Tell us about your weekend ride

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Ending on beach somewhere in Sussex:

Suffolk. :)

Damn your eyes Schick.

I was only carrying him because he fell over and a twig went up his nose, causing a major drop in his haemocrit level and the death of a jumper. Plus trains were hourly, and we had to get home to do shit before his bedtime. Managed the last 3 miles in under 45 minutes, ramping it up to a jog at the end, and getting on the carriage about 30 seconds before the door closed.

What a relaxing Sunday :/

Hope the little fella is feeling Ok today :0)

Did my soul some good by riding in a group of 7 from Oxford to Acton, starting at midnight. Gorgeous weather, a bit of a headwind but stars all over the place and very little traffic once we were out of Oxford and heading through Wheatley and Thame. A nice testing climb up Chinnor Hill was closely followed by a painful grind up a 24% (apparently) Smalldean Lane, at the top of which we had freshly brewed tea (titanium stove brought by the heroic rogerzilla sometimes of this parish). Then a rather faster roll through High Wycombe, Loudwater (stopping at the all night Tesco for some Reggae Reggae nuts), Beaconsfield, Harefield, Greenford, Ealing and Sunny Acton where we had a fried breakfast. I then rolled slowly back to Forest Hill.

Oh, forgot to mention: I had a 21" gear and I used it.

Hope the little fella is feeling Ok today :0)

I had to collect him early from nursery today. Sore belly / not his usual self, etc. Hope it's not the precursor to an explosive bout of norovirus for all the family…

I know it's not the weekend, but I thought this might be the right thread to share today's ride and give a bit of info for anyone who wanted to ride the same route.

I took the train to Canterbury with a friend today. In glorious sunshine, we followed the National Cycle Network route 1 from Canterbury out to Sandwich and onto the coast, we followed the sea to Deal (stopping for a cup of tea and a slice of cake at the cafe on the seafront) and thence to Kingsdown. This first part of the ride was about 20ish miles (neither of us managed to have a working speedo), it was well signposted and gloriously flat and thus quite quick.

Instead of continuing on to Dover, we turned inland at Kingsdown to cut across country to join the NCN route 16 back to Canterbury. This half was much more rolling, with quiet traffic free lanes through pretty villages. The only slight drawback was that some Kentish jokers (or should that be Jokers of Kent?) had been turning signs round at junctions. This led to a couple of looping miles of de ja vu as we rode through a couple of places twice before stopping to ask directions and to be told not to trust many signs at all! On eventually rejoining NCN route 16, it was plain sailing again back into Canterbury.

A couple of pints later we were stiffly folded onto the train back. I was sticky with sweat, a little burnt, but very very happy. My guess is for about 40 miles or so. A heartily recommended ride. Not the longest or most arduous you will ever do, but lovely nonetheless.

^sounds like fun.

http://www.sportstracklive.com/track/map#faded/Cycling/153387/full

Lovely day for a ride today, even if I did get a bit lost, managed to make it up to 60 miles without too much pain. Not too sure if I'll make it out tomorrow morning after today.

Bit premature, but I'm finally able to do my favourate ride on Sunday. Many a moon ago I decided, that if I thought I could ride to my in-laws 'small holding' fixed. Then a fixed gear bike it would be. Its a lumpy 60kms of pure beauty.

The in-laws place is in the middle of the flatish island on the right. The city is probably 8km to the right again, although you have to ride 60km around fjords, mountians, and a lake.

Excited.

With Bournemouth tomorrow and some fun on Sunday, I'm lined up for my first 500 mile week. Which excites me.
(Not a weekend ride but popped up to cambridge mid week, lots of wildlife out; saw a kestrel, some deer, a badger (flat), plenty of rabbits and numerous local club tt-ers)

awesome pic SF!
get up kids its time to go weekend riding-summertime here we go

Cheers, its been a stone hard winter. nearly 6 months long. it will be nice to ride on bare tarmac again.
(Ed:that's not my pic BTW)

40 miles of beautiful sun-drenched riding in Surrey this morning. Out via Ewell to Effingham Junction (sneaky TNRC recce), took in Ranmore and then Box Hill (which was unsurprisingly busy). Just a perfect mornings riding, but I have to go to work this afternoon.........rubbish!

Rode 35 kms near the dikes to the west of my hometown, Ribe. Flat and slightly breezy. Tracked it using Endomondo for my HTC Wildfire, which for some reason thinks my top speed was ~66 km/h, which seems a bit optimistic ;)
http://www.endomondo.com/workouts/qe0JtDluiK4

Far from a 'proper' ride, but I've been pootling around Kensington Gardens/Hyde Park and it was joyous. Loads of cyclists, skateboarders, long-boarders, roller-bladers, freeline skaters (new one for me), folk out on boats on the Serpentine, folk lounging about, others practising judo, all human life was there, sun beating down on us all while the big-wheel slowly rotated. Felt grand to be alive.

172km from SE8 to Suffolk. Used a route to Felixstowe my brother rode (I prefer rad) years ago but tweaked it to take me to Woodbridge.

Glorious weather...plenty of deer etc running out in front of me which makes a change from dickhead peds.

Bonked HARD with 30km to go but kept the pedals turning to finish with a PB for 100mi. Might not be walking right for a day or two but days like today put a massive grin on my face. Wouldn't be fun if it was easy would it? :)

2 hours from Kortijk to carrefour d'arbe on traffic free roads to meet my mates doing paris-roubaix. i was a bit under the weather so opted out of the 5am start and sportive for an easier day, still rode a couple of pave sections on the way back to the van which were tame compared to the arenburg forest section we rode the day before, met shaun kelly and listened to some funny stories from a mate of his who we gave a lift back to the start.

tomorrow we park near the rapha van on pave sector ten and swap waffles for coffee.

I'm still on mine. The S-Works finally made it out. First ride since the hill climbs and first time I've actually used the Zipp 404s. They're lovely but don't half make a racket battering into the shithouse roads out west. 5hrs doing a new loop I found around Whiteleaf hill.
Home, switch to commuter and ride into office to deploy an update I couldn't do from home last night for some daft reason. Then back home to apply food to stomach.

2 hours from Kortijk to carrefour d'arbe on traffic free roads to meet my mates doing paris-roubaix. i was a bit under the weather so opted out of the 5am start and sportive for an easier day, still rode a couple of pave sections on the way back to the van which were tame compared to the arenburg forest section we rode the day before, met shaun kelly and listened to some funny stories from a mate of his who we gave a lift back to the start.

tomorrow we park near the rapha van on pave sector ten and swap waffles for coffee.

Shaun who?

I am disappointed.

i'm never very good with names. he was just some ginger bloke on a bike with hairy legs.

(just kidding he's a legend and upstanding ex-pro)

Decided an attempt on Richmond 3 laps in an hour was in order. 1:01:25 with lots of traffic and a cramp on lap 2. So basically that counts as success.

Track. Sun burn. Turning left.
Looking forward to the London classic tomorrow.

Lots of spok at the track today.

I should have offered my suncream, I brought some with me just in case. I assumed sensible chaps such as Skully and yourself would have been prepared...

Good fun on the track today. Blowy, but good.

0km, 0miles. Fuck all. Loved it.

Lovely 15 miles in the sun, gave my spare tube to sad looking cyclist on the canals, got a puncture, LONG walk home. fml.