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Bit of Lea Valley towpath, some Herts lanes and plenty of Epping forest trails.
Was planning to head from Hertford back towards Newgate St but Brickendon Road was completely closed so just headed to the towpath.Weather was spot on and not too many folk about. Epping is lots of fun, even fixed with skinny slicks.
https://www.strava.com/activities/944711278/shareable_images/map_based?hl=en-US&v=1492354261
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Lea Valley to Cambridge today following the trusted lfgss route. Lovely weather and nice quiet lanes. Managed to snap my bank card in two but it still worked so i could buy a train ticket at cambridge station. First proper ride since early March. Need get fitter, lose some pounds and ride more as I'm doing Chase the Sun in June. Managed to smash the 100km Strava Gran Fando by 8 metres by doing 15mins of laps in the train station car park. 8/10 would ride again.
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Having visited family in the previous weeks I freed up the long break all for cycling. Packed the bags and loaded up the bikes for a trip around the Peak District.
Lovely places, many picturesque villages, delicious food, all made more interesting by some substantious climbs, only worsened by the 25kg bike and the shitty weather. Our first time in the Peaks but really nice, especially given how easy to reach they are from London.
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First link was the route as planned, second link is what we actually rode, we cut it short to Sheffield as the weather was just dreadful and after 3 days under the rain we couldn't justify reaching York in those conditions.
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/19335574
https://www.strava.com/activities/946748613/shareable_images/map_based?hl=en-US&v=1492466237
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Ah nice, am looking to put some routes together that way so dead useful - thanks! Was indeed a rainy awful Easter int North.
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pretty nice out today, did 40 ss road miles around south chilterns - Checkendon, Nuffield, Christmas Common, Turville, Marlow, Henley and home. Lots of expensive cars and pretty villages.
Helped out some blonde students who had a puncture and no spare. Felt like the premise to an adult movie. -
Don't let a little research get in the way of an easy sneer.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechai_Viravaidya
He used such events as holding condom blowing contests for school children, encouraging taxi drivers to hand out condoms to their customers, and founding a restaurant chain called Cabbages and Condoms, where condoms are given to customers with the bill.
http://cabbagesandcondoms.co.uk
WHAT'S IN THE NAME
The origin of the name Cabbages & Condoms derives from the concept coined by our Chairman Mr. Mechai Viravaidya who said “you can go to any shop around Thailand and you will always find cabbages... condoms should be like cabbages which are ubiquitous and accessible to everyone.” And so the name Cabbages & Condoms (C&C) was conceived.
Mr. Mechai believed that condoms should not be seen as taboo but as a neccessity, which could save people’s lives from dangerous STIs including HIV/AIDS as well as unwanted pregnancy.
Cabbages & Condoms (C&C) was established on the backbone of an NGO called Population and Community Development Association (PDA) and operates as a “Business for Social Progress” where all of its profits support the Population and Community Development Association (PDA), one of Thailand’s largest NGOs with programmes including primary health, birth control, education, HIV/AIDS, environment, poverty eradication and water resource development.
Our restaurant was conceptualised in part to promote better understanding and acceptance of family planning and to generate income to support various development activities of the Population and Community Development Association (PDA) all over Thailand. Cabbages & Condoms Bangkok was started by Mr. Mechai Viravaidya, a philanthropist and ex-politician who wanted to improve the lives of Thai people focusing on social issues such as sexual health, sustainability and anti-corruption. His fun loving and irreverent approach has been so sucessful that “Mechai” is also the slang word for Condom.
We are currently supported by the FreeDoms shop inconjunction with the NHS in giving out FREE condoms in our Bicester and Cheltenham branch. For more information about the FreeDoms shop, please visit http://www.freedoms-shop.nhs.uk
For more information about Cabbages & Condoms restaurants, it’s resorts and Population and Community Development Association (PDA), please visit http://www.pda.or.th -
^ Well that all makes perfect sense now! Chapeau to C&C's
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Friday did a 36ish mile easy ride to wake up the legs before the ride today.
89.79 (90 mile) sportive called the White Horse Challenge today. Lots of hill climbs around a loop of the local towns and white horses.
Mostly uneventful apart from early mechanical up the first hill, with front mech flicking chain into the bb, two stops first to get it on and up the hill, second to adjust the screw to avoid a repeat. Latched onto a couple chain gangs and paced well.
In Lambourn some fat lump stepped into the road on a diagonal path to cross without looking, stopped dead as I shouted and knocked me flying. Road rash on hip, cut knee and ankle but lucky-ish escape. Killed my tempo and temperament though. Aero bars worked loose after the crash so couldn't use them and kept pulling them back to position.
Gold standard for the sportive is sub 5hr, managed 5:18 only stopping at second feed station. Would have been pretty narrow on the 5 without the issues. Maybe next year. 17.6mph average, 5:06 moving time.
Overall 6/10
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On a bloody cold photo session for Fiets magazine yesterday in Amstel Gold Race country, they let me ride the Sagan replica Tarmac. Bumper car glitters FTW!
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