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Sunday Spin

  • 04-04-2009 10:39pm
    #1
    Húrin
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    Anyone else heading out to Wicklow tomorrow?


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  • #2
    blorg
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    I believe there is a 200km starting from Bray at 8am :)


  • #3
    petethedrummer
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    I'm going to head to Wicklow, when I arise in the morning. Details/time/physical condition sketchy at this stage. I'm not doing the 200km. Post your intended departure time in the morning.


  • #4
    rottenhat
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    petethedrummer wrote: »
    I'm not doing the 200km.

    Ah, go on Pete. It'll be a laugh.


  • #5
    petethedrummer
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    You got a sick sense of humour.

    I'm not gonna cycle today. I think I'll leave work early tomorrow and go then instead.


  • #6
    ROK ON
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    Was out early with Lumen today (7am start) 107km. Kilakee via Barnaaculla and Glencullen. Then all the way toward Sally Gap, then back to Kilakee (find lost computer) and back to Sally Gap again. Home via Saggart. We averaged 22km/h, and would have been much faster except for trying to find a lost Garmin and my bonking (i think it was bonking anyway).

    Beautiful day, and really nice at 7am this morning (honest).

    I think that I bonked, in that when we got to Sally Gap, I felt strange, lethargic and light headed. Had my dinner yday at 6pm and that was it apart from light breakfast this morning.

    When descending I couldnt get my cadence above 75-80 (I normally spin out on the descent), as a result the descent took 23mins as opposed to 17m normally. Hit a max speed of 68km/h, but I know that I can do85km max on descedning from the gap.
    Just had no energy, and by that stage I had eaten 2 granola bars and a power bar, plus 1.25l of fluid.

    Lumen saved me at the bottom with a bottle of orange and a bag of jellies. Then I felt grand heading home and could pick the pace up a little bit again. Can more knowedgeable tell ne is this the bonk, or could it be that my body is unused to back to back cycles.

    Guys, forget about all your fancy healthy food. Give me a bag of pure unadulterated sugary jellies at any stage. Lesson learned.:)
    Anyway other than the descent and lost computer everthing was great.

    As a note, we are going to try an early spin most w/e's. This is not in anyway designed to replace or hijack the traditional 10am boards spin, but merely as an alternative for folks how want/have to be back home at 12 or 1oclock at the latest. Just an idea.


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  • #7
    Húrin
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    blorg wrote: »
    I believe there is a 200km starting from Bray at 8am :)

    Too Long; Didn't Ride

    I got going late (1.30pm!) and went straight to the Sally Gap via Stocking Lane. Then I turned around because I had never gone down the gap in that direction (a hair raising descent) and returned to Dublin via Glencree and Enniskerry.


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