Quite a hilly first half, then lunch at the Bluebell cafe at Marsworth to stoke us up for the Ashton Hill which went well and the final generally downhill fast run home. Weather "cloudy/sunny intervals", just right actually for temperature. I'm feeling stronger than in the Loire trip, so must be finally shaking off my Pyrenees experience.
Sun - No cycling today since we had a late night and too much too drink! Amie & Eli cycled into London, 25 miles!
Mon - Cycled to Dees in Amersham (11 miles) and test rode a Specialized Tricross to see how it copes with the crap roads around here. It rode the potholes well, but gear change was crude, I would want to have a higher spec one (it has the bottom of the range Shimano gears). Then back home and changed onto MTB and cycled along Ebury Way to Watford to M&S to change an item. Fast rather rattlely track, but no cars. 16 miles there and back. Weather good today but forecast cloudy for rest of week. Finally popped into BMW Parts to get a wind deflector for convertible, works well. So 27 miles in total.
Tue - Cycled to Apsley to pick up jewellery repairs, then bought a 2m plastic cable trunking from Homebase which I had to tie to the bike, making me a 'long vehicle'. At Flaunden saw a "Public Highway" sign to Latimer (unsuitable for motor vehicles) so went exploring, it was a hard packed track along the ridge and through a wood, with only the last 200m steeps and rough. We could do it on the tandem easily, but on the steel white bike with narrow tires it was a bit bone shakey.
Thu - Had a good plan for today to train/brompton to Bethnal Green and cycle/walk the Greenway and Capital Ring to Olympic Park/Woolwich Ferry/Thames Path to see how the Olympic buildings are faring. Weather dawned sunny and fair. Had became the operative word as the hospital called with an epidural for Granny, so we did that instead, which worked out well as we tested out the route on our bromptons from the hospital to the Skyride for Sunday. There was a Bike Fayre at the hospital which was fun chatting to the various stallholders, and Mrs M got us to have a go on the "Rollapaluza" where you race against another over 500m on a fixed wheel bike on rollers. We did pretty well for our age, and the pictures of our efforts are amusingly manic:
Men
Race distance in metres 500
Name Age Time KPH MPH RPM
1 Carl Yates 18 23.19 77.6 48.5 196.0
2 Joseph Davies 30 24.07 74.8 46.7 188.8
3 Mark Creeber 23 24.31 74.0 46.3 187.0
4 Andy Sharp 32 24.81 72.6 45.3 183.2
5 Graeme Moran 33 26.09 69.0 43.1 174.2
6 Charles Perkins 33 27.32 65.9 41.2 166.4
7 Chris Waters 34 27.36 65.8 41.1 166.1
8 Nick Manthorpe 52 27.42 65.6 41.0 165.8
9 Stuart Marshall 57 27.86 64.6 40.4 163.1
10 Steve Saunders 52 28.10 64.1 40.0 161.7
11 Stuart Spencer 43 28.74 62.6 39.1 158.1
12 Pawel Gaczkowske 31 30.60 58.8 36.8 148.5
13 Bob Castelijn 57 30.78 58.5 36.5 147.7
14 David Eales 45 31.22 57.7 36.0 145.6
15 David McVittie 59 32.36 55.6 34.8 140.5
16 Kevin Ford 52 32.98 54.6 34.1 137.8
17 Ash Demaissie 28 33.28 54.1 33.8 136.6
18 John The Harrier Woodford 63 33.56 53.6 33.5 135.4
19 Noel Coope 55 36.34 49.5 31.0 125.1
20 Omoruymi Maxwell 43 36.85 48.8 30.5 123.3
Women
Race distance in metres 500
Name Age Time KPH MPH RPM
1 Lauren Savage 15 27.80 64.7 40.5 163.5
2 Kirsten Savage 13 28.36 63.5 39.7 160.3
3 Rebecca Le Prevost 26 34.08 52.8 33.0 133.4
4 Cheryl Messer 56 34.62 52.0 32.5 131.3
5 Jakie Spencer 45 34.64 52.0 32.5 131.2
6 Julie Ward 53 35.92 50.1 31.3 126.5
7 Nici Savage 38 36.08 49.9 31.2 126.0
8 Hannah Mellor 50 36.80 48.9 30.6 123.5
Fri - No exercise. Fitted Schwalbe Marathan Plus 26x1.75 tyres on Dahon Cadenza to make it more comfy riding on the crap roads round here. Bridesmades at Rex in evening, just as crap as the roads, but very comfy seats.
Cloudy up here too...:-(
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