Tell us about your new improved government regulations compliant cycle part II

griffin100

Right on the edge of my 5km perimeter today when the heavens opened and huge hailstones started to bucket down. Spent most of the 7km home with a headwind lashing hailstones painfully into my face, whilst the rapidly flooding roads were throwing ice cold water onto my ass which rapidly became completely numb (a strange feeling!). Was very glad to get home.

Wildly Boaring

griffin100 wrote: »

Right on the edge of my 5km perimeter today when the heavens opened and huge hailstones started to bucket down. Spent most of the 7km home with a headwind lashing hailstones painfully into my face, whilst the rapidly flooding roads were throwing ice cold water onto my ass which rapidly became completely numb (a strange feeling!). Was very glad to get home.

I was out for an hour an flukily dodged every shower. Kept arriving onto soaking wet roads. Never had a drop of rain / hail

Wildly Boaring

Wildly Boaring wrote: »

I was out for an hour an flukily dodged every shower. Kept arriving onto soaking wet roads. Never had a drop of rain / hail

I remember about 10 years ago driving between Duleek and Kilmoon cross and going in and out of some serious downpours with the roads bone dry between the rain and hail sections. Quite a surreal experience.

CramCycle

Went for a KOM that I thought I missed so done it a second time where my GoPro fell off half way, spent 20 minutes looking for all the parts before trying a third time.
Turns out I got it the first time, beat it the last time and that the 3M mounts for Go Pros are just not up to the task of Irish backroads. I then went home after a near miss that I am pretty sure was at least 50/50 (if not more my fault than theirs) as we were both dodging poor road surfaces.

IrishLad90

Looking for a new route to take on in Dublin (largely city centre)
The route i use is fairly pothole free, dorset street - phoenix park - quays

Jim Gazebo

Got out for a swift 25km around cork airport this morning. The northerly wind was BITTER!

25kph, with a few hills thrown in. Will build up the distance big time next few weeks now.

magicbastarder

IrishLad90 wrote: »

Looking for a new route to take on in Dublin (largely city centre)
The route i use is fairly pothole free, dorset street - phoenix park - quays

out to howth would be one of the obvious suggestions.

dahat

Trip around a few summer roads I use today to see freshly laid tarmac which means a coating of that horrible chip stone to come.

Damn Council!

A pretty test & raw day with a north wind hit great to be out and about with some extra freedom to come.

Seth Brundle

64km with 400m of climbing at an average of 28km/h which I'm happy with. Arranged to meet the Mrs on my way back and we walked to the local village for a take-away coffee, which was nice.
The wind was funny. Whilst not particularly strong, it was a tailwind one minute and then would turn into a headwind without me changing direction.
Whilst ut wasnt particularly cold, my feet were numb despite thermal socks and toe covers. Is this what its like as you get older?

Jim Gazebo

Are all you guys averages done with auto pause or without auto pause on?

magicbastarder

there was a definite bite to the wind when i was out; and it had changed direction too; was a pure northerly in early afternoon but had swung probably ENE by the time i was out on the bike (going by the windsock at the airport, strava is reporting NE)

magicbastarder

Jim Gazebo wrote: »

Are all you guys averages done with auto pause or without auto pause on?

i have auto pause on, on my garmin. strava also applies auto pause, but i think this can differ based on whether you record directly into strava, or via an external GPS device. strava and garmin calculate it differently; strava will usually report a slower average speed than my garmin will.

Wildly Boaring

I had a disaster.
Thought I had enough layers. Nope!!

Had to abandon ship. Went out at dusk. The loss of sun and the hail left me so cold I was struggling to concentrate or pull the brakes.

I'd have loved to see what my core temp was.
But my resting heart rate was in the 30s. Which is about 10 low for me.

Jez I took the bike to Aldi around 8:30pm in jeans and a jumper and jacket and I was cursing forgetting my gloves, you must have been bloody rattling with the cold. There was a serious bite to the wind on my face/hands and that was only a 3km round trip.

secman

65km, 500m, avg 26.7kph bitter cold northerly and was caught in a hail shower which passed quickly enough.

Mercian Pro

A day late reporting my last Lockdown 3 ride in the Phoenix Park. That's 33 spins there since New Year's Day, 2270km, 87hrs and about 280 photos, many of which ended up on Strava.
On my Cannondale with 28mm tyres so explored most of the off-road trails for a change. Enjoyable in winter gear until about midday when a lengthy hail shower dropped the temperature to about 4 degrees. Happy enough to bail out a bit early and looking forward to heading to the hills next week.

Zen0

The hills are going to be busy next week.

secman

Hills all around me and haven't been near them until now due to about 6 months of medical tests. Finally finished and am on meds. Can get back to climbing and increasing the intensity. But not really looking forward to the pain

IrishLad90

magicbastarder wrote: »

out to howth would be one of the obvious suggestions.

Yeah its a nice cycle, ive done the harvour but not the hill id be more likely to go southside for the hills. The poolbeg lighthouse is a decent scenic trip if your not from there..
Think ill just get out and see were my instinct leaves me

fryup

wrap up well its like deepest winter out there

rushfan

Post night shift pick-me-up 48km spin in the afternoon. It was cool enough alright, though I would have stayed out longer if it was'nt for the rugby.

IrishLad90

Took a route that lead me out past Dun Laoighre a zig zag through Dalkey left me with the Killiney Hill climb with the added addition of Hailstones nearing the top

Nice route but the villages can cause a lot of stop starting and limiting pace

saccades

Lovely day for a spin.

A cheeky 20+ km loop on the MTB with only 450m of climbing, almost all within the 5km too.

Trails were bone dry so caned it on the descents - trying to get more confident on the jumps and I think I'm getting there.

I should really practice on the ramps the kids in the estate have built but it would be so embarrassing in front of all the neighbours as I fall with the grace of a sack of spuds.

dahat

Fair play to all those who stuck to the 5km rule, I lasted so long but gave up on it eventually.

Tomorrow will we have a new thread?

magicbastarder

yep, got out for the last of my 5km spins; definite wintry feel in the air today.

smacl

dahat wrote: »

Fair play to all those who stuck to the 5km rule, I lasted so long but gave up on it eventually.

Tomorrow will we have a new thread?

Same, grand up until last weekend and then started drifting out of the zone a bit. Looking forward to getting back to the Military road next week and maybe out to the GAP.

Eamonnator

Kilmessan, Co. Meath, is to my mind a pretty unremarkable village. It has a school, a hotel a barbers, a supermarket, a church and a couple of pubs. Pre-Covid It featured regularly on my Sunday morning chaingang route. I used regularly take it in on my mid week solo spins. But to be honest, I have never taken much heed to it. It was just someplace, I cycled through. I think, I stopped in it once for a Lucozade Sport.
For the last few weeks, Kilmessan has taken on a new significance for me. I have been fantasising about it, and tomorrow, come hell or high water, I am going to cycle to Kilmessan. It'll be part of a 70km spin, taken without loops and well outside my 5km limit.
I am so looking forward to it.

Large bottle small glass

Wildly Boaring wrote: »

I'd have loved to see what my core temp was.
But my resting heart rate was in the 30s. Which is about 10 low for me.

Probably about the same as when you went out.

The system which regulates body heat makes us sensitive to changes in body temperature at certain points, feet, fingers etc which is designed to motivate us to do something about it.

At the same time the system will do what it can to restrict heat loss; stop sending heat to extremities, trap a layer of air near skin etc

It will also fire up brown fat to generate heat.

The last resort is shivering which generates heat by muscle contractions.

All of this is to protect core temperature, which doesn't change much.

When Lewis Pugh was doing his 1mile swim is sub zero artic water in his togs his core temperature went up. It dropped afterwards when he was in a warm environment. (He's an extreme example though, his core temperature used go up when he saw the sea, his body's system had got so trained it got ready for the cold event which was coming)

If you get really cold, having a hot shower is probably the worst thing you can do. Your body will sense warm water and can release heat from core too quickly leading to a core temperature drop.

Wildly Boaring

Wildly Boaring wrote: »

I had a disaster.
Thought I had enough layers. Nope!!

Had to abandon ship. Went out at dusk. The loss of sun and the hail left me so cold I was struggling to concentrate or pull the brakes.

I'd have loved to see what my core temp was.
But my resting heart rate was in the 30s. Which is about 10 low for me.

I've been in bed all day.
This may be a bit more sinister.
As a kayaker of about 20 years it would be highly unusual for me to get my layering wrong.


Ringing for a test now.
No other symptoms but getting up now to order a takeaway and don't feel like putting in the effort to walk the stairs.

CramCycle

Wildly Boaring wrote: »

I've been in bed all day.
This may be a bit more sinister.
As a kayaker of about 20 years it would be highly unusual for me to get my layering wrong.
Having instructed groups of beginners for many of those years I'm well used to the signs of people getting cold and when to intervene.

Ringing for a test now.
No other symptoms but getting up now to order a takeaway and don't feel like putting in the effort to walk the stairs.

Best of luck, if its negative though, don't hesitate to ring the GP to go in for a proper check up, those sudden ups and downs in temps, whatever the cause are open season for some issues to crop up.