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Junglist said:
Nope. Driving License and birth certificate were all that I needed to provide.

Sadly, the bike is being pushed down the list of things that we need. Though was talking to my mum about the house we are selling in Jamaica and that's getting a valuation this month. Hopefully that'll sell soon and I'll get a surprise windfall come my way to spend on silly things.

To be fair, with the rumours that a new groupset is on the way it turns out my endless messing about may have worked in my favour for either getting the new one or a heavy discount on the old one. Even though I'd be buying a complete bike so may not make a difference
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Move into house in Jamaica for free. Sell current house and buy a new bike.

Win Win

Although i did see some crazy prices on the 105 DI2 on a recent trace velo video where you got the whole lot for £849. Almost not worth not buying at that price


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That would be one hell of a commute! Weather may make it worth while and fresh blue mountain coffee. I'll have a think about it :cry:

That's a decent deal! Though I want Ultegra so it has the buttons on the hoods as I believe 105 is missing that feature, for now. If I had the cash spare though I'd totally do it for my current bike just to be rid of stretching cables ever again!
 
Apparently I made a bit of a mistake yesterday. With a nice bit of sun forecast, I set off on one of my favourite routes. 80 miles, 4,500ft and two nice coffee and cake stops. I went at a very slow pace, but by the time I got home, I felt ruined to the point that I thought I'd made myself ill. I kept waking during the night with the sweats and my body aching. I've then bailed on the Sunday Club ride, which looking out of the window, would be really nice today :(

I've done that route a good few times but I don't think I've ever been affected like this before. I wonder if I had an illness lingering somewhere in the background?

I was hoping after a coffee and breakfast, I might have some energy again... but maybe I'll just have a relaxing day... gazing out of the window at the blue skies :rolleyes:
 
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Very cold out there in the early morning, so I'm staying put until later. The blue skies are wonderfully tempting though! Only problem with going later is all the traffic.

I've picked a great week to have off by the looks of it.
 
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Trifid said:
Very cold out there in the early morning, so I'm staying put until later. The blue skies are wonderfully tempting though! Only problem with going later is all the traffic.

I've picked a great week to have off by the looks of it.
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I did my first 50k in many years yesterday. Left around midday, plenty of cyclists on the roads and the roads were mostly dry.

Traffic wise, 99 cars in 2hr ride overtook me. So not bad seeing as other routes I’d get 100+ in 40km.
 
AndyCr15 said:
Apparently I made a bit of a mistake yesterday. With a nice bit of sun forecast, I set off on one of my favourite routes. 80 miles, 4,500ft and two nice coffee and cake stops. I went at a very slow pace, but by the time I got home, I felt ruined to the point that I thought I'd made myself ill. I kept waking during the night with the sweats and my body aching. I've then bailed on the Sunday Club ride, which looking out of the window, would be really nice today :(

I've done that route a good few times but I don't think I've ever been affected like this before. I wonder if I had an illness lingering somewhere in the background?

I was hoping after a coffee and breakfast, I might have some energy again... but maybe I'll just have a relaxing day... gazing out of the window at the blue skies :rolleyes:
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Could be anything. Food you ate the day before, sleep quality, amount of training etc.

My Garmin suggested 74 hrs of rest after yesterday’s ride..

Funny enough it used to say that to the 20k rides I did when I got back into cycling back in October. So I’m making progress.
 
grudas said:
I did my first 50k in many years yesterday. Left around midday, plenty of cyclists on the roads and the roads were mostly dry.

Traffic wise, 99 cars in 2hr ride overtook me. So not bad seeing as other routes I’d get 100+ in 40km.
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I had 140 overtakes in 1:20 yesterday lunch time and took all the local dead end country roads (literally ended up in someone's driveway as they were coming out the house :o ). Traffic around here is awful and they tend to get easily triggered by the sight of a cyclist, fortunately no issues yesterday.
 
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I had 140 overtakes in 1:20 yesterday lunch time and took all the local dead end country roads (literally ended up in someone's driveway as they were coming out the house :o ). Traffic around here is awful and they tend to get easily triggered by the sight of a cyclist, fortunately no issues yesterday.
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Where are you located out of interest?

There was a good 30-40 minute bit yesterday where no cars overtook me. In general down here in west Sussex, drivers are mostly very good. A handful ofof idiots but nowhere near as bad as it used to be in London.

My last bit of ride is through the town centre where the numbers ramp up. But majority of it I had under 40 cars.
 
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Where are you located out of interest?

There was a good 30-40 minute bit yesterday where no cars overtook me. In general down here in west Sussex, drivers are mostly very good. A handful ofof idiots but nowhere near as bad as it used to be in London.

My last bit of ride is through the town centre where the numbers ramp up. But majority of it I had under 40 cars.
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South east Essex.
 
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Food you ate the day before, sleep quality, amount of training etc.
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Yeah, but I'm reasonably consistent with all of this. Maybe the only difference is I ran a 5k on Thursday and think some of that was still in my legs.

My Whoop had been slow updating and finally did so this morning. Yesterday's effort was 20.3, which is the highest in 6 months (which includes two Spain trips, taking on 2k+ ft climbs) and my recovery today is Red, which not including Covid, has only happened once in 6 months (during one of the Spain trips)
 
Did a weird ride on Saturday. Went to meet some friends for a ride and it ended up being very stop start.

Did ~80km with 1400m of climbing over the day but it was split up into.

  1. 15km to meet them which I went a bit hard too fast because I was going to be late. Turns out they drove there and we stood around for 20 minutes while they unpacked their bikes and faffed.
  2. His brand new bike had a loose cassette so we then cycled another 10km to meet him somewhere else while he drove home, fixed the cassette and drove to meet us again. Stopped again for 5 minutes to wait for him.
  3. Rode for about 40km together and then stopped for lunch for probably 1.5 hours and then met my partner with my boys. Cycled a km to a local park and played with them in my full lycra for about 45 minutes.
  4. Cycled the 15km home.
I was super tired after that. Think the combination of broken up rides and chasing my mate up hills who only cycled about 30km killed me. Was lovely weather for a good chunk of it though. That awkward "lovely in the sun but dear lord its chilly in the shade" weather.
 
I really need to start doing more elevation in my rides! I did a flat 47km (~170m of elevation) on Sunday. Was quite funny as I left at about 8am when it was nice but still cold. By the time i was getting home you could tell it had warmed up as more people were heading out in just shorts and short sleeve jerseys/gilets!
 
Great weekend! 50 miles on Saturday and 70 yesterday. My god the roads of Herefordshire are shocking. Literally craters, not just potholes! Summer is going to be fun with all the pointing!
 
Junglist said:
I really need to start doing more elevation in my rides! I did a flat 47km (~170m of elevation) on Sunday. Was quite funny as I left at about 8am when it was nice but still cold. By the time i was getting home you could tell it had warmed up as more people were heading out in just shorts and short sleeve jerseys/gilets!
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I always find it funny to see the number of people who are out dressed for a Siberian winter when its like 5-10 degrees. Especially at the tail end of the Autumn.

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Great weekend! 50 miles on Saturday and 70 yesterday. My god the roads of Herefordshire are shocking. Literally craters, not just potholes! Summer is going to be fun with all the pointing!
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This is what would worry me about group rides. I wouldn't feel remotely confident taking one hand off the bars to give hand signals in some places because the general quality of the roads is shocking, let alone when you are trying to avoid potholes.
 
funny thing, I got a route from komoot that I did on saturday - 50k only.

komoot said 320m climbing
garmin said 290m climbing

real? 470m. I have trust issues now. I hate climbing too.
 
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