Tell us about your weekend ride

Going back to the alps this summer and Bristol has nothing as long to compare. Bristol hills are steeper in my experience .

So, found a hill I like and went up and down it a bunch. Mentally difficult more than anything...

42-16 SS

Get on the turbo, raise the front wheel a bit.
Stick in in the big ring and ride sub threshold for an hour at 70rpm.

Just like riding up the alps, instead of Vo2 efforts.

What's a big ring then?

ha^ yeah right, try riding up Brighton hills in big ring..fun.
if youre doing them ^^ 'short' hill reps in 71 " thats strong
wouldnt even say its going to fuck your knees but wouldnt suggest higher fixed/ ss gearing for the job
longer miles on less gradient might be done in big ring

You've missed my point of being on a turbo.
Not riding a 1/4 5 minute hill. As no you wouldn't ride that in the big ring.

Going back to the alps this summer and Bristol has nothing as long to compare. Bristol hills are steeper in my experience .

So, found a hill I like and went up and down it a bunch. Mentally difficult more than anything...

42-16 SS

what hill in bristol did you pick?

Dundry hill, up Dundry lane. The other roads were covered in a mix of cow shit and snow...

http://app.strava.com/activities/39480461

pretty slow ride out in the wind today, also didn't wrap up warm enough, was overconfident on the layers...

Well that sucked/ was awesome. I headed out at stupidly early o'clock to hook up with benj and hms of this parish. The plan was a quick blast around Kent dragging my festive period enhanced butt up Chalkpit, Lunghurst and a few other bumps with names that belong at a real ale festival. All started well, tailwinds, good company and sunshine, I even started to enjoy the taste of blood/lactic and the emphysema lite wheeze my chest was emitting.

Then disaster struck, or rather I struck disaster at around 25mph - a big ass puddle/pond/ditch/sinkhole type thing with edges like sharks teeth (it was a puddle). Double snake bite puncture!!! Through both fricking tyres too!!!! (I only discovered this delicious fact later, exactly one second after hms caught and managed to treat his very own case of the disease of deflation. I've also buckled my front wheel and put a dent in the rear).

Three inner tubes (two of which were kindly donated by hms and benj), numerous patches - including a Soreen Malt Loaf wrapper hack on my shredded tyre - were employed in a vain attempt to shepherd my sorry ass home. The tyres kept losing pressure, I kept patching and pumping. A persistently wrong headed uni-directional wind didn't so much exacerbate my woe as underline it. Slow progress.

65 miles that felt like a century.

Still, beats the spin bike.

evening ride for a Greek delicious dinner!

^^ yeah, it was less a case of A Hard Day in January, and more A Farce in February. Good rolling nonetheless.

My take on events here:

http://app.strava.com/activities/39458412

Bigpaintbrush and I exorcised some of those demons with a 'recovery ride' (for him obviously not me - I was just recovering from inactivity). Nice little roll round essex in the wind. I actually really enjoyed the shorter ride as it left me with some energy for returning to town against the gales which was a pleasant contrast to the usual bonky battle with Daws Hill and the Lea Bridge Road traffic. Never left BPP behind on a hill before... he must have been mighty pooped from Saturday's misadventure.

Never left BPP behind on a hill before... he must have been mighty pooped from Saturday's misadventure.

Not so much that I was pooped more that you were beasting it around Essex at an eye-bleeding pace.

Bitchin day to be out on the bike.
Feel for people stuck in the office.

^^I'm beginning to think that we might need to get Wrongcog a doping test - man's getting too quick!

Just put the wrong cog on his bike and he'll slow down again.

Managed to get down Brighton yesterday. Weather was great, light headwind all the way to make the ride worthy training.

Unfortunately there must have been 10-15 close passes on the way. Nearly spoilt what was otherwise a nice ride.

Stopped for roast dinner at the Dog and Duck just before Turners. Finished at my mates for a cup tea/can of beer. averaged 12mph once out of London. Good start to the year.

Yesterday a few of us did the Old Portlians reliability ride (info: http://www.oldportlianscc.co.uk/Main/Reliability_Trial.php) good ride up to the Ashdown and a brilliant route back via Toys. All in all 90 miles including the ride there and back at about 16.5mph average, which was about right for me at this time of year.

Saturday wasnt a ride, but a run. From Woolwich Arsenal, where I live, along to the Thames Barrier, then down onto the river path and along to the Blackwall Tunnel (4.5 Miles) and back to WA. 9 miles exactly, 57 minutes.

I also swam last night, but was well below par due to the miles in the morning.

A happy sporting weekend.

Nice one Nick, 'light headwind'????......I was on top of the Ashdown Forest.....it was blowing a gale

^^ That's insanely fast running - equivalent of three 19minute 5km runs in a row. My fastest ever 5k is 18.40 and I was specifically training for that and felt a bit faint afterwards. Chapeau!

Running thread >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I also swam last night,

A happy sporting weekend.

run bike swim fuck yeah! I approve

triathlon thread that way >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

run bike swim fuck yeah! I approve

triathlon thread that way >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

That's at least four events, although I'm not familiar with the rules of competitive rumpy pumpy. What is the equivalent of the no drafting rule?

Just got back from a second attempt at this 40 miler through Surrey. Kept the speed at 15mph this time and navigation skills were much better, as I wasn't doing it. What a shitty day for it though. I'm just happy getting used to being on a bike for long periods. Now to get the feeling back in my toes and fingers.

The real lowlight came when my girlfriend went into Waitrose in Cobham to get snacks. "Get something like cereal bars and milkshake," I said, shivering outside. She came out with cereal bars and a three calorie "cranberry drink with sweeteners". Fucksake.

Oh and I saw comedian Mark Thomas who RLJ'd in Wandsworth.