A tough run this morning doing the fast run at nearly 60 miles and the weather didn’t help with it being windy and raining Only 3 of us today but given the weather I wasn’t surprised. Even with the tailwind on the leg home I was starting to struggle around the 50 miles mark, I suspect yesterdays run had something to do with that. I even got a puncture 3 miles from home, thankfully it wasn’t 3 miles out from home, that would have sucked
So this mornings fast club run was a better affair, back to the normal route and thus I was able to keep up all the way even though it was a little wet and windy
OMG!! no one said anything about doing a 75 mile club run this morning, usually it’s around the 40 ish miles and this is the fast run! I only had 1 water bottle, usually I would carry 2, and I only had a couple of energy gels. Suffice to say the gels got tanked and the water bottle just made it to the cafe stop, thankfully I got a refill. But the ride back to Dunfermline was brutal they were hammering it and by the time we hit 65 miles I was shattered and got dropped Thankfully by this point we were near Dunfermline and I wasn’t too far back. Crawled home at a slow pace. Thats the fastest 75 miles I’ve ever done with an avg speed of 18 mph, usually it would take me 5 hours to do that! just as well it was a flat run with no hills. So I’m soar and so tired and collapsed on the bed for an hour before I could muster up the energy to get in the shower. Oddly enough it’s a nice sunny day with little wind so at least I got decent weather
Nobody turned up for the club run this morning but given it’s cold, wet and windy thats not a surprise, so went on a small run by myself.
Saturday morning fast club run, thankfully we went up Knockhill at a more sensible speed and I kept up with the leading group
Falkirk Grand Fondo completed and I’m quite pleased with the time The wind today was a real pain in the arse had it all the way to Fintry and then again going to Slamannan and past it and the spots of rain didn’t help either I was cycling without any wet gear since the weather was supposed to be fine. I was having to pedal hard to try and keep my target of 15 mph and I only just made it but given we were going over 6000 feet of hills I can’t complain
Ride 29/09/2018
Decided to the do the slightly slower 09:00 club ride this morning since I’m doing the Granfrodo sportive tomorrow in Falkirk. It’s an 80 miles ride tomorrow against the same crazy wind I had today so looking to keep some energy for tomorrow
This mornings club run and they were going a fair rate of knots :-o
Time to get in the last minute cycling before I leave for France this weekend.
First ride of the month and it was the 09:30 bun run, so a fairly easy ride this morning, and its been a month now since joining the cycling club :-)
Ride for the day, on the last day of the month.
Forgot to put yesterdays ride up Well my road bike is off on it’s way to the Pyrenees but it’s another week before I fly out so it’s on the mountain bike for the next few days. The annoying part about this is my saddle has also gone so I’m using a spare one I have and it’s not as comfortable so it’ll be short rides for the rest of the week.