Determined not to put an exclamation mark at the end of the title as it seems to be a habit!
So today was going to be a big ride with the 'boys'. Beth being away. Actually Trusty wants to nickname Beth....we discussed this on our ride. We thought of Deep Sea Beth (her diving). We thought of Electric Landlady (her amazing publican skills). My favourite was Busy B. Because she is. And she loves nature. Any other suggestions?
Anyways....John did the early ride with David and then left us to it. I felt very heavy legged and hoped it would be a lazy ride. What a learning curve! We set off to do the 33.something that John and I did in 2.47 during the week. Trusty was already warmed up with John and he had a broken big ring so was hampered. Alex was looking cool and up for anything (as usual). And off we went. Well, firstly, my chesty thing seems to have cleared considerably. May be helped by the hill ride I did on Friday. We seemed to be whizzing along and this was confirmed when 16miles in John joined us to offer chocolate. He found us way beyond where he had estimated we'd be by then. Chocolate is definitely the way to go halfway through a ride, that's my view. And the companionable ride continued. This route was all country lanes to start with then all busy main roads the rest of the way. So lots of variety. Trusty was very encouraging, even said he'd noticed the improvement since our last ride out together. Which is good to hear. He, in the meantime, had a great weeks cycling to build on his base fitness. He will be off with Paul and John on their longer rides soon I expect, leaving us novices to struggle on as best we can. So we carried on whizzing and arrived back in Maplehurst 2hours and 21 minutes after we left! That's a big 'WOW' as it took 2.47 last time! 33+ miles at an average (and all time record so far) of 14 miles an hour!! YYYYYAAAAAYYYY!
This spurred me on to get showered, contact lensed and ready to go in record time and we headed off for a fab lunch at the Green Man with David and Sal. What a lovely Sunday.
PS the weather seems to have broken! Even got rained on a couple of times.
Sunday 25 April 2010
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'Sounds like you're WHRing along (geddit? White Horse Riders)! Even sounding like a cyclist now with "average speed" this and "big ring" that. You've been hanging round Coach too long. Keep up the good training work. You've cracked the worst bits now - starting, and dodgy weather. Keep it up! Next we'll get you on a real bike with lumpy tyres and sprung forks. Ion
ReplyDeleteHaha! I have recruited you to admin support team. You are now Officer of Slogans and Quips! And you can keep your lumpy tyres and off roadedness to yourself and your mad mates! thanks for the support tho, much needed and appreciated.x
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