You'll be wanting to get that fixed ASAP and get a few miles in before April then +++

Three of us (BrianG, The Laird and myself) clocked over 100miles this last weekend too. +++ The Laird said it was very comfortable and pleasant in the backseat of the 8. ;)

No doubt he was enjoying the chilled wine from the cooler


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I was in Lanzarote last week and hired a top of the range Pinarello FP Due carbon bike which was fitted out with Campagnolo Athena 11 speed groupset. The plan was to do a complete loop of the island but the wind was so strong (constant 25mph gusting to 50+mph) it really limited what could be done safely. There was of-course another factor in the equation for not cycling as much as I had hoped, the mountains. The climb from Playa Blanca to Timanfaya National Park was a long slow drag with the headwind forever bearing down on me and sapping any energy I had, 10 miles of constant climbing to finish at a height of 1600 feet. The return journey with winds gusting up to 45mph was scary beyond belief and my decent was rather blurry at 47.8 mph without having to turn the pedals. It would have been fine if the wind was directly behind me but it kept whipping round and there were several times I was almost blown off the road.

The killer climb though was the climb from Playa Blanca to Femes which was a proper leg burning experience, a short but extremely steep 6.5 mile ride which ramped up to 1300 feet and the top section was steeper than anything I had ever cycled before at 25°. My first attempt included a short but much needed stop half way up to allow my lungs and heart to catch up and I managed to do it non stop on my second attempt. Again the return journey was terrifying reaching a speed of 47.7 mph without turning the pedals and again I was almost blown off the road with the crosswinds. The top section leaving Femes was done with brakes applied for most of the section down to the roundabout, the hairpin bends and the 25° slope could easily have wiped me out and it felt like I could easily have went over the top of the handlebars. The nice part of cycling on the island is the drivers are courteous and never hassle cyclists and even when climbing up to Femes at 4mph they patiently waited for oncoming traffic to clear before passing with plenty space

The steed for the week
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The white buildings in the valley is Femes, picture taken from Playa Blanca
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Closer view of Femes
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View from Femes looking back to Playa Blanca
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Nice views.. and a few killer hills ;)

1 full year today since getting back into the saddle.

My cycle on 12th March 2013 was a grand total of 2.8 miles which, by the end of it left me feeling like my lungs were about to explode.
Since then my longest ride was 112 miles, most elevation 5300 feet, my total for the last 12 months is 3588 miles with 153,500 feet of elevation.

Well done. Amazing the difference a year can make.

Cycled the Evans Scotland sportive today, 82 miles, but that wasn't enough so I parked 9 miles from the start and cycled in, done my 82 miles and cycled 9 miles back to the car giving me a total of 100.3 miles with over 6000 feet of elevation...Enough to complete my Strava Gran Fondo 3 challenge

Glutton for punishment :) still building up the miles again.. did a 50 yesterday with a 60+ planned for next weekend.. hoping to be good for the audax in a few weeks.

Glutton right enough, just hope the audax isn't as tough as today

Plenty snow on the mountains

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