I’d planned a ride before my big challenge for the year which is to ride the Mary Towneley Loop. It’s 47 miles with 6,500 feet of climbing, almost exclusively off road. So today I did that longer training ride even though I may not be able to do the Mary Towneley in April due toContinue reading “The training ride before the big one.”
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A great way to motivate yourself.
Today the weather is lovely and sunny but after a dog walk I felt a little tired, not particularly motivated to do a ride. Coronavirus actually made me change my first plan. I thought that I’d boost my enthusiasm if I set a challenge and considered doing 5 laps of my training circuit at Birkacre.Continue reading “A great way to motivate yourself.”
A bigger ride.
Despite some doubt that I’ll now be able to do a my 47 mile ride any time soon I thought it would still be a good idea to try a bigger ride today, after another longer than usual break. At least we can still ride in England. In France and Italy no leisure rides areContinue reading “A bigger ride.”
Coronavirus.
I haven’t contracted Coronavirus, yet, but some estimates have 80% of us catching the disease before it’s run it’s course. Despite this, and even if I don’t contract the disease or the symptoms are so mild I don’t notice it, it may still affect my mountain biking. You could say that it’s selfish, when untoldContinue reading “Coronavirus.”
A good training ride.
For a variety of reasons I haven’t ridden for 5 days so was keen to get a good ride in today to maintain my fitness. With Healey Nab out of action for training I decided to ride to the top of Great Hill, especially concentrating on the Strava segment “Great Hill, out and back”. IContinue reading “A good training ride.”
Still finding new trails after all these years!
I’ve often thought that I knew every trail within easy reach of home. Sometimes, though, I’ve ridden along with someone new and they’ve shown me a trail I didn’t know. Within the last year I’ve been surprised to discover several trails in places I’ve been riding forever. Today I did a little explorationContinue reading “Still finding new trails after all these years!”
Draining the tank!
You could just jump on a bike and maintain the same speed until you couldn’t hold that speed any longer. This may give you a good workout and would certainly take you to the limit of your ability. On a mountain bike ride, though, the terrain changes all the time. You climb, you descend andContinue reading “Draining the tank!”
A birthday treat.
Yes, it’s my birthday! For the record I’m 58 today and since my wife was at work I went for a mountain bike ride. I struggled to think of the best place to ride today. Healey Nab is having the trees felled and after a record breaking wet February the ground is still quite wetContinue reading “A birthday treat.”
Man Flu.
Newspaper reports have confirmed that men suffer far worse from respiratory infections than women! “Man flu is real, reported the Daily Mirror . Many newspapers reported the news that scientists have found men suffer from flu more because they “invest in their spirit of adventure at the expense of their immune system” (The Daily Telegraph ).” ThereContinue reading “Man Flu.”
Things will never be the same again.
Today was too good a day to stay indoors. The sun was shining sporadically early in the morning and by 11 am we had clear blue skies. The rain we’ve had over the winter was hardly likely to have dried up overnight but my main intention for today’s ride was to do some hill climbing and take a look at Healey Nab. I’ve seen some pictures on Facebook of the tree cutting and wanted to see how it had affected the man made trails. An easy plan was to ride up Great Hill and return via the Nab.
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