Cracking ride this morning. Up at 3:45 to shoot some footage of my friend Nicky Spinks breaking her own record for the Bob Graham Round. Ran on to grey knotts and shot some more footage this afternoon plus a absolutely amazing inversion that blew in off the sea towards sunset. One of the most incredible things I've ever seen and happened to have an HD camera and an hour to spare

Ohhhh...so good to be in summer gear again. 50 miles out over the hills to Welshpool and back this afternoon. Even the headwind on the outbound leg couldn't dampen the spirit. Deserves the two thumbs up I reckon.

Greetz

S.

Lovely road / fire road ride around the New Forest on Saturday. Feels good to be back on the bike again. I think this was the only time I was in front though.

Crosby to Formby from Tuesday's ride





Think I also stole one of John Climber's strava KOMs

Very nice of that chap to hold your bike up while you took a photo

First proper ride since I duffed my head in and it felt great.
Just local trail centre blat.

So last weekend I spent with a couple of friends at the Builth Wells MTB Marathon. 40k night ride (tried to go flat out) on Saturday and 70k "Full" Marathon on the Sunday where I 'pootled' round with my friend - but she is elite level MTB so was still relatively quick.... Classic draggy grass stuff, but as windy as fook - which throws out any slight advantage of my power to weight ratio and all about power. Also first time i've pedalled at that intensity in a while - it was all hard work and my legs feel dead this week - but still pedalling to work

smidge over 60km this morning exploring gravel roads, roads, muddy trails and forests. Good stuff

23 miles on the cross bike...

Made a little video. First time trying. Wish I'd remembered my gorillapod to get some alternative angles...

http://vimeo.com/125157665

First ride of the year (I think), 23 mile loop of local gravel and back country roads. Must have looked close to death as I had a Eagle or Vulture following me round.

Rather a long recce ride in the Dales. Had to call International Rescue who turned up St Bernard like with a bottle of beer

On a last minute 4 day getaway at the moment.
Aviemore to Find horn yesterday, camped in the woods overlooking the beach. Great sunset, sleeping bag not so great, think my summer bag needs replaced!
Today was along the Moray coast route NCR1,
Lovely route, for the most part, strong headwind all day, currently sat in a hostel in Cullen, with a bottle of honey, beer as I type this. Good times
Portsoy tomorrow for ice cream, then maybe a dash home if it looks to be a cold night

2 miles slow to work
Not ridden for the last 3 months due to injury, but felt SOOOOOO good

35 km on Saturday night after work, then home to a curry. Sunday was a 8km trail run with the wifey and home to a curry. Today, no sport, so no curry Did spend two hours painting after work though

Nice short ride along Silkin Way, Shropshire

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Adventurer wrote:Nice short ride along Silkin Way, Shropshire

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Silkin Way Ironbridge Shropshire. by adventurercyclist, on Flickr

70km there 'n' back to Alpkit for a stem cell. Time limited so a mix of road and tracks.

80km on the road bike, was going for a metric century (so not really a century anyway) but my feet went numb from the cold, so bailed early

Last Sunday was my turn to lead my local forum's monthly ride out.
we had wall to wall sunshine from start to finish and the views were immense.

Here's a video of the ride
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jchGKFYynhU

110 miles round trip - Sherwood Forest into the High Peak as far as Brierlow Bar - 70% off-road - Spent the last 30 miles on an unsuccessful attempt at hill avoidance.

On Monday I had a great explore of the vast Llanberis quarry. Starting from the top I wormed my way down all the levels checking out the remnants of days gone by. Very atmospheric!!



And a video if you like the photo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N94847u7WB4

Enjoy

Dan_K wrote:23 miles on the cross bike...

Made a little video. First time trying. Wish I'd remembered my gorillapod to get some alternative angles...

http://vimeo.com/125157665

Dan, nice first effort there.
You've got some interesting footage there (and music...), and there's a lot you can do with what you have to change pace and flow in time with the music. For example, you could have had the lyric "what you looking at" coincide with the selfie shots, and/or scenes of a certain type could be speeded up a bit, like riding along the platform or through tunnels.
It's all practice and time though, but a great start.

summittoppler wrote:On Monday I had a great explore of the vast Llanberis quarry. Starting from the top I wormed my way down all the levels checking out the remnants of days gone by. Very atmospheric!!

And a video if you like the photo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N94847u7WB4

Enjoy

I did, thank you :)
Years - possibly decades - since I've been up there. Nice atmospheric like film brought back memories.

summittoppler wrote:On Monday I had a great explore of the vast Llanberis quarry. Starting from the top I wormed my way down all the levels checking out the remnants of days gone by. Very atmospheric!!



And a video if you like the photo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N94847u7WB4

Enjoy

Great vid. You ever been exploring around "Dorothea" near Nantlle? If you like quarries like Vivian in Llanberis Dorothea is incredible. I used to go diving there a lot, but never got chance to do much "surface" exploring. FYI, it's just as incredible below the water, but that's tricky on a bike.

its about time I started to do actual training for events , so work is now banned on sundays .
so a local ride from home to Cannock chase and back , mostly on lanes and bridleways.
manage to clock up 75 miles , one over the bar moment and a sausage sandwich