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End of long week, a short leisurely ride to spin the legs down
Sunday morning, normally a time to be gearing up for a blast out with the club, but this Sunday, the legs were feeling the after-effects of the long saturday ride, so I went out with the neighbours for a short (40m) ride to Ashridge for tea (actually two mugs – we needed the fluids, that’s…
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Long ride in the sun, but not enough climb
As I was abandoned by the family today, no reason not to spend the day on the bike. I left at 8, got home soon after 3. Managed to get the best part of 180km, but sadly, only around 2000m of climb. http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=3836287 I did my best to get lots of climbs – I think…
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Good week’s training
The sun’s shining, (not too much) and I have been able to get out lunchtime a few times this week and it does make me feel better. I’ve been doing the Dunstable Down/Totternhoe route, only 500m of climb each time, but not bad for the midweek runs.
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etape route: be afraid….
be afraid, be very afraid…
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Pyrenees lives up to it’s reputation for delivering diverse weather…
At the start of the ride this morning it looked like quite a good day, and up until about 10km from the top if the Bales, it was. Then we got rain, hail, cloud and wind. No temptation to hang around on the top of the Bales – mind you the descent down the other…
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Back in the Pyrenees
Back at Pyrenees Multisport for an etape reccie – funny how the same old faces turn up! It will be fun getting out on some real climbs. Only two days of cycling, but today we will take in the Col des Ares followed by the Port de Bales, tomorrow the etape course. last evening it…
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Dragon – Wales with Sunshine (well, enough to get me suburnt!)
Sunday’s Dragon ride went ahead as planned – and I completed it in something under 7 hours – which should be a Silver – the 6:25 for a gold at my age is more than a challenge. The day started with the queue for the car park, even arriving at 07:15 at M4 J35, I…
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Prepare to ride the Dragon
This weekend is the Dragon in South Wales. The forecast weather has varied from sunshine all the way to rain. Here’s hoping it’s somewhere in between. I did manage to get out once during the week, a ride up and over Dunstable down, and back. From the image, you can see the profile is pretty…
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Heavy legs…
I guess I must have done too much yesterday – I was not really feeling up to much today, definitely needed to sit in the pack. We went out for an 07:30 start again, but only got as far as the top of Pedley Hill before turning, could probably have done more, but I wimped…
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Good week for Training
I have managed to get out a couple of times during the week, and couldn’t resist a short ride this morning (having said that I went at some pace and did 44 miles, and 575m of climb. Tomorrow is meant to be another long ride – in preparation for the Dragon next weekend. Anway, I…
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