Thursday Night - Hour of Power

Only nago dude held on til the end

Just... Back a bit creaky. Good blast though dude. Sorry I had to zip off at bottom, I should have brought lights.

A bientot!

How the smeg do you go that fast?!

Drugs/Motor in Frame/Special Ball Bearings - Delete as appropriate

Unemployment = plenty of winter slacker miles. You were holding on to that pace last year, and you will again :)

Oui oui. I am most certainly [insert infinitely flexible number of months] away from peaking.... ;)

We must get Sasmon and his large engine out next time. He's great to hide behind if you need a break.

Hoorah to everyone who made it round for a few laps!

Bollocks to anyone who's still in the office.

Highgate 'round midnight, anyone?

/fuggit

Unemployment = plenty of winter slacker miles. You were holding on to that pace last year, and you will again :)

Great chat. I'll consider it a good base and go from there. And have sensible gearing next time! Sadly can't make it next week but there with bells on at every opportunity.

Irritatingly my d-lock is still around a lampost by gloucester gate. Looks like I'm having a lunchtime spin tomorrow

Going to be at the track on saturday and doing the cambridge ride on sunday so hopefully catch a few of you then.

Gutted i didn't make it for this! Stayed at work until half eight; on the plus-side I managed fastestcommuteeverrrr.

I will be keen next week, but I have no intention of managing an average of 22mph; that sort of thing is for the unemployed :-)

If I knew Edinburgh Castle was on the agenda I would have joined post-ride!

22 miles, perfectly paced for the hour. Only nago dude held on til the end, i saw upstart slink away and matt and iain gave up early. To the edinboro castle, for refreshments!

This is why I would have been on gears you see...

I'll be fixed next time, honest.
I'll also have cycled 70 miles that morning if all goes to plan, so it'll be a gentle one.
Amazing (and also unnerving) to see so many faces at the beginning - last year I think we peaked at 6 people, so well done everyone on getting out there and doing something, extra kudos to brun for soldiering on for the full 8 solo; I hung around at the lights for a while at the end but couldn't see any other familiar faces circling, you slackers.
The only thing the Edinboro Castle has going for it is its proximity, maybe crawl up the to Flask next time...

Congratulations, fellow flower arrangers

So true, felt like there were loads of us! I lost the front bunch just before the end of lap one ("gentle warm up", 6pt, 2011), did a couple of laps with woodie before we lost each other and then ground out a couple more on my own. 74" next time, more go, less show.

22 miles, perfectly paced for the hour. Only nago dude held on til the end, i saw upstart slink away and matt and iain gave up early. To the edinboro castle, for refreshments!

PAH!!!!

1:00:02 buddy! you missed it! I have witnesses! Your computer says NO!

Similarly got dropped on the famous "warm up lap". Still always happy to put in some miles mindlessly going round in circles :)

So true, felt like there were loads of us! I lost the front bunch just before the end of lap one ("gentle warm up", 6pt, 2011), did a couple of laps with woodie before we lost each other and then ground out a couple more on my own. 74" next time, more go, less show.

Yeah, lost you at the lights, for some reason I failled to clip in and by the time I had you had a good 50 metres on me and I wasn't going to catch you before the back end of the lap where I was struggling to spin fast enough anyway, so I turned round and cruised anti-clockwise for a bit to rejoin the fast group which proved slighty ambitious. Few more laps primarily on my own, blew spectacularly on the last lap and had to stop at Euston for coke and cake on my way home! Averaged over 19 for the hour - pretty chuffed with that!

Can salad survive such velocities unscathed?

I left the office at 22:00, having cheered myself up by eating my intended gift.

Glad to be out, I decided to show the now internal salad around Regents Park. It felt pretty fresh at the start, having chilled for much of the day; though it became limp soon after warming up.

Eight laps ended on a shade over 20mph. Fair enough, but I'd hoped for more ("It's not just any salad"). Mind you, it was only upon entering lap five that I discovered a large chain ring attached to my bike (it was next to the small one that I'd been using up until that point).

Home now, and out of muesli. Second place goes to mouthfuls of porridge oats, a glass of milk, and squeezing a bottle of honey into my face.

Doing a poo out of your willy and a wee out of your bum bum.

You okay mate?

Mwahahahahaaaaaa!

4 laps of regents park on a summer's eve = fun.
Post laps drink and burger at the Edmundo Castle = Good times.
Breaking in the Brooks = Bad Times
Walking like a baboon coz my ass hurts = priceless.

Good spin last night. Legs felt very empty on the way in today, and that headwind can fuck off.

Moar of a baboon you mean...

"More" of a baboon you mean?

This popped up in my twitter feed this morning: http://michaelbarry.ca/2011/03/on-the-wheel/

Moar is intensional Baboon.

Intentional you fuckwit.

(you know you can get a spell checker add on for most browsers these days?)

Intensional is what the spokes of a wheel are when they're supporting the weight of the hub.

Not for werk as it requirs permitions from IT

^Baiting. Must....not....rise....to it!

Enough pointless non-power chatter! This dross isn't worth isn't email updates!