Ride 29/02/2020

Another windy day another tough ride Although it’s a fair day with no rain and some sunshine the wind is making life cycling difficult and tiresome. There were about 10 of us today and I took the lead all the way to the cafe stop which was all headwind.Although it does mean I get a good workout, my avg speed just takes a nose dive, thankfully todays ride wasn’t as far as last Sunday so I’m not quite as knackered. And again tomorrows weather is shite with 50 winds so that puts the kibosh on tomorrows ride. The clubs first 100 km ride is in 2 weeks with the first 100 mile ride a couple of weeks after that which makes me worry about getting enough training for these but there’s not much I can do about the weather

Ride 23/02/2020

Tough ride today the wind was high and I was leading the pack, although there were only 6 of us which was more than I was expecting due to the crap weather. Anyway 30 miles into a 20 mph headwind made my legs hurt but at least the last 20 miles were into a tail wind. Unfortunately one of the guys managed to blow his tyre up and take the wheel rim out at the same time can say I’ve ever seen that before so he got a lift home. Normally I would get about 6-8 rides a month but so far I’ve only got 2 the weather is a real hamper this month and that just made today’s ride all the more harder. Lets hope for better weather next weekend…

Ride 15/02/2020

First ride back after a 2 week break due to bike service and crazy weather and speaking of the weather I was surprised how calm it was out there today. I was expecting to get blown around and pissed on by the rain, in the end it only rained a little bit and the wind didn’t pick up until the last hour of the ride. I was expecting storm Dennis to be knocking me around but it looks like we managed to just miss it Anyhow I got a bit of a workout today, heart rate higher than normal bit overall I didn’t fare to bad given the extent of my break, I was again expecting to get hammered but didn’t So 44 miles clocked up at an avg speed of 15 mph I’m happy with that and since I won’t be riding tomorrow again due to crazy weather I’ll quite happily pick this up next week