saturday here hare here

sungod

'ning

brrr, back to freezing

all along the watchtower ride cafes voodoo chile slight return bubbly

oxoman

Morning sleepy heads. Run and ride today and also keep OH happy, hopefully. Looking dry and cool out still. Enjoy your weekend peeps.

Stevo_666

Got a few bits n pieces to fo then we've got our former neighbours from Beckenham coming round. Later on is undecided but may try for a bike ride if I get the time.

pinno

Sun!

First thing t'was frosty but it's getting burnt off now.
Once I get the DW's out the door, i'll go pedal.

beansnikpoh

Mid length ride rid. 60 km or so. Bloody cold and cross-headwind homeward leg. Brrr. The only recovery food I can find is a bag of scratchings.

Wheelspinner

Third in a row of unusually hot and humid for us. Was low 30s, still and sticky. After a particularly good hamburger for lunch, I had a snooze for a couple of hours till the cool change blew through.

Civilised.

pinno

Chilly ride but tail wind section with the sun on my back was lovely.

Found some vanilla ice cream and hand mixed it with 2 scoops of protein powder to make an ace recovery shake.
[You can stuff your four sprung pork scratchings technik].

beansnikpoh

I didn't have the scratchings. That would be too grim. I had a glass of milk with chocolate powder.

tlw1

Gentle start after an evening of excess, then reasonable run followed by a local 5k race - winner winner chicken dinner.

New bike picked up, about to go for a little ride then pub for the rugby followed by town with friends

veronese68

Afternoon folks,
Slowish start was enjoyed, then took the old dear shopping for a glass splashback. Unsurprisingly a complete waste of time. Was going to do a bit of pottering but got distracted watching Ireland/Italy, a better match than the scores would indicate. Now England/Wales with a brew.

pinno

tlw1 said:

Gentle start after an evening of excess, then reasonable run followed by a local 5k race - winner winner chicken dinner.

Well done!

[Although running is silly]

tlw1

pinno said:

tlw1 said:

Gentle start after an evening of excess, then reasonable run followed by a local 5k race - winner winner chicken dinner.

Well done!

[Although running is silly]

Unless you win?

pinno

tlw1 said:

pinno said:

tlw1 said:

Gentle start after an evening of excess, then reasonable run followed by a local 5k race - winner winner chicken dinner.

Well done!

[Although running is silly]

Unless you win?

Yeah, ok.

veronese68

tlw1 said:

pinno said:

tlw1 said:

Gentle start after an evening of excess, then reasonable run followed by a local 5k race - winner winner chicken dinner.

Well done!

[Although running is silly]

Unless you win?

Still silly, just makes you the silliest surely 😝

pinno

veronese68 said:

tlw1 said:

pinno said:

tlw1 said:

Gentle start after an evening of excess, then reasonable run followed by a local 5k race - winner winner chicken dinner.

Well done!

[Although running is silly]

Unless you win?

Still silly, just makes you the silliest surely 😝

Logical.

Stevo_666

I think running is a bit theoretical for me, Pinno and V68. We should leave those who can to enjoy it while they still have their original knee and hip joints

Wheelspinner

I would just f^^king *love* to be able to still run, even slowly. Much as I like riding my bikes (or did, anyway)... I've never had anywhere near the same endorphin trip from riding that I used to get out on a reasonably loooooong fast run.

It's more than 30 years ago now but I can still recall vividly the feeling one day I did a 16km out and back fairly flat trail run through fresh mountain air in a forest... and negative split it, came home to finish in a tick over 57 minutes. Felt effortless, like I could have turned round and done it again on the spot, just an awesome buzz.

And another time, a Christmas Day, on my own as was usual, went running in the rain, 27 deg C, and just floated through a bit over 30km around the city foreshore in Sydney, pretty much oblivious to the rest of the world.

I'm sure @tlw1 knows that vibe.

I love riding, always have, but running is an addiction.

tlw1

veronese68 said:

tlw1 said:

pinno said:

tlw1 said:

Gentle start after an evening of excess, then reasonable run followed by a local 5k race - winner winner chicken dinner.

Well done!

[Although running is silly]

Unless you win?

Still silly, just makes you the silliest surely 😝

I was running for less time in the race than everyone else

tlw1

Wheelspinner said:

I would just f^^king *love* to be able to still run, even slowly. Much as I like riding my bikes (or did, anyway)... I've never had anywhere near the same endorphin trip from riding that I used to get out on a reasonably loooooong fast run.

It's more than 30 years ago now but I can still recall vividly the feeling one day I did a 16km out and back fairly flat trail run through fresh mountain air in a forest... and negative split it, came home to finish in a tick over 57 minutes. Felt effortless, like I could have turned round and done it again on the spot, just an awesome buzz.

And another time, a Christmas Day, on my own as was usual, went running in the rain, 27 deg C, and just floated through a bit over 30km around the city foreshore in Sydney, pretty much oblivious to the rest of the world.

I'm sure @tlw1 knows that vibe.

I love riding, always have, but running is an addiction.

100% so many runs are hard work and then something switches and it feels like you are gliding

veronese68

tlw1 said:

pinno said:

tlw1 said:

Gentle start after an evening of excess, then reasonable run followed by a local 5k race - winner winner chicken dinner.

Well done!

[Although running is silly]

Unless you win?

Still silly, just makes you the silliest surely 😝

tlw1 said:

veronese68 said:

tlw1 said:

pinno said:

tlw1 said:

Gentle start after an evening of excess, then reasonable run followed by a local 5k race - winner winner chicken dinner.

Well done!

[Although running is silly]

Unless you win?

Still silly, just makes you the silliest surely 😝

I was running for less time in the race than everyone else

Good point well made 😂
I used to be able to run for miles when I were a lad, not fast over a short distance but could keep going. Everyone in the 6th form had to do the house cross country, my mates that were in the rugby team laughed at how slow I was beforehand. They all took off too fast, on the long draggy hill back I passed every one of them easily. Top 3 made up the school team next 2 were reserves. I came 7th out of 300, so second of those that didn't have to do it again which suited me.

Stevo_666

tlw1 said:

Wheelspinner said:

I would just f^^king *love* to be able to still run, even slowly. Much as I like riding my bikes (or did, anyway)... I've never had anywhere near the same endorphin trip from riding that I used to get out on a reasonably loooooong fast run.

It's more than 30 years ago now but I can still recall vividly the feeling one day I did a 16km out and back fairly flat trail run through fresh mountain air in a forest... and negative split it, came home to finish in a tick over 57 minutes. Felt effortless, like I could have turned round and done it again on the spot, just an awesome buzz.

And another time, a Christmas Day, on my own as was usual, went running in the rain, 27 deg C, and just floated through a bit over 30km around the city foreshore in Sydney, pretty much oblivious to the rest of the world.

I'm sure @tlw1 knows that vibe.

I love riding, always have, but running is an addiction.

100% so many runs are hard work and then something switches and it feels like you are gliding

For me, that's when I switch to a bike