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triggermortis

Headed out on my own for some peace and got drenched in the first 10km. Was too far from home to make any difference so I carried on. Did 65km, but my Garmin put itself into self test mode 2 km before home!
Now it won’t connect to my computer and even though I saved the ride to the memory card, the computer won’t find the file. If I put the card back in the Garmin, it shows up there, but with the card removed from the Garmin and put into the computer, I just see 2 text files...?
My tools for opening the Garmin are in work so I’ll have to wait a few days before I can try and fix it..

ED E

McGrath5 wrote: »

My god, the rain cycling in this morning was slightly biblical!

Arrived at 6:55, 7:05 I was grinning from ear to ear that I wasn't tardy today.

North of 32

18 degrees today. Summer vibes out there. Absolutely bombed home from work (on the bike) to get an hour on the road bike before the darkness swept in.

Hammered it for 55 minutes on one of my favourite loops. Cross wind carrying a warm breeze. Legs just kept demanding more. Double checking if I'm even in the big ring. There is no better medicine for me. Why must Winter come?

Utter Consternation

North of 32 wrote: »

18 degrees today. Summer vibes out there. Absolutely bombed home from work (on the bike) to get an hour on the road bike before the darkness swept in.

Hammered it for 55 minutes on one of my favourite loops. Cross wind carrying a warm breeze. Legs just kept demanding more. Double checking if I'm even in the big ring. There is no better medicine for me. Why must Winter come?

It must come so that we get spring. My favourite time of the year.

triggermortis

From earlier post... I found my SD card was formatted on my Mac (which is now too old to do much - it won’t even connect to Strava!!!) so I had to email the file to myself so I could then use a PC to upload my saved file. What a faff! Hopefully I can fix my Garmin this week

DaveyDave

Commuting home last night I set the Garmin to show average speed. I never train with a specific effort, I just go out and cycle at a natural pace regardless of commuting or fitness. 15km Clonee to Lucan I usually average 24-24.5, last night was 26.4.

I tend to pick up the pace on the R149 as I don't like to stick around at 1am. It was a poor effort going up the hill in the village so put the effort in towards Woodies then down past the Penny Hill. Legs were burning when I got home.

I didn't have any goal in mind, just wanted to keep above whatever speed it was at. I'll probably aim for 25kph though.

triggermortis

triggermortis wrote: »

From earlier post... I found my SD card was formatted on my Mac (which is now too old to do much - it won’t even connect to Strava!!!) so I had to email the file to myself so I could then use a PC to upload my saved file. What a faff! Hopefully I can fix my Garmin this week

What format did you use? Should have been ok if you picked Ms-Dos(FAT) or ExFat, maybe you picked one of a mac specific ones.

Wishbone Ash

DaveyDave wrote: »

.... 15km Clonee to Lucan I usually average 24-24.5, last night was 26.4....

There was a strong eastery blowing last night (around 9pm anyway when I was going home from work).

DaveyDave

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

There was a strong eastery blowing last night (around 9pm anyway when I was going home from work).

Yeah the wind picked up a bit last night, calmed down when I was leaving, wouldn't bother me too much as I was heading South. Started raining as I left and got heavy for the second half of the commute so took it easy, 25.9kph last night.

Going for the average speed seems like a good way to get the most out of the commute without adding mileage or going all out.

triggermortis

Deleted User wrote: »

What format did you use? Should have been ok if you picked Ms-Dos(FAT) or ExFat, maybe you picked one of a mac specific ones.

I'll maybe reformat it sometime, but I'll more likely forget until the Garmin refuses to work again..
Been a week for opening things up. My Trelock light kept switching off on the ride home this morning and then finally refused to work at all. It kept going off whenever I hit any bumps in the road. Found the battery connection loose so that was an easy enough fix

neris

Going down hill at 40km with 2 hands on the bars and trying to blow your nose is not a good idea

velo.2010

Well, the new Raceblades worked!

magicbastarder

neris wrote: »

Going down hill at 40km with 2 hands on the bars and trying to blow your nose is not a good idea

not enough detail. are you saying you need to go faster?

dahat

neris wrote: »

Going down hill at 40km with 2 hands on the bars and trying to blow your nose is not a good idea

Guess the glasses needed cleaning.....

Roadtoad

Three effen punctures in 10 km.
1 Glass.
2 I didn't think of looking for any foreign object
3 I couldn't pry it all out.

sad face

magicbastarder

first time the leggings have come out since the spring.

secman

Lovely autumnal spin with Gorey club this morning,in from ballycanew to Gorey to meet up, headed across to ballymoney and around coast road to Arklow Rock, thru Arklow heading for Brittas but hooked a left turn across to Avoca , woodenbridge, Arklow and back for a coffee in Gorey, finished up in Ballycanew.
87 km , avg 28.3kph ,700 + meters.

saccades

First road spin in too long. 75km from Arklow to ashford to rathdrum, ballinclash, aughrim, wooden bridge, new line and home.

Legs complained at 40km, really struggled as the pace increased heading into rathdrum and up the drags towards aughrim.

Nothing left in the legs on the new line but the lungs were fine, completely different bits of muscle compared to mtb\spin.

800m, 26kmph and banjaxed. Did a load of gardening feeling grim but 4 pints watching the footie and I felt much better.

shaka

92km, late starting so went hunting to see if i could find/catch the club, fairly wrecked by time I did and suffered for the day.

Some new roads to get to Christ the King, couple new climbs on the way.

magicbastarder

i was convinced i'd picked up a puncture on the way home earlier, audible hissing from the front wheel as i cycled along griffith avenue, but when i stopped i couldn't hear it. and it started up again when i started cycling again. as it turned out, it was a leaf caught between the mudguard and the front tyre.

smacl

Lovely lunch time spin up Cruagh, Foxes, Kilternan and back down in crisp sunshine and light breezes for 24k and 400m of up. Heavens opened five minutes from getting in. Result!

As a side note, loving the DHB Aeron winter bibs. Don't know what possessed me to stay with non-bib shorts for so long, way comfier.

dahat

4hrs after the rugby in glorious but crisp winter sunshine. This time of year is stunning & love getting the endurance kms in when dry.

rodneyTrotter.

magicbastarder wrote: »

i was convinced i'd picked up a puncture on the way home earlier, audible hissing from the front wheel as i cycled along griffith avenue, but when i stopped i couldn't hear it. and it started up again when i started cycling again. as it turned out, it was a leaf caught between the mudguard and the front tyre.

At least it wasn’t a snake !

smacl

dahat wrote: »

4hrs after the rugby in glorious but crisp winter sunshine. This time of year is stunning & love getting the endurance kms in when dry.

Did a couple of hours myself. Quite enjoyed the climbing for a change but the descent from the Military road back to Enniskerry felt bitter. New winter gear being in the wash didn't help, need to get a second set.

dahat

smacl wrote: »

Did a couple of hours myself. Quite enjoyed the climbing for a change but the descent from the Military road back to Enniskerry felt bitter. New winter gear being in the wash didn't help, need to get a second set.

Finshed my session with a 10min descent so I felt that chill as well, better planning next time to avoid a descent finish.

I've not got a pair of winter tights yet so it's summer shorts & leggings for me, chilly but okay for now. Overspending on winter gear is something I've tried not to do over the years but that may change this winter with a busy winter programme of Sat & Sunday road spins ahead.

magicbastarder

a bit over 80km this morning, cold and clear and a bit breezy.
i set strava on my phone to record as well as using my cheapo garmin, because i forgot to charge it, but it lasted the course. it told me i did 81.7km, but my phone had calculated 83.7km. that's quite a significant difference.

neris

15 or so km into a leisurely spin stopped at lights went to pull off and a big clunking noise come from the bike with every pedal rotation. Nursed the bike 10km home listening to clunk clunk clunk the whole way. Rekon bottom brackets gone, checked the frame, the wheels, the discs but they all seemed fine

5CHULZY

73km today. Only started cycling 5 weeks ago and this is my 6th outing. 14 mins quicker getting up to top of howth since my 1st time 5 weeks ago.

dahat

Clocked another 100km today in more glorious winter weather, one or two little digs as per usual club spin but thoroughly enjoyable day.

As Mrs Dahat is away in London I may just do another 50-60km tmrw early doors to complete a decent weekend on the bike.

Kevhog1988

dahat wrote: »

Clocked another 100km today in more glorious winter weather, one or two little digs as per usual club spin but thoroughly enjoyable day.

As Mrs Dahat is away in London I may just do another 50-60km tmrw early doors to complete a decent weekend on the bike.

My other half is working all weekend so today was watching the marathon then local County final and then a cycle lol.