Another ride in Swaledale - big hills and big views.
Road to Hurst. Fremington Edge, Low Moor, Surrender to Great Pinseat, Gunnerside. Dales Bike Centre. Road home.
It were reet hot.
My bike sounded like the bag of spanners that it is.
Distance: 105km (maps: to Dales Bike Centre and from Dales Bike Centre)
Time: 9 hours 45 minutes
Surface: road […]
Hit The North 2, the fourth Hit The North, was an 8 hour laps race.
For this race I borrowed an awesome Ragley TD-1, the demo bike of Hotlines.
Lap1 (00:54:40) started with a run, in which I did my usual saunter from the back. I spent the first part of the lap overtaking people, then stopped […]
Another group ride at Hamsterley. The rain stopped for the group ride, and it was even a little bit warm.
It tipped it down for the ride there and back though.
The group ride was very stop-start, as they always are, but was on some great trails. Kiwi Matt was leading, so there was quite a lot […]
On a scorching hot day, I headed out to Swaledale.
I took my ‘usual’ route out to Swaledale, down Fremington edge to Langthwaite and then to Dales Bike Centre. I ran out of water on the way there, but bought some Lucozade Sport at the pub in Langthwaite.
From there, I rode back up Arkengarthdale, to […]
Rode the Inbred out to Hamsterley to join the monthly Trailblazers group ride. I seem to be able to manage 20kmph fairly consistently on the 50″ gear (even riding home into a pig of a head wind with big, draggy tyres), which bodes well for ‘races’ like the Kielder 100 and Hit The North.
The club […]
Rode the Solitude out to Dales Bike Centre, then home via (almost) Tan Hill and Barnard Castle. My original plan was to go via Hamsterley too, to get to 100 miles, but I couldn’t feel my feet at Barnard Castle after the hail-filled puddles on the track to Bowes.
Once I’d warmed up at home, I […]
Two years ago I went down to Manchester for Hit The North, a 12 hour MTB race. My chain skipped and it was really muddy, but I had a great time.
Last weekend I went down to Manchester for Hit The North 1.5v2, a 2 hour MTB/CX race. My chain skipped and it was really […]
Popped out to Dales Bike Centre for a coffee and a panini.
I’d planned to ride on my Inbred, but found that the bottom bracket was bust the day before, so had to do a fixietwat ride instead. It’s a long time since I’ve ridden a fixie a decent distance so, like all the best rides, […]
Second attempt at starting the C25K running programme. Made the mistake of taking the dog, so runs got slower and slower as I dragged the dog round; she can stay at home next time.
* walk 10 mins
* 8x run 1 min, walk 1.5 min
Too many layers and too warm.
Distance: 4.35 km
Time: 35 minutes
Surface: […]
First ride on a fixed in ages, so just a play around the town, with little bits of easy off-road. Beech Woods was good for getting used to fixed off-road, getting used to clipping pedals or skipping off unexpected rocks.
Good fun, and even found a waffle stand in the town centre!
Distance: 23.5km (map)
Time: 2 hours
Surface: […]