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5Km Radius Cycle routes

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Has anyone created any creative routes to deal with the 5Km restrictions?

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Fugs!!

I did a lovely 75km within my 5km yesterday. Very enjoyable and a lovely day if a bit windy.

cletus

So, in my continuing quest to collect all roads, tracks, and trails, I ended up crossing two fields, which turned into hike-a-biking...

...and ended here. This is definitely neither a track nor a trail

This morning was also the perfect opportunity to try out my new Altura Pocket Rocket jacket. Worked a treat

JohnnyKq

cletus wrote: »

Something else tht might be of use, if you register on wandrer.earth, you can download map sections, and when you go to the map field while cycling, it will show all previously uncycled roads, without having to create routes for them

Thank you thats really useful. Im concerned my default route brings me just outside the 5Km limit. This wander.earth is just what I need

cletus

Something else tht might be of use, if you register on wandrer.earth, you can download map sections, and when you go to the map field while cycling, it will show all previously uncycled roads, without having to create routes for them

NamelessPhil

A nice bit of bog- snorkelling for you!

cletus

Here we go...

cletus

Flip side of that, you have a wider variety of roads than me.

My picture above is not the actual 5km radius, just what I covered this morning. I'll grab a 5km screenshot shortly

NamelessPhil

You've got an easier job than me! *

*Not centred on my actual house

cletus

So, I went out this morning to start covering all available roads to me. The map below is part 1 of the lockdown madness. Roads in blue have been covered, roads in red are yet to be done.

Some of them are behind gates and not accessible, and, looking at the map, I think I got a few that aren't actually registering. Either way, progress has been made

Wailin

Phoenix park, strawberry beds and Lucan in my 5k. Can link up for some nice loops. Phoenix park is also a great place with the mountain bike. Plenty of trails, hills and rooty bits to keep me ticking over until I can get back to the mountains.

dahat

55km around mostly backroads with muck, leaves & farm ****e on the bike now. Lovely spin all the same and once the mess clears up it will be a nice quiet spin.

68 lost souls

mvt wrote: »

Am lucky to have the Phoenix park with in my loop & it is also looking fabulous atm with the colours.
On a slight aside am a terrible desender in general but the sight of masses of wet leaves scare the bejasus out of me:o

Once the majority of leaves have fallen up until they regrow is when I’m happiest descending because you can see what’s coming better. Sunny summer weather is great for the road surface but can’t tell if a car is coming or anything when the overgrown trees and hedges block the view

mvt

68 lost souls wrote: »

Went up Cruagh to view point and down by the hellfire on Wednesday at about 2. 5 cars passed me from Lidl on the old court road to the view point and saw three pedestrians am walking into Masseys it was great not to have cars. Leaves and rain made it a bit sloppy mind you.

Am lucky to have the Phoenix park with in my loop & it is also looking fabulous atm with the colours.
On a slight aside am a terrible desender in general but the sight of masses of wet leaves scare the bejasus out of me:o

Whatwicklow

Lucky enough, I can squeeze in a full lap of the blessington lake within my 5km ðŸ˜

68 lost souls

smacl wrote: »

Bordering on an unhealthy amount of climbing

Based in Ballyboden myself which gives me the viewing point, Kilmashogue and a good amount of off-road in my 5km zone. Problem is that the Dublin mountains have been mobbed for the last few weeks with no signs of things abating. Cycled up to the Hellfire club at lunch which would usually be quiet mid-week this time of year but the carpark was jammed. I'm guessing the weekend will be much worse to the extent I wouldn't be surprised to see the carparks closed and lots of gardaí about. I'd say if the gardaí had a mind to collect some fines over the weekend they'd hit the jackpot on the Military road.

Went up Cruagh to view point and down by the hellfire on Wednesday at about 2. 5 cars passed me from Lidl on the old court road to the view point and saw three pedestrians am walking into Masseys it was great not to have cars. Leaves and rain made it a bit sloppy mind you.

JohnnyKq

Plastik wrote: »

You'd be surprised. I was given a gardasplaining during the first 5k restriction by one that was insistent that I must be outside of the 5km zone because they had measured 8km on the clock from where we both roughly started to where they were :rolleyes:

Ridiculous. Common sense a lost on this one.

Plastik

fat bloke wrote: »

I don't see Gardaí haggling over a +/- a couple of hundred metres.

You'd be surprised. I was given a gardasplaining during the first 5k restriction by one that was insistent that I must be outside of the 5km zone because they had measured 8km on the clock from where we both roughly started to where they were :rolleyes:

JohnnyKq

fat bloke wrote: »

I don't see Gardaí haggling over a +/- a couple of hundred metres.

Heres hoping for common sense on outdoor sporting activities. I guess cyclists are not the most contagious

smacl

a148pro wrote: »

Its funny I was up this afternoon and it was quiet enough, I presumed because of the new rules.

Massey's is absolutely stunning right now if anyone can get to it

Went through Masseys at lunch, one of my regular spots and great all year round. Lots of different routes for a relatively small area.

fat bloke

I don't see Gardaí haggling over a +/- a couple of hundred metres.

JohnnyKq

gingernut79 wrote: »

The outside of my 5k ( possibly have to venture into 6k a couple of times) loop takes me on a 37km cycle, and if I threw in a few more roads I could probably get 50km out of them, like other posters have said though, I know them all like the back of my hand.

Would this be risqué if you post on Strava? Is it an acknowledgement of breaking the law?

gingernut79

The outside of my 5k ( possibly have to venture into 6k a couple of times) loop takes me on a 37km cycle, and if I threw in a few more roads I could probably get 50km out of them, like other posters have said though, I know them all like the back of my hand.

Takca

Some of ye might find this handy.

I've been trying out "Back Home" on garmin connect
https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/952fe295-6cea-432f-b7d8-b6024d672e0e

You add it to you garmin device (in my case an Edge 520) via connect IQ,
then you add "Back Home" as one of your data fields.

This field will tell you your distance back to your start point,
In May I cycled out each of the roads beside me until I hit the 5km point then turned around and took another
which ended up in a interesting 100km route
https://www.strava.com/activities/3423510406

JohnnyKq

a148pro wrote: »

Its funny I was up this afternoon and it was quiet enough, I presumed because of the new rules.

Massey's is absolutely stunning right now if anyone can get to it

With the weather forecast for storms next week I think Zwift will keep all within the 5km radius

a148pro

smacl wrote: »

Problem is that the Dublin mountains have been mobbed for the last few weeks with no signs of things abating. Cycled up to the Hellfire club at lunch which would usually be quiet mid-week this time of year but the carpark was jammed. I'm guessing the weekend will be much worse to the extent I wouldn't be surprised to see the carparks closed and lots of gardaí about. I'd say if the gardaí had a mind to collect some fines over the weekend they'd hit the jackpot on the Military road.

Its funny I was up this afternoon and it was quiet enough, I presumed because of the new rules.

Massey's is absolutely stunning right now if anyone can get to it

fat bloke

I'm at the foot of stocking Lane as well so actually have loads of climbing routes. Cruagh all the way up to the featherbeds is a solid almost 30 minutes of climbing and I've also access to most of Gleann na Smól.

I actually found myself in the previous lockdown yearning for a bit of flat! Had to discipline myself into warming up properly cos straight up the hills from cold was hard on the knees.

Nice spin today without too much doubling over. 42k and 1100m uppage. Love sunny dry autumnal evenings, something about the colours, the crispness of the air and the HD 4k light

ted1

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

Thanks. I wasn't sure if you could still get over from Tully Cross to Herenford with all the works at Cherrywood.

You sure can, hadn’t been up there in a while there’s actually a road now which leaved you with only 10m of gravel to carry the bike over to get to the stile

Daroxtar

NamelessPhil wrote: »

I have Ticknock, Kilmashogue Lane and Cruagh Road all within my 5km.

I have one "hill", a kilometer at 2%. Sickened

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Grassey wrote: »

Or is it....

HAHA!! That is the lockdown ingenuity we have been hearing about!

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ted1 wrote: »

Stayed in it today : https://strava.app.link/zGAm5dIbPab
Could have fit in another 15km but i had stuff to do

Thanks. I wasn't sure if you could still get over from Tully Cross to Herenford with all the works at Cherrywood.