Tell us about your cycle Yesterday.

56km.
Stillorgan - town - Howth hill easy side - malahide - clontarf - town - Stillorgan.

275km for the week.
Legs starting to feel heavy

I turned fifty today. I decided to prove that age is only a number. I went up bellewstown hill and the surrounding hills. Hey guess what, I was right!!! That bastar*d of a hill was just as hard today as it was last week

Was enjoying a nice 35k evening spin after work tonight, until I turned a corner and cycled through clouds of millions of tiny flies......:eek:
They went up my nose, in my ears, inside my glasses and down my neck....thankfully mouth was kept firmly shut..... The evening was rounded off, when a Bumble bee flew into my helmut and stuck...this caused a massive bike wobble and the slamming on of brakes.
After much head shaking & panic, the bee flew out. All the passing cars must have thought I was having some kind of seizure by the side of the road.
Ahhh...The joys of a rural evening spin

Short 50k this morning. Terenure out to Enniskerry and back through tallaght. Lovely morning and getting warmer!!

The Mrs won a night in Kilronan Castle, Co. Leitrim so we took advantage of it last night on the way to Sligo for Easter. She drove and I headed off on the bike and took a non-direct route to Sligo.
Kilronan Castle - Keadue - along the west shore of Lough Allen - Drunkeeran - Dromahair - along the shore of Lough Gill - Sligo. 58km
Fantastic cycling roads, cracking weather and lovely countryside.
Really enjoyed this cycle.

, 140kms over 2000 meters of climbs Friarstown, featherbeds, r115, laragh, wicklow gap, blessington lake, back to tallaght and after 110kms went back up friarstown featherbeds again, rathfarnham and stop over in rathmines to buy some Iso tablets in thinkbike:-) before going home http://www.strava.com/activities/131515726

Inquitus wrote: »

200km Swords -> Shay Elliot, Slievemann, Sallygap and other stuff -> Swords

http://app.strava.com/activities/131536765

Amazing day in Wicklow, when the weather is like today there really aren't many better places to be on a bike.

nice route will save it and try it in the next week or so:);)

Inquitus wrote: »

There's an apocalyptic stretch of road for about 5km in there somewhere just after Slievemann, it's very bad, but if you take it very handy tis grand.

Or go the way we were meant to go!

I visited some friends who live less than two minutes from me and regaled them with my tale of my longest ever cycle. It was suggested that we go on a little spin somewhere for coffee some day. I had mentioned I was taking the day to recover from my previous three days' cycling but the idea of the cycling version of a pleasant amble to get some coffee and cake sounded good to me.

I was on my hybrid and my companion was on her little step through frame with a (second hand) Brooks saddle, skirt guard and a slow puncture as it turns out. We were out of the city-est part of the city quite quickly and had a casual 5km ride to Blackrock castle. Of course the café in Blackrock castle was closed but they sent us back down the hill to the Natural Bakery Company where we had a relaxing half hour of coffee and brownies (very good brownies, I do recommend.) Then we cycled back from a lovely spin out.

We cycled two abreast whenever we could and it was great. A casual cycle, chatting and taking it easy in the mild breeze was perfect for a sunny day off. Plans for a picnic and longer spin have been suggested. If anyone has a recommendation for a spot within 10km of Cork city, on a flat route that'd be good for a picnic I'd love to hear it. At the moment I'm thinking the Lee Field's area and out the straight road by the river.

100k with Southside Wheely Wheelers decked out in boards gear

godtabh wrote: »

.....Not a sinner seen until I got towards bray

That's hardly surprising as you're usually out at the witching hour. Probably had the 100k done by 8am!

not necessarily my cycle today, but was looking through some data from my last mtb trip to Rostrevor and noticed this! its only for a tiny section id say but look at the grade!

Unknown Soldier wrote: »

Went out this morning with the intentions of eh, blowing off the cobwebs etc with a short and hard spin.

Ended up doing 103km on a bit of a random signpost led route. 71km was my furthest so far.

Totally bummed out with the spin from Brittas to Tallaght Was really, really looking forward to zipping down the hills at huge speeds. Had a tough wind in my face and had to pedal down the hills. Plus being a dope I discovered near Tallaght that my light wind jacket zip had come halfway down and the jacket had basically been acting like a parachute brake :mad:

Anyways it was random...

Firhouse> Ballyfermot> Fonthill>Back end of Lucan> Newcastle> Athgoe Hill cos I am stupid (That was super tough) > N7??? > Rathcoole> back to Newcastle> Celbridge> Clane> Naas> Blessington> Manor Kilbride> Brittas> Tallaght> Firhouse.


I had to ask where I was a few times and get directions.

Note to self: Stop to have a bite to eat in a town/village NOT at nice scenic points that then turn out to be in the middle of segments :P

Athgoe can be a b!tch no matter which way you approach it. Was my nemesis until this week when I finally put some sort of manners on it. Had been doing good work in the hills the past few weekends and then went back to it. Knocked 20secs off a PB on one of the segments.