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Friday local trails to the jump spot and razzednaround there with the kids. Saturday in beautiful Marsden around the pennine way. Sunday Shipley Glen and baildon. All was going so well until I crashed into a an upended tree onto it's roots I now look like iv been branded with a child's Lego collection.
Big Bike Bash for me, was great.
Saturday spent at Delamere introducing my sister and brother-in-law to cycling in addition to my lovely boyfriend, and it all went fabulously!
Sunday did local trails with the gorgeous boyfriend!
Couldn't have been a better week-end, thankyou Martyn! 😉
127km and 5000 m of climbing on the grand raid cristalp from vernier to grimentz. Fantastic riding, even better views and 30degree heat. Rest day on Sunday!
We rode Saturday, which weatherwise was the right call. A quick loop round the back of Scout Moor, a lap of Cragg Quarry then a mad fast descent back to Rammy. We were going to do Lee Quarry too but it was bloody hot so we opted to sit outside the pub instead. Everything's a delicate balance 😀
Did some jumps practice at a jump park.
La Pinilla Bike Park about an hour and a half from Madrid
http://www.lapinillabikepark.es/
11 runs
Total ~3,000m of descent
5 stacks
3 grazes
2 bruises
1 leaking fork leg
Innerleithen cross country. Seemed a little rougher than last time I was there. And descending skills were a bit shit tbh. Still, climbed better than expected so can't complain.
Two very hot a sweaty racing laps of Blenheim Palace for the Brompton World Championships. The organisers were merciful and said that cos of the heat, jackets were optional. Not sure where I came yet but in my starting wave I spotted Michael Hutchinson last years winner. Thought if I could hang onto him, even just for a bit it would help propel me round. I think I lasted about 30 seconds max before he dropped me & shot off into the distance to win it again! He's bloody fast you know.
I did 30 miles over Cannock. From MD to Castle Ring, up to Seven Springs and back, taking in a bit of FTD / Monkey and some cheek.
Abortive outing to Epping Forest.
Hot, too tired from hectic end of work week, rear derailleur unhappy, front brake AWOL.
[i]And[/i] I don't know where the best trails are. Frustrating
Did an hour, drove home.
Still, [i]always[/i] better than not leaving the house.
Yesterday I fettled the rear der. Today it's snicking up and down perfectly. All's well that ends etc etc
After a six week holiday of drinking and diving, I rode London to Brighton (103km) on the road bike in just under 5 and a half hours. The last hill was an absolute f*****r, especially on deep-section carbon wheels and a 38/26 smallest ratio.
Then spent a couple of hours digging up the front yard yesterday - don't want to skimp on the upper body training eh? 😉
I'm bolloxed!!!
I'm so jealous 🙁 This time last year I would've been 2 weeks into my Whistler summer of awesome! Need to find some way of securing a job before I go out again so I can stay there for longer.
Sat: out around Leigh Woods for 90mins with the six-year-old on a tag-a-long, quite a workout.
Sun: Took ten-year-old stepson out to do Forest of Dean blue, then red, then lunch. Popped over to Cwmcarn and did the Twrch loop in fantastic sunshine, finished just before 7pm. Yes, he struggled, but largely only where I did, and he managed all the downhill sections absolutely fine on his rigid Orange. Epic.
QE park to Brighton on the South Downs Way.
Very hot.
Harder than I remembered.
The girlfriend managed it, which as a non biker was good.
Cracking views, quite a few other riders out.
Lovely day..
Great thrash with a mate down Skyline trail, Afan
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Nowhere. Injured NOT 8)
Saturday morning, I did a loop of the Capcir: Col de la llose, col du creu, across to Formigueres, up the valley a bit, then down to les eglisiettes, into les Angles, up to pla del mir, then down to la Llagonne.
In summary, it was too bloody hot even at 2000m for such shenanigans, but well worth it.
We rode High Street and then a singletrack trail by Ullswater back to Hartsop. Had everykind of weather you can imagine in the space of 20 minutes but it ended up being nice for the most part.
High Street is a bog up there though, it's like riding in treacle!
Another Brompton Worlds attendee here 🙂
HOT HOT day. Reasonably happy with 36th overall - 13km in 23:24, but hope to tighten the seatpost properly next year so i don't get sag, and actually drinking some water in the hour before hand might have helped.
Gave QECP 'Orange' run a first ride (twice). Hot as hell under the trees. Average..
Sat
Went to Bedgebury for the first time and ponced about doing their [url= http://app.strava.com/rides/18926534 ]XC race[/url]. Thoroughly enjoyed it though should have tried a bit harder.
Sun
[url= http://app.strava.com/rides/19034903 ]Out at 4:35[/url] to push off on the ESCA / VTTA 100 mile time trial. Great to be out for the dawn, and just two cars passed me in the first 11 miles.
Then [url= http://app.strava.com/rides/19034916 ]ponced about East Sussex before grovelling home[/url] with hot foot problems
I did a local "mountain bike challenge" thing organised by the council, [url=
one[/url]. 30 miles and about 1400m of climbing, quite pleased that I managed to just about make the gold medal cut off time in spite of losing about 20 minutes taking a wrong turn, breaking my chain, and having a puncture on the last off road descent. It was pretty well organised and marshalled overall, although the signage was a bit patchy in places.
Apart from the mechanicals the only bad bit was getting past a convoy of mardy green-laners coming down one of the big off-road uphills. None of them looked like they were having fun at all, some of them had even brought their wives and kids along to sit in the back and look bored and grumpy too, very weird.
Nice we hill climb.
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3 days road riding in the heat in Gran Canaria, 1 more day to go tomorrow then take the loan bike back
🙁
umm do I qualify on a canal boat?
Stourton to Tardebigge (for an overhaul before I get comments about the state of the boat): 4 tunnels, 29 locks in 14 hours and a wedding reception crashed in Brindley place
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and quite bizarrely the amount of coconuts floating in the canal is daft.
A fair bit of stuff around Aberfoyle and Callander. Anyone familiar with the area (or Scottish singletrack in general) will be shocked to hear it was a mud fest.
Then we had a BBQ, it was ace.
I did the first half of the Hope mountain bike challenge route, 16.5miles round the hills around Hope. Its a great loop.
The full 28 miles course on sept 15th will be quite tough i think.
Saturday - Private coaching with Tony at UKBikeSkills. One of the best days I've had on my bike and learnt a lot.
Sunday - Aston Hill.
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Sat am: a 45 minute Salisbury plain blast with a few loops round the local BMX track.
Sunday pm: 3 hour ride from Wilton round Grovely wood onto the plain. Not exciting but beautiful. 🙂
i camped at herts all weekend and coached and rode
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No biking on Sat or Sunday for me but I did manage to take my lad and our pooch round the Gisburn blue route on Monday. Couldn't get him off the bottom half of the hope line he loved it that much.
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Buffalo Creek Trails, Pine, Colorado
Nice.