Thursday Night - Hour of Power

ciq that would be stellar, should be swinging by at about 1820.

Hmm, the weather hasn't come to my aid - looks like I'm riding then. Best get the spanner out.

^ says the guy who gives out hugs like he's dying of something.

hopefully nothing contagious

hopefully nothing contagious
hug me and find out ;-)

right i'm off - lapping 6-7 so if you see me point and laugh.

remember to look where you're going :)

I've just cleared my pile for the day so I'm going to try to get up there early too. But there's some sweet-talking between me and escape still :(

Still meeting 6.30?

skies have swollen... waiting it out.

im meeting at 6 30

meeting at 6:30 and probably starting then too. if I'm not there then I'm already going round, but will see how it goes. skies just got very grey. on my way out now, look mum then park. see yous soon :)

rain!

wow it got wet quick. setting off in 10. according to the met this wasn't supposed to hit us for another hour so it may blow over faster than expected too.

I'm rolling now so probably there pretty early

...ridden to Bournemouth the Saturday after, and then did the London Classic on the Sunday. Either way, it was a good week.
it was that way round. i did the same. it was an epic weekend. loved it.

Here comes the rain! For that reason, I'm out.

Sorry tom for abandoning you to the wind all on your own. I realised I hadn't factored in time for a shower before meeting friends, and that uphill drag into the wind finished off what was left of my energy.

Also, it didn't rain a drop all you fairies who skipped it.

Dropped out upon hearing thunder and seeing quite dark clouds looming. After a while realised it hadn't rained yet so took in some nice hills around Forest Hill and Crystal Palace. So not feeling as lazy as I should be for skipping HoP.

Also, had a lovely chat with Mrs Socks at Cadence Cycles, for those of you who haven't been yet, it's well worth a visit!

Echo Mick's comments re: cadence.
Odd one out there tonight. Hard work, wheel sucking Slevless tosser and headwind on the drag took the fun out of it, but it was over soon enough.

Was that the clown on the yellow cervelo? He nearly cut me in half when I was trying to get back on your wheel...

Good fun that. 2.5 fast laps thanks to some strong riding from 6pt and CB followed by 5.5 solo laps. Managed 8 laps @ 20.8 which is comfortably my best HoP ever so pretty pleased - was looking over my shoulder a bit waiting for the train to steal a lap on me but thankfully didn't happen! Hope to get out there again soon.

Did a short hit from 8-8.45 but everyone had left by then I guess. Was pretty still and dry when I was out.

Echo Mick's comments re: cadence.
Odd one out there tonight. Hard work, wheel sucking Slevless tosser and headwind on the drag took the fun out of it, but it was over soon enough.

It was an odd one, I had an absolute mare with the hard left at the south east corner, I seemed to be on a totally different page to everyone else; when every one stopped I went and when I went everyone stopped.

Also, it didn't rain a drop all you fairies who skipped it.

it was wet outside my house thus the above subjective statement is untrue. However I am a fairy.

He sounds like the chap who was drafting Michael last week - does he have TT bars/shifters fitted?

Was that the clown on the yellow cervelo? He nearly cut me in half when I was trying to get back on your wheel...

of course, how else would you know he was a slevless (apart from the ironman jersey that says Run, Bike, Swim, Draft like a little bitch)