Red's Ramblings v.2

This has caused me much confusion and a small amount of grief so I thought I’d share what I know for reference. My B-Twin Sport 3 bike from Decathlon came with Wellgo road pedals and if you have followed my journey on The Great Tour you’d know I needed new cleats. I naturally started looking [...]

Its been a week now. I’ve been resting my legs. I’m sure that this is the feeling when you’ve run a marathon in a Pink Panther costume but its one of the most rewarding feelings. Its good that it should feel that way because it bloody hurts while you are doing it! On the 49th [...]

14 miles in under an hour with plenty left in my tank. My backside hasn’t given me any grief with the saddle but I did experience a bit of cramp in my bum cheek that I managed to peddle off. I think its because I was trying to power the whole stroke rather than just [...]

I’ve found myself picking through stats more than I’m doing actually riding. It is fun though and also a little bit frightening when you map the runs I’m going to be doing. Its not exactly flat This is another view of yesterdays training route

… I’ll either be elated to dead. If all goes according to plan I will have completed the two stages of The Great Tour that I’m committed to. I’ll be keeping up the training but for the first time I know I can do it (as opposed to believing its possible). I’m just back from [...]

I popped into Decathlon today to pick up some cycling shorts and asked on the off chance if the new bike had arrived. I say off chance.. I’d already got the bike rack on the car in anticipation. Id had arrived, that very morning. I’ve just got back from a ride to get used to [...]

I’ll try and keep these interesting and not just daily “I did x miles in x minutes” rinse, repeat and repost with different figures. Suffice to say that I’m keeping up with regular rides. I decided to fully commit to the ride and buy a new bike. I’m going to be taking the old Diamondback [...]

Route: Cheadle Woodford Bramhall Circuit Activity: Cycle Google Maps URL: http://maps.google.com/?q=http://share.abvio.com/565e/127b/4c54/9880/Cyclemeter-Cycle-20100801-1545.kml Shortened Google Maps URL: http://j.mp/aRabKT Started: 1 Aug 2010 15:45:50 Ride Time: 35:51 Stopped Time: 0:00 Distance: 7.16 miles Average: 11.98 miles/h Fastest Speed: 16.49 miles/h Climb: 67 feet Calories: 590 View Larger Map

As I mentioned on my last post I’ve ditched my previous app in favour of Cyclemeter and on an initial test it looks good. Performance feels great and its packed with features. I like how it can auto tweet my progress and the detail that can be reported on is quite granular. I need to [...]

I’ve been relatively quiet lately. Not only on this blog but quiet on Twitter too. Having taken a couple of weeks out recently to visit sunnier places of the world I opted to avoid roaming data and just use the occasional wifi. The result was a reduced level of communication that hasn’t seem to have [...]