• Harry Says “Just get on my wheel and you will be alright!”
  • Harry Says “Put in an extra loop down the coast road”
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  • Harry Says “Just a steady 2 to 3 hours”

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Race group only ride 1 loop of Bolton IMUK course

wilko's picture
Submitted by wilko
on Sun, 16/03/2014 - 21:04
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Only one circuit completed, reasonably fast ride though - averaged about 18.6 for the circuit with a fair bit of climbing.  

Disappointing numbers on the ride though - only 7 starters and 6 finishers.  I think more of the regular A/Race group would have managed the ride if they had given it a go.

Cafe before 12.30, bit busy but managed to get a table inside which was good as it started to drizzle.  

Quick reminder - #Rule5

Cervelo_Dave's picture

Sun, 16/03/2014 - 22:17 — Cervelo_Dave

Cheers to Wilko for leading today's ride, and 'thanks' to Kevan for never letting the pace drop cool many apologies for completely forgetting to bring my climbing legs on today's ride, I'll do my best to make sure it doesn't happen again crying

 

Wilko's right, we do need a few more riders on these type of rides. I can personally vouch for the group in that no-one gets left behind at the top of climbs, no matter how often they are the last up so, as long as you're thick-skinned enough to take the cafe piss taking, you'll be fine smiley

 

85 miles for me today so a decent deposit in the mileage bank.

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Mon, 17/03/2014 - 20:11 — Kevan Evans

  Thanks to Wilko for leading us round the course at a cracking, unrelenting pace considering its undulating nature.  It seems to be a course designed to give you little to no rest.  Congratulations to 'Cervelo Dave' for being on the drops, in the 'big dog' burning the grease, more than I've seen anyone this past 6 months on a group ride (I'm sure sure your calves are bigger than mine) sad   Adam, as usual was beasting the climbs, and Andrew and Steve were solid in all areas.

  As for the number of takers, I think a few to many got psyched out by the comments on the forum.  A lot of riders that I have riden with, could of more than handled the ride.

  Too many riders rely on miles or hours as a marker towards greater fitness.  But this has much less impact on your fitness than does 'intensity'.  Getting the intensity right will result in faster riding.  The reason riders focus so much on duration as a marker of progress, is because it's easily measured, all you need is an odometer and a stopwatch.  Riders are much less inclined to talk about intensity as a measure of fitness progress as it is much harder to measure and define.

  All you have to do is look how quickly everyones comes on in their fitness when the 'Chainies' start.  So if your sat in the A's just putting up the 'junk' miles, your not doing yourself any favours.  Time to push yourself into the 'Hurt Locker' more often, and move onto the next level.

  See you on the next Race Group.

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Mon, 17/03/2014 - 23:13 — Neon Red
Would loved to have joined in but the blister I picked up from Friday's ten mile run (including beast mode down the by-pass as I didn't like the look of the average speed on my Garmin) was so bad the last two days it looked as though it had undergone a radioactive mutation inside a nuclear power plant and though I did a short ride in the morning before watching the match I had to readjust my shoe every five miles as the friction kept building up. It's calmed down a bit now though - I was struggling to walk on it so looked drunk even before I set foot in the pub door! Can also vouch for all-out aggression training, the spin classes once a week have been getting progressively tougher at the gym (including my favourite high resistance sprints, too bad the spin bikes don't have gear indicators). Strangely I find more miles on my TT bike also help as on that bike I always seem to get a far higher cadence. Which wasn't much use this afternoon when I lost a 25mph battle with someone re-parking a car outside a garage - the driver pulled out in front of me so I braked and ducked left. They followed that up by trying to cut BACK into the kerb to re-park the car. If I hadn't aimed for the driveway at that point we might have had one wrecked Slice on the floor and another new bike to order. Not that you have to wait much longer for the Chinook replacement - nice choice of manufacturer there Kevan..........

"The best racing car/athlete is that one, that will collapse after the finish line" - Chapman/Chesters

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