Tell us about your weekend ride

Much kudos danstuff.

The ride was fine for me until we turned off to the right up the uber steep road. Then my Legs cramped up, i climbed off. Then struggled to clip in again. Happen a few times, on the short 18% stretch. After that I was pedalling squares to the finish. Pretty though.

That sounds about right. Definitely worth bringing the bike next time you're down here - you needn't ride a sportive route, but any route you can put together will be challenging...

Yup - did this at the weekend, and even though it was quite a gentle ride, gentle in Cornwall still involves a few hills...
https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/750904815#

Nice route - I did a sportive for the RNLI last year which followed a similar course. It's on again this year, if you're interested - I'd do it but it clashes with L'Étape...

https://app.strava.com/activities/162446301

The climb out of Sennen was a bitch - most people seemed to walk it!

Nice, I'll have to see if I can make that this year. The climb out of Mousehole is quite brutal too!

Edit to add - looks like it may have been a one off... But reminds me to look into audaxes in the area. Cheers!

But reminds me to look into audaxes in the area. Cheers!

Valley of the Rocks 200 gets rave reviews but it's early April from Honiton. There are a few shorter rides (50km or so) starting way down SW.

If you want to go down as far as Penzance on a ride there's always the Kernow & South West 600: https://www.strava.com/activities/240158222 Mmm, hills.

Wow, that's hardcore. 8026 metres is basically this puppy
http://www.everestnews.com/shishapangma.htm

Not sure I'm in good enough shape to do that this year, but maybe next... Looks like there's a fair few around the 100-200km mark. Further southwest is perfect for me as I can stay with my folks near St Ives rather than in a b&b that way.

Not the weekend, but had a solo ride to Devils Dyke yesterday evening. Had to race back before it got dark. Loving the longer evenings rolling in.

I think I'm doing the 160k Devon coast-to-coast in May. Devon hills ≠ Cornish hills for sure but it's lumpy enough.

TBH I find cycling in Cornwall a bit of a PITA. Yes it is beautiful but many of the roads are quite tight, congested and sometimes you don't want your ride to be entirely outofthesaddle hill reps.

Yep. My coach keeps setting me '4 hours in zone 2/3 with threshold intervals' and stuff, but I literally can't do that because of the terrain. I'm still getting a handle on pacing by power here, but if you go on HR you'll sometimes spend 50% of the time in your threshold zone (and a good chunk above). It's crazy.

A cross bike, a 32t lowest sprocket and some local trail knowledge is probably how I'd tackle cycling in Cornwall now.

Obviously at uni (and knowing nothing) I did all my riding down there fixed (65gi).

White Horse Challenge, 90 miles of hills (on the cannondale synapse). Wish me luck, I'll need it.

In Mallorca, about to do breakfast before the Mallorca 312 challenge

Plymouth-Ilfracombe? Did that a few years ago, it's a nice ride! I get what you mean re Cornish cycling, I guess I just think I should be making more of the fact I've somewhere to stay down there...

This one starts and finishes in Uffculme and you traverse Devon twice in only 160km.

Here's the route.

You don't even get points for that unless you add another 40km.

We enjoyed it so much, we went and did it again today. 1hr17m junction to junction, no stopping. Flight home tomorrow :(

Here's @Cycliste looking alarmingly fresh at the top of the valley of tears.

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Don't you ever think 'fuck it, let's stay in and watch telly this weekend'?

Sometimes, but usually after travelling to Switzerland for the weekend, by which time the telly's all in foreign. So a bike ride is relatively appealing once again.

Have a friend down to visit this weekend, so thought I'd introduce him to Cornish hills. This was his first half-century, his fourth ever road ride and it pissed it down for the second half. He did really, really well...

https://app.strava.com/activities/292323468

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Spent the afternoon in the South Downs. Started off nice, then freezing mist and a spot of rain.

Rode to Derby Velodrome. Rode round it a few times. Rode home.
Happy times.

I rode Kent 1 (wnkr) with my brother. Exedown defeated me. Still loved it.

Thirty miles and 1000 meters climbing Surrey Hills on the Stanton, first with Soho Bikes, then with a couple of mates who had yet to sample the delights of climbing Radnor road or Leith hill on their full-suss rigs.

Didn't exactly cover myself with glory - felt like I should have been on the XC bike mostly - but my mate who snapped the ball-joint off the end of her Elbow only three months ago did, negotiating the climbs & trails well.

Rode the Mallorca 312 yesterday, pretty amazing experience, mountainous the first 140, flatish the next 172. Awesome experience, we did an 11:45 riding and a 12:16 total. Didi the devil was handing out beers with 21ks to go, so it was rude not to