Ultracycling

The 'name' of the Checkpoints...

CP 1 - Port de Cabus (Andorra)
CP 2 - Pico Veleta
CP 3 - Pico la Torre (Portugal)
CP 4 - Finisterre

CP 1 - Port de Cabus 2269m
Land track of 16 kms that gives access to Andorra, used by smugglers to pass to Spain.

With a difference of 1136m high and an average of 7.1%.

It remains unpaved by the roughness of the neighbors of Tor, who refuse to asphalt the track ... which is finished at almost 2kms of the village, it remains isolated in the middle of the Pyrenees.
Truculent stories are told about one such "el palanca", one of the neighbors of Tor, mutinying any kind of action in the valley; Logging or ski slopes.

CP 2 - Pico Veleta
The highest road in Europe! The A-395 has the summit at 3.367m close to the top of Pico Veleta at 3.396m

A huge climb in the middle of andaucia with more than 200k views

CP - 3 Pico la Torre / Serra da Stela
It is the highest point of Portugal! And it is accessible by road. One of the slopes traces the southest glacier in Europe. The name of "the tower" is due to construction at the top to of the mountain to "modify" the height of the peak and in that way reached 2,000m

CP - 4 Finisterre
Hitorical Land's end of the continental Europe.
Also the end of thousands of pilgrims

The First CP has 17kms of terrain... :)

Arggghh!

:)

Anyone had late-onset grip issues after a race? I've had sore knuckles for a couple of weeks now and I'm trying to work out if it's something different I'm doing (like riding a flat-bar MTB to work) or something residual from TCR. #gettingtoooldforthisshit

Mark Beaumont, I know his record attempt has thus far been a bit 'boring' but I cannot emphasise just how impressed I am, it's incredible.

It's only been boring because he's so well organised and it's gone so smooth.

Incredible.

not grip related but i managed to strain a joint in my back. That's making the nerves hurt down by leg and in my groin. Quite unpleasant, physio reckons that was because I stopped riding and stretching immediately after the TCR. Stupid.

He did knock a tooth out. I thought that was generous of him.

Stupid

Not really, who gives a damn about riding after that. The furthest I've moved or streached in 4 weeks is to lift a beer to my gob.

I haven't done any stretching for a while, or had a massage, certainly not during the race, but the rest of me is basically fine.
It's just my rib cage issue which has been there since whatever happened in Romania and the finger joint thing which could be anything - MTB commuting or getting back on anticoags or residual damage that I didn't notice is healing. Hard to tell.

Have a look for some back and hamstring stretches and there's some nerve flossing videos too. Last year I was doing a lot for meralgia parasthetica (sp) which sounds similar in the way the pain is 'referred' but is hip flexor nerve damage not back (we think).

I've been riding to work and doing nothing on weekends. 30min commute is probably pretty good active recovery. Except I fitted a PM to my MTB and I see to be riding it at 400W every second day :)

Train in today so I can get on the piss again tonight.

Have a look for some back and hamstring stretches and there's some nerve flossing videos too. Last year I was doing a lot for meralgia parasthetica (sp) which sounds similar in the way the pain is 'referred' but is hip flexor nerve damage not back (we think).

pre race i was doing glutes, hip flexors, quads and hamstrings cause my flexibility is pretty bollocks. Just need to ease into them again.

@skinny - i only did about 1500km! Apart from appetite being bonkers i didn't feel too tired but mentally the bike isn't too appealing at the moment. I was enjoying 5 a side football, though.

yeah a commute like that is good. I just have no where to commute to.

Bloody students.

Lazy no good kids.

1500k is still more than most people do in a month.

When I'm motivated I will turbo instead of commute.

If I was you I'd just be riding to/from the pub. Then the next pub, then the next pub...

1500k is still more than most people do in a year.

On here

Most people don't move off the sofa or the car seat.

Anyone had late-onset grip issues after a race?

I had grip issues after IndyPac, but I knew immediately when I had done the damage.

I'm getting this weird spasm in my left hand every now and then. Really hurt the other day - half through a meeting too, thankfully everyone at work already thinks i'm pretty weird.

How have you remedied this? Still having issues post lel

Beautiful but NOOOOO my poor tyres

Yeah nah, I had no problems after TABR or TCR it's only started last couple of weeks.

How have you remedied this? Still having issues post lel

It got better after a few months. There's a guy on YACF who is a hand surgeon who told me it would. Details here:
https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=102871.0