting - it was her first ride since a kid. She had signed up to ride to Snowdon in August and though she had better start training. Anyhow to cut a long story short, we had a chat, and agreed to cycle/ride together when I wasn't just 10 days since major back surgery and I gave her my mobile number...

Well today, we went out together for the first time. I planned a route that was roughly 10 miles or so and she rode from Winsford to my home and we went out for a ride together. We seem to be averaging roughly the same speed (or at least will once it is not my first ride after surgery) and had a general chit chat as we rode (though it is somewhat interesting with me still having no voice) and well we managed to dodge the rain that some places clearly had had, and it was fantastic to be back out on the bike and seeing the world again. I kept the distance down, we kept the speed at what I could manage and well it went OK, I had some pain, but it is the same pain I am getting when I walk and wasn't any worse, so when I see the consultant I will ask him about it, but otherwise I am back on the trike and managed +10 miles in a stunning time of 1 1/2 hours. Yep... you read it 90 minutes... but I did it. https://www.strava.com/activities/327295087

I will see how I feel tomorrow and if OK, I will repeat assuming it is not torrential rain or something like that.

I'M BACK....





(you may even get a photo tomorrow!)

Well done you, I've missed your posts.

 

[Dave 123]

I left Porto Pollensa fairly early and headed up the road to Pollensa, I then turned left for Sa Pobla. This road is smooth with a couple of interesting slopes. After 12 miles I'm in SP, artichokes and cabbages galore, but no strawberries in evidence. Then it was up the hill to Muro. This nearly killed Mrs Dave back in February, and I can see why, it's a fair old drag! From Muro its on through stunning countryside to Sineu where I stopped for tea and ensaimadas, mmmmm!
It was market day

On I went through more beautiful undulating countryside to Petra then on to Lloret. In the verges along this road there were snails, and when I say snails...

Did I tell you that the countryside was beautiful?

I wanted to go back via Muro but the road was closed, the man on the barriers aid I should be ok, I was, but there were a few ropey bits...

Bob the builder was specific about where he wanted me!
Back to Sa Pobla and a food stop, pa amb oli, cheese, bread and ham. The bread was local with a crust of pure steel, delicious.
I took the road down through albufera marsh, Cetti's warblers yelling at me to keep pedalling through the stern head wind.
I took a right down to C'an Picafort and turned back at the roundabout, it's a bit of a kiss me quick eyesore, as is Alcudia which was next on my list. I was soon out the other side and back in Pollensa bay

I turned off the coast road and went through the back road up to Pollensa then on to Cala San Vincenc, red flags today, rough as a bears arse the sea was. I then rode up to the bottom of yesterday's climb and back down to Pollensa and on through the lanes. I was on for my June 100 miler so I had to make a little detour, a Red Backed Shrike eyed me from a telegraph wire, maybe he was hungry, I know I was!
Coming back into Porto Pollensa I was done in and I stopped at the roundabout kiosk for a mandarin/strawberry and chocolate ice cream, I think I earned a double!
101.1 miles in beautiful sunshine!

http://www.strava.com/activities/327289674

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

today, so out for the first time in a couple of weeks (short holiday to Pyrenees and continuing building veranda )

Nice shady bit on the way to St Brice-sur-Vienne

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Well, it may not be huge (8 spaces, I think) but at least someone is using it. (covoiturage= Car Share )

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On the way to St. Gence - this is Feeriland 'a wonderful miniature world' - it's not open in the mornings until July, hence the empty car park.

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The church at St. Gence

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Next stop, our local transportation hub - Limoges International Airport

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There was a plane due, but after 15 minutes I gave up, so here's a pic of the control tower instead.

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Home via the old St.Junien / Limoges road, and another of my not so favourite hamlet names.

Although there is a restaurant in Limoges with the same name - HERE

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73km in 3 1/2 hrs

Limoges airport has changed a bit since I was last there in the late '80s!

 

[13 rider]

Last nights ride a quick 9 mile spin from home through Newtown Linford up Sharply hill down past the golf course into Cropston and back home . ride was notable due to the fact it was the first ride on +1

gaint defy 1 composite 2012.
Bought second hand had 38 miles on bike computer chap had bought it rode twice then was taken ill it has been hung in his garage for 18 months acquired through friend .After 8 months of pottering on a hybrid I was looking to upgrade .

rubbish photo of strava page first segment second best time this is while I was getting feel of gears every other segment a pr the bike certainly feels quiker . Average speed 17 mph I am a happy bunny

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Wet both ways, that nasty fine mist rain that really soaks in and makes those of us with glasses near blind constantly

 

[Spartak]

Rode my first CX race last night !
Round 6 of the Ridley-Western Summer League, in the grounds of Hengrove Leisure Park.

I was on my MTB along with a few others !
The race started on the old 'runway' before heading thru some technical sections.
I was pleased to last the course riding for 56 mins. In that time I covered 9 laps !
The winner & his chasing group managed 11 laps !!