Sounds like a combination of Strava and Excel would be best. Might try to automate the Strava->Excel bit if I find myself with some spare time. Thanks for all the input!

OK, so I was wondering if this group had any good recommendations on how best to manage a training diary? I'm planning on starting a training plan in a couple of months and would like to track some subjective notes on how each session felt, as well as the usual metrics. Ideally this should be easy, ...

Yep. Likewise.

Verena wrote: ↑Sat Feb 25, 2023 5:51 pm No no, don't , I was joking!!!!

Hmmm, it still doesn’t sound like a totally crazy idea!

Thanks Karl! Given that this is my first bikepacking event, and being utterly unfamiliar with the area, I’ve asked to join the Lonely Hearts.

That looks like a nice spot though. I love local bivvies. Re the ground, I can recommend those foil windshield covers you can get for cars - I used one recently in the Pyrenees when it was well below freezing, worked a treat, and made me giggle when I was thinking about all the endless discussions ...

Another box ticking exercise this month due to coming down with the lurgy early in the month, and a cave rescue training exercise last weekend. So I headed out for another local bivvy last night. I left my house just as the missus was heading off to a warm cosy bed, and out into a nice, but cold nig...

I thought you only got mosquitoes that big in Scotland?

Starting to look at what the various trackers, and plans offer. Am I right in my understanding that the inreach free checkin messages are fixed content, and the ability to edit the preset messages are just a convenience in terms of the (limited count of free) normal message count?

JohnClimber wrote: ↑Wed Feb 01, 2023 10:40 pm Anyone fancy a Friday 7pm meet up at The Wynnstay Arms in Llanbrynmair for an evening of talking bollox and drinking beer to start the WRT weekend off in the right frame of mind?

Managed to book a room, so count me in!

ton wrote: ↑Sat Dec 31, 2022 8:12 pm

A bottle of Orval, the world's best beer.

i am pretty sure the monks at Westvleteren would argue with that.
got a couple of bottles for later.

That’s a tough choice. I’d have to have a couple of each to be sure…but I’m all outta Orval.

I've had a few requests for the seaside this year, so who knows but given my record of GR in the sea, then maybe it's too much of a gamble? :wink: Hmm, must make a note to bring a fat bike & water wings. I'm certainly hoping to get over for this as my first BB event. Is there an example of the ...

I'm certainly hoping to get over for this as my first BB event. Is there an example of the sort of data provided to the participants in prior years?

If I was you I'd go with Custom Merit Gear. Had mine made and absolutely love it. I can echo that. I got a custom frame bag made up last year. The guys added an extra opening at the rear of the top tube for me, so I can feed my dynamo connection back to my rear blinkies. I'm very happy with the pro...

It's one of those months with too much travel and not enough free weekends, so another mid-week local bivvy. Home from work late, a quick snack, pack the bike, top up the hip flask (dry Jan? you must be joking!), and off I went. I decided to go for an hours spin first, a circular loop of about an ho...

Still drying out gear from December’s bivvy! I’m on for another year of BaM and hopefully some longer rides.

Got my final BAM done this week. I was down in Wicklow visiting my parents, and the wife was heading on down to Wexford afterwards, so I packed the bike. I set off late on Thursday, with a plan to head up into the Wicklow mountains, pick up the Wicklow Way trail, and follow that back to Dublin, pick...

BaM 10/10 for 2022. Mad Allens Hole. Caving bivvy? Excellent idea, that's definitely something I need to try! Nice one GC for keeping your chips on the table and spinning the wheel each month Thanks, RIP! I've looked at the idea of trying a tarp. I like the idea, but not entirely convinced given th...

November's been a bit crap with work and family issues getting in the way of cycling, and I was rapidly running out of options for a bivvy. Determined to keep the run going, I headed out for a late night, almost backyard, bivvy last night. It wasn't even worth logging the route or distance, as I ret...

Right, so Sept's bivvy was a local one, on the basis that I didn't have a weekend free due to work travel and other commitments. So it was a local spin, and a nice spot with the sheep on the hill above the village. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52361555718_c56f786d96.jpg BBBaM Sept - looking N...

Dodgy coastal path / near death awar d goes to gone caving on his May bivvy If I'd known/spotted that there were sub categories, I'd have tried harder ;-) And the May (Sheep's Head) bivvy rather than the "don't roll in your sleep" AUgust biivy on the Cliff's of Moher? Oh well. Sept & ...

Running out of time for an August bivvy, I decided to combine it with a trip down to a cave rescue practice in Co Clare. I'd always fancied cycling along the cliffs of Moher path, and thus it seemed like the obvious option. Got down to Doolin at sunset on Friday evening (26th Aug), and set off along...

Thanks @Blackhound. That sounds like some spin, and a bit more than I’m up for so far! 200km in a day’s my best so far. I’d much rather a bit (lot) more off road riding, but that’s so hard to stitch together in Ireland.

July BaM ticked off last weekend. I'd been down in Dublin on the Friday night visiting some friends, and the wife was heading S to visit her parents, so I decided I'd cycle home and get in July's bivvy along the way. Hot weather was forecast, so I decided it was a ride to take it handy, and stay out...

I was wondering how people handle navigation following a re-route? Do the organisers send out an updated GPX? How easy is that to download while out on the course?