Boards Beginners Spin: Saturday 15th May

sweetswing

Yes looking foreward to it , i can just make eight at a push.
i may have to meet ye as you pass by fairview.
the roads will be ours alone at that time , weather is to be smashing aswell so should be good fun(specially if we do howth head:D)

Wingman2010

sweetswing wrote: »

Yes looking foreward to it , i can just make eight at a push.
i may have to meet ye as you pass by fairview.
the roads will be ours alone at that time , weather is to be smashing aswell so should be good fun(specially if we do howth head:D)

Sweetswing and Littleredspot,

Is Connolly the meeting spot at 8am tomorrow morning?

Anyone else is welcome to join us on this begineers spin The route is posted above.

daragh_

Would love to come on one of these with you but I can't do Saturdays.

I'll be doing an early one on Sunday AM if anyone is interested.

http://www.mapmyride.com/route/ie/dun%20laoghaire/787127436422739875

Plan to be leaving the Yellow House in Rathfarnham by about 7.

Plenty of places to turn off and take your own route if you want to.

The object of the exercise for me is to stay in the saddle for as long as possible so I don't plan on stopping apart from picking up water in Laragh, necking a few bananas and possibly coughing up a lung after some of the climbs.

ED E

Yellow house is rathfarnham

seamus

7am :eek:

I like my bed too much. I think I'll set out for Laragh via the Stocking Lane around 11am tomorrow. It was nice the last time I did half that route, though hilly as bedamned.

olmo

Howya lads, I'll meet u at Connolly for 8am for the Northside route. See ye there!

daragh_

Location of Yellow House edited.

When I say 'anyone' I mean beginners (very very slow, podgy beginners in their early 40's) like me.

daragh_

seamus wrote: »

7am :eek:

I like my bed too much. I think I'll set out for Laragh via the Stocking Lane around 11am tomorrow. It was nice the last time I did half that route, though hilly as bedamned.

It's the only way I can get out and back for a time deemed reasonable by my other half.

littleredspot

Wingman2010 wrote: »

Sweetswing and Littleredspot,

Is Connolly the meeting spot at 8am tomorrow morning?

Anyone else is welcome to join us on this begineers spin The route is posted above.

Yup, I'll see you and Olmo at the LUAS stop at Connolly for 8 and then we'll hook up at the first rest/drink/food break (at the pedestrian bridge?) at 8.02, with Sweetswing:D

Daragh, thats never a beginner spin! Enjoy.

Seamus/Lethal Weapon, if ye can work out a not so hilly route after Stocking Lane for next week I'd love to join ye tackling it.

daragh_

littleredspot wrote: »

Daragh, thats never a beginner spin! Enjoy.

If you saw me inching up Stocking Lane you wouldn't say that.
Enjoy Saturday.

Heisenberg.

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ED E

littleredspot wrote: »

Yup, I'll see you and Olmo at the LUAS stop at Connolly for 8 and then we'll hook up at the first rest/drink/food break (at the pedestrian bridge?) at 8.02, with Sweetswing:D

Daragh, thats never a beginner spin! Enjoy.

Seamus/Lethal Weapon, if ye can work out a not so hilly route after Stocking Lane for next week I'd love to join ye tackling it.

I wouldnt mind bombing it out to Enniskerry then heading a bit further. The alow section from town was the bit that got to me last time. If wre to leave Dundrum at 8.50. Maybe then we could be home at a reasonable time. The 140 last time wAs dempting but I didn't have the time.

ED E

Sorry about typing fail...

sweetswing

littleredspot wrote: »

Yup, I'll see you and Olmo at the LUAS stop at Connolly for 8 and then we'll hook up at the first rest/drink/food break (at the pedestrian bridge?) at 8.02, with Sweetswing:D

Daragh, thats never a beginner spin! Enjoy.

Seamus/Lethal Weapon, if ye can work out a not so hilly route after Stocking Lane for next week I'd love to join ye tackling it.

ok foot bridge it is , ill wait till ya pass.

ED E

Locked out right now so I'm tanning in the back garde:p

You were so right about not doing my route. The sun made stockin 5x worse. After the first 15 km or so it was a really lovely spin bar one nasty climb just before enniskerry.

If I'd woken up on time I mighta missed most of the sun....

littleredspot

Lovely spin lads, perfect weather. Always good to discover new bits of the county.

setanta159

Any other 'beginner' spins in the pipeline? Had a few things on the last few weekends and was unable to participate. Sounds like it was a good laugh.

Paul Kiernan

Are there any plans for any more of these? ... weather permitting:(...

My niece just got a bike and is interested in participating in some relatively easy, sociable, type spins:).

Wingman2010

I'd love to get out on the bike Saturday morning for a beginners cycle if anyone is interested. I have an exam on Friday so it would be great to get back on the bike and out of the books

CramCycle

I wouldn't mind a short spin on saturday morning

km991148

could be up for something, wanted to do Wicklow100, but too late for reg..

How short is short? How beginer is beginer? (not being funny when I ask.. I missed the other spins, and would defo count myself as beginer!)

ipodrocker

km991148 wrote: »

could be up for something, wanted to do Wicklow100, but too late for reg..

How short is short? How beginer is beginer? (not being funny when I ask.. I missed the other spins, and would defo count myself as beginer!)

all good questions!

seamus

km991148 wrote: »

How short is short? How beginer is beginer? (not being funny when I ask.. I missed the other spins, and would defo count myself as beginer!)

Well, in general "short" is somewhere between 30km and 60km. Sounds long, but if you consider that 30km is only 90mins at a very relaxed pace, it's actually not all that far.

Note that distance doesn't include the distance to/from the start/end of the route. So although our first route was ~45km, many people had a greater than 10k trip to and from the route so they ended up doing spins in excess of 70km.

I'm out for anything this weekend, resigned to servicing my bike instead while my ribs heal.

Judging by our last spin, "beginner" is a fairly loose term, and everyone seemed to have at least some experience of spending more than 30 minutes on the bike on a semi-regular basis.

Certainly if you haven't even looked at a bike in ten years or if a 5km cycle to the shops will have you flat out on the couch for the night, then you may be too much of a beginner
But if you can manage 20km in a single sitting (about an hour on the bike) and your legs still work when you get off the bike (even if they are a bit sore), then you'd be able for a beginners' spin.
Even if you've never actually done 20km before but cycle on a regular basis, you'd probably be well able for it.

If you were thinking about doing the WW100, you'd probably be able to lead a beginners' spin

km991148

thanks seamus..

"Judging by our last spin, "beginner" is a fairly loose term, and everyone seemed to have at least some experience of spending more than 30 minutes on the bike on a semi-regular basis."

Thats why I asked! I would say I am a beginer as I havent went over 100k much (1-2) and nowhere near as fast as those here (nor am I in club etc).

I was looking at more like 70-100 - but wouldnt be the quickest, although happy to go and take a good go at the front if people dont mind waiting at times!!

How long you laid up for? Hope you recover soon, you got swiped by a PIV (person in vehicle), right?

littleredspot

I won't be able to join ye this weekend lads, but I'd highly recommend a 'Boards Beginners Spin'.

The term beginner is indeed fairly loose. I'd done 50k once and did nearer 70 on the day, but there's plenty of breaks and having the company keeps you fresh. The pace varied which was enjoyable too. I think the best part for me was that there was no presssure to be all decked out in Lycra or the latest carbon road bike (though they were welcome too) The other thing was that we weren't all drafting so it was a nice pressure free introduction to cycling in a group. I'll join another one soon.

Wingman2010

If anyone is interested in a cycle tomorrow (saturday 12th June) just drop me a pm. I wasn't on the bike for 2 weeks because of exam committments so I'm eager to get going again

ED E

I think I'll be doing a solo 6:30AM run if the weather holds up. Have to be back early for a full day study megasesh for Maths P2. P1 today killed me, and maths is one of my good subjects:eek:(HL Maths, Phys and Applied Maths:rolleyes:). Then there's Irish...

Thanks to Ant and Littleredspot for the well wishes for the exams while I'm at it:D

Back on topic, this evening would have made for a great spin, went half way to enniskerry on an errand and it was a beaut'

Wingman2010

I'm just back from a 76k spin. Went out as far as a Donabate. I broke my previous record so I'm very happy

I was about to collapse after the last spin (65k) a few weeks but I feel grand now:) It's amazing what you can do with a bit of practise :rolleyes:

ED E

0607 Lethal wakes
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0615 Lethal is asleep once more
0827 Lethal wakes for the second time
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Still did a spin, Bray and back via Stillorgan. 48Km at average 25.5 IIRC. Nasty headwind for a good bit of the return leg.

Creamy Goodness

nice spin, hoping to get out myself tomorrow, want to try up my distances as i'm pretty shocking < 30k's.

just curious but did you use the N11? for your spin out to bray? I have a couple of people asking me to go out on spin in wicklow but i know i just wouldn't be able for the inclines just yet, want to get decent at flat road cycling first but don't want to rely on the n11 all the time. anyone have any ideas on good routes? north wicklow/south dublin area.

oh and lethal best of luck in the rest of the LC, try and get out for spins during it because speaking from experience the weather is always great when you're doing the LC, turns pants right after it :pac:

DirkVoodoo

Heading out via the coast: Dun Laoghaire, Dalkey, Killiney can be fun, different and quite scenic, no major gradients to trouble you either. Get to Bray and turn around.

Creamy Goodness

DirkVoodoo wrote: »

Heading out via the coast: Dun Laoghaire, Dalkey, Killiney can be fun, different and quite scenic, no major gradients to trouble you either. Get to Bray and turn around.

cool I might try that tomorrow thanks Dirk, although think I won't do the turning in bray as I live there

ED E

Yeah, Milltown-Blackrock-Dun Laoghaire and so on. There is one incline if you follow the Dart closely, Vico:) Its worth it for the view over the bay, and you get a super decent on the other side.

I came back on the R parallel to the N11, least I think so:p

oh and lethal best of luck in the rest of the LC, try and get out for spins during it because speaking from experience the weather is always great when you're doing the LC, turns pants right after it

Cheers, I hope to get out next Fri and Sat. Following weekend I'll be to ossified to get on the bike:D

Wingman2010

Lethal_Bullet wrote: »

0607 Lethal wakes
0610 Alarm goes off
0615 Lethal is asleep once more
0827 Lethal wakes for the second time
0828 Stream of profanities



Still did a spin, Bray and back via Stillorgan. 48Km at average 25.5 IIRC. Nasty headwind for a good bit of the return leg.

So much for the 6:30 spin:D

I'm in some pain here; got badly burned today!

ED E

Ahh, obviously too slow then

Ant

Hey all,

I just joined the Dublin Social Cycling Group as an alternative option to Boards for getting out on spins and cycling with others.

I'll be doing this spin on Saturday morning. It's very similar to the route we did last month and if you've had the chance to build up your fitness over the past few weeks, it should be fine for those who returned to town after Enniskerry. Glencree's a really nice spot to stop off at for coffee and cake and well worth the effort of getting there.

Wingman2010

Ant wrote: »

Hey all,

I just joined the Dublin Social Cycling Group as an alternative option to Boards for getting out on spins and cycling with others.

I'll be doing this spin on Saturday morning. It's very similar to the route we did last month and if you've had the chance to build up your fitness over the past few weeks, it should be fine for those who returned to town after Enniskerry. Glencree's a really nice spot to stop off at for coffee and cake and well worth the effort of getting there.

I also joined this group last week but I haven't gone on any spins yet I'm going on the route above also on Saturday with littleredspot. I should find it a little easier this time as I have done a bit of cycling since!

ED E

Oooh, I'm in. Two easy exams left so study is lower on the list once more.

BUT, Routechange request: Can we do it ther other way around? Go'on, you know you want to!

Wingman2010

Lethal_Bullet wrote: »

Oooh, I'm in. Two easy exams left so study is lower on the list once more.

BUT, Routechange request: Can we do it ther other way around? Go'on, you know you want to!

I'm meeting littleredspot for this route at Connolly 9:30 if you would to join us here? We are then meeting up with the rest at the Burlington.

Ant

Gorgeous day today. It was great to meet up again with littleredspot, Lethal_Bullet and Wingman2010 again. We had a great cycle out to Dun Laoghaire, Bray, Enniskerry, Glencree and back again via Kilakee Road.

@littleredspot, watching you cruise up the hill outside Enniskerry as I gasped for breath to catch you leaves me in no doubt that you could cycle back up Kilakee Rd / Stocking Lane.

littleredspot

Great spin on Saturday alright. Perfect weather, good company, nice route.

Ant, would ya stop, gasping for air I was! I'll give the other direction a shot soon. Next time I'll remember to fix my brakes before heading for the hills though!