2019 - what you got planned?

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Re: 2019 - what you got planned?

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Well after this year being a write off between family problems and work 2019 can only be better.

Hopefully moving back to Scotland so plan for next year is to just ride my bike anywhere and as much as possible.

Going to try BAM after only managing 6 months this year and possibly take a few weeks out and do some of the ht550 and head across to Harris again.

But mainly its to stop the excuses and get fit again and enjoy being outdoors.
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Going to try BAM, booked a one way flight to Bordeaux - riding home via the ferry (caen / st malo to portsmouth) home being in the New Forest.
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Less traditional racing.
No training schedules, targets or lab tests.

Just gonna ride for fun, with a few organised events.
JennRide (or maybe a truncated version with my girls)
Boltby Bash
ArdRock

Get my girls out for a few fairish weather bivis.

Try to get in a couple of qualifiers, with an eye to 2020......
Lakes 200
Dales 300

And maybe a cairngorm/capital/part HT550.

Try to keep it rubber side down and out of various emergency departments!
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Moving to Brisvegas to work 2 jobs. 30Km commute each way for the day job. Night job from home. New trails to be had...just need to work out when I can get back to Europe to ride some of my favourite events. Shoes go inside tent now during BaM...lest I find something a little bit bitey hiding out in a toe box that is small enough you can't see it but with enough kick to send me to A&E. It's BaM...with added danger.

I will miss riding in Dragonland.

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More tramping around wales, beginning with the winter event. Will BAM again, hopefully again trying to keep it interesting.
Some big rides, not sure where yet.
Something Scottish, I’m working in London a lot so have a parking place 3 miles from Euston, plan is to catch the sleeper after work and perhaps ride the great glen way. I might even pop over to Ireland and so ride in all parts of the U.K. while it still exists.

More miles hopefully, I’m onboard with Veloviewer explorer which will motivate.
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Ireland isn't part of the UK Steve ,only 6 counties of it :wink:
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After trying in vain to get time off work to do Spanish C2C, me and Mrs B entered the Italy Divide. So we have that at end of April.

We still want to do a Cairngorm loop.

Aug is 16 days riding uplifted DH with one of my daughters.

TNR looks vaguely exciting, but i may run out of leave....
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how bizarre...i typed very exciting, it shows vaguely exciting, and when i try and edit it shows something else!! Its as mad as STW.

So, i really want to do TNR....
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swear filter does that...

"mad as STW". Nah, we're far more mad than that one hopes. As the great Chris Morris would say, we're up there at the top end on the Frankie Fraser madometer - the needle is on "as mad as a lorry". Actually Chris's madometer was measuring rage rather than lunacy but I think it's still valid. Ask MaM, he works with lorries, so could probably offer a comparison.
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If you can call the piles of s#@te the bakery of brought in for Christmas, lorries reg , I'm sure you could remember them when they first came out ,funny wooden wheels and you have to light the head lights with a actual match I know now where candle power comes from :wink:
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Hah! I'm almost that old yeah. Just realised that of course you're our very own middleagedmadness but I've no idea where the needle is when it measures you mate - probably off the scale :lol:. So which bakery is that by the way? I should have asked you before. Bet you could bring a nice iced crimbo cake next weekend for us which had literally fallen off the back of a lorry!
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No cake and it's poor show kingsmill bread ,oh the bakery is allied bakeries
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middleagedmadness wrote:No cake and it's poor show kingsmill bread ,oh the bakery is allied bakeries
Ha the swear filter got it nearly right :lol:
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Thought I'd throw this in just for the hell of it: Two Zero One Eight plans... http://bearbonesbikepacking.co.uk/phpBB ... n+for+2018
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I see no one is planning to take on the honourable role of being Keeper of the Scales for Bear Bones Fat Fighters 2019, nudge nudge...

Go on, I know some one wants too :???:
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psling wrote:Thought I'd throw this in just for the hell of it: Two Zero One Eight plans... http://bearbonesbikepacking.co.uk/phpBB ... n+for+2018
Interesting. This time last year I was getting back to cycling after illness. Doing the same as I missed the summer again. In a much better position this time though.
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Few too many glasses of wine last night and entered the Dirty Reiver FFS
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jameso wrote:TINAT 600...
Just realised the TINAT weekend doesn't have a 600 on next year, ah well. 400's fine :grin:
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Re: 2019 - what you got planned?

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I'm going for BAM in 2019. I've considered it before and failed miserably. I figure but putting it on here I'll give myself a bit more of a kick up the backside to get it done!
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Re: 2019 - what you got planned?

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BAM - 2107 fizzled out with 2 to go, 2018 didn't get started (though managed a couple #Jennride & SSUK), so 3rd time lucky?
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Hopefully some riding....need to tip the Work/life balance...
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It's the YOTHH for me. Crap year, seen too much death so going to rebalance things with more hammocking. The Year Of The High Hammock will be me trying to find the highest natural hangs for a night. First on my place, then Argyll, then a days ride from the house, then maybe Mull, Islay and the Alps in July. I get a few days off the ambulance and the family are sorted it'll be my cue to go high.
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It's the YOTHH for me.
How high is high? I'm afraid to stray more than two feet off the ground ....
I'm just going outside ...
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I'm like you, it'll be more highest terrain rather than slack lining to my bed!
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Re: 2019 - what you got planned?

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Almost 3 years on BaM will come to an end, but I'll still be getting out loads but I won't be calendar watching just to tick a box.

I'm thinking of PRaM,
Pack Raft a Month, even if it's just a trip out on the local canal I think I'd like to get on the water with or without my bike at least once a month in 2019.

Take the pack raft on the WRT and Jenn Ride for water short cuts ;-)
Head to Scotland for a very long weekend for a bike packing/ rafting trip before the midges come out to play.
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