Your ride today....

[EltonFrog]

Another run and ride today.

A quite quick (for me) two mile run, yesterday Mrs Wife gave me an early birthday present of an iPod Shuffle, so I could listen to some tunes whilst out running, very clever bit of kit.

Then a 7.72 mile ride up the track to the Harwell Campus to return the ID lanyard I found yesterday. I took the Hybrid today as most of the route was off road but hard pack. On the way back there was a "takeaway village" set up for the workers of Harwell apparently they set up every Wednesday through August and September, the food smelt ACE, but I had no cash so I couldn't get any.

 

[ColinJ]

If I had £1 for every time 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):
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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:
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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:
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Part 2:
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I have also kept all the local maps of the South of France, the Alps and the Ardennes showing my rides there. Eg:
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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.

I prefer map reading at home, GPS on the bike.

I had the same idea of marking my routes on the local maps, with a view to doing every non-urban road within (say) a 30 mile radius. I never got round to marking the maps, but I am chipping away at the routes. I still surprise myself by discovering roads less than 10 miles away that I have never ridden. Often they turn out to only be worth riding once!

 

[Garry A]

Looked at the weather and saw the huge band of rain coming in so went for a 10k run. Bike tomorrow.

 

[SteveF]

Just my "go to" loop today, a little overcast with the occasional shaft of sunlight breaking through, bit windy too... still, better to be out than to be in...

 

[13 rider]

Been a while since I posted, but I've been out every day as told. Had a couple of really enjoyable rides with the kids, and even managed to get SWMBO out on her bike (that's cost me a new saddle now too..). Sticking to my 30 mins a day, or thereabouts, which is proving quite hard to get motivated for, especially after a 12hr shift. Hopefully I can start riding to work if the physio lets me once the weather cools.
Anyway, came across this fella last night, I reckon he's the first to dig through from Australia. Looks like he could use a bite to eat..
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And in a first for me, a selfie. This one is for @Elmer Fudd from whom the jersey came in, and is the first ever published selfie of me. Might be the last too...
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No idea why I'm sideways, the original is right way up.
Misjudged my ride tonight, and got back to the end of my road at 9.25 miles. Given it was nice and cool I extended my cool down and managed 10 miles

And I always thought your avatar was a selfie . Good to hear your still riding

 

[Katherine]

Today I joined another social cycling group that I found through Facebook. They go out during the day on Wednesdays, so I'll only be able to go in the school holidays. They were the fastest group I've ridden with and they didn't have to stop and wait for me, although I was slower on the hills, I caught up quickly on the straights. They are mostly track cyclists who ride together at the Velodrome and started the road rides when it was closed for a while. They were all very friendly and encouraging.
So, 47 miles, having joined the main group at Irlam, we went over the Ship Canal on Warburton Bridge and round leafy Cheshire lanes for a light lunch in Great Budworth. We left the cafe as the rain started, luckily not too heavy until I was nearly home.

 

[cuberider]

Todays ride was just a quick 12 miles or so locally made interesting by me inadvertently breaking my downhill speed record. It now stands at 40.4 mph which I was pleasantly surprised by.

 

[Mike_P]

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

Mainly only use use Strava record the ride, and then duplicate the details on a spreadsheet. I also plot on a map, an old faded 1980s second hand one with an out of date boundary marked on it

 

[sarahale]

Easy day today after yesterday, just my 14 mile commute and then cycling alongside my cousin who is training for a half marathon. So a slow extra 6 miles in the pouring rain. All on the mtb again.

 

[Saluki]

Out for a quickie this teatime. I said to Hubster "Would you like a bit of cake". He looked very eager and said 'oh yes please'. I then said "get your kit on then, let's go".
He wants cake, we need to earn it first. Quick 11 and a bit miles up the Marriotts to Whitwell and back. Choc cake in the middle. Lovely
23.33 in 2 hours an 2 minutes.

 

[Gravity Aided]

7.2 miles today, lovely weather, about as excellent a summer's day as can be found here, after the rain moved off, and I got out of the vets office with Max, a victim of ragweed allergy recently. Same route, improved by
75F
60% relative humidity
Winds SW 14, G22
29.79 Barometer, steady as she goes.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Commute to an offsite location in Norrebro, cph today. Norrebro is quite an earthy part of town. Got lost near my destination. So near in fact that when I asked for directions I discovered I was standing outside the office I was due to visit.

 

[andytheflyer]

Easy 23 miler to Overton on Dee cafe on the recumbent. The Defy is all washed and serviced ready for its few days holiday in the Dales next week and I did not want it covered in cowsh!t. In the end the roads were clean - the recent rains must have washed the local environmental hazards away!

Yes, my hedge needs cutting......

 

[The Jogger]

A nice little 11 miler , slow but a bit hilly
https://www.strava.com/activities/373246228

 

[Garry A]

No enthusiasm today but went for a wee pedal around the Helix park and nearby area. 9 miles at no great speed although I did get one PB and equalled two previous ones on Strava.
A wee vid

View: https://youtu.be/zuZ4Kr2Xf1Y


www.strava.com/activities/373452408