Your ride today....

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Couple of rides.

Yesterday was just to check the trike over - few issues with the rear derailleur position (yeh I know it is a hub geared trike but the RD is acting as a chain tensioner)... was lucky to see a sundog (Parhelia) whilst I was literally yards from my home. http://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/parhelia.htm



Today I was back on the 'climbing' route. Basically it is almost as much climbing as you can do around here. I was a touch faster 7.6mph verses 7.4mph. My physio wants me to continue with this route to build up my glutes and my knee muscles and I did promise I would, and who did I see whilst I was cycling this route this morning? Well she saw me doing it today and tooted a hello...



So other than that, the only thing that really happened was that it was sunny and hot and I started to burn on my head! I'm going to have to come up with a baseball cap that I like with a clip on it to stop it escaping and I happened to see my first Swallows of the season sitting on a telegraph wire and they stayed put whilst I cycled underneath them! Oh and I met a horse who had no issues with a flag talking to him on a single track road and was really well behaved if a little confused! https://www.strava.com/activities/282018793 15.7 miles in a little over 2 hrs. Still slow, but still working on it!

Edit: This also takes me over 200 miles since I got the trike! Time to celebrate and eat another bit of easter egg!

 

[Fubar]

Couple of rides.

Yesterday was just to check the trike over - few issues with the rear derailleur position (yeh I know it is a hub geared trike but the RD is acting as a chain tensioner)... was lucky to see a sundog (Parhelia) whilst I was literally yards from my home. http://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/parhelia.htm

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Today I was back on the 'climbing' route. Basically it is almost as much climbing as you can do around here. I was a touch faster 7.6mph verses 7.4mph. My physio wants me to continue with this route to build up my glutes and my knee muscles and I did promise I would, and who did I see whilst I was cycling this route this morning? Well she saw me doing it today and tooted a hello...

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So other than that, the only thing that really happened was that it was sunny and hot and I started to burn on my head! I'm going to have to come up with a baseball cap that I like with a clip on it to stop it escaping and I happened to see my first Swallows of the season sitting on a telegraph wire and they stayed put whilst I cycled underneath them! Oh and I met a horse who had no issues with a flag talking to him on a single track road and was really well behaved if a little confused! https://www.strava.com/activities/282018793 15.7 miles in a little over 2 hrs. Still slow, but still working on it!

Well done - you're out there and doing it that's what matters. It's more than some so-called "able-bodied" people do!

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Well done - you're out there and doing it that's what matters. It's more than some so-called "able-bodied" people do!

I was considering doing a longer route on Saturday without the climbs... I might try for 20 miles and see if a flat 20 is any faster! somehow I don't think it will be but I can only proved myself wrong. My target was 20 miles by the end of the month so I think I should manage that hopefully...

 

[Alex H]

After a morning hacking pieces of oak, to eventually resemble a veranda, sometime this year hopefully, a sunny pootle about the countryside north of the Vienne.

Skirting around Rochechouart, I made my way by the main roads to Chabenais, where there is this bridge over the Vienne.

Also, close by, a statue of Sadi Carnot, President of France 1887-1894.

After Chabenais, it was along the Vienne to Étagnac, then north on the wee roads to the Gore valley (which feeds into the Vienne)

This comes out at Glane next to St Junien, passing the St Junien Golf Club on the way, with the grand total of 4 players that I could see

Then along the river to the pont Notre-Dame

and the newly cleaned Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Pont

Back up the long hill home - 40km in 2 hours

 

[jnrmczip]

So just under 30 miles today exploring cycle paths https://www.endomondo.com/workouts/
Stunning weather excellent ride picked the correct week off work ain't I glad. First pic under the bridge at transport museum towards kelvin Grove 2nd pic Maryhill locks. 3rd pic kelvingrove park.

 

[Archeress]

I was out again on the bike today, heading for my CBT session in North Common. It was a gorgeous day and being the school hols, the Bristol to Bath path was mega busy. I stopped at Warmley and sat on the old station platform for my packed lunch before cycling the last mile to North Common. Cycling back, I skipped stopping at Warmley and headed onward round the ring road cycle path and stopped at the Golf Centre where the Pirate Bay crazy golf was busy with families enjoying the sun. I enjoyed a strawberries and cream frappucino and a flapjack before heading home. It is approximately 4 miles and I was determined to keep my average over 12mph so pushed hard, further extending a QOM I have. After the bouldering on Tuesday, and then cycling yesterday I was well pleased with todays effort.

Here's the ride: https://www.strava.com/activities/282085335

Hugs
Archeress x

 

[MikeW-71]

My longest ride for a while and it showed how much I've missed them!

Plotted a 55 mile route and threw in some testing climbs. One that I do fairly regularly (saved until last), the others I'd never done before, so this was going to be an exercise in pacing myself. The legs didn't feel completely 100% but it still had to be done.

I headed out on a regular route through Heads Nook which climbs steadily up to the next "main road", then took a left and a right to pass Cumrew and my planned snack stop at Newbiggin where there is a very handy little hut



Then a new section, dropping at speed into Croglin and climbing out the other side. That was much easier than I had thought, and it was onwards to a fast series of descents through Kirkoswald and onwards to Lazonby at the other side of the valley. Yep, what came down must now climb out of the other side. Oof, it goes on for a bit, thankfully in small sections rather than one long drag. This was where I was heading into the wind and it was a bit of a slog to get over to Plumpton and from there to Greystoke and the C2C Cafe for a late lunch. A lovely ham and cheese toastie and coffee was devoured with the resident scavengers clucking around my feet.



That was the longest section done and it was time to head home, I could have taken the flatter route to the west of the motorway, but I needed hills, so I headed back across to the east. This took me towards Armathwaite via a 1 mile increasing-gradient drag. That became torture, so I wasn't looking forward to Station Hill, the last big climb of the route. It started off OK, but for the first time in a while, I had to take a stop on it. After that I was really tiring, but it wasn't far to go now, and mostly downhill.

Phew!

£12 for a 12-30 cassette might just be the best buy I ever made!

http://app.strava.com/activities/282104490/

 

[andytheflyer]

First metric century of the year. On the Defy - so the 'bent is feeling a bit left out. Will rectify that 2mrw. Out via the back lanes around Whixall Moss (raised bog) via R45 to Prees (and the killer ramp up to Marchamley), and Hodnet, down to Newport for coffee and a sandwich, then back via R552 via Cheswardine and Market Drayton to Whitchurch, for another coffee, then home. 13.4mph average. I get slower every year! Not many others out and about though. 2 bottles, one gel and a handful of jelly babies.

Feeling a bit sunburned!

 

[postman]

Ho ho this is a tale.After yesterdays wonderful towpath ride.I went out again today.Just to Otley i thought.Well it went well so i decided to try to get out of Askwith up a nice hill.Slowly and steady i got up three quarters of it.Now huffing and puffing and sweating,i thought at 65 you have no need to do this,come back later and try again,so i turned round and went to Otley for a couple of Lattes.
Refreshed i set off home,nothing of a ride as Vernon will confirm.So just before Otley becomes Bramhope,i spots a car broken down with hazard lights flashing away.
I looks over my shoulder and go passed.Looking in i see an elderly lady,looking confused.So i go back.
Is everything ok,no she says the battery is flat.I have only had the car three days,so it is stuck right in the middle of the lane,i tried to push a Volvo up hill,no chance,have you got a mobile,no it's at home on charge,ok i need to get you recovered.All the paper work for this car is in the footwell,untidy was a word i would have used.Anyway cut a long story short.eventually a recovery truck was ordered,two hours i stayed with her.Recovery men were brill,asked her about the history of the car,since buying it.Well they was no problem with the battery,she had not filled up since buying the car and it started life with half a tank.She was on an incline the fuel had slopped to the far end of the tank and nothing was and would get through.The guys told me i could go,because they woud now get her home,but needed to check her paper work.
30 miles took from 10-15 to 17-00.What a day.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

First ride of the year in short sleeves today, 38 miles around West Lothian on my weekly afternoon off work. Lots of daffs, lots of lambs, not many leaves yet. A very pleasant 16 degrees.

 

[Archeress]

Well I got out again today. My partner, John, and I decided to cycle to a pub and meet a friend there for a couple of drinks. I have to cycle at a gentler pace for John, but we did just over 12 miles, coming home in the dark along paths in parks that had LED catseyes along their egdes. Had a great time!

Ride is here: https://www.strava.com/activities/282313390

Hugs
Archeress

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Bosworth Water Park the destination, 43 miles the journey. My first chance of a ride in about a week, a glorious bright sunny afternoon slightly spoilt by a stiff cold breeze, the ride out was done mostly with a tail wind and was great fun, the ride home was mostly ridden into the breeze and was a lot slower and hard work in places. Out of Coventry through Keresley and up Breach Oak lane to Ansley, right and down Purley Chace, I hit 36mph before I had to brake for the corner at the bottom, on to Mancetter and a short bit of the A5 before turning back into the lanes to Shenton, out the other side of Shenton and left to Far Cotton and onto the Water Park. On the way back instead of turning left for Shenton I carried on and picked up the A444 through Sibson and a short ride down the A road to the right turn for Atterton and then up Purley Chace to follow the route out out to Ansley, the other side of Ansley where I should have turned right for Keresley I carried on into the outskirts of Bedworth where I turned right and picked up my commute route through Ash Green into Coventry, a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon on my bike made even better by arriving home to a house full of family.

 

[fatjel]

Nice 25 miles to the coast on my last day in Wales . https://app.strava.com/activities/282063200

Done 183 km + 2411 metres of climbing in the week I've been here , Is a touch hillier
than my bit of Kent but there's quite a nice feeling cycling up a mountain

 

[Katherine]

First QOM!
23 miles in shorts and T-shirt. Visited some people who weren't in, then had a lovely ride along the Bridgewater Canal through Stretford and back through Worsley. The geese looked happier than when I passed them in the winter skating on the ice.

The bike shop were supposed to have fixed the gears problem yesterday but problem shifting started again conveniently close to Evans at Trafford who very kindly fettled it with the advice to go back to Winstanleys again as there is a problem with the half shifter.

 

[Gatters]

Dukinfield
Canal towpath to Marple
Middlewood way trail to Bollington
Backroads in the Cheshire/ Derbyshire hills to Pott Shrigley and Kettleshulme
Whaley Bridge to New Mills
Sett valley trail to Hayfield
roads over Chunal to Glossop

Nice afternoon off work twas