Tell us about your weekend ride

^ between you and smallfurry I'm suffering overwhelming road envy. Great stuff.

First century of the year for me on Sunday (Norwich 100).

Ended up being quite slow and with sore knees. Turns out that doing 100 miles on the back of only two 40 mile rides a month ago, and on a new bike that I hadn't ridden further than 5 miles before, wasn't the best idea.
Still, I was outside in the sun and warmth for over 12 so the tan lines are looking good.

^ between you and smallfurry I'm suffering overwhelming road envy. Great stuff.

Dont envy the roads.

Bergen is all cobbles, and after that they'd ground off the top layer of tarmac, ready for relaying.

It was gooch hell.

First century of the year for me on Sunday (Norwich 100).

Ended up being quite slow and with sore knees. Turns out that doing 100 miles on the back of only two 40 mile rides a month ago, and on a new bike that I hadn't ridden further than 5 miles before, wasn't the best idea.
Still, I was outside in the sun and warmth for over 12 so the tan lines are looking good.

Excellent work.

SF, TW2, D- I am super jealous of your upcoming adventure/ race/ sheer stupidity.

Bergen – Voss 2014

Lovely write up! Really looking forward to next weekend.

Serious ride Envy going on here, no proper riding for me last week, looking forward to a long day in the saddle on saturday, and resulting food intake :)

Much epic SF, and a great average speed.

I'm basically in denial about the Duathlon now, as there's nothing else I can do about it.

Going to have to hope that the 1:45 HM I ran MONTHS AGO is still somewhere in my legs.

(I don't think it is)

Coffee/ cake wise- https://www.procyclehire.com
Ride wise- there's loads on ridewithGPS, but Puig Major is fun.
The Ride to Sa Calobra is, imo, the hardest part of the ride, because its not a nice run easy get your legs warm before climbing kind of deal. It is a bit better from PP> P I guess, but not easy.
The ride home is excellent.

Otherwise- Ive been cooking for myself, so Lidl ;)
Aiming for some fresh fish tmw/ tuesday for the BBQ.
There was a place I walked past in Pollenca just now that had an amazing sounding tasting menu... If I find it again I'll post the name up.

Cheers.

Stayed in Soller October 2012 and did one ride on a hired Trek Madone. My first ride on a geared road bike in over a decade. Over Puig Mayor, round and up through Orient and the Coll de Soller. Was a truly fantastic ride and convinced me to buy some gears.

My legs are shattered after that race. Last Nights 10k is the slowest I have on record. My HR was 20 beats lower than it should have been for a 10k, yet I simply couldnt move any quicker. The run is going to be horrible. Its a stupid idea, plain and simple.

Still, I'm confident we will PB the course.

At a Guess. With Saturdays long valley ride, the mountain duathlon, and Sundays Trollstigen trip. We'll hit over 5000m climbed, and over 300km ridden.

So the run isnt the only Challenge :)

Saturday (which I'll be going very slowly on, JFYI) will quite probably be the first time I've ridden the bike I'll be bringing.

What could possibly go wrong?

Saturday (which I'll be going very slowly on, JFYI) will quite probably be the first time I've ridden the bike I'll be bringing.

What could possibly go wrong?

Saturday is meant to be a sight seeing cruise around. The route was selected for scenery, and Nice roads.

Having said that, MapMyRide has a 1000m mountain Climb randomly placed in the middle of it. I'll need to check that small detail.

I thought Monday would be a mix of hard Climbs, and recovery cruising. So folk can do their own thing on the Climbs. But chilling inbetween, and eating Svele cakes is compulsery.

Today's ride was truly crap. Legs were hurting from 5km, balls from before I even stepped on the bike, and I couldn't steel myself to push it at all.
Shit roads till the very end where I completely ignored my original route and set off the way that I'd been taken yesterday, and then it was actually kind of lovely. And then back on to the main road for shitness/ Head down and get off it as fast as possible.

The cafe in Alaro, for those who are about to head out to Mallorca- is well worth a look in, its called cycle planet (or some variant on that name), and the people are ace.
The other stand out coffee place is Panord in Pollenca, for cheap and good pastries and cakes.
Ranking of coffee (and cake) places:
1.Pro Cycle cafe, Puerto Pollenca- 4euro for coffee and a homemade cake is hard to argue with, and a good place to chat shit about cycling.

1. Cycle planet (see above)
   
2. Panord in Pollenca- I think its about 3 euro. And they do good beer. And Meat pies.
   Ice cream wise- the winner, hands down, is the little shack on the roundabout at the marina section of Puerto Pollenca. This may change as there's a little place in Pollenca main square I've been meaning to try. Also I've heard good things of a place in Alcudia, but I couldn't find it.
   
   
   

Still, managed a vaguely respectable 500k in 4 days. Which considering hippy would do the same(more) in 1 day at a faster speed makes me feel like a right failure.

Starva:
http://www.strava.com/activities/148928578

Sineu:

legs were hurting from 5km, balls from before i even stepped on the bike

tmi

Worn through my bib shorts, at the chamois. Rental Saddle. Technically not balls I guess.

Gooch.

Haven't you done anatomy yet?

Ah, yes, the old perineum.
I suppose 'balls' was an attempt to inject some pathos.

First (and probably only, sadly) ride of the weekend done, 50 miler including my first ever time up Cheddar Gorge, which was an experience.

1000 metres of climb according to Garmin.

New PB this evening on my 20 mile training loop:

No riding tomorrow, but the Dragon Ride Gran Fondo on Sunday.

78 metres of elevation in 20 miles? I do not miss riding in the Fens.

Yep, quite a lot of the ride is below sea-level. I quite like charging around the Fens - it makes a nice contrast to spending every other weekend (pretty much) in Switzerland where the terrain is a wee bit more varied.

I do not miss riding in the Fens.

Fuck the headwind, fuck them all.

after four days of solid rain I buzzed over my newly found and swiftly adopted regular training route... 1200m climbing over 65km which makes for very sore legsies no matter how slow I grind around. Getting a bit nippier (this is relative) but still have moments of hitting a gradient and just not being able to get anything into my legs and trying to sort my breathing out as I'm sure it's not what it should be for optimum oxygen intake. Basically I just need to get out more, and for longer.

Quite warm and humid which means I was getting eaten by every fucking stingy bity thing under the sun and got royally chomped by a horsefly just after setting off so had a comedy fat wrist. I even got sunburn which for Scotland is pretty fucking impressive. But hey ho, anything's better than the rain and I'm loving the new Roberts which bar a few dropped chains today has been a joy to ride.

^^ Headwinds. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. Enough time passes, gets so you depend on them.

101 miles cycled in the driving rain, thunder and occasionally hail of berkshire and Hampshire this morning, 9 miles run in the baking sun this afternoon. Love English weather!

Saturday 7 mile commute in heavy but warm rain, my only nod to the weather was gillet. Reminded me it's not wet thats so bad but cold wet. Quite enjoyable. Trainers still drying.