Tell us about your cycle today part III

To mark the day, i took the morning off and planned on a 64 mile spin, circa 103.50 km. Straight out to Baltinglass from house is 51.5km so it seemed a good no faffing around route. Enjoyed the spin out, it really is a good route in fairness, from Tallaght bypass you have 45km of good surface and only 1 village/town on it, Blessington. No wind to speak of on way out, any flags i passed were limp. But wind picked up on way back and same flags were mostly fluttering straight out. At 67km my garmin screen just went blank, but unit didn't turn off. Nothing would get screen back on. Used phone for rest of spin but between loss of motivation and headwind and not having a clue of speed...less enjoyable. Anyway achieved the 64 mile spin and managed to salvage the first part from the Garmin 🙂

My dad died 27 years ago, 6 months before his 64th birthday so this one felt special to me. He was in my thoughts a lot lately.

Dropped the car in for a service, brought the ebike and popped into the city centre for some errands, 29km. Lovely day for it, fairly heavy traffic all around though.

Back home for some lunch then another 8km to go back for the car.

On grandfather duty this morning watching grandson play footy at 10 am. So a short spin early am, straight out to Valleymount turn bridge and back 50km on the nose avg 30kph.

Terrible tailbacks at Blue Gardenia "Stop and Go" system in place for hedge cutting. Strava just doesn't cooe with stoppages like that on segments, typical times were 1:38 , mine was 6:34 🤣, although the total time pauses !

Gorey cc touring spin today, Gorey ,Ballycanew, Castlebridge Wexford town, across to Ferrycarrrig bridge , Oilgate, Enniscorthy, Ferns snd back to Gorey.

92.5 km , avg 31.1kph, 500 + meters

Lovely spin, no hardship 😁

Great spin yesterday. Rocked down the N81 very early in the morning, barely any traffic, but they've a lot of resurfacing work done so it's really nice tarmac all the way to Baltinglass. Went as far as Tinahely and then left for Aughrim where we took smaller roads for Sliabh Maun and on to Glenmalure, Shay Elliot, and home Laragh, Glenmacnass, Sally Gap, Featherbeds. 155k ish and nice weather. A bit of a summer swansong I'd say. Still sh@gged today after it I've had very very few 150+ spins this year

Tight for time went for a run instead.

Great to see 3 different groups of adults and kids about.

2 kids on road bikes showing how it's done up Skryne hill!!

Hi,

Went out for a short (2 hour-ish) cycle this afternoon. Cycling through a small, fairly busy town, just coming over a hill, when right in front of me appears a rope stretched right across the road at chest height. Tried desperately, in the split second I had, to get the rope over my head but, nope, clotheslined and straight down to the ground. Took a heavy hit to my side and head and was fairly dazed. Two people attempted to pick me up but I said "no, leave me in case something's broken". Dazed, I eventually crawled over to a bench, with a woman suggesting to call an ambulance, and steadied myself after a while. I'm at home, nothing broken but scraped knee, bruised face, hip, left hand and very sore ribs.  

I asked the lad who stayed with me "what the f*ck have you a rope across the road for?", the answer: "it's for Christmas lights and we were taking it down 'cos the birds were sitting on it and sh!tting all over the place".

Dunno why I'm posting this. I'm new to the cycling forum, and don't even know if this is the right place, but just had to tell the story.

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Yeah, I'm fairly (i.e. very) sore at the minute. Not as young as I used to be so don't bounce as well. Going to be a long night trying to get some sleep.

Jaysus. I though my story was fairly unbelievable but maybe not so...

A car was behind me going up the hill and overtook me shortly before I hit the rope. I can only assume the rope was lowered just after the car passed and maybe that's why I didn't see it at a distance. I used to cycle without a helmet (years ago) until I got a b0ll0cking from a friend. My helmet is pockmarked from where it hit the road and the foam has split inside. My head is sore to touch at the temple but I'm counting myself very lucky with no broken bones.

House to Gorey for meet up, hectic pace to Arklow, Brittas bay and across to Beehive, group split at this point, racers headed for Rathdrum, whereas we went along old n11 to Jack Whites and into Arklow , inch, Gorey Ballycanew. 104km 696 meters avg 30.6 kph.

Racers avgd 31.4

Rolled 6km home avg 25.6kph