Ultracycling

Yep, that looks well dodge.

He's only 22mo, I carry him!

That's what I did when it was only number one, but number two still wakes up a lot.

Early mornings might be the way to go but everyone is already up at 6.30 in this household.

Thanks, can you also say something about my weight so I lay of the beer?

Give me all your beer, fatso

Yeah, I try to but he’s grown out of the front carrying child seat so need to look into a rack one or go all out and buy a cargo bike.

That’s always been hard for me but might actually be what I need in the long run.. from ultra cycling to personal growth.

Can’t too busy fucking up this thread because I can’t multi-quote.

Always welcome to one or more when you’re in Belgium though.

Anyway Belgian beers are ultracycling fuel. How do you think I do so many ultras?

Oh....even easier to drop then! ;)

Extra gainz tho for carrying.

People’s situations will very greatly.
Bit as above I’d try compromise an enable your partner some me time too.

I have two kinda strategies plan plan plan but also take opportunities when they come. Also look for times that are either protected or that put yourself out a bit.
I often go early 5, at the weekend as I can get out quicker before they are up. Recently with WFH situation I’ve got out after bed time get back at 11 ish. I think leading by example ie not a perfect time for you also shows it’s importance to your partner.

I think most of the good advice has already been given so this is mainly repetition.

I didn't ride for the first few months after our daughter was born. Right through the first year it was very disrupted. I remember dns-ing quite a few events I'd entered after we had had a bad night, so it was mainly informal / solo rides.

But daughter is 4 now so things have settled down a bit. So I can ride, but certainly less than I used to before she was born.

I usually do early mornings, 5am starts, both at weekends and through the week. This works as I do evening pickups from nursery and my wife does morning drop offs and, at weekends, neither wife nor daughter are early risers.

I make sure my wife gets her time. She plays tennis and I try to work it so she can play twice a week - once at the weekend and one evening - which is what she wants.

We have regular discussions about what we want to do and what is /isn't working for us, how we can accommodate each other's needs.

It looks like @samuli 's Finnish end to end record might be broken tonight. There's another guy going for it who has just nosed in front and who apparently has a tailwind.

Tracker:
https://www.randonneurs.fi/live/timo-suomen-halki-2021/

Yeah, chapeau! By 31 minutes, with a time of 61h 7 minutes.

I knew there was some time to be taken out of the record, when I set it I knew it'd be a record anyway if I finish, so was playing it safe to some extent to make sure I finish, but still had to dig very deep and bettering that is huge. He had a tailwind for the last few hundred kms where I had headwind, which is where he made the difference, but the weather wasn't exaclty on he's side either as there was some kind of a storm in the area he was riding before that.

Well done to him.

Lot of racing going on at the moment. Sunday it's Transiberica's TransPyrenees with a few strong racers. Ulrich probably in front again but very curious to see what the rest of the podium will look like with Sofiane, Omar and Christoph.

https://www.followmychallenge.com/live/tp21/

laner??!

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Strong lineup and Sofiane is such a cool rider.

Please let him do it on a cargo bike.

Lachlan's Alt-Tour was probably mentioned already on the forums (tdf thread) but somehow I missed the fact that both he and a team car (aka the peloton) have a tracker so we can dotwatch who is in the lead. With todays short TT stage he's got a nice lead and is on Friday's parcours already.

https://www.followmychallenge.com/live/thealttour/?46.667756,3.397116,5.44

Edit: some more info on DCR https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2021/06/lachlan-mortons-tour-de-france-alt-tour-how-the-tracking-device-site-works.html

i love it. Its a nice idea isnt it. Racing Collective all over it. Lachian's Strava - https://www.strava.com/pros/kpush?hl=en-GB

Some dirtbags chat shit about racing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTEyiZQUlVk

People who've used Spot trackers, have you had one in your jersey pocket and was it ok signal wise? I don't really have anywhere that suitable on the bike for one so just wondered. Could also fit in my cargo bibs pocket I suspect.

will have a listen later 👍

I don't really have anywhere that suitable on the bike

Does not compute