What an amazing ride.

whyamihere

Today, the weather was great, so I headed out for a nice ride. I was planning a metric century, just over 60 miles.

On my last few metrics, I've been pushing into strong headwinds for most of the ride, and only just making it round. Today, there was very little headwind. The first 30 miles were done at my TT pace, average of 19.8mph on rolling terrain. Calmed down a bit after that, and after 60 miles I felt great, so I carried on.
I nipped up to the top of the local downhill mountain bike track where there was a race being held, saw a couple of friends and confused a load of racers by standing at the start line on a road bike in full lycra. Headed off and met another roadie around the 70 mile mark, and rode with him for a few miles having a nice chat. I was still feeling good at that point, and continued until I'd done 93 miles, the longest ride I've done by over 20 miles. I would have cracked the century, but I want to leave that as a carrot dangling in front of me for the Cheshire Cat.
Brilliant day of riding. Hope you all had a good one.

Frank the tank

Sixty six today. Very pleased as it's the longest one this calendar year for me. The riding (training some would call it, not me though) is going well. I'm up on 2008 mileage and it's all on target for my double century ride (nigh on) in june.

Obviously gardening/DIY are going to interfere with my programme in one form or another.

mrushton

120+ for us. Mcr up to Settle and Lancaster and back. Rode a fabulous bike and was Rapha'd/Assos'd up. The sun shone, the bikes hummed along. Life was good

iain_j

Yesterday was awesome. I thought it would be mild, warm even, but I wasn't expecting such a glorious "summer" day. Decided to go for my usual end-of-winter Chester - Llangollen - Horseshoe - Llandeglas - Chester circuit, but as I've done it on pretty much the same roads for years I went in search of lanes I hadn't been down before.

Went out of Chester through Handbridge, Eccleston, Rossett, Holt, Cross Lanes... it was sheer delight after the long cold winter, and the slight headwind didn't even bother me. Saw LOADS of roadies, don't think I've ever seen so many in such a short time, must have been the weather drawing everyone out.

Meandered my way up the lanes on the side of Ruabon Mountain, round the corner of the Vale of Llangollen - what an incredible sight. Been down the valley countless times but never seen it from above.

Lunch in Llangollen, then along the vale past Rhewl to have a go at a "new" climb over to Bryneglwys. Good lord. It crippled me. Something like 1-in-6 for longer than I could cope, over what I thought was the summit, then uphill again for another mile. It hurt.

I struggled from then on. Just up the road from Llandegla village I stopped to finish my water, then rolled down to the village shop to buy some more. It was shut. Never mind, there's a pub 3 miles further where I can fill up. It was shut. Damn.

My legs slowly recovered on the way back to Chester but by the time I got back I was gasping. Cracking day though. 71 miles and the first long ride in 2 months thanks to icy roads last month and life in general getting in the way.

Stewie Griffin

How far? Rhubarb. I suggest some of you get home this evening and set about re-calibrating your Computers. Im not near fit enough to do half my longest ride yet .

antfly

I did 12 miles on my mountain bike,but I could have done even more!

benji90

50 Lumpy Miles for me - on a glorious day in sunny Shropshire.
Spring is by far the best season as is not too hot and not too cold!

STEFANOS4784

10 miles...........to work

DomPro

65 enjoyable but dreadfully slow miles.

simon johnson

I've got a midterm exam on Wednesday so was in all day with the curtain closed; I even started listening to The Smiths - it was that bad

Edit: revising, I should say!

Ruari

Ah, so jealous... I did 30 miles, would have loved to have done more, but time was restricted! Gorgeous day, no need for baselayers, gloves, bibtights... Just bibshorts, s/s, and mitts! Felt so good to have the sun on ones skin.

jimmypippa

STEFANOS4784 wrote:

10 miles...........to work

Ah I did 25 to work and back:

I just started this topic:

Silly Commuting Sightseeing

jimmypippa wrote:

One of the things I like about bike commutiong is the chance to get out in the open and have a couple of hours fresh air a day...


I have seen some rather impressive photos of people's commutes so I thought that I'd start a thread for any pictures that people want to add from their commute.


Here is one I took this morning at 6:30, looking back over coombs reservoir towards the the hillfort of Castle Naze, this is on my most direct route to work.

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jimmypippa

double post

a_n_t

A very lumpy 82 miles on the clubrun http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/7802341

mrushton

aren't you out that way next week?