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General Category => Club Runs => Topic started by: Andy H on October 15, 2014, 05:59:16 PM
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Chosen a flatter route for Sunday, coffee stop in Hapus Ice Cream parlor, in Machen @ app. 40 miles.
Keith coming out on the tandem so steady 'winter' pace is the order of the day! :)
http://connect.garmin.com/course/8199267
Llanharan, Llantrisant Rd., Cardiff, Wentloog, Gaer, Machen. Caerphilly, Church Village, Pencoed and Brackla.
See you Sunday, hope weather forecast improves, currently 'showery'
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Route looks good, I will be tight on time this Sunday so I may skip the cafe stop unless we make good time.... Sunday forecast is improving :)
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Normally average about 17mph around the Vale, so riding in a group should hope to be above that.
So should get to the café stop in good time , just maybe leave out the cake and ice-cream!!#
Forecast now dry but windy
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What time do you meet these days folks.
Hope to join you.
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9am Will
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If I join you it will be around wentloog. Keeping my options open a bit around what time I get out and the weather. If its sunny and warm like this avo the hills will appeal. 8)
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We'll keep an eye out.
Route takes us through Cardiff, Newport rd and Lamby Way to Wentloog.
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Will + mate, (sorry didn't get your name, I was too breathless to converse for most of the ride) Steve C, Toestrap Steve, Chris Reed, Haydn, Chris G, Jason, Wayne, Roy, Rob and Keith and myself on the tandem, made up today's Pacers ride.
Headed east with benefit of the tailwind, tandem setting much of the pace, under no illusions of how much we were going to suffer in the headwind home! Made good progress until Groesfaen where Jason punctured, soon mended headed into Cardiff, where we seemed to catch most of the lights on red, which was frustrating. Soon onto the flats where pace increased with tandem again doing much of the work joined by TS Steve. Only real climb of the day at Gaer separated the field, with the tandem starting to struggle, most of the others climbing well.
Short sharp kick in Basseleg saw the tandem once again being dropped and also saw Roy off the back. As we had now turned into the wind it became a struggle, but we managed to work together with the rest waiting for us at proposed cafe stop in Machen. Unfortunately the cafe has closed for the winter, much to our collective disappointment, so Costa in Caerphilly it was!
Well earned but expensive coffee and cake before the last leg home. Keith and I both agreed the cake had made us feel better but had done nothing for the legs. Managed to hang in, with some judicious pushing from TS Steve on the climbs, on the way home until the drag up to Llanaharan and despite some pacing from Steve C couldn't rejoin the group. Soft pedalled back to Ewenny from Pencoed, with Keith and I both running on empty.
Good workout and the weather stayed dry, if a tad windy!
Will look to the hills for next week's route.
After last week's debacle with post race nutrition, refined it this week and a cornish pasty and a McFlurry ice-cream seems to have hit the spot!!
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Andy and Keith - surely its easier riding into a headwind than it would be solo?
Well done for getting up that gaer road climb today, looks a bit steep for a tandem!
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It is Rob but it was hard once a gap opened, after any climb, to get 'back on'.
Suppose that the benefits of riding in a group and quality of the riders prevailed!