Tell us about your cycle Yesterday.

G rock wrote: »

Up at 4am to drive over an hour to dublin to cycle 300k.

Yep, that's madness

To cycle back towards your house, yeah, that's madness.:D

How was it today? What was the jump from 200km to 300km like?

G rock wrote: »

It was actually ok, helped no doubt by ideal conditions, clear blue skies and no wind!

it was just like doing the 200, with a few more stops, and a few times asking "are we there yet?"!

How long did it take you and were there many at it? I know there's a thread somewhere about it, but I'm just being nosey!

Finishd work @ 10am today and couldn't resist a quick spin as soon as I got home. Felt really strong so pumped out 36k in just over an hour. Nabbing the sundays well kom by one second in the process:-)

Tough going out there this morning. I had intended to do 80k in north county Dublin but after 10k my feet were saturated (even with overshoes) with the amount of surface water.

Snow around the Nags Head, Damastown and Mallahow so I had to take it handy but my feet became increasingly colder and number so I aborted and ended up doing just 52k. I was glad to get home.

Got caught in snow, sleet, slush on the road yesterday. Did 90km.

I'd say HTFU, but I had two cups of tea during that.

Nice day for it, sun on my back, not too cold, not too breezy .
Got out today as tomorrow & Friday look doomed to the weather

Did > 48.4km (+5km warmdown), up the Windy Gap (curvy as opposed to breezy!!) > Coachford > Dripsey > Tower > Ovens.

Back on the bike for the first time since my crash at the start of the month.

Completed 38km trying to break the new bike in. Bike is completely different

to my old Defy....more of a racing geometry. Needs some tweaking and

adjusting as I have a slight twinge between my shoulder blades.

Still it's good to be back

Morrisseeee wrote: »

If I told you I'd have to kill you

No, I reckon that piece of info is best overlooked, a GPS spike or something, when you actually go into the performance & select speed, there's no evidence of the 'spike'. I wouldn't take the GPS speed as gospel at certain points either, the GPS compensates from one point to the next I'd imagine, ie. I'd be comparing the speed to my own computer which is much more 'smooth', no spikes.

Ruining my goal of hitting 100km/h

Got it!

Started back again last week doing a 9kish lap around dublin 12....did it yesterday in better time and felt like i could keep goin afterwards so today I pushed it out further....from crumlin hospital in crumlin road...cork street...dame street....up westmoreland street...back down the keys, up manor street and arbour hill, back south circular...naas road as far as the junction with the garage and back in long mile road...not doin huge miles just yet but gettin there expanding my laps wider!

colm_gti wrote: »

Planned 3 big sessions this week...

Tuesday morning was put off because of snow
Wednesday morning was put off because of an impromptu meeting called in college
This morning was put off because of the same

Have had to make do with a spin class each morning instead...they really aren't nice!

Did Ashbourne to Blackrock this morning, as natty said, having to push the bike downhill is a bit disheartening and the coast road was pure torture.

however I plan to do the return spin in about 30mins if the wind keeps up, just stick up a sail and we're off.

Tried to do my first 100km spin today, a bit of a cheaters route out the N11 to Glendalough. Ended up being a 72km spin.

Buffeted by winds the whole way out to Bray (For some reason it seemed worse in the drops?) the same experience of having to really push down hills.

By the time I'd gotten all the way through Bray and past the turn off for Greystones the Sugar Loaf was vanishing in fog and I decided that discretion was the better part of not having a disaster and turned tail.

Blazed back along the N11 fairly easily apart from when an Ambulance that was pootling along without sirens beeped and badgered me off the road for daring to use the bus lane.

Caught up with him twice (He never did more that 50) and took note of the reg, even if it was hospital business, I don't see the justification...grrr.

colm_gti wrote: »

Ashbourne to Blackrock you say...do you do that spin often?

All week during the summer,

wow. The training plan said hills, and I wasn't backing down, despite the wind howling and the rain smashing against the windows.

Crawled my way along the seafront at Clontarf, about 20kmph. Think it's the first time I've had to use a 39x25 just to get out to Howth. Through the village, the noise of the wind ripping through the masts and folded sails was eerie.

Had the headland to myself mostly, very little car traffic, no other cyclists. Didn't risk the summit carpark for fear of actually taking off. Compared to the seafront, the roads were pretty sheltered, but the torrents of water pouring across them made me nervous. Two short climbs punctuated with a long one, then back along the sea front at about 40kmph. Could've gone faster, but the lack of feeling in my hands (and thus inability to brake/react) and the fact that my glasses kept misting over meant I took it handier.

Home, and took off my gear and put it in a bucket. Have just finished stashing it in various places to dry... the train is very appealing for the morning.