Did quite a
short but progressive effort on the way home last night just to see what my legs where like and really like the numbers/feelings even when fairly fatigued after saturdays smash.
Need to get some FTP/threshold sessions done and should carry on this fitness. If I can avoid getting ill!
To be fair I've always enjoyed the little sportives around here.
I meant to expand/extend this by saying that I really need to 'cross off' one of the big national sportives, just so I can say I've done/experienced one more than any actual aspirations to do one. For me riding with friends is more important, so highly likely I'll only do one if one of the groups I ride with decide to. I'll happily ride 4-5 hours solo to really do the Sportives I 'want' to do (if nobody else is), but to do one of the busy/expensive/popular bore-fests it'll have to be a social thing.
Only big rides which really excite me where The Velothon or L'etape Wales (a large part of it was to one of the main 'Welsh sportive'), but with the Velothon no longer then maybe L'etape has to be put on my calendar for next year... Then I'd always laughed off the Velothon - as why go all the way down to Cardiff, to ride back up and ride The Tumble, which I can ride to from home...
To be fair, as I've 'lost' the two main/easy aims of 100 mile local sportives this year I planned to do (one cancelled & I was ill for the other) it's looking unlikely I'll even do an imperial this year. Unless I commit to the
Autumn Epic which I keep going back to... But really don't know if I'll have the endurance/fitness for it.
It was 100 miles
There's a fair amount of tunnels so GPS would have disconnected.
Haha yeah my work colleague said. He was short on mileage too, so I'll say exactly the same to you as I said to him... 'If it's not on Strava...'
Found out why they where wearing Amstel kit. One of the group works for Amstel/distribution so got them all kit through his work, and beers at the end for them all! They got 2 pints 'free' - one for finishing and one for wearing the kit. That's me sold lol
<snip>a good cuppa and bacon sandwich is worth the stop. Also amazed at the sheer overestimation of people's ability when choosing a start pen.<snip>
Great time. Anything less than 6h is good for that, guessing the lack of holdups helps the most! What was your avg? Speaking to the guy from work he was disappointed with the feed stops, all they had where bananas, high5 tabs, high5 gels and high5 energy bars. Nothing 'normal'/natural like cake/flapjack etc? He certainly didn't mention bacon sandwiches as I'm sure he'd have loved one lol. Yeah lack of sensible penning/overestimation of abilites really sounds like a problem. Damn hard to solve though!
I distinctly remember having about half a foot of road width to play with in some places on the first dual carriageway out, 3 lanes in places! You'd think the first half hour of pens would realise keeping left might be a good idea.
Are there not signs and marshalls on route telling slower riders to keep left?! Need it on the climbs looking at all the congestion pics!
Big thumbs up for Wahoo CS. They actually tried to deliver my replacement mount on Saturday, but no one was in (that's after reporting it Friday morning!)
Picked it up from the post office this morning. So now I have a spare for the winter bike
Mega CS! Do like a success story/pleasant surprise from CS! Maybe I'll chase them up about something I've been meaning to ask about... Replacement HR strap for my TICKR. The current must be 5-6 years old and the elastic has nearly totally gone out of it! Unit is bombproof!
Anyone seen anything much better than the Pinnacle Laterite 1 in the "about £400" segment of the market? i'd normally source something used but my friend is a tiny little girl and stuff in that size takes ages to come up
Nothing Planet X for the warranty/spec or a Triban or such from Decathlon? Or Canyon, then get a LBS to build it up/bike fit it?
It's been a while since I browsed bikes in Halfords to see what you get and no local Evans'.
