First early morning Cycleway ride of the year
I know, I’m slack. It has been cold and dark in the morning up until now though. This wasn’t an impressive ride, but I’m going to write the figures down as a baseline to see how I progress. Full trip (Cateye): Time 1:28:20, Dist 27.67 miles, Ave speed 18.7 mph, Max speed 29.6 mph, odometer [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Excess commute
I was out of the house early today and the weather wasn’t bad (but it was dark, winter approaches), so I thought I’d take advantage of the cyclepath down the side of the guided busway and see how much I could extend my journey to work. I think I got as far as Fen Drayton [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Little nagging things
I haven’t done anything exciting recently, hence not blogging anything. My Garmin Edge 705 developed a little, occasional, fault about once I’d had it for about 13 months. I was about to go on holiday so I waited until i got back to do anything about it. It got gradually worse and completely unreliable (it would [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Rounding up the week
It was wet this morning. YES! Wet isn’t icy, wet is much safer to ride in. I had a decent journey to work at a decent speed without any worry about slipping of stopping distances. The journey home was similarly good too, slightly spoiled by a white van and a lot of traffic. Actually the lot of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )St Ives
Went to St Ives today. 67km, 23.9km/h, 3 hours on the wheel. I might have been quicker but I got a slow puncture in the back at Fen Drayton and had to top it up four times. I haven’t had a chance to mount the Garmin yet, but I got the journey on Sportstracker (there [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )New toy coming
I work in the geek department. Whenever someone orders something from eBuyer there’s a good chance someone else wants something and can split the delivery charge. Hopefully tomorrow I’ll be getting a Garmin Edge 705. I hadn’t thought to look anywhere other than bike shops, its about £100 cheaper here! This probably means goodbye to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Last big ride of the year :-(
…and it wasn’t really that big either. 60km, route here. Fen Ditton – Stow-cum-Quy – Six Mile Bottom – West Wratting – Weston Colville – Carlton – Brinkley – Westley Bottom – Swaffham Bulbeck – Bottisham – Stow-cum-Quy – Fen Ditton. For round here it was hilly (365m climb according to Bikely), and the wind [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Sunday random ride
Fen Ditton – Horningsea – Waterbeach – Milton – Landbeach – Cottenham – Westwick – Oakington – Longstanton – (oops) Willingham – Over – Swavesey – Fen Drayton – (not Fen Stanton) – Fen Drayton – Swavesey – Longstanton – Oakington – Histon – Impington – Milton – Landbeach – WaterBeach – Horningsea – Fen [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )North Cambridge random ride
Todays ride: 85 km, half of it pleasingly fast (with the wind) and half of it painfully slow (against). I managed to get a few pictures to start off my village sign bingo. I didn’t really have a plan for where to go, except that I was going to visit Dry Drayton to see what [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )A day in Histon, and more idiots!
(Sorry, another rant coming) Work had booked a meeting room at the nearby Holiday Inn Today, becuase we had some of our colleagues from an overseas branch visiting. As the crow flies the Holiday Inn isn’t much further from home than work is, but going the short way would mean lots of right turns on [...]
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