2. Using work as an excuse when I get home.

Yep thats the one i’ve been using when im not ill or injured

I came up with a training schedule with a bit of help from a mate who does triathlons
Basically start off with 2 * 2 hour rides midweek at approx 70% max heart rate and a long ride at the weekend. Do this for three weeks
Add a gym session to work your core muscles because it will help
then gently up the hours, 2 * 3hrs and a longer weekend ride. 2 weeks of this
2 * 4 midweek one long ride and one gently ride at the weekend.
Slowly build up like this until you are doing two long weekend rides that total your expected race distance over a weekend.
You should reach this level three weeks before the event when you start tapering down 75% race distance, 50%, 25%.

This all sounded good but didnt happen :oops:

Surely an Aston is the best way to any part of France

I accidently decided to it solo and am worried.
I am about five weeks behind in my training schedule due to a combination of chest infection, achillies problems and lazyitas.
I will apologies now for being very slow and in your way and if you shout ‘On the right’ as you pass there will be a bit of a delay while i try and work out if I should move right or left and which way right is.

Me too. I will be there and will need feeding halfway round.

I’ve got the same problem. Basically my calf muscles are short and tight. I went to a physio who recommended gentle stretches, temporary heel lifts, ice, elevation and rest.

I am unexpectedly free next weekend so count me in.

Best – Lotus Elise
Worst – Everything else but a one litre Ford Escort I had takes some beating. Worst recent car was a Peugeot 207 that a garage lent me when they cocked up the servicing on the Lotus. So bad it was dangerous

As Count Zero said Seven Samurai became The Magnificent Seven. SS is one of my favorite films and I have never seen the seven.
Yojimbo became Fist Full of Dollars. I struggle to choose which I prefer out of the two.

I thought Bernie only paid for transporatation costs for the fly away races. The teams pay their own haulage in Europe.

Thanks for the heads up Joe but that is too big for me

I really really want a Viner
Steel frame of course

Can you guess where?
I got home just before it started raining which is unusually good timing for me

Photobox
Good quality, quick and good customer service

Thanks for the advice
I will move my cleats, lower the seat, move it forward and I suppose a new pair of shoes is worth a try
I had guessed that overuse and repetitive motion had something to do with it. I am attempting to train for mountain mayhem solo so I havent got time for doctors physios and chiropodists. They can fix me in July.

Zokes are you using a mirror lens? The bokeh in the third picture looks a bit odd

I think I need to tour the Baltic states

Moldova’s effort is at least making me smile. Special performance :D

what the **** is going on with the swedish tv?

How hard is it to get coffee machine like this properly clean? I dont mean bloke clean where a quick wipe down with a damp rag will do the trick, but destroy bacteria breeding grounds clean.
It has always been one of the reasons I have never looked seriously at what is other wise a cool gadget.

Warton – The Italians may drink a “coffee flavoured milkshake” to start the day but when the ask for a coffee they mean a short, sharp and black coffee. Everything else is a variant and is not called coffee

I’m staying out of this one

Litter has to be the worst. Why cant people but empty gel tubes in their pockets?
Riding three/four abreast along narrow country lanes. Not just annoying but very dangerous as well

you will have to support liverpool.

I grew up in Warrington (well Thelwall) and support City.
There are places that arent too nice (Dalham, Orford, Bewsey)but nothing bad compared to a city, if you stay south of the Mersey you will be ok.
As already mentioned, Stockton Heath is good (mum lives there now) and has the advantage of being close to the M6/M56 junction which brings Snowdonia, Peak District and the Lake district within two hours.
Having said that I wouldnt go back. As Chris Evans said when asked ‘Do you miss Warrington?’
‘Every time I am on the M6’

Maxell Advertfrom back in the day

Who are all these people driving around with eggs?
It is kind of worrying that people have such a low opinion of cyclists that we are considered fair game for random violence. Or is it that certain sections of society have very little respect anyone?

I once had a bottle smash on the road beside me. I didnt see anyone around or where it came from so I accelerated thinking that if the trouble is ahead of me it is better to hit it at full speed. It scared the heck out of me

Yup – that’ll work for another 91 years.

if you go with yyyymmdd it will work for even longer
I name my photograph folders in the format 2009-04-21
Works like a charm

er… cable end?
The other end is called the other end so there is no confusion

Espresso & multivits
Porridge at my desk about an hour after i get to work

The ferry leaves the sandbanks on the hour, 20 past and 40 past
It costs a whopping £1.60 return

If I can shake off this cold I will be there. Its only a twenty minute pootle along the prom so it would be rude not to.

if you really want to deep clean you need a steam cleaner.
Get one that acts as a vacuum as well. The steam dislodges all the dirt, kills all the bugs and then the vacuum bit sucks it all up
These people (Allergy matters)) are a good place to look

do you mean collecting wood like this?

Carbon zero housing? Isnt that living in a tree?

A couple of phone calls later and I’m off to Wales :D

You will need something like this Mains to 12v convertor

Sex with Bjork would be very very odd

As we are talking of an affair and not just a dirty weekend it would have to be Myleene Klass, for me this week at least

I quite like the look of blondie :oops:

First time I did a half marathon I only decided to it while having a curry the night before and ran/ walked it in 2:30
Seconed time I trained for 3 months and was only 20 mins faster

The ride down the ferry road is ace though when it’s busy; at least a mile of static traffic waiting for the ferry, while you pootle past whistling smugly [:)]

That is exactly what it was like on Sunday. The May bank holiday would be very busy, it is traditionally considered the start of the tourist season and the traffic is bad enough as it is

Gosh darn you! I have a wedding to go to that weekend :cry:
I was over the Purbecks on sunday (even though my legs were shot from the Q’s. Scenic rather than technical is definitely the best description for the riding and dont forget the cream teas in Corfe. If you go to the Square and Compass at Worth Matravers (which someone on the Q’s ride mentioned to me) they do an excellent Cornish pasty but dont use your phone. For some reason mine thinks I am in France when I’m there.
I mentioned the possibility of an STW ride with the people i was with and there a few that would be happy to show people around.