For some of us the efforts of racing are nothing more than a distant memory and dining off past glories has made us fat. With the racing season looming on the horizon the time is now push down hard on those pedals and get back on terms with Madam Suffer.
Meet at the Molescroft Inn at 6.25 for a 6.30 set off. Plan is to ride through and off style up the main road to Driffield. Turn round at the roundabout and back to Beverley. No doubt into a stiff head wind.
Any takers?
Or just do the hardriders course..., mebbe?
I should be on for this.
Can we not meet at Standard though? Way back when, we shifted it so both Tues and Thurs rides started from same place. Saves farting around with the website, announcing it again on the forum etc.
I'll hopefully start regular in a month or so when the weather brightens. I'm looking forward to it.
i'll be there to drag you all round as usual.
is anybody out on tuesday? if i'm home in time to set my dads bike up for me i'll be there.
I might be out on Thursday, depends on how my legs feel after Wednesday's ride.
Should be leaving at 1:30pm if anyone is about. Should be me and Paul R for an easy ride.
i reckon i'll be there on thurs, i'll charge the shack light!
i won't be. i was all set to come out tonight until i realised i had no way to attach a decent light to my dads bike. won't have mine back til weekend unfortunately
I will be there At 6.25pm at the royal standard who else is a definite yes needs to be a few off us to make it worth while
I'll come along and hang on for grim death (hopefully)
whilst all of you put the hammer down
The bikes almost done Gary just needs the new bottom bracket putting in now and hopefully it should come tomorrow. If it does ill give you a text, ill be around til 7 if your working late and cant make it before 5.
My heart sank when I saw Shack had posted on this thread, such a relief to find it's just a bike job update and I won't have to try and keep up with him on a bike :-)
PS I know it'll still be a struggle keeping up with the rest of you guys but not as bad.
Hoping to join you - delicate negotiations as just got back from 2 days away on biz.
Goodness me that was a religious experience. 34.8kph average incl. warm-up. Gorgeous Gaz you are an animal. Droppy, Paul R - goes without saying.
Time to eat some pies...
A small ride story from someone?
1st one to get dropped, that small enough for you :-(
Must try harder, although it did start very quick and my excuse is that it was too fast too soon.
Jacket potato and red wine to ease the humiliation.
I'm out for a long steady ride from about 3 tomorrow if anyone fancies it
Rich
Yeh Rich is right, we should start easier next time and batter it on the way back.
In a nutshell Ben it was Driff and back, 7 of us i think and a full on chaingang, bit and bit. Started to fragment about 1/3 of way to Driff and i ended up hanging in there with your Wilsons compadres till about 500m from the end in Molescroft. Droppy, who had seemed to be flagging, put in a last big dig and that was me cooked. Villain/hero of the piece was Gaz who put in some monster strong pulls on the way back, a real effort to keep his wheel it was. We met back up in Molescroft and agreed to have more of build-up next time....
Well that makes me feel good about not turning up. Looking forward to the next one though.
You'd have enjoyed it Matt in the usual perverse sort of way, great when it stops.
Yep, you can appreciate life far more deeply after a good dose of suffering.
Great training ride tonight all ready looking forward to next week
droppy can you have a look see if i've drop a glove outside you house where i parked please?
Gotta say it was a tuffie, next week we have to start steadier and maybe add some variety to ensure everyone has a good workout rather than simple pain!
Good work to all who turned out and those who never came and may be put off by the tales of woe, get on down you never know fun you can have whilst you are in so much pain!
does anyone have any garmin info on thursday nights enterPAINment?
Hi rich it was 21.8 avg going to Driffield the return leg going back to Beverley was 22.2 avg
Here's the damage, Rich. It includes the warm-up from North Bar - we didn't really wind it up till after Leconfield.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/150269464
Gaz - glad you found it tuff, you were dishing it out big style!
Awesome
I am going to give it a go next week will probably be having a jouney to the centre of the earth I'll be digging that deep but no pain certainly no gain!
Just to put things into perspective that is significantly slower than race pace, which at humble cat 4 level in the RR league is something around 23-26mph over 30 miles. With 60 gung-ho riders and plenty of adrenaline it feels easier than having your legs ripped off by PaulR, Droppy and Gaz though.
Sad I'll miss the batterfest next week on account of half term duties so will likely be out the back on 1st Feb!
I'll not be there next week due to work but aiming to turn up for more hard work on the 1st March.
Just in from a much more sedate 60 miles in the dark, a reverse Pock around the clock.
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