Sunday Morning Tuesday Night Ride Club (SMTNRC) 09/10

Getting some miles in the bag for Flanders?

yes. base miles FTW

are you going tomorrow Julia? Can you text me if you go?
i am out the bike for ages

Yep, come! I can only do laps because I have to read a shit load of stuff for Monday. I was thinking earlyish furra Sunday, 10 or 11?

And my legs are dead after 60 miles today, so we can take it easy.

I am doing sprint intervals up and down the Archway Road at 9 in the morning. Cant wait

How will this work Mike? is it clear enough?

cool, anytime is good as it is not far

Time might be money but money doesn't buy happiness..

How will this work Mike? is it clear enough?

Archway Road is a long drag. Not very steep, maybe only 5-6%. But it has a Bus Lane all the way up it which will be completely clear at that time. Can do bottom to the top of the first bit in under a minute. Roll back down and repeat until I am totaly fu**ed and my cadance has dropped right down

cool, anytime is good as it is not far

Meet you at the south east corner of the park (the bit where we stopped every time to look at your computer before) at 11? I need a lie in...

Archway Road is a long drag. Not very steep, maybe only 5-6%. But it has a Bus Lane all the way up it which will be completely clear at that time. Can do bottom to the top of the first bit in under a minute. Roll back down and repeat until I am totaly fu**ed and my cadance has dropped right down

I see. Hill repeats. How much rest do you have between efforts?

About as long as it takes to roll down the hill.
My aim is to get up the hill at about 100 rpm which will be a steady 18mph and roll back down at the same pace, recovering and then hit it again. Will probably take about 50 seconds to get up it and the same back down. Hope to be able to do at least 5 first off before I really flag. If I do flag too much then I may reduce the gearing a little

Well that was fun. I managed six repeats before I threw up a bit in my mouth and almost passed out. The great thing about intervals is that I was out the house for just over half an hour and am way more shattered than I was after my hilly hour and a half ride yesterday. And I am warm :)

Well that was fun. I managed six repeats before I threw up a bit in my mouth and almost passed out. The great thing about intervals is that I was out the house for just over half an hour and am way more shattered than I was after my hilly hour and a half ride yesterday. And I am warm :)

Thunder till you chunder - that's the way to do it. Where did you turn round at the top, just past the bus stop on the flat bit or before the bus lane filters off? I had to go up here a fair few times last weekend on the way to Friern Barnet. Don't think I broke 16mph though...

I turned round just before the bridge and rolled back down the bus lane on the wrong side of the road - Pretty dangerous, but what the hell. I didnt want to have more than 40 seconds rolling rest between each effort. If I had got to the top, it would have taken too long to get back to the bottom and kind of defeated the purpose

what gearing did you use for your hill sprints, Mike?

Sunday 14th February '10 - The "Off The Cuffley" or "North Road HTFU-Riders" or "We're Lovers, Not Riders" Ride

26 mile loop from Cuffley. Profile: mixture of hilly and flat; also quite 'technical'.

Route is here.

Train Out - Kings Cross @ 8.55am, arriving Cuffley 9.26am

Train Back - Cuffley @ some time after 11am (trains are every half hour, at X.21 and X.51).

£4.00 for Groupsave4, £5.30 for Network Card or Groupsave3.

1. BMMF
   
2. shootthebreeze
   
3. tika is back
   
4. Plurabelle
   5.furious tiles
   
5. pjs
   
6. wools
   
7. Sasmon (planning to ride out and back from Ally Pally)
   
8. mikec ( Valentines Day. No chance! )
   
9. teddy
   
10. dave 4 (riding out - on sasmon's wheel because he has the garmin)
    
11. clintsmoker (group save action please)
    
12. hyperbole
    
13. skoota- i'll probs be riding my 'geary' when do i get a chance otherwise.
    
14. Sean (possibly riding out)
    
15. Gav (geared riding out and back with the Ally Pally group)
    
16. Object (Geared, riding out & back)
    
17. rounce (train out Groupsave GET!, possibly ride back if I'm more awake by then)
    
18. Lover (geared, mantrain)
    

Just in from 12 laps of RP because I couldn't face the dreaded turbo. Cannot feel any of my toes. Bugger this cold.

what gearing did you use for your hill sprints, Mike?

Just saw this. 66, which I think may be a little high. I will try again next week and if I cannot do 7 then may reduce a little

Sunday 14th February '10 - The "Off The Cuffley" or "North Road HTFU-Riders" or "We're Lovers, Not Riders" Ride

26 mile loop from Cuffley. Profile: mixture of hilly and flat; also quite 'technical'.

Route is here.

Train Out - Kings Cross @ 8.55am, arriving Cuffley 9.26am

Train Back - Cuffley @ some time after 11am (trains are every half hour, at X.21 and X.51).

£4.00 for Groupsave4, £5.30 for Network Card or Groupsave3.

1. BMMF
   
2. shootthebreeze
   
3. tika is back
   
4. Plurabelle
   5.furious tiles
   
5. pjs
   
6. wools
   
7. Sasmon (planning to ride out and back from Ally Pally)
   
8. mikec ( Valentines Day. No chance! )
   
9. teddy
   
10. dave 4 (riding out - on sasmon's wheel because he has the garmin)
    
11. clintsmoker (group save action please)
    
12. hyperbole
    
13. skoota- i'll probs be riding my 'geary' when do i get a chance otherwise.
    
14. Sean (possibly riding out)
    
15. Gav (geared riding out and back with the Ally Pally group)
    
16. Object (Geared, riding out & back)
    
17. rounce (train out Groupsave GET!, possibly ride back if I'm more awake by then)
    
18. Lover (geared, mantrain)
    
19. James (geared, Groupsave ticket out please)
    
    

Hey I'm new to this forum but up for this ride. I'll be there Kings X @ 8:50, probably riding back.

Sunday 14th February '10 - The "Off The Cuffley" or "North Road HTFU-Riders" or "We're Lovers, Not Riders" Ride

26 mile loop from Cuffley. Profile: mixture of hilly and flat; also quite 'technical'.

http://www.bikemap.net/route/380560

Train Out - Kings Cross @ 8.55am, arriving Cuffley 9.26am

Train Back - Cuffley @ some time after 11am (trains are every half hour, at X.21 and X.51).

£4.00 for Groupsave4, £5.30 for Network Card or Groupsave3.

1. BMMF
   
2. shootthebreeze
   
3. tika is back
   
4. Plurabelle
   5.furious tiles
   
5. pjs
   
6. wools
   
7. Sasmon (planning to ride out and back from Ally Pally)
   
8. mikec ( Valentines Day. No chance! )
   
9. teddy
   
10. dave 4 (riding out - on sasmon's wheel because he has the garmin)
    
11. clintsmoker (group save action please)
    
12. hyperbole
    
13. skoota- i'll probs be riding my 'geary' when do i get a chance otherwise.
    
14. Sean (possibly riding out)
    
15. Gav (geared riding out and back with the Ally Pally group)
    
16. Object (Geared, riding out & back)
    
17. rounce (train out Groupsave GET!, possibly ride back if I'm more awake by then)
    
18. Lover (geared, mantrain)
    
19. James (geared, Groupsave ticket out please)
    
20. middleofnowhere (train out and back, hangovers/distractions/weather permitting)
    

I'm not feeling all this geared bike business. I expected better from y'all.

weather aint looking to clever this weekend. any forecasts scarlet?

By 2035 there will be a new apple/transgender hybrid called a Pink Ladyboy.

By 2035 there will be a new apple/transgender hybridfleshlight called a Pink Ladyboy.

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Sunday 14th February '10 - The "Off The Cuffley" or "North Road HTFU-Riders" or "We're Lovers, Not Riders" Ride

26 mile loop from Cuffley. Profile: mixture of hilly and flat; also quite 'technical'.

http://www.bikemap.net/route/380560

Train Out - Kings Cross @ 8.55am, arriving Cuffley 9.26am

Train Back - Cuffley @ some time after 11am (trains are every half hour, at X.21 and X.51).

£4.00 for Groupsave4, £5.30 for Network Card or Groupsave3.

1. BMMF
   
2. shootthebreeze
   
3. tika is back
   
4. Plurabelle
   5.furious tiles
   
5. pjs
   
6. wools
   
7. Sasmon (planning to ride out and back from Ally Pally)
   
8. mikec ( Valentines Day. No chance! )
   
9. teddy
   
10. dave 4 (riding out - on sasmon's wheel because he has the garmin)
    
11. clintsmoker (group save action please)
    
12. hyperbole
    
13. skoota- i'll probs be riding my 'geary' when do i get a chance otherwise.
    
14. Sean (possibly riding out)
    
15. Gav (geared riding out and back with the Ally Pally group)
    
16. Object (Geared, riding out & back)
    
17. rounce (train out Groupsave GET!, possibly ride back if I'm more awake by then)
    
18. Lover (geared, mantrain)
    
19. James (geared, Groupsave ticket out please)
    
20. middleofnowhere (train out and back, hangovers/distractions/weather permitting)
    
21. Chris0 (groupsave please)
    
    

I'm also new, and hoping to take part in some group rides to get the miles in. I'll be on singlespeed, so hopefully that will be OK.

I'm not feeling all this geared bike business. I expected better from y'all.

mike.. you know there'll be at least one person to chat to when they all zoom off pedalling really slowly - shall we chip in together for a map?

lookin forward to this, had a screwed back all this week, screwed neck the week before last.. come on weather, show us a little affection on valentine's day!

Sunday 14th February '10 - The "Off The Cuffley" or "North Road HTFU-Riders" or "We're Lovers, Not Riders" Ride

26 mile loop from Cuffley. Profile: mixture of hilly and flat; also quite 'technical'.

[URL="http://http://www.bikemap.net/route/380560"]Route is here

Train Out - Kings Cross @ 8.55am, arriving Cuffley 9.26am

Train Back - Cuffley @ some time after 11am (trains are every half hour, at X.21 and X.51).

£4.00 for Groupsave4, £5.30 for Network Card or Groupsave3.

1. BMMF
   
2. shootthebreeze
   
3. tika is back
   
4. Plurabelle
   5.furious tiles
   
5. pjs
   
6. wools
   
7. 
   
8. mikec ( Valentines Day. No chance! )
   
9. teddy
   
10. dave 4 (riding out - on sasmon's wheel because he has the garmin)
    
11. clintsmoker (group save action please)
    
12. hyperbole
    
13. skoota- i'll probs be riding my 'geary' when do i get a chance otherwise.
    
14. Sean (possibly riding out)
    
15. Gav (geared riding out and back with the Ally Pally group)
    
16. Object (Geared, riding out & back)
    
17. rounce (train out Groupsave GET!, possibly ride back if I'm more awake by then)
    
18. Lover (geared, mantrain)
    
19. James (geared, Groupsave ticket out please)
    
20. middleofnowhere (train out and back, hangovers/distractions/weather permitting)
    
21. Chris0 (groupsave please)
    
    
    

Think its about time I spent some time with the wife and child rather than disappearing at ungodly hours with men in lycra (or skinny jeans). For that reason I'm out.