Tell us about your weekend ride

40km on 59" fixed mainly on single track roads - a suprisingly calm day weatherwise after a wild night of wind and rain :-)

http://windywandering.blogspot.com/2011/02/keep-to-road-keep-clear-of-moors.html

Love how people call it in kms to make it sound more impressive = )

I'd always put miles until today, when I thought 'everyone else is putting kilometres, maybe I should just stop fighting'.

Now I regret that weakness.

Now you appreciate the lengths that shoots and I go to.

km is 'european'. More chic.

I used to ride track, more than 30 years ago - The 1,000m sprint, 4,000m pursuit, 50km Madison, 10km scratch, 40km points. Events I ride now are audax and sportives - distances in KMs. OK so they might sound more impressive, as tho' you've gone further, but when your suffering 50km from the end or 31 miles from the end.

The OS stopped using 1" to the mile years ago - km I find much easier to use both on the bike and hill walking (and I'm a boring 50yr old who remembers l.s.d) ;-)

+1 to k.ms
now I know youre 50 explains the 59 " ride ;-)

surely you used to be in the winter 72" races of legend?

I think i will post in here for the first time about my rides :-)

This weekend a mate and i rode out to Burnham-on-Crouch on the Essex coast from East London. Started off slow at about 9.30, rode thru Romford. Good riding until we hit the A127 heading east. What a bitch... We quickly changed routes and ended up on the A129 and rode thru a lovely town called Shenfield. From there we carried on along some beautiful countryside until finally made it to Burnham-on-Crouch at around 3ish.
51 miles of lovely riding. Slept like a log, had a full breakfast, and started the ride home the next morning.
Rode all the way back til Romford, where my partner felt ill (shit happens) and we trained it back.
88 miles in total!

Good weekend:-)

rode thru a lovely town called Shenfield

lol

+1 to k.ms
now I know youre 50 explains the 59 " ride ;-)

surely you used to be in the winter 72" races of legend?

Yes, odd isn't it. Rode metric distance races but calculated gears in inches ???

Used to train lower than 72" in winter - usually around 62-64 (48x 21 or 22). Rode the occasional mid-gear tt and often rode 25's on 48x16 (81")

only a forrener could say Shenfield was that, next youll be telling us womford is wural,

happy days though, glad for you happiest man on the forum! keep it up

MF, i really have no idea what youre saying... Please explain?

listen to anyone from Essex speak CB, all will become clear, and keepsmiling,
sometimes being in a different country is just joyful for the difference

I have to hold my hand up and say that for the past few weeks I'd been kaying it. Today though I did such a short distance it would sound pathetic no matter what system I used.

lol, funnily we stopped off for lunch there and it was lovely enough we went back the next day. The guy i think is the owner saw us locking up London Style (3 heavy D locks thru frame and both wheels locked together), and he laughed and said no one dares steal from around his place. Today we had a lovely couple chat to us about our ride and the waiting staff were very sweet. And no dodge Essex accents either.

a little diversion, the late, great Ian Dury with some Essex magic,poetry
YouTube - Ian Dury - Billericay Dickie (Live)

Did somebody say LSD? Now there's a performance enhancing drug.

I have aching around my thoracic spine. Never really had this from cycling, must have been 'overgeared'*- attempted to ride briskly for about the first quarter of saturday's Sussex 100k. Suddenly flagged around 30k and took the rest pretty easy.

*in my case this means unfit

one of the best things about riding out of town (london)..
on the whole people are friendly, bikes are safe (even in essex)
plus signs of spring appearing this weekend..

Walked about 16k over the South Downs way yesterday.

5 hours in the Chilterns with Team Quest today. Looked like this..

6 miles, 9.something km with my 6 year old.
Ice cream was consumed.

Currently drinking bourbon &coke and eating rumballs and some vanilla Hagen Daas.
Lets see SIS get that combo in a recovery shake.

I went esplorin' Kent, and a bit of Surrey.

Started late, just to the East of Maidstone, and in slightly uncomfortable fashion. Wet roads and chipped tarmac on the first few hills made for sketchy cycling.

I then pootled around for a bit before hitting the A229 on the way West, due to a poor bit of route plotting. Grim. Getting over the Medway without hitting unfriendly roads I found tricky, mebe it'd be better to stay one side or the other.

The ride got better as the day wore on. It was good to discover new terrain, but it was also reassuring to find myself often moving through countryside with which I'm familiar. Plenty of climbs along the way (Hogtrough Hill and White Lane were among the more memorable); though some of the best hills I'd plotted as descents. Both Ide Hill and Row Dow I'm sorry I didn't meet coming the other way.

The ride ended on 101 miles across and 2400m up, at my girlfriend's in West London. It also ended with a bottle of Yazoo, a poached egg sandwich (obv), a mango, some yoghurt, a handful of muesli, half a packet of Reeses cups, and two coffees from one of those capsule machines. I woke this morning feeling tickety-boo, which I can only attribute to the restorative nosh from the night before.

Today was spent fixing light fittings and eating fish fingers. Bit of a Swaining in the rain this evening, bought milk, cleaned bike, job done.

Love how people call it in kms to make it sound more impressive = )
Except Sam of course (keeping it real)

Shit!
Busted...

I didn't ride at all yesterday, the first weekend day since Christmas without riding, it was wierd. Got all sorts of productive stuff done though.

Did lot's of sawing, that has to count for something.

km is 'european'. More chic.

km is also Garmin compatible and psychologically makes you feel like you've covered more ground when you're on a ride I think.

and it sounds better.

km is gay