toffee
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I suppose that is what you get using Google maps in a foreign country.
Your ride today....
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I suppose that is what you get using Google maps in a foreign country.
There ought to be some way of changing the activity afterwards buried in the options or settings.
gavgav
Legendary Member
Kind of a my rides over the weekend, my husband's first 100 miler and the charity ride I have been helping one of the riders with.
Saturday I saw my husband off at 5am, then followed in the car about half an hour later to the start of the charity bike ride I have been training the only lady for. My husband was cycling the distance with her because it was more than I could manage and I wanted someone with her to pace her. As it turned out, him being there stopped her quitting when she went through a bad period at the start of the climbing. He was also cycling with another guy who had stuck with Stuart because he had directions and no-one else seemed to know where they were going...Anyhow, having completely misunderstood one of her 'I'm quitting' statements, in true male form, they carried on up the incline and waited for her half way up. With nothing more to do, in her own words she called herself a variety of words not repeatable here and got back on my road bike and carried on cycling! She made it to the top, recovered and carried on to the end of the ride! She covered 91 miles at a respectable 11.2 mph. 8 weeks ago she had not cycled since her childhood and has raised £500 for the local Joshua Tree Foundation. https://www.strava.com/activities/370581550
My husband having seen her to the end (well almost, but that is another story) continued up the climb to Penn-y-Pass and waited for me to arrive in the car. I had also worked out that if he cycled to the start of the charity ride from our home, he would make 100 miles by turning around at the top of the pass and effectively freewheeling all the way back to Betws-coed. He covered 104 miles in total and is now talking about cycling there and back on the bank holiday weekend. How exactly he managed this is beyond me because he only cycles once a week with me covering maybe 25 miles if that at a very slow speed and can pull off a 100 miler with no preparation - you have to just hate some people you know! (He has no strava account, so no link...)
So my ride on Saturday... Well once I was home, I found myself at a loss as to what to do so went out on the bike but was lacking in motivation. However, I have included it here because of something that happened during the ride which was a genuine delight. Whilst going very slowly uphill passed the shops in Kingsley, a mother out with her twin (?) daughters and very young son caught my attention not least because the teenage daughters were wearing red polka dot onesies but were also trying very hard to get my attention because they were on the other side of the road. They wanted to know what it was I was riding and were genuinely interested in my recumbent trike. Crossing the road they came over to have a 10 minute talk with me about the trike. They had walked from their home 4 miles away simply to get out and get some sausages (there were plenty of closer places, but...).
They were really nice girls, very polite and very interested in the trike and how it worked and was different from a normal bike in the seating etc. It was really nice talking to them and I have to say that they took me completely by surprise with their genuine interest. It was wonderful talking to them and their mother. From their initial appearance you would have not expected the politeness and interest. But for my ride, my energy was lacking and I wasn’t that motivated, so after I had climbed to the top of the tallest local climb, I headed home calling it a day at 25.5km/16 miles. My heart, legs and head were just not in it. https://www.strava.com/activities/369312155
Sunday’s ride was difficult for a whole host of reasons not least of all that we were out late (for us) on Saturday and for the fact that my Grandfather died during the charity ride yesterday, but I didn’t say anything to anyone about it during the ride. It wasn’t going to change the fact and I didn’t want Stuart to abort his 100 miler attempt or for them to know whilst they were doing the challenge. It was already difficult enough for them. However, the weather was glorious here on Sunday and I knew Stuart needed a recovery ride. His legs were not unexpectedly aching and a ride would help that, so we decided on the Mickle Trafford coffee shop route as it has become known and headed off with plenty of time at hand to get there early, collar one of the 2 tables I can get my trike to (I still can’t sit properly and certainly not on hard chairs yet) and get home again in time for lunch at a sensible time. That was the plan, however that was not what was to happen.
During the fast descent out of Delamere Forest (where the new tarmac is lovely and soft) and with a car on his tale, Stuart kept looking back at his rear wheel (I could see this in my mirrors, the new tarmac is lovely and soft, so they don’t shake about
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Luckily the optimistic repair of the original inner tube held and the rest of the ride was uneventful. We were able to get a table at the café by politely asking 2 gentlemen (cyclists) to move one table over for us and the rest of the journey was without too many issues other than a seat change for me. I have been really struggling ever since my flat tyre. I could not work out what it was, but Stuart was positive that my seat was in a different position before he took it off the trike trying to get it into the old car. So we change the seat position and life did seem easier after that. I will see what happens over the next few rides.
45km (23 miles) at a very respectable for me 15kph (let’s just say under 10 mph). https://www.strava.com/activities/370211772
I hope that the achievement of your friend at least gave you some happiness
Go into Edit Ride and you can change the activity there.
done about 45 miles the other day with my trusty rockrider 540, got to within a mile or 2 from falkirk on the canal then decided i better head back to queensferry, and had a cute lassie ask me if i had any sun screen 
strava says 42 something and my speedo thing on bike says 45 something arghh lol
strava says 42 something and my speedo thing on bike says 45 something arghh lol
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
Had a nice early evening ride last night with a group of other like minded folk . Started out by Newton Bromswold and the wound our way around some other local villages like Yelden,Swineshead and a few others who's name i have forgotten overnight covered just short of 25 miles .
All in all a very nice ride , originally we were using it as a Retro Ride but as the weeks have gone by the number of retro machines have dwindled and my Claud Butler was the oldest bike out last night , but sure the next one will see a couple more .
If the others were cc'ers it could be the start of this Any interest in a group ride but as they are not its just some like minded people going out for a ride
All in all a very nice ride , originally we were using it as a Retro Ride but as the weeks have gone by the number of retro machines have dwindled and my Claud Butler was the oldest bike out last night , but sure the next one will see a couple more .
If the others were cc'ers it could be the start of this Any interest in a group ride but as they are not its just some like minded people going out for a ride
Elybazza61
Guru
Little dash along the Cam path this morning;nice little wakener with only a couple of ease-ups for a half-asleep pidgeon and two 'runners' chatting and walking side by side(wouldn't mind usually but they could see me coming and on the left and they still didn't move until I'd slowed down and was right on top of them
).
https://www.strava.com/activities/372342239
Anyhoo a nice little blat and I actually took some pics as well
(rubbish phone ones though);
Swans getting ready to go
The XLS
And the idiot riding it;
).https://www.strava.com/activities/372342239
Anyhoo a nice little blat and I actually took some pics as well
(rubbish phone ones though);Swans getting ready to go
The XLS
And the idiot riding it
;
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
It is like Fight Club ... Rule 42 is to never mention rule 42!
Tin Pot
Guru
Rule #42 //. A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run. If it's preceded with a swim ...
Although I suppose it wasn't a race, the spirit of the rule is clear.
derrick
The Glue that binds us together.
- Location
- On the edge of London
Went out with the lads Tuesday afternoon,https://www.strava.com/activities/372146137 Was a hard ride one of the guy's was on his fixie, Don't think he will bring that again.
Have never seen a grown man cry I must say i found it one of the hardest rides i have done lately, About 15 miles from home i was hurting, We made it back to our local Weathrspoons for our usual Tuesday evening steak and chips, Less than £8.00 and that includes a beer, We were joined half an hour later by my other half, so we had a couple more beers then home to bed for a well deserved sleep.
Have never seen a grown man cry I must say i found it one of the hardest rides i have done lately, About 15 miles from home i was hurting, We made it back to our local Weathrspoons for our usual Tuesday evening steak and chips, Less than £8.00 and that includes a beer, We were joined half an hour later by my other half, so we had a couple more beers then home to bed for a well deserved sleep.
Donger
Convoi Exceptionnel
- Location
- Quedgeley, Glos.
If I had £1 for every time I've heard people complaining or I've read a post mentioning or asking advice about Garmin /Strava etc malfunctions, I'd be a very wealthy man. Personally I like to do everything old school. I'm not anti technology, its just that getting away from it all is part of the fun of cycling for me. I also love maps, and enjoy working out for myself exactly where I am. When I'm cycling anywhere new I like to take a map with me - usually enlarged, so i don't need my reading glasses. Enter "Flatnav" (seven years and never a glitch):
When I've finished a ride that I've never done before, I mark it on my map for posterity. I keep one pristine Ordnance Survey map of Gloucestershire and the Cotswolds for route planning, and another old one that gets marked up with my rides in pink highlighter. After six and a half years of cycling it now looks like this:
I do have a few other OS maps of surrounding counties, which I mark up similarly, and then transpose my rides from time to time onto the big laminated map of the British Isles on the wall in my man cave (so big it needs two pictures so I can show my Scottish rides too):
Wall Map, Part 1:
Part 2:
I have also kept all the local maps of the South of France, the Alps and the Ardennes showing my rides there. Eg:
Whilst obviously revealing myself to be somewhat OCD or at least "somewhere on the spectrum", I can actually look back with pleasure on every ride I see marked up in this way, and I actively seek out rides that will put new lines on the map. It is actually quite interesting to see just how insignificant 10.000+ miles of your cycling looks on a map of your country, though most of my local stuff has been done many, many times over, whilst some of the outlying lines on the map represent one-off day trips or holiday rides ... like the Snake Pass, London to Brighton, the Norfolk Coast , the Isle of Wight and the Gower Peninsula etc. I do think this will make quite a good souvenir once my cycling days are over, though, and wonder whether people's Garmins, Stravas etc will ever produce such a permanent visual record. I shall probably eventually frame my favourite cycle shirt , accompanied by a few choice photos to go alongside the map. Just a thought.
Donger.
When I've finished a ride that I've never done before, I mark it on my map for posterity. I keep one pristine Ordnance Survey map of Gloucestershire and the Cotswolds for route planning, and another old one that gets marked up with my rides in pink highlighter. After six and a half years of cycling it now looks like this:
I do have a few other OS maps of surrounding counties, which I mark up similarly, and then transpose my rides from time to time onto the big laminated map of the British Isles on the wall in my man cave (so big it needs two pictures so I can show my Scottish rides too):
Wall Map, Part 1:
Part 2:
I have also kept all the local maps of the South of France, the Alps and the Ardennes showing my rides there. Eg:
Whilst obviously revealing myself to be somewhat OCD or at least "somewhere on the spectrum", I can actually look back with pleasure on every ride I see marked up in this way, and I actively seek out rides that will put new lines on the map. It is actually quite interesting to see just how insignificant 10.000+ miles of your cycling looks on a map of your country, though most of my local stuff has been done many, many times over, whilst some of the outlying lines on the map represent one-off day trips or holiday rides ... like the Snake Pass, London to Brighton, the Norfolk Coast , the Isle of Wight and the Gower Peninsula etc. I do think this will make quite a good souvenir once my cycling days are over, though, and wonder whether people's Garmins, Stravas etc will ever produce such a permanent visual record. I shall probably eventually frame my favourite cycle shirt , accompanied by a few choice photos to go alongside the map. Just a thought.
Donger.
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mybike
Grumblin at Garmin on the Granny Gear
- Location
- Not 'emel 'empstead
It's a lot easier to use a gps to record your mileage & time. Maps are great but they are no use for that task.
