Tell us about your cycle today part III

magicbastarder · 30-04-2021 2:16pm

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.

Weepsie · 30-04-2021 2:48pm

Out the door at 10. Within 10 mins I was being hailed on. I had a shakedry jacket and mossa jersey so core was fine but my hands and feet were frozen.

I stuck at it to skerries to meet a friend for a distanced coffee and then home..I'll probably pay for it now though, so taking it easy for a few days.

this.lad · 30-04-2021 2:59pm

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.

Nigzcurran · 30-04-2021 5:33pm

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

Wildly Boaring · 30-04-2021 5:58pm

Got in a pretty flat 30k at lunch time.
Great way to get away from endless zooming

Wildly Boaring · 01-05-2021 11:57am

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

CapnHex · 01-05-2021 4:40pm

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!

dahat · 01-05-2021 4:54pm

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.

Type 17 · 01-05-2021 5:12pm

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:

MrSkinny · 01-05-2021 5:36pm

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!

fat bloke · 02-05-2021 9:16am

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.

Wildly Boaring · 02-05-2021 9:39am

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!

Reality_Check1 · 02-05-2021 10:44am

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

magicbastarder · 02-05-2021 1:36pm

shortish 42k, first puncture since january of last year.
i am now a local legend where the locals have probably never heard my name.

adrian522 · 02-05-2021 5:34pm

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

ednwireland · 02-05-2021 6:45pm

70km 1000m of climbing regular enough spin great day

this.lad · 02-05-2021 9:42pm

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.

sy_flembeck · 02-05-2021 10:27pm

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

magicbastarder · 02-05-2021 10:30pm

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)

Wildly Boaring · 02-05-2021 10:42pm

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.........

03-05-2021 7:22am

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.

adrian522 · 03-05-2021 7:54pm

pretty quiet in here today

Reality_Check1 · 03-05-2021 8:06pm

adrian522 wrote: »

pretty quiet in here today

Officially a member of the wimp club - I did 70 mins on the Zwift :P

Nigzcurran · 03-05-2021 8:54pm

adrian522 wrote: »

pretty quiet in here today

Yep official rain check for me!

Enduro · 04-05-2021 12:19am

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)

Seaswimmer · 04-05-2021 2:23pm

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

smacl · 04-05-2021 2:39pm

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:

Weepsie · 04-05-2021 2:55pm

I went out at Margaret's, swords, Malahide, Sutton, Clontarf and Home. Knew it would be windy, so took my tank like tour de fer

The NW wind seemed to be swirling in every direction on my way from Sutton to Fairview and was a real slog and then like Smacl I got caught in some heavy hail in Griffith avenue. Was nearly home so ploughed on, but it hurt.

50km in just under 2 hours. Flat as a pancake, and faster than that bike would normally go

04-05-2021 9:03pm

35k this evening. Don't think I've ever been so cold on a bike. The wind seemed to be in my face the whole time too. Went out in a long sleeve jersey with a t shirt underneath and with no gloves. Considered turning around a few times but got through it. Also nearly came off in a cross wind when reaching for a drink with no hands on the bike. Not one of my better spins!

Wildly Boaring · 05-05-2021 7:42pm

Got in 30k after work.
Missed all the showers, the roads were even dry in places (and very wet in others)

One of those days when it always seems to be a headwind. But thoroughly enjoyed my hour and the chilli the missus had on the table after.

Mercian Pro · 05-05-2021 8:05pm

Sheltered in someone's yard for the first hail shower and finished my panini in the Naul when watching the next one. Thought I'd gotten away with it until I was hammered between St Margarets and Charlestown. Temperature went from 11 to 4 degrees, the paths were white with hail and the roads were flooded. Not too bad for the rest of the spin but lots of wet gear hanging up in the shed.

magicbastarder · 05-05-2021 10:49pm

we were driving through the naul just before 4 earlier and i had to slow right down because the road was covered in hailstones.

smacl · 06-05-2021 8:14am

Mercian Pro wrote: »

Sheltered in someone's yard for the first hail shower and finished my panini in the Naul when watching the next one. Thought I'd gotten away with it until I was hammered between St Margarets and Charlestown. Temperature went from 11 to 4 degrees, the paths were white with hail and the roads were flooded. Not too bad for the rest of the spin but lots of wet gear hanging up in the shed.

Similar enough experience here. Went to go out yesterday evening and broke the zip on my packable windproof so went with the full Winter jacket. Way too warm starting off but somewhere in the backroads heading towards Enniskerry the hail arrived and stayed for most of the spin home. Heavy enough at one point to give me a small cut on my lip and I was extremely glad of the heavier jacket, long legs, overshoes, full finger gloves and decent lights. Even then arrived home cold and wet. Bike on the other hand was sparkling, hail would appear to be nature's muc off. 34k with 420m of up and a new packable jacket ordered this morning.

Seth Brundle · 06-05-2021 5:02pm

I've been busy in work this week and so hadn't managed to get out since Sunday. Managed to squeeze in time today to get time on the bike. In the end I clocked up 100km @ 29.5km/h with 464m so I'm happy with that

It was cold out for the first hour but I persevered. Wore a long sleeved jersey and base layer but still felt the cold.
Overtook a lad on a bike on the road passing Killeen Golf Club and was surprised 100m further on to see him getting a tow from me. Didn't mind - made my ego feel a bit better.

Hips are knackered now though!
https://www.strava.com/activities/5251500859

07-05-2021 7:11am

Got out for 45k last night. Two new lights and a luminous fitted sleeveless top as felt a bit exposed on some of the evening rides of late.

Went for a KOM on a 17 per cent short climb near home and got my gearing right and was three seconds ahead on the live segment, but alas when I got home I was one second behind the joint holders and only got a third.

fat bloke · 07-05-2021 8:31pm

Aw man. Beautiful 95k over the gap in the evening sun, 1900m climbing . Figured the weekend was going to be a bit of a washout so squeezed my weekend spin into Friday afternoon/evening. The light was gorgeous and the skies so clear, you could see for miles, would've been an absolutely crackin evening to the mast summit for the view. The roads were as quiet as I've ever seen them too. I'd do it again, I tells ya

. Get the weekend spin in before the weekend. I'm actually really looking forward to my first Saturday sleep in in years!

Came across the headiest and balliest of head the balls descending from the featherbeds. I'm in full early spring gear - long sleeve base layer, full length bib tights, and a pair of shorts over them, neck snood, long sleeve spring jacket, gloves, etc. Any nook or cranny not entirely insulated is starting to seep in that biting cold from the wind chill. This lad we passed, i swear I thought it was flesh coloured gear he was wearing but I nearly fell off the bike to see he was in a skimpy tri-style onesie, the top of which was really only like a singlet with little straps over the shoulders. What do lads be thinking? Honest to God. The poor lad, if he wasn't hypothermic by the Hellfire, and another 10 minutes freewheeling still to go :eek::eek:

MangleBadger · 07-05-2021 8:53pm

fat bloke wrote: »

Aw man. Beautiful 95k over the gap in the evening sun, 1900m climbing . Figured the weekend was going to be a bit of a washout so squeezed my weekend spin into Friday afternoon/evening. The light was gorgeous and the skies so clear, you could see for miles, would've been an absolutely crackin evening to the mast summit for the view. The roads were as quiet as I've ever seen them too. I'd do it again, I tells ya . Get the weekend spin in before the weekend. I'm actually really looking forward to my first Saturday sleep in in years!

Came across the headiest and balliest of head the balls descending from the featherbeds. I'm in full early spring gear - long sleeve base layer, full length bib tights, and a pair of shorts over them, neck snood, long sleeve spring jacket, gloves, etc. Any nook or cranny not entirely insulated is starting to seep in that biting cold from the wind chill. This lad we passed, i swear I thought it was flesh coloured gear he was wearing but I nearly fell off the bike to see he was in a skimpy tri-style onesie, the top of which was really only like a singlet with little straps over the shoulders. What do lads be thinking? Honest to God. The poor lad, if he wasn't hypothermic by the Hellfire, and another 10 minutes freewheeling still to go :eek::eek:

Suns out, guns out.

07-05-2021 9:05pm

Over the Sally gap to Laragh and then the Wicklow gap and home, 103kms with 1233m climbed, wind was biting at times, but mostly sunny, great day,

Seth Brundle · 07-05-2021 9:20pm

Went out this evening for what was intended to be an easy going spin but I managed to get 45km done at 31km/h around Dunboyne, Kilcloon & Maynooth.
Weather was lovely but cool. Still I had just a (boards) jersey on with no base layer and didn't feel cold.
Had a prick of a driver overtake me at Intel with almost no room for him to do it. Despite his impatience, I still passed him at a set of lights and turned into my estate about 1km further just he was catching up again - enough time for me to look him in the eye with one of my fingers raised!

DaveyDave · 07-05-2021 11:15pm

53km out on the ebike today. Need to fit a new chainring to the road bike but had errands to run and a busy weekend ahead along with poor weather forecast so I took the ebike to get out while the weather was decent.

First time I've done more than 30km in at least a year (excluding my recent return to commuting and a 43km trip to meet a friend for coffee all with the ebike) It was nice just to be out and enjoy the day especially as I've been walking several days a week for 12 months, it's very repetitive!

Wildly Boaring · 08-05-2021 7:27pm

Looked at the forecast yesterday and kinda gave up on the day.
Then the sun came out at lunch.

Hopped on the bike for a handy flat spin. Drogheda via Baltray to Clogherhead and home.
Lovely breeze over by the sea. Stopped for coffee, which I rarely do.
Lovely enjoyable spin

Nigzcurran · 09-05-2021 9:57am

Left blanchardstown at 10am yesterday as it was just a light drizzle and 10 minutes later it was a biblical downpour. First time I’ve gotten a good thorough soaking but I kept going and headed out through the city centre as far as rathfarnham for a coffee and then back home via tallaght and Lucan in the glorious sunshine and got nicely dried out

magicbastarder · 09-05-2021 4:42pm

that was a thread title change which was pleasant to make.

(note: coupon is only valid from midnight tonight)

MangleBadger · 09-05-2021 5:44pm

Left from Dun Laoghaire towards Bohernabreena reservoir with the option of either up over Kippure if feeling good or Cunard if I wanted a shorter spin.
Wind was a lot more intense than anticipated. So ended up doing a loop of the water and home the same route. Did not fancy climbing into that headwind.
Slow 52k with 870m of climbing.

Seth Brundle · 09-05-2021 8:04pm

Headed out this morning to complete my weekly distance and elevation targets. Decided I'd head up Howth with stop offs at my mams and at Galsnevin Cemetery.
Made a judgement call before leaving on whether to wear a base layer or not - I didn't. I seemed to be the only one of thousands of cyclists out today not wrapped up but I wasn't cold (although the strong southerly wind wasnt nice).
All in all, I managed 104km @ 27.8km/h with 458m with a load of PBs on Strava. Second century spin in four days so I'm happy with that.

CapnHex · 09-05-2021 9:11pm

First time to climb Cunard and into a headwind. Left from Sandyford, out through Bohernebreena reservoir and on to Cunard. Back via Rochbrook. 38km, with 580m of climbing. A bit sketchy on the descent, with the wind and a bit of rain.

dinneenp · 10-05-2021 3:46pm

Meant to head out for a 30 min short spin. Instead of taking the left on the route went straight ahead and did a 30km cycle loop from my house (towards Tuam, Corofin and home), just over 1 hour.

And I was half thinking of not going out at all, was close to finishing a book (Boy on Fire, about Nick Cave early days) but obviously feel good after the spin.

Strava

11-05-2021 7:13am

Got out last night for 42k. Was losing air quickly in the tubeless rear tyre and realised I had a problem with valve leaking. Wasn't far from home so went back and repaired. Thought about bailing but headed back out and felt great. Picked up two KOMs and a fifth on a brutal hill. Very happy.

vintcerf · 11-05-2021 10:01am

just a friendly heads-up to folks that share strava activities.
you can turn on privacy zones, here's a handy how to video that also mentions why you might want to do it.
* I've no affiliation with the video creator and a quick google search for "Strava Privacy Zones" should also get you some good links.

11-05-2021 10:25am

vintcerf wrote: »

just a friendly heads-up to folks that share strava activities.
you can turn on privacy zones, here's a handy how to video that also mentions why you might want to do it.
* I've no affiliation with the video creator and a quick google search for "Strava Privacy Zones" should also get you some good links.

Thanks for that. I normally turn off strava before I get anywhere near home but must have forgotten last night. I'll do that when I have time later.

Tell us about your cycle today part III

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