2011-04-03 Sun - Cambridge ride. Fixed-wheel bicycle required

Mothers' Day prevails. I won't be in your vicinity. Going to have a train/walking/countryside/pub day with wife & son instead*.

*might squeeze some vicious interval training in between 7am & 8am. There are standards to uphold.

Skully's done this before. Come along everybody, it's a social ride, etc. Then he puts the hammer down as soon as you're all in the middle of pissing nowhere, after giving everyone 'the look', showering the hedgerows with all the empty gel sachets that spill out the pocket of his custom-made tweed skinsuit.

WAFC.

Lolz

Must resist urge to make childish joke...

Seriously though, this is sensible advice. I will be enhancing my mighty fitness with snickers bars and beer.

Joke involving Plantain...

I (genuinely) carry some spirits on rides in a hipsterflask. Was useful recently to calm someone who'd just cracked a rib slipping on ice. Now my justification for basically being a pisshead. I will probably feel like beer at the end.

I will probably feel like a beer every 20 minutes or so

point noted.

Aha, you know me better than I thought....

The new Skully-endorsed range of beer gels from SIS is due out soon. Plus the stout recovery mix.

S'all about the gravity.

Can I just add my voice to the chorus that is stressing this isn't a race or a training ride it's a leisurely roll in the countryside. For those who haven't done a long ride 25+ miles before there's no point in stressing about pace or fitness as you won't know how good or bad you'll feel until you're actually turning the pedals on the day. Come out enjoy the ride, safe in the knowledge that no one is left behind and hopefully by the end of this summer if not sooner you'll be organising your own long rides and quieting the fears of others new to the experience.

+1, this^, rep, etc etc

I (genuinely) carry some spirits on rides in a hipsterflask. Was useful recently to calm someone who'd just cracked a rib slipping on ice.

Skully: the St Bernard of cycling.

What - No visit to the pain cave at all?

HTFU and WAC etc.

1.Skully
2.Skive

1. jayloo (maybe guapo, university paper depending)
   
2. betty
   
3. jcgarcia
   
4. Damo. Maybe.
   
5. jaygee
   
6. middleofnowhere
   
7. bikegang
   
8. atticus
   
9. Fox
   
10. Yasi
    
11. sherbertflyingsaucer
    
12. crimsonape (possibly + 2)
    
13. Blackfoot
    
14. Upstart
    
15. Shinigami
    
16. murtz
    
17. mattty
    
18. ian (conker)
    
19. fussballclub
    
20. smiff
    
21. *FRANK
    
22. KT Bee
    
23. Oliver Schick
    
24. stripe
    
25. mortari (maybe)
    
26. laner
    
27. Sumo
    
28. rhowe
    
29. TheorySwine
    
30. Kirth
    
31. Birthday boy braker
    
32. Stonehedge (Bringing the ruckus, whether I have the ruckus in my possession or not)
    
33. fluff
    
34. Fieldcoil
    
35. Bobby Dids
    
36. Samuelson
    
37. villa-ru
    
38. ms.chris
    
39. Photo Jim
    
40. pootsmanuva
    
41. FridayMarch26th
    
42. Edmundro
    
43. hillbilly
    
44. Winge
    
45. Alpine Kate
    48.Coppithat
    49.tomass
    

You can ride around the peleton leisure group wagging your tail and yapping like a Spaniel if you like Ru.

Just stay out of the way of the St Bernard.

can I just ask - what's the big deal about it being mother's day? It's only an old tradition kept going by the greeting cards industry.

some people's mothers are bigger than other people's mothers actually want to see their offspring on mothers' day, regardless of it being a Clintons 'tradition', they think it's a nice idea...

some people's mothers are bigger than other people's mothers actually want to see their offspring on mothers' day, regardless of it being a Clintons 'tradition', they think it's a nice idea...

Well, it does make a change from them not wanting to see their offspring on any other day. Right? Right? ;)

I'm not that bothered about it regarding my own mother, but I'll take the opportunity to show thanks to my wife for what she went through in becoming the mother of my child.

And the less said about that particular act on a public forum the better? :)

[ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothering_Sunday[/ame]not to be confused with Mother's day.

In the UK it is considered synonymous with Mother's Day
Doesn't this mean it legitimately can be confused with Mother's Day?

By being confuse I meant: Mother's day (Hallmark version) is destroying Mothering Sunday/Mother's Day (christian apppropriated pagan version).

Hallmark/Christian/Pagan, I fail to see any significant difference.

Hallmark/Christian/Pagan, I fail to see any significant difference.

spelling?

I'm always disappointed, when visiting a particular high street greeting card vendor, that I'm not welcomed into the store by intergalactic funk operatives.