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The wimp list ...

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  • #812
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,128 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    crosstownk wrote: »
    Just think of the PRs on the way home!
    It will be down to a 'fresh westerly breeze' when I'm going home (13 hour shift).


  • #813
    crosstownk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,863 ✭✭✭✭crosstownk


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    It will be down to a 'fresh westerly breeze' when I'm going home (13 hour shift).

    There's nothing more annoying than the wind abating when you turn your back to it :mad:
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  • #814
    Carawaystick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭Carawaystick


    There'll be no PB's goin to work since that big group spin from Italy blitzed in from Lusk anyway...


  • #815
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,128 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Carawaystick wrote: »
    There'll be no PB's goin to work since that big group spin from Italy blitzed in from Lusk anyway...
    Well, they can take away our KOM's but they'll never take our PB's. I think I moved back 7 places in the space of a few minutes that day yet Beasty seemed to have come out unscathed!

    Imagine if they were all on Strava! :eek:


  • #816
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 78,484 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    I think I moved back 7 places in the space of a few minutes that day yet Beasty seemed to have come out unscathed!
    4th April 2012 - remember it so well - 45-50 km/h NNEasterly.

    (Did lose a few KOMs the day the Giro came to town mind - managed to protect a few by ensuring some of the segments took in the Lusk bypass rather than going straight through the village.....)


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  • #817
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,128 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    ...Jesus lads, I'm under pressure now to cycle in tomorrow and the forecast is giving gale force winds around 6/7am!
    Stormy alright but I managed to avoid any rain. I suppose i should be posting in that other "I'm no wimp" thread. :)


  • #818
    bazermc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,116 ✭✭✭bazermc


    Stupid Stupid rain - time for a swim instead


  • #819
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 78,484 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    bazermc wrote: »
    Stupid Stupid rain - time for a swim instead

    Christ! It's not that deep is it?


  • #820
    rollingscone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,479 ✭✭✭rollingscone


    Time for a turbo-trainer driven boat.

    Will be working for most of the day but my few short trips with O Lobo have been challenging.

    Saw a chap forging on against the headwind on a Silver Spesh with disc brakes in Rathmines. Zodspeed sir. Zodspeed


  • #821
    bazermc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,116 ✭✭✭bazermc


    Beasty wrote: »
    Christ! It's not that deep is it?

    Ha ha. God no. Swimming in a pool

    I think I am safe, as long as I don't start running aswell.


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  • #822
    ednwireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,797 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    50km done this morning group lost me great when we turned with a tailwind home.

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



  • #823
    Fian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,205 ✭✭✭Fian


    Weather forecast on Friday was for a fine sunny day on Sunday. Not what transpired. I skipped the cycle i had planned and did my tax return instead.

    Not as much fun and no pleasant afterglow.


  • #824
    poochiem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 690 ✭✭✭poochiem


    Cycled down the Royal Canal on Saturday. Camped wild between Edenderry and Tullamore. The going was mud to bog for much of it and the wind and rain was fairly incessant. Nice to get away though.
    6034073


  • #825
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,128 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    poochiem wrote: »
    .....The going was mud to bog for much of it and the wind and rain was fairly incessant. Nice to get away though....
    Nice to get away? You do realise this is the Wimp thread -- not for super-heroes! :eek::D

    Serious kudos all the same - I think Hyvon Ngetich had an easier time in the Austin Marathon:



  • #826
    lennymc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,386 ✭✭✭lennymc


    50km of a headwind this morning. I really hope it doesn't change direction for my homeward leg


  • #827
    Seaswimmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,994 ✭✭✭Seaswimmer


    lennymc wrote: »
    50km of a headwind this morning. I really hope it doesn't change direction for my homeward leg

    From Met Eireann.

    winds will gradually decrease this afternoon becoming moderate to fresh southwesterly.

    Behind you but not as strong..:)


  • #828
    lennymc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,386 ✭✭✭lennymc


    :(


  • #829
    Alek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


    I went early to the mountains hoping for a nice push on the way back to work.

    Combination of crosswinds that caused my descending confidence hit the rock bottom, then stupid traffic all the way through the city, and a little bonk on top of this, made todays cycling experience one of the least enjoyable I ever had.


  • #830
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 78,484 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Seaswimmer wrote: »

    winds will gradually decrease
    lennymc wrote: »
    :(
    Just means you have to skip off work early lenny - that's my plan anyway ....


  • #831
    lennymc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,386 ✭✭✭lennymc


    Beasty wrote: »
    Just means you have to skip off work early lenny - that's my plan anyway ....

    race ye


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  • #832
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 78,484 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Sorry lenny....

    .... think I won


    (was already on the way when you posted and you never overtook me:p)


  • #833
    lennymc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,386 ✭✭✭lennymc


    Time trial.......


  • #834
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,857 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    I wet out on the group spin on Sunday. It was biblical. I want a medal. *Takes one of Wishbone Ash's medals*


  • #835
    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,672 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    gadetra wrote: »
    I wet out on the group spin on Sunday. It was biblical. I want a medal. *Takes one of Wishbone Ash's medals*

    I raced ;)


  • #836
    crosstownk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,863 ✭✭✭✭crosstownk


    Some of you are in the wrong thread. :confused::D

    I'll keep with the the theme of the thread title.

    On Sunday my bike stayed firmly parked in the house because the weather was pure crap.

    Instead, I stood at the side of a rugby pitch in lashing rain watching my 8 year old get covered in mud - it looked like great fun and I secretly wanted to participate........ :eek:
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  • #837
    RainyDay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,925 ✭✭✭RainyDay


    gadetra wrote: »
    I wet out on the group spin on Sunday. It was biblical.
    Freudian slip, or clever pun?


  • #838
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,857 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    RainyDay wrote: »
    Freudian slip, or clever pun?

    Oh both...or none..err...!


  • #839
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,128 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    crosstownk wrote: »
    Some of you are in the wrong thread. :confused::D...
    We'll have to find that "I'm no wimp, I'm simply the best" thread or whatever it was called!


  • #840
    cython
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,844 ✭✭✭cython


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    We'll have to find that "I'm no wimp, I'm simply the best" thread or whatever it was called!

    Here ya go! http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=87039483


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  • #841
    tigerboon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 738 ✭✭✭tigerboon


    crosstownk wrote: »
    Instead, I stood at the side of a rugby pitch in lashing rain watching my 8 year old get covered in mud - it looked like great fun and I secretly wanted to participate........ :eek:

    Same: rugby training Sunday morning and my young lad was covered head to toe in mud. The rain was so heavy that by the time he got to the car he was spotless. Done 60k in the rain on Saturday but on Sunday the rain was horizontal on Sunday so put the feet up for the rest of the day


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