Only a week left!
Thursday – CX ride around Canterbury
Friday – Pump track
Saturday – Turbo
Sunday – Long walk with the kids
Monday – Lunchtime ride and turbo in the evening
Total miles: 279.4
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Day 20
A much warmer lunchtime ride today in the sun, but of course as soon as the sun went down it was freezing!
I needed to pick my son up from a club at 6 o’clock so went for a longer ride home, only 37 mins but a least it was over my magic 30 mins!
Time today: 67 mins
Miles today: 13.72
Total: 237.6
Forgot again!
To blog that is.
16
Saturday. Just an hour or so cycling and playing in the local park with the kids.
17
Turbo trainer on day 17, I’d managed to avoid using it for a while.
Time: 55 mins Miles: 16.2 miles
18
Lunchtime ride and turbo in the evening
Time: 73 mins Miles: 21.72
19
Today. Lunchtime ride and an absolutely freezing ride!
Time: 75 mins Miles: 16.21
Total miles: 223.9
Day 13, 14 and 15
13
Wednesday evening was a road/offroad ride on my Cyclocross bike around the Folkestone area, eventful mainly because I managed to fall off into a massive puddle! Things got a bit worse when I’d managed to get going again it started raining. Was still more fun than a turbo ride though!
Time: 71 mins Miles: 12.8
14
Thursday was another ride on the Cyclocross bike in the Canterbury area. I thought I’d give the Crab and Winkle Way a go, this is a Cycle/Walking trail between Canterbury and Whitstable. I didn’t go all the way due to it being bloody freezing! Maybe next time.
Time: 58 mins Miles: 10.26
15
And Friday night was pump track night! And somehow I managed to get a puncture on a perfectly surfaced cycle track. It was a bit slower this week due to the extremely cold wind.
Time: 101 mins Miles: 2.4
Total miles: 169.8
Day 12
Managed to get two rides today.
One lunchtime ride and one evening ride while my son was at Athletics. Blimey, was it cold! I remember moaning about the mild weather in December and was looking forward to the cold to help harden the ground a bit. I take that back! I’m don’t feel ready to freeze on the bike!
Time today: 76 mins
Miles today: 14.8
Total: 138
Day 11
Just a turbo ride today. Hopefully a short proper ride tomorrow.
Time today: 54 mins
Miles today: 16.24
Total miles: 123.2
3 in 1
Blimey, I missed Friday and Saturday!
Friday night was Pump Track night, same as last year when the ground gets a bit sloppy we visit the Pump Track. For anyone who doesn’t know what a pump track is, it’s like a mini BMX track, the idea is to ‘pump’ with your arms and legs over the bumps and berms to create speed. There’s not much pedalling involved but it’s a great workout, plus as I discovered after last year it helps massively with all round skills.
Time: 98 mins Miles: 2.5
Saturday was just a ride with the kids round the local park, as I forgot to record it I wont include it!
Sunday was horrible weather so it was turbo time.
Time: 64 min Miles: 18.9
Total miles: 107
Eventful ride
Had a fun ride tonight, through massive puddles, thick mud and got (a bit) lost!
As I have to drop my son off for a club in Canterbury I decided to go for a ride from there. I did this quite a bit over the end of the summer so thought I’d give it a go on the CX bike.
The ‘puddles’ started not far from the start and came up almost as high as the cranks on the bike so I half peddled through so I didn’t get too wet, fortunately there weren’t any hidden obstacles under the water. I encountered quite a few throughout the ride.
Into Blean woods I went and it seemed ok to start with but I had to detour due to very thick and deep mud, this took me in a different direction to the one I was planning and I ended up on the main dual carriageway out of Canterbury. I did start to try and find my way around to where I was originally heading but gave up as it was getting a bit late. So I turned back and managed to find my way back to the van.
A very enjoyable ride and felt like A LOT more than 11 miles!
Time today: 71 mins
Miles today: 11.47
Total: 85.6
No turbo!
Actually got a few outdoors rides today. Plus the added benefit of a blue sky!
A lunchtime ride and a longer evening ride plus two very short rides. In any other ‘athon’ I would have also done a turbo session but after four days in a row I decided to give it a rest.
Tomorrow should be a CX ride through the woods in the dark.
Time today: 66 mins
Miles today: 14.96
Total miles: 74.1
Lovely weather…
…if you like rain!
Considering I got soaked walking the 50m from the car to the office there was unfortunately no way I was going to get a ride in today. So for the 4th day in a row I had to use the turbo. I had planned to do the full 1 hour of my chosen video this evening but at around 42 mins I felt a twinge in my right calf muscle, I had hoped it would pass but I tried a bit more and it was still there so decided to stop.
Time today: 43 mins
Miles today: 10.8
Total: 59.1
Tubbs on 2 Wheels 