Tell us about your weekend ride

Just finished 107 miles / 7000 ft of climbing. Having difficulty walking, talking and not eating everything in sight.

Feeling your pain!

I did the Castle Ride 100 yesterday with less climbing but more than enough for my legs. A superbly organised ride only marred by an accident involving a female rider and a car. The rider was airlifted to hospital and fingers crossed for a positive outcome.

http://www.mapmyride.com/ride/united-kingdom/tonbridge/257127318775520075

The route took in TNRC Exedown Hill which was a plus as I'd rode that last Tuesday.

105 miles total and average 15 mph.

Sunday was last chance to have a decent ride before I tackle the Pearson 150 sportive this coming Sunday.

So what I did was get up late, blow my legs up trying to get to the station on time, miss the train to the meeting point, ride to effingham, cut the route short then toil round on my own in one of my worst 'performances' ever.

Then I had to wait 50 minutes for a train home.

Let's hope next weekend goes a bit better...

what a weekend, just forced my ass back indoors.
have only messed about on crosstown fixed rides, 3 bbq, s beach, 2 swims, loads of coffee, yoga on the beach, but unusually for me no events,

where ya been/
what riding ya done?

Rollapaluza VS Grupetto track champs, NACKERED! But awesome day

presuming that was at H.H? how many guys dya fit in? good rezult?

Rollapaluza VS Grupetto track champs, NACKERED! But awesome day

nah it was crap. bad weather, crappy racing, bad organisation and the people... just crap.

Lovely pootle with lardlady from Streatham to Brick Lane, and back again, taking all the LCN winding routes. All a matter of building up the miles, then she can have a go at a L-B.

Me, Nes, Punkture and Mechamorgan, 60 miles in the Peak District including the long drag up Snake Pass from the Yorkshire side. Brutal heat = 4 hours riding time, 4 hours in a cafe and a pub.

respect.

Something over 5000m of climbing in 2 days in Italy. The first day with temps hovering around 30 and very little shade was definitely the hardest! Such beautiful roads though...almost all smooth and so very, very quiet.

Pearson 150KM. Lovely day, excellent ride!

A hot weekend at last! First time this year for me in bib shorts and short sleeve jersey. 40 miles in the North Warwickshire in the early morning before it was too hot!

whereabouts in North Warwickshire dewei?

I spent 11.5 hours rolling around the East Riding of Yorkshire, got burnt, heat stroked and very dehydrated. Lovely.

Thought I'd give the Dunwich Dynamo route a try in daylight yesterday and get the train back from Ipswich....turned out to be train+bus 'cos of engineering works! Lovely day though...
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/35122458

Just done a few laps of Richmond Park, did 64kmh coming down Bloomfield Hill

That is all

sweet speed.^
@"that is all", you rode today, there was a beginning, a middle and an end, and at some point I imagine youre heart got started, that is all that matters.
I fitted a round trip stalbans- bedford -stalbans in sat- sun between seeing friends.
So good out in the countryside at present, lanes stuffed with greenery, birds, nature and all that shit.
Loving it.

Saturday - Hell of Ashdown route, out from Orpington,so ended up with 70 miles - Yesterday did the Tarck day, and with the ride over and back, made up 55 miles and today a 50 mile loop from my place, out the Cudham Lane, Toys Hill, Ide Hill and back through Otford, Eynesford and Farningham, my legs are fcked.

a nice ride through east london..i keep riding on the right side of the road cause i'm so used to it

er, I'd be careful about that ^ where are you from? (awaits blatant grooming posts from all the regulars)

a couple of gentle short rides in e.sussex around the parentals place on my brothers road bike...lots of hills, almost no flat stuff - got to the highest point in sussex by brightling beacon on sat and sunday. Sat was a beautiful day. 25 miles in all - but many hills which are like speaking a foreign language to me! muchos fun for a singles ride...

113 miles last week in the 'king of the downs', 28 deg C and some very steep climbs at the end were pure hell..

a comfortable 50 miles yesterday across the chilterns..

probably crystal palace 70 mile loop to north downs next saturday..

then off to the french alps with the fireflies..on the 14th june

1 Attachment

• KOTD_almac68.pdf

our modest 50 mile training ride profile from yesterday out from beaconsfield towards marlow and hambledon, henley, burnham beeches and back.. some stunning views across the thames valley, despite the wind, cool weather and a couple of ill riders in the group..

hambledon a great break/stop for tea and possibly best flapjacks in christendom..

1 Attachment

• chilternsride_100530.pdf

One of my clubmates has delayed the start of his racing season until June. As a result he is bursting with energy and speed which he would normally have dissipated by racing.

He had to go to work in the afternoon, so he had to restrict his Sunday morning ride to about 70 miles.

I was in his little group (eight in total) which went from Staines to Stokenchurch (a high point of the Chilterns) and back. You might have noticed there was quite a strong north west wind yesterday, in other words a head wind on the outwards trip. My abovementioned clubmate stayed on the front and on the big ring for the whole day, wearing out the rest of us one by one at his side. I managed about 5 miles before finessing my way to the back at a junction, but I felt I'd done enough.

The roughly 30 miles uphill and into the wind took about an hour and three quarters, after that it was an easy but fast descent to Henley where five of us, including myself, stopped in the cafe and subsequently rode back to Staines at a modest pace.
I'd done about 65 miles.

The previous day I'd spent some time preparing a bike for the forum Richmond - Oxford ride and I had considered using it yesterday. In the end I decided against it and took my ancient training bike with a 16 - 22 block; I have to admit it would have been impossible for me to do that ride, in that group, on fixed.

I foresee a successful second half of the season for my friend.

okay last one, this profile is from the rapha 'hell of the north ride' back in april 11th to coincide with the paris-roubaix.. with a couple of missed turns at the end..

great fun, could have been very messy indeed if we had more rain..

1 Attachment