Thursday Night - Hour of Power

Yeah, slevless.

Slevless it is. I'm absolutely knackered, it's a wonder I even made it in to work today. Spelling things would appear to be a step to far.
Yeah that's right. To.

thanks guys. nice to meet you hovis/OSR.

it was hard work, but by the end of it i could have kept going which is good. and when i got off i felt like i wanted more. the nether regions didn't agree though...

i think the rapha'd up crew doing laps in the other direction thought i was a bit mental too.

No hour of power for me (massively slack week; I needed it, I've regained a hunger for riding my bike).

But I did have a polite argument with a Slevless dude on a TT bike (assume triathalete) on Thursday evening. He asked me to explain why he was wrong in undertaking me and then trying to squeeze between the half wheel length gap between me and the rider in front: Cock.

^ dude's got a lot of fluids with him.

^ even I'm more aero than that.

hehehe

laner repped

Totally.

Instead of an hour pain round the park I've got some some charming company to enjoy down in Peckham tonight, so I'm out. Go have your fun without me in the evening sun, dial in those positions for Dunwich and stretch the legs. Next week will be the Rollapaluaza Hill Climb, business resumes as usual on the 28th :)

Did an hour and a bit last night on 74" Tixed. Chugging around at 22mph, then a couple of people got on my wheel, then 2 Finchley RT blokes shot past after some lights, so we all jumped on, took a few turns; I had to spin outside of my comfort zone. Next lap starts and I get to the front and decide to revert to chugging pace, expecting them all to zoom past me, but they'd all blown up; so I did another 4 laps on my own. Finchley RT: I am disappoint.

986 TFL miles, so I'm going back tonight to finish things off…

You're there more than I am. Worrying.
I find that with lots of people there, they'll pick a couple of laps of pissing all over people to prove a point (metaphorically. I know what this forum's like) vs consistency, which gets frustrating when I'm on fixed because I don't like to let people go and end up spoiling my evening of quiet grinding.
A job well done with the TfLing. I'm nowhere near the magic 1k miles - I would have been ~100 miles closer if I hadn't broken myself on Saturday but realistically doubt I'd have actually ever got there. Always next year...

I don't mind people peacocking for a few laps. For all I know, they might be doing 5min intervals or something. I've done that kind of thing myself.

It's the most time I've spent there in years, purely because if I have a 2 hour window (door-to-door), it's the only option for relatively unobstructed miles. I'm pleased to have got the 1000 nailed. I've needed to be sensible and organized about it, in order to find the time and avoid injury. Means fuck all to anyone, but once I've truly decided to do something, I rarely give up.

Last time I looked, lfgss were in danger of losing their 2nd spot in the 51-100 riders category…

Hope you're on the mend, BTW.

Just to warn you, its the Great City Race today so around 6 the roads in the city are going to be swarming with banker types either running or drinking... Watchout and good luck getting to RP

I live just over the wall, in the plague pits, so should be okay.

I'm fine with peacocking, it's the affronted peacocking that gets me. which is massively hypocritical of me, so I won't dwell on it.
1000 is plenty to have squeezed in after-hours, it's a shame there's no alternative easy way for you to accumulate them though. I started hitting a modified version of the Dulwich winter chaingang route just to break up the park sessions.

Yesterday morning was the first time post-tumble I've been able to raise my head from horizontal without using my hands to assist. Today I'm practically back to normal, just a little stiff in the right hip on full extension and neck when looking up. Think I got away with that one.

I've got a free evening tomorrow, might sneak in a cheeky midnight 50 or something, just to do my bit.

It was the 6.30am-start-back-by-noon century-plusses which helped the most :D

Take it easy…

Oooh cheeky. I went for little, hard and often. Think I only broke 60 miles once.

Do I deduce that no-one's going to be out tonight? Might go and throw a few shapes. Just back from smoking tabs, eating steak and riding bikes with engines in france. Sadly none of the steak was spanish so no performance advantage has been gained...indeed...one suspects form may be a little baked....

At some point. Fairly gentle. Tired legs.

Hey, Joe (where you goin' with that gun in your hand etc.), you were solid out there tonight. Tabs and steak must work for you.

That was a great little group. Everyone seemed strong enough to do pretty lengthy turns without blowing up. We kept it going for a few more laps after you left, winding it up a little more. I enjoyed feeling strong enough to turn the screw a bit as we set off from deadstops and went up the little drag.

Shame about the number of SUVs doing piss-poor 3-point turns all over the shop, but thankfully the riding was confidence inspiring around those sort of hazards. See you on a TNRC soon…

Nice little spin. Was expectorating some weekend unpleasantness.

Good to see you Bmmf. Why the dodgy tribars?

I'd been doing the odd session on my own, seeing how they felt on the geared bike. I did a solo 120 miler the other week, and they were quite useful for a change of position, and saving a few watts here and there. Haven't got around to taking them off again. Once a group forms, I don't bother with them really.

Also, when in Rome…