No need to talk to anyone, just turn up before the off, tag on, hang on, get shelled out, go home - nobody is there for a conversation - I think sometimes people feel they'll need to introduce themselves or something - no need it's not a running club.
Yeah bike clubs are really interesting for that kind of thing. If theres a new guy on the ride - the general opinion is to blow him away and leave him for dead in the middle of nowhere ! Odd !
to realy anoy them ... if you manage to hang on ... as everone is puting bikes in cars on racks etc ... pull on your traineres and go for a run shouting thanks and waving as you jog off
oh sorry to the club run - 80 miles just to meet up would be a bit mad wouldn't it - it's about a mile away from me!
I do the Saturday training ride which starts about 10 miles away - though it does go right past my house I normally go out to the start as that's an extra 20 miles round trip - so I do 10 out on my own, 10 at a tempo 2 abreast, then full on for 10-20 miles, short cafe stop where those that have been dropped can get back to the rest, full on for another 20 or so miles and then 10 back home on my own. Quite often do a midweek chain gang which starts in the same place so again 10 miles away.
yeah about eight miles for me to the start. Getting out isnt a problem and coming back should be a pootle unless you find yourself on the front of a small bunch.
I always try and avoid riding back with anyone - i hate it when all you want to do is turn your legs over til you get home and the other person is riding along at just fast enough for it to hurt - the thing is you know if you weren't there they'd be riding 2-3 mph slower anyway.
lol, 80 miles to the start of your local club run would be a bit hardcore!
my soon to be local club is ten miles away or so. so that sounds like a nice warm-up distance. they do seem to be scarily fast though. the thought of riding ten miles to the start and then getting dropped 40 miles from home the other side of town sounds like a character forming experience.
i'll try out there TT events first. they seem to ahve the traditional A road courses but also some hill climb and quieter road courses too.
Pops - same as me - its a bugger when you go to pull out of the cafe and some racing whippets turn up. 'Please turn off soon, please turn off soon....'
I was really working hard in my maiden cycle race and I'm near the back of the field. The road gets bumpy and I slow down to be passed by a guy on a mtb with knobblies on.
It was a road race......
How Sh*te is that!
(I think I did really well there by not going for the jj -granny joke)
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No need to talk to anyone, just turn up before the off, tag on, hang on, get shelled out, go home - nobody is there for a conversation - I think sometimes people feel they'll need to introduce themselves or something - no need it's not a running club.
to realy anoy them ... if you manage to hang on ... as everone is puting bikes in cars on racks etc ... pull on your traineres and go for a run shouting thanks and waving as you jog off
70-80 miles in the Peak normally - I don't do ours much though as my partner does her running on a Sunday.
oh sorry to the club run - 80 miles just to meet up would be a bit mad wouldn't it - it's about a mile away from me!
I do the Saturday training ride which starts about 10 miles away - though it does go right past my house I normally go out to the start as that's an extra 20 miles round trip - so I do 10 out on my own, 10 at a tempo 2 abreast, then full on for 10-20 miles, short cafe stop where those that have been dropped can get back to the rest, full on for another 20 or so miles and then 10 back home on my own. Quite often do a midweek chain gang which starts in the same place so again 10 miles away.
lol, 80 miles to the start of your local club run would be a bit hardcore!
my soon to be local club is ten miles away or so. so that sounds like a nice warm-up distance. they do seem to be scarily fast though. the thought of riding ten miles to the start and then getting dropped 40 miles from home the other side of town sounds like a character forming experience.
i'll try out there TT events first. they seem to ahve the traditional A road courses but also some hill climb and quieter road courses too.
Definitely not sh*te on a monocycle...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uPznTbus3g
Ditto
You don't have to keep up with them.
Let it go......
I was really working hard in my maiden cycle race and I'm near the back of the field. The road gets bumpy and I slow down to be passed by a guy on a mtb with knobblies on.
It was a road race......
How Sh*te is that!
(I think I did really well there by not going for the jj -granny joke)
erm - did I not beat you to it?
Last weekends Bike profile
That's look lumpy, almost a km vertical
Good god Will - did you take your bike down t'pit or something ??
You do know it doesnt count if you take it on the tube ?
I have a silver mebership of begiinnerstriathlete.co and the maping is one of the featurees of the training log
0 is just my starting hight rather than sea level
pfffft.
looks like one of my flat runs.
[giggle]