After inners xc and GT red yesterday, my legs were like lead last night.
So after getting up and forcing a little breakfast down me, i headed over to do GT black.
My legs were still like lead and every time the trail pitched upwards they were screaming at me to head back, a little walking got me through the worst of the climbs and a found a bit of energy to enjoy the descents, after Deliverance i took one look at redemption and my legs had a refusal, so a wee walk to the top was the way forward. Then back down, suddenly to my surprise it all became familiar and i pedalled the crap out of magic mushroom, mushroom pie and down falla brae.
A wee pitstop at the hub and a bite to eat with some riders i rode yesterday, and i felt no better at all, ****ed!
So just a lap of the blue to finish off and really wish i had the legs to enjoy the final descent in the way i'd normally have it.
108 ss kms in two days and i'm an achy mess. Jez i need to ride more.
Road ride with the rest of the uni club. Exeter to diggerhead and back, 36 miles, two hours. Cloudy but dry, very nice.
Today, nowhere because I knew it was going to rain and blow hard so I did 150km road ride yesterday and am planning 100kms for Sun, Mon and Tues. Gotta love bank holidays. 😆
Went for a quick spin round GT- never seen it so busy , there was a constant flow of bikes. Whats happening at teh start of spooky wood? And that small diversion is great fun - actual single track at GT
Just a short road ride. Going Cannock tomorrow for a pootle as my shoulder's still not right so can't go full on gnar 🙁
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no riding for me this weekend as on house husband duty building browny points for the next weekend pass 😉
No riding this weekend. Was going up cannock chase but a dodgy back has seen that idea off. Just been to a kids party at the bowling alley...oh happy days. 🙁
Not all bad as I am on the lash later. 😀
That'll sort the back out.
Quick spin around Woburn Woods
just 1 lap at cannock today but very good trail. bigger ride next weekend
Northwest Highlands in stunning weather.
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42 mile road ride around North Somerset.
river dart.
Quantocks. It's never bad.
10 times round a field 5 minutes from the man city footy ground.
riding tomorrow 8) (now that i have new gear gables inners and outers (couldnt shift into middle ring yestaday 😥
4hours flying through the air at herts shore 🙂
Nothing today. Other than a trip down to the LBS to get my shifter looked at.
Over from Bangor to Llanberis via Lake Padarn, and then up Snowdon until halfway and thought better of it. It was [u]very[/u] windy up there today (70mph?). Descent and then up through the slate mines eventually making our way down to Rhiwlas, and then back to Bangor. Aside from Snowdon conditions, it was a total summer's day.
back to the flat of warwickshire today 21 miles, one bike shop and some new knee warmers
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great days riding at Wanlockhead...
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lee quarry , windy as hell , nice evening apart from that
Maxin the rad skilz in the cleave on da D-Moor.
that looks just a little hillier than my route 😐
had to double park at the hub for a quick toilet stop, a wee spin round Inners XC, and even though there was an uplift day there, only 5 other people on the route, and then popped back to GT for a blast round the red route... sitting on the sofa enjoying some real ale, before cooking steak and tatties for dinner. Depending of the wind, a road ride tomorrow!
43 miler to see some deer rutting in Windsor Great Park 🙂
<makes deer rutting noise>
would you care to explain jedi ... in detail... (you not been on the magic mushrooms have you ? lol
short road ride section in support of and with the lads from the watch the two firefighters were from that died in Hampshire recently.
Top lads, cycling to every station in the county in 24hrs to say thankyou for charity work.
if you see them out an about give them a shout in support please.
Aston Hill.
Bit slippy but in a fun way - and good to get out on my big bike for first time in more than a month.
been riding herts shore. awesome conditions 🙂
Surrey hills with a newbie mate, he's getting better fast, no crashes today.
3 or 4hrs local XC on my own then a short ride with GFs son(8), never ventured more than a couple of miles from my front door and didn't ride the same bit twice almost totally dry too 😀
coastkid - looks way nicer this weekend (kinda glad we bailed to Drumlanrig last weekend TBH)
Kirroughtree, utterly utterly mint.
Took a guy newish to riding for a lap of Y Wal at Afan, he loved it and I knackered my BB on the first climb but still had a great time
GW im glad i made it this weekend...though it took about 5 seconds from HH on the phone last night and i was there :o..that descent off from that big golf ball thing on the hill top is ace!,
its the bit used in the film Home with Rik from Drumalrig...
does it have a name anyone? we named it no left turn...for obvious reasons!
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60mile 'up tempo' road ride with an uber-fit mate. Legs are in pieces right now.
Probably not the best prep for tomorrows cross race :0/
We were up Ben Arthur (the Cobbler). Glorious sunshine but a howling gale at the top. A stonking run back down 🙂
Peaks pootle, crashed twice, one hurt, one didn't.... knackered now
Penmachno this morning. Cannock Monkey tomorrow.
Grizedale with a comedy off.
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only did 18 miles (3000ft of climbing) and I'm now absolutely buggered
Road ride, Taunton, Porlock, Dunkery Beacon, Raleighs Cross, Taunton 46 miles, 3300 ft climbed.
Licky hills. Much fun exaggerated by new overkill bouncy toy.
Mate's work's fitness ride - Scarborough to Whitby and back up the old railway line. Just over 40 miles and more climbing than you'd expect - not much (ie nothing) technical though.
Cracking mendip ride with an old mate. Was rubbish uphill but my downhilling was as good as it has ever been with no fear or screw ups I managed several bit that troubled me previously. Then a nice lamb biriani.
For a second I thought you said a "nice lambrini". I'll go see the optician.
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Where did you park up then? There were loads of people parking at the velodrome and riding from there.
All the way around the island of Guernsey. Again.
4 hours of digging in new trails, followed by a half hour test ride on a borrowed TT bike, with brakes wrong way around.
Tomorrow - 60 miles on said borrowed TT bike.
nothing for me.. painting at a graffiti convention all weekend.. and then off for a weeks break with the familia in Cornwall on monday... may take the bike for some coastal cliff path epic-ness...
yunki - if you ride your bike to the Eden project you get in for half price AND get to jump the queue
North York Moors with my lad, only 13 miles but very pleasant.
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heh! When I was contracting in Guernsey, I was offered a job. The (or one) thing that put me off was that to do any decent length ride, I'd have to go round about 6 times.
The other thing that put me off was I went home with a 'woman' one night who almost managed to get me in a crying game situation. It was only because her boyriend turned up as we were heading upstairs and kicked off that I got out unscathed.
Went riding in local woods with some mates who are new to MTBing - awesome day! All had massive grins at the end. Was great to see them enjoying it as much as I do.
Cannock, it was.. ok. Think I'm starting to see what the "xc trail centres are crap" brigade are on about now, it's really quite dull. Downhill trail centres like FOD are great though 🙂 Could just be that I've ridden Cannock too much this year or that I'm going off xc as it's just not as fun as the downhill I've been doing recently!
I rode the annual Calderdale Mountain Bike Marathon. 26+ miles around Sowerby Bridge, Midgley Moor,, Luddenden etc.. Had a rear tyre blow out and a minor off. Good hard ride with about 400 entrants.
Took my youngest for a few miles locally, she did an awesome over the bars and lie under your bike laughing about half way round. Apparently, she just puilled the front brake a bit hard!
No harm done though.
Well yesterday and today at Relentless 24 with the best weather ever. FACT! 8)
Swinley Forest.... trails were sweet today.. missed the club ride as couldn't get up in time oops 🙂
took some vid footage to play around with tonight...
Despite achy legs from yesterday I could not stay in. A quick pootle to town on the ss turned into a ride over the hills with a pub stop and off road all the way home. My jeans and tee were rather sweaty and muddy. And now my legs properly hurt.
None today. Did Whinlatter Blue, Red North & Red South on Friday & the back of Skiddaw route yesterday. Unfortunately spent the day in the car driving home 🙁
Col Du Clent with fierce Easterly gales at the peak
Just a quick 55 miler on cx bike,chesterfield,rotherham,back to alferton.
Did a wee local loop in the Kilpatricks.
Hellfire Corner up to Loch Humphrey, then down to Overtoun. Did plan on doing Hellfire Corner twice, so I could loop a nice downhill in over the top of the hill, but once was quite enough.
35 mile charity ride 'Tour de Moor' from Plymouth to Princetown & back for St Lukes Hospice, the very strong Easterly wind made it a nightmare ride up the old railway line to Princetown :o(
calderdales :Blue pig route, then into Hardcastle craggs-over to Widdop and the switchbacks..up to Gorple Gate area then fast decent to the Limestone Hushings then random bridleways back to sunny Todmorden... 😉 oh and my son took the orange Alpine out today on demo too... i think he liked it after he sorted out the big coil suspension thing... 😉
Ooh all of 600 yards from my old house to my new house. Just reminding myself how to ride a bike again. 😥
Out to the pentlands with Rob - grand day out
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I rode the annual Calderdale Mountain Bike Marathon. 26+ miles around Sowerby Bridge, Midgley Moor,, Luddenden etc.. Had a rear tyre blow out and a minor off. Good hard ride with about 400 entrants.
I rode this event too. 1 head plant into a wall (thought I'd fubarred my lid, but luckily not) at the top of Stake Lane, 1 otb further down the same descent, 1 otb coming off Midgley Moor and a lost pair of Specialized glasses later, I came in with a PB of 2h 34m. More than happy with that. Although I could have done without losing me specs.
Out in the Peaks on mostly non-legal trails. Christ the wind! Proper howling gale. Descending off one of the exposed moorland ridges near the Kinder plateau I couldn't let the wheels get off the ground or it'd be blown sideways.
Out of the wind though it was lovely and warm and the few walkers that I saw were universally friendly and chatty, not a single mention of the fact I was on FPs.
The ground was mostly dry too, only a few small puddles which I was pleasantly surprised with.
took the fixie out around Munich. into Munich centre for breakfast then out towards Dachau. stopped off at the Panzer Wiese (massive old military exercise ground) to watch people fly kites. then out past the ugly Allianz Arena and follow the river for several km's before heading east for an hour and then turning south to get home.
no map. hardly any roads. lots of cycle paths, families and sun. think i clocked up over 120km, but i forgot the taco thingy.
nice day, it were...
135k of local road miles with tea/cake/coffee/bike shop ponder/toilet stop half way through. lovely ride
Keyesville Classic loop and the Unal trail.
Rode the Qs today on my SS . Couldnt help but remember the day Sharki bust his collar bone as I sped down slaughter house combe. I miss riding with you !
few hours in the Chilterns with munque-chick and others. it was properly ace. Apart from the 3 punctures i had.
Brechfa Raven and i don't like to crow about it!
Did a loop of Pen y Ghent, some interesting boggy bits on Foxup Moor. Ace ride in lovely weather.
A couple of laps round Bedgebury. First time I've been there and very enjoyable it was too... weather was perfect, trails (mostly) dry and the locals friendly. A good day.
Gorgeous late summer sun, rode Marple to Hayfield and back, with cheesy chips and a pint at halftime - how lovely!
Did a cracking STW 25 miler from Kirby Stephen.
First half of the ride: http://www.endomondo.com/workouts/3382442
Well done to Fatgit for organising the whole thing.
Gr8 company, gr8 ride and gr8 weather!!!!
I headed up to Thrunton today, at the turn off for the Coldstream road there was a big sign saying " Road Works North of Long Framlington, delays expected'
Fair enough I thought, might have to sit at some traffic lights or do a convoy.
WRONG - bloody road was closed just before Thrunton with a detour in place.
If they had said road closed, I would have gone somewhere else straight away, rather than driving a further 10 miles.
Ended up at Chopwell woods, which was ok, but a bit muddy for my tyres.