Tell us about your weekend ride

Some great looking rides reported recently on this thread not least of all Tp88 and Howard. Loving the variety and finding it inspirational.

this was me on the new steed on Saturday and Sunday. we did get into the mountains also however the camera battery died... honestly!

300km over the weekend through sunny Mallorca. a mix of flats and climbs!

^ looks incrediblicious. Any chance of a write-up in the travel & trips forum?

^^ This excites

^ looks incrediblicious. Any chance of a write-up in the travel & trips forum?

Well I'd have to update it every week as i am fortunate enough to live over here and this is on my doorstep, so it isnt travelling for me! i'll check the thread tho.

^^ This excites

Tom. it is outstanding. you're going to love it.

Night ride to Brighton with the folks from Cyclechat

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/304055761

Weather spot on - minor tailwind. Cake stop at 3.30am in a scout hut with OAPs dishing out their best baked wares. Delicious. Bike was fantastic and the other half wound her way up Ditchling without a pause - a first for her.

Met up with Coldhabour after a nap on the return train to talk custom 853.

Not a bad start to the weekend but the subsequent napping has all but written off the rest of the day.

Rode a century, then came home and ate a huge bowl of rice and beef so fast that I genuinely nearly puked (had to stand over my sink just in case). So, so hungry.

^^ On the same ride as Howard. Did slightly more mileage as tweaked the route somewhat to avoid Ditchling.

Went and did yet another slight variation of a ride I've been doing the past few weeks. Typically, it involved a gentle crosswind on the predominantly uphill outward 40 miles, and then after a brief respite in some of Hertfordshire's most peaceful and wide open spaces, it was 35 miles of grinding (well, I don't 'grind', but you get the picture) into an 11mph headwind which invariably takes its toll when you're on your own. Luckily I passed a group of 3 riders on the Crooked Mile (included bitterbuffalo who was on the TNRC last week, and 2 others who I'm assuming are on here), and when I realised they'd jumped on, it helped me find the incentive to keep ticking over for a few miles more, rather than thinking about - horror of horrors - changing into the small ring.

I left them at the foot of Daws Hill, but thanks to the trains being fucked and terminating in Walthamstow, I rejoined them at the Bakers Arms.

Ended up with 82 miles and change, moving avg of 18.5mph according to the people at Garmin. Another weird one with the temperature at 2 degrees in Hertford, but 11 degrees back in town. It fucks with your systems.

Quick pootle round the Meon Valley with the Mrs, first ride in the country we've ever done together.

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/304421514

Todays ride - wet, windy & so, so cold. Why is it always horrid weather on a Sunday!

Now in need of tea, blanket & food.

Just back from a Box Hill loop with Bernie, Al, Branwen and OLC, followed by nachos and Guinness in some dive pub in Streatham. Glorious sunshine the whole day. After grinding my way, red-faced, to the top of a small incline on KTBee's generously loaned road bike, Al suggests that I might like to drop my gear. "Use the small ring", he says. "Oh, is that what that's for?" replies some chump.

After doing what I was told I wasn't able to get the shifters to go back into the big chainring so had to spin morosely downhill for the next 30 miles like a madman. Good fun, though.

http://app.strava.com/activities/51174091

Got up and packed stuff for 50miles

got 20 miles in and realised I had no food with me and hit the wall at about 32miles in, petrol station stop for a double mars bar was necessary

Spotted Alex Dowsett.

https://mobile.twitter.com/alexdowsett/status/328517895250391040?p=v

^^ Eek, sorry. It is doable, but takes bit of a push - sorry. Treat it mean.

^ Overtook, to be precise. Lovely ride with fox, fussball club and tricity (and skully and poots, kind of) on the Witham Wander. Anything that ends with a buffet is alright with me.

No gears, so no problems with the shifters.

I wasn't able to get the shifters to go back into the big chainring so had to spin morosely downhill for the next 30 miles like a madman.

presumably you didn't actually have to spin downhill? or did no-one point that out to you as well...

Trying to stay healthy for the Beach but can't resist a "track style" alleycat in a few hours... personal expectations to perform is overwhelming..

Adrenaline High

Left the house at 9 to meet the GF and inlaws at a vineyard in Surrey. After an hour got a call to meet instead at Kew Gardens at 12:30. By this point I was just the other side of Kingston which turned what had been a fairly pacey ride into the country into a time-killing exercise in the stockbroker belt.

Went to Richmond for a coffee.
Went to House of Fraser for a wee.
Did a lap of Richmond Park and did the steep side of the horrible hill for the first time ever on 48:16.
Cycled over Kew Bridge four times for a laugh.
Cycled round Chiswick roundabout twice singing loudly.
Cycled back over Kew Bridge but this time pretended to be a car and patiently waited in traffic.
Heckled some 8-year olds playing a cricket match.
Found an army surplus store by accident and locked up my bike to have a look in but it was closed.
Considered going to the Kew Bridge Steam Museum. Didn't.
[strike]Shot a man in Mortlake, just to watch him die.[/strike]

Total time spent out of house: 8 hours.
Total mileage on bike: 35.

EPIC!

presumably you didn't actually have to spin downhill? or did no-one point that out to you as well...

I had to spin to try to keep up with the others who were pedalling through the descents! I suppose it's good practice for Rollapaluza, though.

^^ Eek, sorry. It is doable, but takes bit of a push - sorry. Treat it mean.

Ha! Don't apologise, it's not like you didn't warn me. I did finally manage to get it to shift, 20 yards from Bernie's garage. :|

It was difficult to find the motivation to head out after a full day of snowboarding followed by a party and a 3.45am start (uk time) to catch my plane this morning. Managed 28 enjoyable but windswept fixed miles before 'back to work' style stuff meant i had to be home

46 miles to the start of aforementioned audax, 100k of audax, 50 miles home. My face hurts.

Amazing work!

158mi. Nails.

Feel like the only cyclist who didn't touch their bike today :/

Yesterday did the two hour intermediate session at herne hill, then the novice racing session in the afternoon. 3rd in my kierin event but no other result worth mentioning. Was great though! Looking forward to getting beaten again at the open season event next saturday.

I rode today. It wasn't as warm as I thought it should be.