Did you smash it?
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I might finally have a free morning on Saturday for a long ride, as the kids are away at my parents. Might do a 70 miler out to Yorkshire and go up Cragg Vale, which is the climbiest climb in all of climbingdom. Sort of.
Yeah, really interested to read that. LEL is much harder so I imagine it to be something of a cakewalk in comparison.
PBP will be a decent warmup for me to consider LEL in 2021 I should think
.I may investigate this as I've got tight hamstrings after the last couple of bigger/harder rides... We got an exercise ball for the other half (pregnant) so will mean it gets some other use too!
An exercise ball is for strengthening hamstrings, it won't release tight hamstrings - it's stretches or physio to release tight/shortened hamstrings.
Always! Dropped them all, every climb!Did you smash it?
Yeah sorry, I was intending on using it for stretching as I've not noticed much difference from rolling my hamstrings unless I'm doing it wrong... (Probably!)
Do you even doubt my social ride winning prowess?!
Did you win, Roady?
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Well my clothes are still wet from this morning. Looking forward to this ride home, although there is very little wind (FOR ONCE!), so not all bad.
The exercise ball is good for many things but stretching hamstrings ain't one of them!
Do you even doubt my social ride winning prowess?!
Sounds like you came second? So yes
Edit: Strava Flyby suggests Simon smashed you.
Strava Flyby suggests Simon smashed you.
Yep, he should have gone to the front and sat at 30mph!
(sorry Jonny!
)Woo, bit grey but looks like rain should hold off and as said - no wind!!
Guess I'm out on the bike once I get home then - oh boy the wife WILL be pleased 
50/50 between riding some roads and hitting the track, decisions decisions.
Guess I'm out on the bike once I get home then - oh boy the wife WILL be pleased
50/50 between riding some roads and hitting the track, decisions decisions.
I found that my hams needed something harder than my foam roller. I used a hard plastic toilet waste pipe (new) for a time.
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Lost half of my commuter's right pedal on Saturday's commute home, yet set a new PB up the local cat4, must have been the weight savings (or was it the tailwind).
Cleverly forgot to replace pedal before this morning's commute, then found my tablet was in battery saving mode with 5% left at home time, so took a short extension to route home and it still messed up and had to record it manually in Strava!
Cleverly forgot to replace pedal before this morning's commute, then found my tablet was in battery saving mode with 5% left at home time, so took a short extension to route home and it still messed up and had to record it manually in Strava!
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Yep, he should have gone to the front and sat at 30mph!
(sorry Jonny!
Talk to me when people from your club don't knock their teeth out whilst warming up for a race....
I smashed it home tonight and only got 3 2nd best times.
Cars were overtaking me so I was like, lets see if you fo' real, drafted and undertook at 34mph smashing it like a boss.
Nah, the rest is true though.
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Nah, I'm a fat driver now you road tax avoiding bloody cyclists should get off the roads!
But seriously, keep pushing.I may investigate this as I've got tight hamstrings after the last couple of bigger/harder rides... We got an exercise ball for the other half (pregnant) so will mean it gets some other use too!
Beaten.
The swiss ball will be for recruitment & activation work like a lying leg curl. Stiff Legged, Romanian or conventional Deadlifts and posterior chain work in general will help with glute & hamstring recruitment on the bike.
A rumble roller is best for getting deep in to hamstrings but more often than not some thorough stretching/trigger point work I find to be just as effective.
Haha oops, scratch that idea then! I was thinking of using it to kinda support some lunges
Pffft! That's back in town (after regrouping and stuck at a junction & 2 sets of traffic lights before then getting separated by traffic), this section here is the 'fast' (racey) part (17/18 miles until 23). The 21+ mph bits, not the 12mph bits! I'm not as fast as Jonny on social rides...Sounds like you came second? So yes
Edit: Strava Flyby suggests Simon smashed you.
Haha, good to still see you lurking! How's your lardy ass? Skipped leg day yet this week?Nah, I'm a fat driver now you road tax avoiding bloody cyclists should get off the roads!
I'm going to need to do a lot of googling as didn't understand much of that! Any particular named stretching I should start with? Remember I'm a fairly novice foam roller, previously only really doing a session after big rides every 3-4 months, not regularly. I've previously done easy leg extension stretches but nothing regularly or seriously... Which I'm starting to look at more now.
Haha, good to still see you lurking! How's your lardy ass? Skipped leg day yet this week?
Hey I've still got the bikes.. 4 to be precise
Thankfully gym is now on the up! Getting stronger and bigger, not all muscle tho! my diet needs adjusting after years of cycling I'm used to eating a lot. So got to cut down on my intake and slim down a little! getting stronger though so that's nice! I always felt that cycling kinda held me back because I was doing it daily and going to the gym after a full days of work on commute on the bike killed my performance there.
I know all too well how bad it can get on a 'steady' club run when people start to push the pace. Although, in my experience, it's not the racers who do it - it's those who've never raced and therefor just treat every ride like a race.
We've also got weekly chaingang where we do all knock lumps out of each other - and that's fair game! Doesnt need to happen on club runs when you've got that.