Is it me or is there a lot of it about at the moment??Shirley we should all be out actually riding? (says he on a sunny sunday arvo).
Or is it confined to the same ‘characters’ 😉
Did it yesterday in the New Forest – they put a Saturday one on because the Sunday one sold out so quickly. Just trying to work out how to edit a pdf of results to see how I did. 😕
just cracked out a 20mile loop with mrsconsequence in the sun, lots of families out with dogs and kids, sleeveless t-shirt and shorts, a cooling wind if you’re fast enough, warm wind if you’re pacing yourself… beautiful.
111miles = lying, he had a bbq and an orgy… nobody can do that many miles, its imposssible.
TSY – you better come out to play once LEJOG is out of the way 🙂
What’s the longest distance you’ve all done then? I’ve done about 30 miles (‘cos we got lost I thought my legs were going to fall off) reckon I could more this year though
coast to coast is about 135 miles on the road. Riding flatish stuff on road is not that hard if you just hit a rhythm and stick to it for the next 8 hours
Even at 10 mph 100 miles is doable in a day with a pub lunch and tea at the end
….remember I live in the flatlands, so not as impressive as those who have hills.
Still pretty impressive to me. I did 46 miles round northants yesterday and I was absolutely **** 😆 I’ve had the road bike since about February as well (and a ss road since august).
Seeing as it was a minging day today, we went round Gisburn forest. I managed to earn another “you’re not a real mountain biker until” badge by having total and catastrophic bottle failure on the Northshore, dabbing onto fresh air and pratfalling off into the conveniently located peat-bog-and-cowshit quagmire.
Later on we almost demolished a group of muggles who thought that walking the wrong way up the singletrack was a great idea for a family outing, but other than that it was a really pleasant ride out. Worth it for a pint of, ah, easily digestible carbohydrates and a chip butty at the Dog & Partridge afterwards.
Oh, poor you, where abouts are you? we’ve had really nice sunshine all weekend, might even have tan lines!
Mind you, walkers today! 🙄 none of them in a good mood, after a while it became silly, shouting hello at them, either to be ignored completely, (couple of road riders too) or one chap who just stared and said “How many more of you?”