Tell us about your cycle Yesterday.

neris

90ish* Km from Home over to Glencullen, Military Road, Powerscourt, that awful bloody sadistic wall thingy after the watrefall, Ballinastoe, U turn Enniskerry home. Had planned to go up by Lough Tay to Sally Gap but was nearly blown off the bike a few times and after Djouce so headed back home.

Came up by Killakee Forest and was a few bunches of flowers on the gate there. Reminder of what sick & twisted ****s walk this planet. Havent been up Military Road in about 4 years, surface was great but have to say the amount of bottles, cans and crap sitting in the ditches is shameful

* Garmin was giving trouble and forze a few times Mapmyride is giving me 104Km for route, if so biggest ride so far this year

devonp

44.4km 1.30hr 29kph avg ,
home maynooth straffan boston hill cellbridge leixlip
nice day except for the wind, nearly blown off the bike on the rathcoffey rd
hopefully can make the Headstrong challenge sunday
https://www.strava.com/activities/278520384

BoardsMember

Terenure Rathfarnham Cruagh Viewing Point down bottom stocking lane, then back up cruagh for another loop before heading home. Ave speed 23km.

Not sure whey, but the first loop was way harder than the second.

Still not good enuf on hills, with Wicklow 200 coming up need to do more on the hills, and also do bigger milepsge.

neris

BoardsMember wrote: »

Terenure Rathfarnham Cruagh Viewing Point down bottom stocking lane, then back up cruagh for another loop before heading home. Ave speed 23km.

Not sure whey, but the first loop was way harder than the second.

Still not good enuf on hills, with Wicklow 200 coming up need to do more on the hills, and also do bigger milepsge.

was a good breeze blowing up there today which wouldnt help, keep plugging away you,ll get there

finnharpsboy

Apologies to any of the cyclists up beyond Kilakee - Sally's Gap this afternoon, if my broken down van, which had to be towed, interfered with your cycle.

Daroxtar

Lovely afternoon here so headed off for a quick blast around the block, smashed the KOM on a segment I've had my eye on for a while. Boom!!!

FD not shifting too well for some reason though, ending up in a chain drop and Oh My God, an horrific injury, big dirty chain shaped scrape on my baby around the BB. I felt sick when I saw it. First wound.....
The bike has 2 small metal plates to protect the frame in case of such things but it still managed to gouge the clear coat. I dread to think what would have happened if they weren't there. Minus Boom

https://www.strava.com/activities/278577025/overview

shaka

22k ish in the ballyhouras with the dog , my strava has given up working:(

godtabh

150km down to Athlone. Took a different route (slightly) with about 1000m of climbing. Decent day for it

Don't Chute!

53kms today around Newtownmountkennedy and Enniskerry. Lovely day out although that wind is still there. Helped a nice lady between Powerscourt and Enniskerry whose chain had come off and gotten stuck. On the off chance she's on here, i hope you got home ok!

ford2600

Easter Fleche 2015, 427km ending in Mullingar have started in Cork.

Sections with a tough headwind but not too bad.

Just under 16 1/2 hrs moving so we had a few nice stops to!

Enjoyable spin with 4 honest men

djemba djemba

Yesterday 60 km from Ballincollig to Macroom through Coachford and back the main road. Today 88 km Ballincollig- Coachford-Macroom-Crookstown-Beal na Blath-CrossBarry-Ballincollig

crosstownk

I set out today in great form. I was with a buddy who was also in great form. We headed out the Tallaght Bypass, through Manor Kilbride and then around Blessington Lakes. At the Valleymount turn my buddy had to head home as he had a ticket for the Leinster game.

My right thigh had been twinging but I decided to head up for the Wicklow Gap hoping it would work itself through. I got to the Wicklow Gap and stopped for a nibble and eyed up Turlough Hill. Despite my slightly painful leg I just couldn't resist a climb up Turlough. A few hundred metres from the top a cyclist passed me in full Boards.ie kit so I kept with him - it turned out to be Wishbone Ash. We had a chat and headed back down from the Wicklow Gap in the Blessington direction. It was nice to have a random encounter with a fellow Boardsie and WA is a gentleman. Anyway he split to do a lap of Blessington Lakes and I headed through Valleymount.

From Valleymount all the way home my legs began to give up - it was a struggle all the way to Brittas. I was thankful that I had the descent from Crooksling.

No pain, no gain was today's theme. Glad to have the kms done.

108km, 1,110m @ 22km/h.

funnights74

Killarney - Molls gap- Blackwater bridge - Kenmare - Killarney. A fabulous day to be out, nice and cool with little wind. Plenty of cyclists took advantage of it. It's supposed to stay settled so more of the same is on the cards.

Hauki

131km today. Absolute beast of a ride (at least for me.

Bray - Roundwood - Glendalough - Wicklow Gap - Blessington - Tallaght - City Centre - Clontarf - Howth.

Pretty much outdid myself on every aspect in this ride. Great day!

strava.com/activities/279197679

BoardsMember

crosstownk wrote: »

I set out today in great form. I was with a buddy who was also in great form. We headed out the Tallaght Bypass, through Manor Kilbride and then around Blessington Lakes. At the Valleymount turn my buddy had to head home as he had a ticket for the Leinster game.

My right thigh had been twinging but I decided to head up for the Wicklow Gap hoping it would work itself through. I got to the Wicklow Gap and stopped for a nibble and eyed up Turlough Hill. Despite my slightly painful leg I just couldn't resist a climb up Turlough. A few hundred metres from the top a cyclist past me in full Boards.ie kit so I kept with him - it turned out to be Wishbone Ash. We had a chat and headed back down from the Wicklow Gap in the Blessington direction. It was nice to have a random encounter with a fellow Boardsie and WA is a gentleman. Anyway he split to do a lap of Blessington Lakes and I headed through Valleymount.

From Valleymount all the way home my legs began to give up - it was a struggle all the way to Brittas. I was thankful that I had the descent from Crooksling.

No pain, no gain was today's theme. Glad to have the kms done.

108km, 1,110m @ 22km/h.

Lovely post. Having ready with interest many of WA's rides, I'd love to meet him by chance at some stage

vasilel

Hauki wrote: »

131km today. Absolute beast of a ride (at least for me.

Bray - Roundwood - Glendalough - Wicklow Gap - Blessington - Tallaght - City Centre - Clontarf - Howth.

Pretty much outdid myself on every aspect in this ride. Great day!

strava.com/activities/279197679

legend...must give it a go!

Ryder

60k. Stepaside, powerscourt waterfall, military road, cruagh road, Glencullen and home. Nice morning windows. Ground up every hill..... combination of a weight and fitness. First day using a garmin so look forward to comparing times in future

Red Belly

131k, 1400m, 6 hours: Wexford-New Ross-Borris-Mt Leinster-Bunclody-Enniscorthy-Wexford. Gorgeous day for it. Nearly t-boned 1k in when a car turned left across my path to enter a filling station before they'd finished overtaking me. Luckily I saw it coming. To balance that, some very cordial and considerate driving from oncoming and following traffic on Mt Leinster. First time to ride the New Ross - Borris Road. Nice and ''rolly' with a headwind to boot.

Rb

Unknown Soldier

BoardsMember wrote: »

Lovely post. Having ready with interest many of WA's rides, I'd love to meet him by chance at some stage

Legend tbh.

The most amazing thing about my spin today was the people I did it with.

Just people who are wreaking their arses for charity.

Legends, all of them.

Most of them clocked 120KM for the day.

That's a lot.

An awful lot.

Fair play to them.

My KMs pale in comparison.

Zyzz

BoardsMember wrote: »

Lovely post. Having ready with interest many of WA's rides, I'd love to meet him by chance at some stage

Some say his 'full boards kit' is actually a full body tattoo of it..watch yourself :P

OldBean

45km, Waterford to Tramore to Dunmore East and back to Waterford. Lovely morning for it, left at 7.30 to a lovely mist rising. Very little traffic, only saw one car on the country roads between Tramore and Dunmore.

I think my Garmin is acting up though - average speed is shockingly low, especially considering I was in front of my mate the whole time, climbed faster (for once!) and descended much faster, and her average speed was 6kph faster. I did notice the speedo was randomly jumping down throughout the ride - cruising at 30kph, and it might show 13kph for a second, or 8kph on a descent.

Or maybe I'm just crap.

Inquitus

OldBean wrote: »

45km, Waterford to Tramore to Dunmore East and back to Waterford. Lovely morning for it, left at 7.30 to a lovely mist rising. Very little traffic, only saw one car on the country roads between Tramore and Dunmore.

I think my Garmin is acting up though - average speed is shockingly low, especially considering I was in front of my mate the whole time, climbed faster (for once!) and descended much faster, and her average speed was 6kph faster. I did notice the speedo was randomly jumping down throughout the ride - cruising at 30kph, and it might show 13kph for a second, or 8kph on a descent.

Or maybe I'm just crap.

You have a magnet on your wheel for the speed? Sounds like your magnet is too far from the reader or your cadence speed sensor is borked. Check it out, you can always disable it and use the gps for speed if it turns out its fooked.

Inquitus

55km Coffee spin, Ruby's in Ballyboughal was thronged with Cyclists....and the odd Triathlete....

OldBean

Good thinking - I'll give that a checking out in the morning. Cheers!

arybvtcw0eolkf

BoardsMember wrote: »

Lovely post. Having ready with interest many of WA's rides, I'd love to meet him by chance at some stage

Same here, I dream about doing a wheelie past him up Howth Head but there's a better chance I'll only pass him when we're traveling in opposite directions

Luxman

OldBean wrote: »

Good thinking - I'll give that a checking out in the morning. Cheers!

Also, check the wheel size in the settings on the Garmin. Or (as I did by accident) put two magnets on the wheel so get double the speed :-)

cdaly_

ford2600 wrote: »

Easter Fleche 2015, 427km ending in Mullingar have started in Cork.

Sections with a tough headwind but not too bad.

Just under 16 1/2 hrs moving so we had a few nice stops to!

Enjoyable spin with 4 honest men

That was good going in that headwind. We managed 383km in 18h rolling. Dublin - Limerick - Gort - Athlone - Mullingar. Headwind was a beast but ied away completely when we turned north at Limerick. Lovely dry night, not too cold with a full moon to light the way.

A most welcome breeakfast at Reyno's Cafe in Mullingar.

crosstownk

After yesterdays experience with my legs I was eager to get out on the bike rather than rest although I made a decision to keep things flat. I set off into the city and out to Dublin Airport. The tiredness was evident in my legs but I'd planned to do 50km so I kept going - I can be quite stubborn.

As I turned left at the roundabout just past the airport there was an Aer Lingus A320 undergoing an engine test run. It was stationary and pointed tail to the road - it was about 150/200m away from the road. As I passed directly behind the aircraft I was surprised by the sudden crosswind from the engine thrust. It was nothing mental but it was very noticeable.

Just after the Boot Inn where the road bends and is parallel with the taxiway, an American Airlines A330 was taxiing beside me. Just for my own pure entertainment I dropped a few cogs and overtook it. OK, it was only taxiing but it's not that often that you get the opportunity to overtake an A330 on a road bike!

Anyway, despite the messing, 52km, 200m @ 25km/h.

happyhappy

Only had a couple of hours to spare this morning, headed from Greystones up rocky valley drive, then up the wall for the first time and up to roundwood da djouce way. Back via the Devils glen to n11 and home.

Was cold in the fog up there!

60.1k 26.6 avg and 820 gain.

Happy Easter everyone, remember chocolate is not just for easter it's on ure belly until you cycle it off!!!

devonp

Headstrong sportive in Kildare this morning, well organised and marshaled
pleasant enough but not as warm as expected...left the rain jacket and full gloves in the car
nasty climb near the end but got over it, happy with my avg
https://www.strava.com/activities/279703475/