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Did a 46 miler on the road bike at 9.30am and back home for midday and i still got burnt to a crisp.
I was out this morning at 6:30, Whinlatter Pass both ways from Lorton. 10°c felt odd at that time if day.
51 miler this afternoon up in the South Downs cat4 hills this afternoon, crazy hot for April! Hopefully I will come to my senses and set off at ~0630, if I go up there again tomorrow.
I'm waiting until my daughter is in bed before hotfooting it upstairs to get changed and getting out. Probably only be for an hr but I haven't ridden since around the end of Jan, so it'll be nice to get out!
Just got back from 30km from Ligh****er into Swinley. Fine dry trails at last! No bike wash required.
Hopefully Surrey Hills will be just as accommodating by Saturday...
Nice ride home form work on the new bike, will probably do in and out tomorrow
45 miles on the South Downs this afternoon - one KOM, no sunburn. It's been a good day.
The usual commute and then my local loop tonight. What a difference a couple of days make 😁
Managed to get out again this afternoon at 3.00pm until 7.00ish ..did the cross border route to the Bloody Bush Stone on the Lonesome Pine Trail at Kielder..where it was cloudier and a tad more chilly than it had been 20 miles down the road at home ...a few more pics ..
2 metres wide the woodwork on the Stairway To Heaven section as it is so exposed ..
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But it narrows on the Borderline once under tree cover ..in total there is about 3km of woodwork which swallowed up a lot of the budget earmarked for other sections as well as a brand new JCB!
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Going back a few years I helped with quite a bit of maintenance on this section down to the border ..but it's been a few years since I have ridden this section and it's as rough as a badgers arse ...naughty I know but I rode it back the way I came ( it's supposed to be one direction) ..and it works much better as a climb ..seems to have more flow on the descents..wonder if the F.C.would listen ?
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Bloody Bush toll stone ..complete with price list for drovers bringing their cattle over the border and how far in miles to Northumberland villages..
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Bombing down Oliver's Oscar where everything is vivid green ..something caught my eye so I had to stop to investigate ...
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The Smurfs are alive and well & living at Kielder ..!!
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Popped out for a bit, lovely evening....chilterns (without tree cover) running sweet....didn’t venture into woods as I know it’ll be muddy...I’ll ride that Saturday!
Yeah managed a quick 21 mile road blast which involved chasing some emtbs up a hill, they had me on the ups but I made it past them on the flats thank goodness! I even managed to get away with sunglasses and a sleeveless jersey! Driving up to Betws-y-Coed after work tomorrow evening, pizza then crash in the van and hit The Marin first thing woop woop
26 mile club social (ie pub) road ride tonight - perfect weather, nice group of 10 riders, cracking pint of Broadside.
Apparently last night's social ride had 37 riders out, running in 3 groups.
21miles around baggeridge, 9 riders out and the pub garden was chocker
Nice spin out on the Dune. This weather is owed us that's for sure!
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Spin round the Pentlands last night, very busy but it's drying out nicely.
6 of us round the Badaguish XC course and then the Lairig Ghru lower section before a pint outside the Woodshed. Lots of pollen being blown around which was only noticable in the beam of the head torch.
I have chores to do later and then off into Herts. for a cx tastic romp.
Legs are a little sore from yesterdays flier...hurrah.
BTW ,I'd also like to bitterly complain about Martin Hutch's brake cables.
Scandalous. 😉
7 PRs last night on all my local climbs. Consistently inside the top 10% now 🙂
No pics but a glorious CX ride pre breakfast this morning, linking up a local towpath, some singletrack via 2k of road then some gravel local park loops.
I feel alive!*
*almost
Would have done but after going to the garage and finding that my sons front brake has completely gone, pulling back to the bar with no braking at all (damned shimano) and then getting stuck in 2mph traffic trying to get through the Gloucester gridlock, I gave up.
Went home and did an hour on the spin bike 🙁
Yes! 1st ride out in about 6 months due to 'cantbef*ckeditus' and it was lovely. T-shirt on the way out @ 7pm and on the way home @ 10.30pm B-)
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Bit of a lonely moorland explore last night. 5 excellent pints of Moorhouses followed by a smashing ride home.
Clouded over for us though which was a tad disappointing given the weather during the day.
Would have been rude not to really, heaed up Glen Dye, over Mount Battock and then on to the Fungle.
My favourite pictures so far are hodgynds toll stone, and kayaks ‘sunlight flaring over tyre’
Spent the last couple of days doing the Uni student champs dh race at BikePark wales. Wednesday saw the track being a complete slopfest and then bone dry concrete on Thursday.
Didn't think I'd quallified after having to slow and stumble around someone who binned it hard in front of me, so I'd already changed and had a beer before a mate ran over! Then proceeded to crash in my finals run in the tunnel catching my tyre on the lip of it!
But heckling at the bottom when the fast boys came down was incredible, especially when someone tried a backflip on the zut allors step up in their race run! Looking like a Salmon today after my pasty white skin wasn't used to the sun!
Despite the warm couple of days its mud and puddles in my local East Mids woods. Looking forward to tomorrow though - still warm, trails should be nicely tacky and not too much surface water lying about.
With any luck the brambles and nettles wont be out in force yet.
Yup, rode home from work, took a slightly different route, threw in a couple of hills and a nice jaunt along the canal too, rounded up to 62km, sweet.
Top moors adventure above Marsden.
Scuttler, great pic
yes, 15 mile out and back around the South Downs near Winchester...thought I'd get away mud free, but of course I didn't...hit a deep patch of drying out mud which brought me to a stand still.
Our 4 legged fellow bridleway travelers were out in force...
Loving that Scuttler pic too..
Cheers for the "like " Martymac..
Glorious tonight:
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Have ridden 3 nights this week. Nice to have warmth and dry weather
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Lovely evening last night in the Woburn Back Woods, trails running perfectly:
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Pity that about 10 mins after that pic was taken i was lying on the ground groaning "OUCH" having binned it in some style...........
Last night there was a group of us doing Fineshades/Wakerly.
Do you ride with the Wheelers?
I was out for a quick spin round Fineshades last night.
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Round Beinn Fhada today , 3 punctures & a shafted hilo dropper. It was still ace, gotta get better at water bars though.
That is little old Somersetshire. Mendips finest to be precise.
I can't claim the credit, I'm one of the riders in frame. It's taken by my fine friend Greg, so props to him for spotting the moment.
Got out tonight for the first proper ride in ages.
