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Blandiblub

Ta! Logged my first 7 miles from this morning's ride to Greenwich.

Wallace1492

Joined.... I will get you some quality scottish miles!!

dhope

Blandiblub wrote:

Ta! Logged my first 7 miles from this morning's ride to Greenwich.

Another one from Greenwich, what're you riding?

Blandiblub

It's to Greenwich - from Welling. Park up in a building near the O2 (so not really Greenwich actually!).

Ride a Sirrus Elite - the black/white model.

Still getting bike fit and confident on the roads...

richVSrich

Wallace1492 wrote:

Joined.... I will get you some quality scottish miles!!

uhm, do you commute to london from scotland? (i hope so!) but it says you have to live/work/cycle in london...

KeimanP

I shall be cycling in London this week (first time) so you can have those miles just have to work out the route I'm going to take now...

Wallace1492

richVSrich wrote:

Wallace1492 wrote:

Joined.... I will get you some quality scottish miles!!

uhm, do you commute to london from scotland? (i hope so!) but it says you have to live/work/cycle in london...

I think the rules are fairly flexible.... my head office is in London, I visit there and work out of London regularly.

UndercoverElephant

Wallace1492 wrote:

richVSrich wrote:

Wallace1492 wrote:

Joined.... I will get you some quality scottish miles!!

uhm, do you commute to london from scotland? (i hope so!) but it says you have to live/work/cycle in london...

I think the rules are fairly flexible.... my head office is in London, I visit there and work out of London regularly.

Glasgow's classified as Greater London, innit?

Wallace1492

UndercoverElephant wrote:

Wallace1492 wrote:

richVSrich wrote:

Wallace1492 wrote:

Joined.... I will get you some quality scottish miles!!

uhm, do you commute to london from scotland? (i hope so!) but it says you have to live/work/cycle in london...

I think the rules are fairly flexible.... my head office is in London, I visit there and work out of London regularly.

Glasgow's classified as Greater London, innit?

Top geezer! I think I can hear the ringing of Bow Bell in the distance......

asprilla

Mrs A is out tonight and my folks are picking The Mighty Pickle up from nursery; sounds like a recipe for a couple of laps of the part to me.

Headwind schmedwind...

dcurzon

hmmm.. my works team have so far amassed a grand total of 42 miles between the 6 of us.

33 of them miles are mine.

me thinks some folk arent towing the line...

Wrath Rob

Yup, will be 3 of us in the park tonight so that will be 36 miles on the day for me. Feel free to join us at Roehampton Gate for 7pm. 2 of the guys are tapering for Marmotte so it will be relatively easy, ~20 min laps. I might even be the first one up the hills for once.

asprilla

Wrath Rob wrote:

Yup, will be 3 of us in the park tonight so that will be 36 miles on the day for me. Feel free to join us at Roehampton Gate for 7pm. 2 of the guys are tapering for Marmotte so it will be relatively easy, ~20 min laps. I might even be the first one up the hills for once.

I did two laps in 23 and 20 minutes and and I'm jiggered. I'm going to pay for that tomorrow.

Someone came a cropper on Broomfield Hill; by the looks of things they locked up and straightened up, possible caught by the wind, and hit the left kerb on the way down the hill. There were 5 or 6 other cyclists stopped when I went past and I saw an ambulance leaving the scene on my second lap. Looked to be a girl who was sitting up and chatting when i first went past.

jzed

Wrath Rob wrote:

Yup, will be 3 of us in the park tonight so that will be 36 miles on the day for me. Feel free to join us at Roehampton Gate for 7pm. 2 of the guys are tapering for Marmotte so it will be relatively easy, ~20 min laps. I might even be the first one up the hills for once.

Learnt a new word tonight - "tapering" = 2 laps 38 minutes - slightly slower on the inclines but balls out the rest of the way.

Bassjunkieuk

Did the scenic route home this evening - 3 extra miles over the more direct route but about twice as fun :-) Will have to carry on with that for rest of the week. Have a route that adds about 1 extra mile in the mornings but I'll be putting in some proper mileage on Sunday - I've been roped in to doing the Bikeathon "Challenge" ride with some work colleagues as I'm the most experienced rider they know :-) 52 miles + another 12-15 getting there and back should do nicely!! I may even be able to add some extra miles as the ride goes via RP - up Sawyers first before heading out and then back in and through the middle. At the pace I'm expecting one of the people to ride I may be able to lap the park in the time he takes to get through the middle :-D

ketsbaia

I'll be doing the scenic route home tonight. Via Keston! Assuming the weather holds off, that is.

stuaff

Chapeau to GBSahne, first one of us to Elite badge status!

asprilla

StuAff wrote:

Chapeau to GBSahne, first one of us to Elite badge status!

Yup, two thumbs up for that one.

Does anyone else find it weird that The Met have so many cyclists who do so many miles and yet they don't really give a stuff about enforcing basic road laws to protect cyclists.

It's just odd.

Wrath Rob

1300 miles in the lead. I wonder if the SKY team will add their Marmotte miles...

Pufftmw

hfidgen wrote:

snooks wrote:

Do we get double points for cycling in the rain, and a few more points for cleaning the bike AGAIN! :?

Sorry if this has been asked already, I've not searched all 6 pages:

BUT. What's to stop an unscrupulous team (EG the Metropolitan Police) just adding (x) miles onto everything they log into the site? Surely you could ride 3 miles and log 45?

Our works team have GPS trackers at all times, so all their locations whilst working are logged on our servers every 10 seconds. Its then a simple matter to work out the distance they've travelled on any particular day and upload it. We add the distance from their home to their logon position (1st recorded GPS) and again from last position home again.

Possibly a bit anal but then we're a techy lot here

Just a pain I can't track them when they're not logged in but if they do w/end miles (say L2B) then they let me know.

redvee

I can't believe that I'm being left behind by Cafewanda :oops:

Cafewanda

Regard it as inspiration/a challenge mate 8)

ketsbaia

Nice 30-miler in the bag this evening. Think I might do that route home at least twice a week.

redvee

Cafewanda wrote:

Regard it as inspiration/a challenge mate 8)

An 80 mile jump start was unexpected. I'll pass you soon hopefully.

sketchley

Still no bike to ride. Can't believe the timing.

Not Happy!

snooks

I've noticed a loophole

"Can I log miles cycled on a stationary bike?

Only miles cycled outside can be logged.

from the FAQs here

Take the turbo trainer outside

sketchley

snooks wrote:

I've noticed a loophole

"Can I log miles cycled on a stationary bike?

Only miles cycled outside can be logged.

from the FAQs here

Take the turbo trainer outside

But you won't actually travel any miles will you. Play fair.

snooks

Sketchley wrote:

But you won't actually travel any miles will you. Play fair.

I do play fair, I was merely pointing out a loophole

phy2sll2

Uh oh, looks like SKY are catching.

Feel like I'm lagging (61 miles so far this week) and the four day stag weekend in Bognor is not going to help at all!

Sorry!

snooks

We should get the sandwich man on our team. Singlehandedly he has cycled 3316 miles, making his daily average 473 odd miles. :shock:

I think it's more than his tuna mayo sandwiches that smell fishy!