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Tell us about your cycle Yesterday.

  • 09-07-2011 09:43PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,441 ✭✭✭


    This was mine. http://connect.garmin.com/activity/97816806 A nice loop of road from my house on my Lapierre Technic 400 MTB. A fair bit of climbing, but compensating downhills. Great morning for it. Lots of track offroad for options on another day.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,270 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Lucan-Clonee-Kilcock (via R125)-Clane-Sallins-K Club-Ardclough-Newcastle (via Lyons estate)-Lucan

    76k in 3:23

    I'm wrecked now. :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,131 ✭✭✭Dermot Illogical


    118km with Swords CC this morning out around Meath.
    25km commute to work, 25km commute home.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,270 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Oh yeah, I forgot to charge the battery, so my 305 switched itself off after 2:20. :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,270 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    This was mine. http://connect.garmin.com/activity/97816806 A nice loop of road from my house on my Lapierre Technic 400 MTB. A fair bit of climbing, but compensating downhills. Great morning for it. Lots of track offroad for options on another day.

    You're breaking Rule #24 :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,704 ✭✭✭triggermortis


    In fairness, it's his Garmin doing the rule breaking...


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  • Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 78,485 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Went to the track at Sundrive - warmed up, did the vets 500m TT Championship (ages 50-59), came last, felt sad:(

    Warmed up again, did the 2km pursuit Championship, won gold medal, felt (very) happy:D

    (first time I've ever won a medal for anything)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 858 ✭✭✭goingpostal


    I cycled from South Circular Road in Limerick City Centre out to the Gaelic Grounds for the Cork vs Galway hurling qualifier and the Limerick vs Offaly football qualifier. I parked my vehicle as close to the ground as is possible. After the match, I spotted our portly ex-Taoiseach loitering outside the ground, surrounded by lickspittles. Under Irish Law, threatening to beat someone up is a crime, punishable by a severe custodial sentence, so I shrewdly kept my trap firmly and conclusively shut. The presence of a lot of rozzers also informed my decision to take a vow of silence. Then I cycled through the exiting throng, out to my mothers house in the Clare Hills. I moved faster than all the pedestrians and the unhappy-looking people stuck in their steel cocoons in the roasting heat. Later on, when the temperatures had dropped, I did the return journey. Oh, tis good to be an Irish cyclist.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,270 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Beasty wrote: »
    Went to the track at Sundrive - warmed up, did the vets 500m TT Championship (ages 50-59), came last, felt sad:(

    Warmed up again, did the 2km pursuit Championship, won gold medal, felt (very) happy:D

    (first time I've ever won a medal for anything)

    What kind of times are winning these? I'm in the same age group.


  • Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 78,485 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    What kind of times are winning these? I'm in the same age group.
    Results here

    The winning time in the 500m was 41.46s. A new vets record was set (2 riders setting exactly the same time actually) in the 40-49 age group - 37.19s

    I did 2m 49.43s for the 2k (although one of the 60+ guys did beat it:o - he is a former national champion though)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,302 ✭✭✭macnab


    I cycled 45km into work in 1hr29m, i am cycling home then at 7:30am tomorrow after a 16hr shift. I met a few lads from Clondalkin on the way in (summerhill, Meath) they were training for the Malin to Mizen.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,136 ✭✭✭del88


    I cycled from rush to baldoyle...about 29km...really nice...only started cycling 2 months ago and am becoming addicted....going to do a week long loaded tour around mayo/galway with the girlfriend the third week of august...can't wait :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,201 ✭✭✭manwithaplan


    Left late for the club spin. Hit the road about 7:55. I live in Killester and the meet up is at Blakes Cross at 8:30. No time for a gentle warm up. I met Iniquitus on the way. He was going so fast I thought we were both late but he gave me the impression that he always rides at that pace.

    We did the usual loop of North County Dublin without any great incident. The "pretend you're not taking part but are really popping a blood vessel" unofficial gallop up by the Pavilions Shopping Centre confirmed that I can't sprint the length of myself. I peeled off at that stage and got home just before 11. 92 odd km in 3 hours.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,281 ✭✭✭Ricky91t


    I cycled 8km yesterday in 19.56 minutes. Basically a 5km climb with a 70 meter elevation gain then a flat off road trail and then a downhill road cycle.

    Was my last cycle before my ( first )race today :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,302 ✭✭✭macnab


    I am home after my 45km ride from work, it took me 1hr44min to get home so an overall average of 26kmph over the round trip.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,651 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    errr is this not what the cycle logs are for:confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,725 ✭✭✭kennyb3


    77km @ 32.3km/ph. Nice uneventful spin but picked up some sunburn


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,952 ✭✭✭funnights74


    I take this trip every few weeks, Kinsale road r'bout - 5 Mile Bridge - Riverstick - Kinsale - Old head - Grtstown - Balinadee - Inishannon - Crookstown - Coachford - Blarney - and back to cork. 114 Kms, 4 and a half hours, few testing hills but a good workout. :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 304 ✭✭mfdc


    Headed down through Dublin and then up into the mountains via the Cruagh climb. It's been a good while since I've been on a proper hill so absolutely murdered myself going up there and put in what I think might be my best time, hooray!

    Shortly thereafter, when heading up the climb past Glencree toward the foot of Kippure my non driveside crank fell off :confused: Thought my cleat was going at first with the lateral movement but then had the whole crank dangling from my foot. I choose to believe that I put down so much power on the Cruagh I literally tore my crankset apart, and not that my maintenance has been crap lately :D Put it back together sans endcap (god only knows where it is) and headed home down Stocking Lane nice and gingerly, didn't want any more incidents! 72km all told, would've preferred longer but hey...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,475 ✭✭✭corblimey


    Tried to do my longest spin ever, 75+km, but the road I had planned on taking was closed (cars were getting through, but there was bollards across most of the road, so I assumed they were local access only) and I didn't want to chance it. So I took a turn off and got utterly utterly lost. 40km later I find myself practically outside my village, no idea how. So I just went home :D

    PS Just looked at gmaps and still have no idea where I was today. Nice, though!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 926 ✭✭✭G rock


    kilmainham-kilbride-lacken-ballyknockan-wicklow gap-roundwood-sally gap-stocking lane and home.

    stupid catseye gave up on me on way down wicklow gap and have lost all record of my distance to date.

    think today was about 125k. saw loads of people out. i was in garish yellow on one ss jersey

    hello if you saw me!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 325 ✭✭byebye


    im just makeing a recovery from a brain virus which had me fairly fecked so today tried a 70k hilly spin managed to get around and am pretty pleased with getting it done! roll on etap! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 497 ✭✭experimenter


    Just a hilly 50km spin around the hills of Mount Leinster, Borris area..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,281 ✭✭✭Ricky91t


    11.4 km XC race in 54:42 was slippy and I've never cycled it before, But I finished it and didn't come last I think :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 157 ✭✭Lawr


    Got off of my schedule the last few weeks. Took a short run up the Cratloe Hills.
    http://www.sports-tracker.com/#/workout/Lawr/776dmfbgh7tv7drc


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,730 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    Adis about 50k today.
    Tallaght to Blessington via Lugmore and then the N81. Head out to the Vallymount road and turned to head back after the first bend after the narrow bridge. Stuck to the N81 on the way home and learned the through meaning of being dropped on the road between Blessington and Brittas.

    This was my longest cycle by about 15k so an average speed of 20kph over the rolling roads was grand for me.
    I tried to improve my technique so I spun the legs off myself. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,441 ✭✭✭Slogger Jogger


    errr is this not what the cycle logs are for:confused:

    Depends. This has a random, and light, sample. Theres more details available in the training logs alright.

    And, many won't have their own training logs...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,441 ✭✭✭Slogger Jogger


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    You're breaking Rule #24 :pac:

    Its in metric when I log in? Maybe when others log in they don't see the kms :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,441 ✭✭✭Slogger Jogger


    Just a hilly 50km spin around the hills of Mount Leinster, Borris area..

    Cool. Whilst you were doing that, I was running the self same hill... http://connect.garmin.com/activity/98159737 in an imra race. Great day for it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,867 ✭✭✭Tonyandthewhale


    Was supposed to be cycling home to Galway from a wedding in West Cork (250ish km) but a stupid sprained ankle from last week meant I had to call it quits after a very slow 100km. Was still nice to not have to be in the car for that 100km though.


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