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Also, once retired you'll have plenty of time to work your way up to this distance by doing a multi-day tour every month or some such.

If a credit card deal has 0% on purchases for 12 months, does that mean that I will accrue no interest in that period and I can spend up to the credit limit just paying the minimum payment amount

Yes, that's how it works. They're gambling on you forgetting or being unable to pay it off after the 12 months.

Ooh, Lee is on the road again

I'm on a low carb high fat diet, and last night I completely stuffed my face with all the cheese in the house, a huge carvery dinner and an unknown but very large quantity of 70% chocolate, to the point where my head and stomach hurt. You know that feeling where you know you've had too much so you have another handful, because then you'll still have had too much and "too much" doesn't sound any worse than "too much" so it must be fine.

Anyway, I got to sleep ok and woke up at 5am feeling full of beans and wanting to bounce up and down on my toes (probably still off my face on caffeine, sugars and other chocolate stimulants) and I have tomorrow off from cycling, so I thought I'd give it some welly on the morning commute and see how fast I can go on the new Selle SMP that allows me some comfort on the drops.

http://www.strava.com/activities/357088256

Dafuq did that happen ? A KOM on the commute, that isn't me. I was fairly lucky with the lights, but no tailwind. It felt like I'd borrowed the legs and metabolism of a much stronger cyclist.

I must eat all of the chocolate again. Or possibly I must misplace my HRM again, so that the high reading doesn't scare me into easing up.

Based on googling the words on the circuit board, it's something like a central heating pump controller. The "FS" ports would go to a flow switch, the T1 and T2 sensors are probably thermometers.

How many days are you doing it over?

As many as I end up needing, we're going to combine it with a camper van tour and see how it goes.

JOGLE, probably

I did a couple of rides Yesterday to test out my new Selle SMP over some longer distances, and the rain was bothersome. Summer weight shoes with no overshoes didn't help, and cold wet feet was the main reason I stopped the morning leg a bit earlier than planned.

As I currently have no intact overshoes or winter weight shoes, I gave the Old Plastic Bag Trick [1] a go for the afternoon ride. After 4 hours of riding (some of it quite damp) my feet were still not sending me any nasty messages. The inner socks were a bit damp with sweat by the end, but still quite comfortable.

[1] Apply in order: merino sock, plastic bag, another sock (the thinnest you can find, just to prevent holes in the plastic bag), cycling shoe, rain.

Damn, I must have come in too early.

I had more fellow cyclists than usual this morning, but they mostly seemed to know how to bicycle, maybe they were regular cyclists commuting earlier than usual to avoid the strike fallout.

My favourite thing from this year is the guy with the horn that sounded like a dying squeeky toy who was using it to reply to the spectators who shouted us on. Or maybe more than one person had those, it's all a bit of a blur.

yes, http://www.everesting.cc/

From the facebook page:

The White Horse pub in Great Waldingfield confirmed they will be doing food and water throughout the DD night until about 0530.

Would the driver of the coach have been sounding is horn at other car in the same circumstances, less likely I would think.

Well no, there'd be no point, cars can't shuffle sideways to get out of the way.

That function does not work- have a Google. It's been fucked for at least a year.

The 810 -> bluetooth -> android phone -> Garmin Connect upload path ? I am one data point for "it works".

I enjoyed that ride a lot, thanks Magnus for giving me a deadline so that I had to get around to organising one, otherwise it might have been years. Things I foolishly skipped on the first ride: Ice-cream, check. KFC, check. The little bit of rain we got was annoying, @fasih's drivetrain exploding was bad, but the day was mostly excellent.

I was brought down to earth sharply this morning though when I read of a rider killed in Harrow on Sunday, after we'd passed within 500m of the scene the day before.

Moving off now

I'm at the start

Yup, looking like a soggy afternoon now. At least it will be warm with little or no wind.

OK then, I'll drop you a text at least an hour before we get there.

My number is unchanged, just scroll up.

If we took the same amount of time as the first ride, we'd get there at 0940, so probably some time before that with it being a much smaller group. I can text you a better ETA when we're a few ks into the ride and we know our average speed if you like - how long will it take you to get there from home ?

http://ridewithgps.com/routes/2880606

Apparently I have guests this weekend. Might still be able to ride a portion of it

"I'm just popping out to the shop" :)

My phone number is unchanged from last time, and it's in the phone numbers thread if you don't still have it.

20th is a no
27th is a distinct possibility

It's a bit too late to change the date now I think

At the moment it's looking like it will rain lightly in the afternoon, but be warm enough to tough it out without extra clothes. Not to too windy either.

http://www.windguru.cz/int/index.php?sc=515293
http://www.windguru.cz/int/index.php?sc=105310
http://www.windguru.cz/int/index.php?sc=57932

edit: which is what you said

I too am very much looking forward to this.