Good Friday Spin

emty

Well this climbing god decided to go up Kippure today....and half way up realised he was closer to Zebedee than Zeus .
Won't bore you with my time but suffice to say I did not change category.Damn you Lumen for posting those
Have to say though the views were stunning,the best I've ever seen.The photo's don't do them justice.
Now,I'm off to the pub! Oh no,wait.....:(

Lumen

146.46km for me today with ROK_ON.

Hills. Lots of hills. And pain.

jimm

The .46 is very important

Good to see you and ROK ON at the viewpoint.

abcdggs

Lumen wrote: »

146.46km for me today with ROK_ON.

Hills. Lots of hills. And pain.

did you happen to be going through clondalkin toward M50 at bout half 3 today?

Just 70km for me today, saving myself for an epic spin on Monday. Well, hopefully epic. Brought a mate up for a spin for the first time too, he did 60km on his first run which is pretty good, he was in bits by the end of it though.

Met someone (I'm terribly with names) in a car with kids coming out of Enniskerry by the petrol station who was a boardsie, hello!

Nice day overall for a spin. Did you go on further after Kippure emty?

Húrin

Dónal wrote: »

Met someone (I'm terribly with names) in a car with kids coming out of Enniskerry by the petrol station who was a boardsie, hello!

Nice day overall for a spin. Did you go on further after Kippure emty?

A boardsie, in a car? For shame.

Lumen

abcdggs wrote: »

did you happen to be going through clondalkin toward M50 at bout half 3 today?

Possibly, maybe closer to 4pm. Brittas-CityWest-Grange-Lucan. I was wearing a black cap and blue jersey, ROK_ON a blue/white helmet and white/black gilet.

Both of us with thousand-yard stares.

abcdggs

ah yes, i was cycling the opposite direction on my way home from college. thought bout asking you for an allen key but thought if i stopped i wouldnt get going again.

ROK ON

Lumen wrote: »

146.46km for me today with ROK_ON.

Hills. Lots of hills. And pain.

147 on the nose.
Pain, lots of pain (oh and hills)
Kilakee, Sally Gap, Shay Elliot*2, Wicklow Gap.

Met Scott Renolds as he was descending from Shay Elliott and we were just about to head up from Laragh.

The climbing was great fun, and was made much easier using a HRM (thanks Tiny). However that road around the lake near Blessington is like the black hole of energy. I hate that road, it just saps the last ounce of strength from you.

Shay Elliot from Laragh is a grand climb.

Shay Elliot from the bridge at bottom (Slieve Mann direction) is tougher than I have ever done. 2.5/3km of pure unadulterated pain. Great fun.

Thanks to Lumen for company.

Good to meet Jimm & Dave with the gang of newbies. Hope ye had a good day out. Sorry we couldn't stay loner, but we were getting cold and there was a long road ahead of us.

ROK ON

abcdggs wrote: »

ah yes, i was cycling the opposite direction on my way home from college. thought bout asking you for an allen key but thought if i stopped i wouldnt get going again.

If I stopped, you would have had to scrape me off the road. Operating on pure autopilot at that stage.

abcdggs

at least you lot are used to cycling, that's the longest ride i've been on and it ended up being about 10 km longer than expected due to my terrible directions. and i lost a cleat half an hour in so i had to switch to runners. was very annoying

Found the perfect after spin treat later on.

jimm

Ya big Kid. Leave them for the children. Looks like a good start to Easter.

scottreynolds

ROK ON wrote: »

Met Scott Renolds as he was descending from Shay Elliott and we were just about to head up from Laragh.

I was actually returning from Rathdrum - had been over Shay Elliot and Slieve Mann... route was Portmarnock - Dundrum - Enniskerry - Annamoe - Laragh - Shay Elloit - Slieve Mann - Ballinaclash - Rathdrum - Laragh - Djouce - home. Started early so was on the way home when I saw you guys.

Fair play for that much climbing - awesome effort. I hope you not feeling to tired now. My TOI training is peaking this week so I've another 100 miles in the morning.

scottreynolds

ROK ON wrote: »

Shay Elliot from Laragh is a grand climb.

Shay Elliot from the bridge at bottom (Slieve Mann direction) is tougher than I have ever done. 2.5/3km of pure unadulterated pain.

It all depends on your tiredness... I think Laragh to shay Elliot is tougher its just a little longer - 5km I think.

ROK ON

scottreynolds wrote: »

It all depends on your tiredness... I think Laragh to shay Elliot is tougher its just a little longer - 5km I think.

Longer all right, 5km @ avg gradient of 5%.
Glenmalure/Drumgoff to top is 3.1km @ avg gradient of 8.3%.

Using stats from mapmyride.
I was delighted I did it, grueling and all as it is.

Fair play to you on the training. How many back to backs 160kms have you done now.
When will training begin to taper?

scottreynolds

ROK ON wrote: »

Longer all right, 5km @ avg gradient of 5%.
Glenmalure/Drumgoff to top is 3.1km @ avg gradient of 8.3%.

Using stats from mapmyride.
I was delighted I did it, grueling and all as it is.

Fair play to you on the training. How many back to backs 160kms have you done now.
When will training begin to taper?

Today / Tomorrow is the first back to back 100 miles. most of my other long rides have had intervals sessions the day before. I have a rest week next week another hard week and then two weeks taper. Its going well I'm feeling fine but still daunted by the actual event. Its 5 days back to back --- seems silly when i say it like that.

Your going very well if yo can handle all those climbs on one ride....

Enduro

Dónal wrote: »

Just 70km for me today, saving myself for an epic spin on Monday. Well, hopefully epic. Brought a mate up for a spin for the first time too, he did 60km on his first run which is pretty good, he was in bits by the end of it though.

Met someone (I'm terribly with names) in a car with kids coming out of Enniskerry by the petrol station who was a boardsie, hello!

Was that you in the boards Jersey that I overtook going up past the Kiltiernan ski slop/hotel ? (I was in EPIC MTB camo gear)

zzzzzzzz

scottreynolds wrote: »

I was actually returning from Rathdrum - had been over Shay Elliot and Slieve Mann... route was Portmarnock - Dundrum - Enniskerry - Annamoe - Laragh - Shay Elloit - Slieve Mann - Ballinaclash - Rathdrum - Laragh - Djouce - home. Started early so was on the way home when I saw you guys.

Fair play for that much climbing - awesome effort. I hope you not feeling to tired now. My TOI training is peaking this week so I've another 100 miles in the morning.

You weren't by any chance wearing swords gear, were you?

Saw someone that looked like you as I was coming in to laragh (you would have been heading back towards annamoe)

Enduro

Enduro wrote: »

Was that you in the boards Jersey that I overtook going up past the Kiltiernan ski slop/hotel ? (I was in EPIC MTB camo gear)

Yes, being overtaken sounds like me I was on flat handlebars.

scottreynolds

aidan.offbeat wrote: »

You weren't by any chance wearing swords gear, were you?

Saw someone that looked like you as I was coming in to laragh (you would have been heading back towards annamoe)

Yes -- twas me. Was I looking happy or knackered?

zzzzzzzz

scottreynolds wrote: »

Yes -- twas me. Was I looking happy or knackered?

You had a huge grin on your face - so either happy or seeing stars!