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Tell us about your cycle today part III

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  • #92
    triggermortis
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    Just back in from a 45km spin around NCD. Clear blue skies out of my window now. It wasn't like that around Ballboughal an hour ago!!! Twice I got caught in hail showers!!
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  • #93
    [Deleted User]
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    Day off with no kids around and nothing to rush home for.

    Did 95k with 995m up @29.7kph. Lovely weather and not too much wind away from the coast. Completed the 7,500m climbing challenge for the month.

    https://www.strava.com/activities/5217410428
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  • #94
    magicbastarder
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    do you mean you didn't need the lucozade?
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  • #95
    [Deleted User]
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    magicbastarder wrote: »
    do you mean you didn't need the lucozade?

    I drank the full bidon of water and Lucozade. I didn't bother with the bars or the banana in the jersey, but I always carry them just in case and sometimes do eat them.
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  • #96
    magicbastarder
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    ah yeah, the reason i was asking is a bottle of lucozade sport is about 1.5 bananas, if you're just counting the calories involved.
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  • #97
    this.lad
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    Off work today so spun to the school with the kids then went off for a loop in the hills.

    65km 900m up.

    Looked like a lovely day but cool out. Lugnaquilla is wearing a white cap and I could see the showers not too far away.

    Remained dry for me though, just got in the door and we had a massive downpour of hail.

    Glad I got out early, otherwise I'd be on the wimp list.
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  • #98
    Nigzcurran
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    Was dozing off after getting home from work but managed to force meself out for a quick spin before dinner and headed out around dunboyne, shorts and light jacket and it’s was lovely weather for it, got 26kms in just over an hour and that was with the panniers full of junk to get some practice in before the big trip next month
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    Time is contagious, everyone is getting old.



  • #99
    Wildly Boaring
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    Got in a pretty flat 30k at lunch time.
    Great way to get away from endless zooming
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  • #100
    Wildly Boaring
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    Up at out early.
    Was only 2 or 3 degrees.

    Up Bellewstown over past Pudden Hill
    Up Skryne down and around by Garlow and up Tara.

    Then repeat Skryne and Bellewstown on the way home

    Glad I ignored the forecast from earlier in the week.
    It's lovey out there, a bit fresh

    86k with 860m up
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  • #101
    CapnHex
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    Inspired by NamelessPhil and the Borders of Dublin route and aware of my own ability, I did the Borders of DLRCC starting in Sandyford, to Kilternan, Glencullen,Tibradden, around Marlay, along Dodder to Clonskeagh, through UCD to Blackrock, along the coast to Old Conna Rd, Ballyman Rd, Kilternan and home. 62km 720m climbing 3hr40!
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  • #102
    dahat
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    A fresh day with an early start for 4 glorious hours on the bike. Noticeable increase in traffic that will take a bit of getting used to again.

    124k @ a brisk 31.2avf due to a a few efforts, roll on tomorrow for more of the same.
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  • #103
    Type 17
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    A nice loop from Dublin city to Bray/Greystones/Delgany and back on the N11, including a climb up Blackberry lane in Delgany - 16.1% over 280m, but over 33% in places - great fun (afterwards!).

    57km in 2:02hrs at 28av with 507m up.

    Great to use the new bike lane southbound around the long sweeping corner before the top of the Bray Head road (R761) - pity it dumps you back onto the road just as you need it, for the narrower final 20m over the blind crest :rolleyes:
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  • #104
    MrSkinny
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    Popped my Sally Gap cherry today. Went up via the Lough Tay side and was pleasantly surprised to find that it was a lot more doable than the near impossible climb I had been building up in my head; I think I actually struggled a bit more going up Long Hill. A lovely day for it and stunning scenery all the way. One of my longest rides to date at 65km with 1200m of climbing in 3h30. Can't wait to get up there again!
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  • #105
    fat bloke
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    Yesterday was a lovely day. Once again you could've easily been scared into sleeping in by the forecast but, while it was cold, once you kept moving, operating temperature was perfect. Clocked up 158k. Longest spin in a while. Glenmacnass and Sally gap were eerily devoid of cyclists though, way quieter than normal.
    Oh, and if any of the new cohort of coffee vans are listening, €3.20 for an espresso is not OK. :( We decided against.
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  • #106
    Wildly Boaring
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    fat bloke wrote: »
    Longest spin in a while. Glenmacnass and Sally gap were eerily devoid of cyclists though, way quieter than normal.

    Funny enough was thinking the same myself.
    Was on Bellewstown twice, one other cyclist.
    Nobody else pone tara.

    Plenty about around the sea though, where all the wind was!
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  • #107
    Reality_Check1
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    Got out early this morning to take advantage of the last of the nice weather. 45k with 200 up @ 29.4
    Went with base layer, jersey, Gilet, arm warmers, snood and gloves. Also went with bib shorts which I realised after about 5 mins was a mistake. Considered turning back but glad I didn't as things got warmer and I actually ditched the arm warmers after awhile.
    Only realised how cold the feet were getting off the bike - need to get some overshoes.
    Overall nice Sunday spin. Might even get the grass cut before the heavy rain hits
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  • #108
    magicbastarder
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    shortish 42k, first puncture since january of last year.
    i am now a local legend where the locals have probably never heard my name.
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  • #109
    adrian522
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    Took a route from this book , a 50km trip up past Hell fire club, Military road, Glencree Road, back up towards Glencullen, then back up Cruagh Road.

    Continue to be amazed how quickly you get from Dublin to complete wilderness !

    https://www.strava.com/activities/5224751612/overview
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  • #110
    ednwireland
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    70km 1000m of climbing regular enough spin great day
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    My weather

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  • #111
    this.lad
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    Did 95km today with 800m of climbing.

    Didn't go out until 2pm and it got quite cold, I would have pushed on for 100 but hands and feet were like blocks of ice.

    Definitely a day for the winter jersey, done again I'd leave the shorts and go for long legs.

    I'm strongly considering joining a club. Had all my pondering done by 70k, after that I started thinking about distance and speed and other nonsense. Never do that when I'm out with someone.

    Have only cycled with someone else once since late 2019.
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  • #112
    sy_flembeck
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    63km with 999m up. Stayed relatively local due to forecast. Like others above have said I thought there were very few bikes about yesterday too. But I think most seemed to be waiting for today. At midday Enniskerry was like Oxford Street
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  • #113
    magicbastarder
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    this.lad wrote: »
    Have only cycled with someone else once since late 2019.
    funny enough, today was the first time i'd cycled with someone in about 18 months. spotted a chap i know in oldtown, who was chatting to a cyclist, so i stopped to say hello and ended up doing about 5km with the lad he'd been talking to (and who has had both jabs, so was happy enough to cycle along with me)
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  • #114
    Wildly Boaring
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    magicbastarder wrote: »
    funny enough, today was the first time i'd cycled with someone in about 18 months.

    I was thinking the same yesterday.
    Bother was home last Christmas, last spin with someone else.
    Moved house around same time and then covid.........
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  • #115
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    Got out for 80k yesterday morning. Started out in frost and came home in glorious, warm sunshine. Very hard to get the gear choices right, but definitely needed the winter jacket for the first hour.

    Rode with my brother and when we weren't chatting took a few turns, so the the first time I've been on someone's wheel in a year. 80k with 500 up @ 30.5kph.
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  • #116
    adrian522
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    pretty quiet in here today :)
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  • #117
    Reality_Check1
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    adrian522 wrote: »
    pretty quiet in here today :)

    Officially a member of the wimp club - I did 70 mins on the Zwift :P
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  • #118
    Nigzcurran
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    adrian522 wrote: »
    pretty quiet in here today :)

    Yep official rain check for me!
    Post edited by magicbastarder on

    Time is contagious, everyone is getting old.



  • #119
    Enduro
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    adrian522 wrote: »
    pretty quiet in here today :)

    Does an hour on the turbo count for anything? (after a 5 hour run.... now that I think of it I only saw one cyclist if 5 hours of running on roads around Glencree, devil's elbow etc. Possibly a record low)
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  • #120
    Seaswimmer
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    Did my old commute today. Deansgrange to just beyond Santry and back. About 40k. Marginally broke the speed limit along Sandymount with the NW wind but yet all the cars passed me:confused::confused:
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  • #121
    smacl
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    Masseys and the Hellfire over lunch. Beautiful sunshine and sweltering on the way up followed by heavy hail, thunder and lightening and bloody freezing on the way back down. Also managed to land on my arse trying to corner too fast to get off the Coilte tracks onto a muddy forest track. No damage done and plenty more hail to wash the jacket on the way home. Not entirely convinced about May being the start of Summer :pac:

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