I don't know my blood pressure but the other day I took my resting heart rate (after sleeping, so pretty damn resting) and it was 48 - it's never been so low.
On the other side of the coin, I reached 189 bpm on the cross trainer with an horrific hangover on the weekend. I like to take it to the extreme both ends (as it were).
― Mark C, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
going above 180bpm feels a bit sketchy, although feeling better and better.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 4 August 2011 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
shoulder checked a tree
― g++ (gbx), Friday, 5 August 2011 00:31 (twelve years ago) link
14 miles in 49 minutes before breakfast, to make up for only doing 6 of a planned 26 last night, after a sizeable dog ran into me at pace and bent my deraileur out of alignment. (Local bike shop is open till 8pm on a Thursday, so they sorted me out; gears better than before now!)
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 5 August 2011 07:28 (twelve years ago) link
26 miles yesterday morning, 42 miles this morning, all through back lanes and rolling Devon hills. Delicious.
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 7 August 2011 09:33 (twelve years ago) link
Quick two hours with 689m of climbing yesterday was trying to knock off 1000m but its hard to do round here in a short period of time.
Having to send back my new raphia jersey, I am no longer an XXL in their eyes.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 7 August 2011 14:00 (twelve years ago) link
You are addicted, Nick!
― Mark C, Monday, 8 August 2011 09:45 (twelve years ago) link
Haha - several of us use www.endomondo.com to track our mileage via GPS, and it gets quite competitive. My main competitors are my brother in law, who's trainign for a marathon so not doing much cycling, and my boss, who's just done Land's End to John O'Groats, who I'm now 1,000 miles behind for the year. I'm trashing everyone this month bar him - I'm on 150, closest to me is on 80, but he's on 270 cos he finished LEJOG last Wednesday...
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 8 August 2011 11:58 (twelve years ago) link
did a real nice 5:30 am ride up to top of shadow mtn loop (9000ft), about 5100 ft of climbing and 64 miles. after weeks of 90-100 deg sweltering, it was weird to be shivering cold at 50 deg before the sun really rose. probably my last real ride before deer creek challenge in two weeks, ~100mi, 12700 ft climbing.
― if you hipster on your fixie tonight, dont forget, wear black. amen. (Hunt3r), Monday, 8 August 2011 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
a quick 20 before work. love riding across the bridge in the morning when it's completely fogged out.
― lukas, Monday, 8 August 2011 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
19.8 miles in an hour and 14 minutes after work tonight, did my fastest ever single mile too, timed at 2:16.
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 8 August 2011 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
http://sickmouthy.com/2011/08/08/608/
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 8 August 2011 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
25 miles yesterday afternoon, to take me up to 200 for August so far. About 8 miles from home, on back lanes where I'd never been before, I got a quick flat. No idea how, didn't feel like I hit anything, the front tyre just went fssssssssst all of a sudden. At that moment. Realised that, though I had a spare tube and a multi tool on me, my pump was on the other bike. Literally the middle of nowhere, north of Exeter, on lanes I didn't know. Shit! So I walked, and round a bend about 150 yards away from where I'd stopped, there was a garage, and a guy who was just picking up is car who I'd seen earlier out on his bike with his son! They had a track pump, proper tyre levers, and sorted me out right there. I consider myself lucky!
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 11 August 2011 07:10 (twelve years ago) link
I've bought a second pump (third if you include the track pump) to keep with this bike.
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 11 August 2011 07:11 (twelve years ago) link
That is incredibly lucky.
― My heart goes out to the people of platitudes (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 11 August 2011 08:26 (twelve years ago) link
Isn't it just!
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 11 August 2011 11:05 (twelve years ago) link
Passed such a cute girl bunny hopping speedbumbs on a bmx today in London, I think I'm in love.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 12 August 2011 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
Fifty miles this afternoon, the sky thick with clouds and the air thick with flies.
― My heart goes out to the people of platitudes (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 12 August 2011 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
28 miles this morning. Set a 20mph speed camera off.
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 13 August 2011 09:34 (twelve years ago) link
Think I'm going to head over and check out the Olympic road race trial tomorrow, need to fix up my brakes first though. Was supposed to do it tonight but fell asleep while I was reading aidan's bedtime story :/
― problem chimp (Porkpie), Saturday, 13 August 2011 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
So went up to norfolk with my folks. Bought bikes there from LBS from a shop that sells fancy titanium bikes and sit up and beg town bikes, bought two of the latter and rode one of them home across the Ringstead downs
However, this weekend has has been mainly about travelling by Alvis:
http://images.instagram.com/media/2011/08/13/62fe575aad2b4281a608590bb67a8b34_7.jpg
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Saturday, 13 August 2011 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
Porkpie - you know you can't get onto Box Hill? They've completely fucked up the route for the Olympic road race by choosing to repeatedly go up a hill which is owned by the National Trust who will only let a handful of spectators onto a very limited part of the slopes (to avoid trashing orchids or something).
― My heart goes out to the people of platitudes (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Saturday, 13 August 2011 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
^this does seem to be a significant oversight, it'll look good on the telly, which is what is important.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Saturday, 13 August 2011 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
yep, it's a SSSI isn't it? Should have done Ranmore common or any of the other 6 or 7 ass kickers round there if that was going to be a problem, but...... BH is the flagship.....
BBC is showing highlights next week I think, it'll be interesting to see.
Think I'll head over to Richmond Park though, if I can get up in time #whoamikidding
― problem chimp (Porkpie), Saturday, 13 August 2011 21:20 (twelve years ago) link
Dartmouth park hill on the ToB a few years back was good and I think could have been better.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Saturday, 13 August 2011 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
A few short miles around Holmbury Hill. Discovered one new trail, hope we can find it again. My friend's crank arm fell off towards the end of the ride, apparently this was expected, only the tools to fix it were in the camelbak that he'd left at home by mistake. So he tried to force it back into place with sheer physical strength, then hitting it with a stick, then another stick, then a rock, then standing on it, then a bit more stick/rock action... amazingly this worked enough to get him down the last trail (Barry Knows Best, Surrey Hills fans), it fell off again right on the final berm.
― ledge, Sunday, 14 August 2011 08:42 (twelve years ago) link
documentary evidence:
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6150/6041259074_35d04e8892.jpg
― ledge, Sunday, 14 August 2011 10:55 (twelve years ago) link
49 miles this morning around east Devon, over Woodbury and Stoke Hill.
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 14 August 2011 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
didn't even fix brakes never mind get out on bike, stupid exhaustion.
― problem chimp (Porkpie), Sunday, 14 August 2011 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
I rode to Coventry this weekend, 75 miles on Friday (stopping overnight in a 14th century pilgrims' inn in Shipton under Wychwood, near Chipping Norton), then 45 miles to Cov on Saturday from where I took the train to Manchester. Man, it wore me the fuck out.
― Mark C, Sunday, 14 August 2011 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
I did a 60-miler yesterday:http://ridewithgps.com/routes/643174
― My heart goes out to the people of platitudes (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 14:09 (twelve years ago) link
Just back from 35 miles across east Devon again.
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
August has been a strange month: I did no cycling at all for the first 9 days, and have now done over 200 miles in the next 8 days (four rides: 43.5, 50.8, 60.0, 46.4).
― My heart goes out to the people of platitudes (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
52 miles in 3hrs 13mins, smashed my previous personal best for 50 miles.
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 20 August 2011 09:48 (twelve years ago) link
Did 55 miles yesterday, about half of it in the New Forest where I saw this horse:http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r299/crunchydog_2006/horse.jpgI was going past the airport at Bournemouth at about the time that Red Arrow must have come down as I was passed by about seven or eight fire engines and stuff with there sirens on.
― My heart goes out to the people of platitudes (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 21 August 2011 10:09 (twelve years ago) link
Not a bad week's cycling...
https://p.twimg.com/AXZQd_uCQAA2l6x.jpg
― just call me brian (krakow), Sunday, 21 August 2011 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
There = their (above)
Just 25 miles today, no horses or aeroplanes
― My heart goes out to the people of platitudes (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 21 August 2011 21:47 (twelve years ago) link
Only 12 miles, but it included the yoghurt pots and Barry Knows Best.
― Mark C, Sunday, 21 August 2011 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
Got out to the trailhead, and apparently it rained hard out there but not here. Not enough to make the trails impassable/susceptible to damage, but plenty to make then greasssssssy. Bailed after a half hour :(
Tomorrow they should be fast as heck tho
― remembrance of schwings past (gbx), Sunday, 21 August 2011 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
Today I rode a total of 120.7 mi, 8 hrs and 20 mins, 11,859 ft of climbing.
― if you hipster on your fixie tonight, dont forget, wear black. amen. (Hunt3r), Sunday, 21 August 2011 23:15 (twelve years ago) link
god yr old
― remembrance of schwings past (gbx), Sunday, 21 August 2011 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
*puts bike up for sale, considers becoming a philatelist, weeps*
― remembrance of schwings past (gbx), Sunday, 21 August 2011 23:29 (twelve years ago) link
dont think id make a convincing cardie/pipe/slippers kind of dad, but a less strenuous more contemplative dotage is seeming appealing atm.
so, tell me about philately?
― if you hipster on your fixie tonight, dont forget, wear black. amen. (Hunt3r), Monday, 22 August 2011 02:28 (twelve years ago) link
actual quote-
"if you don't feel well enough to get up off the floor, you should just go back up to bed and lie down and go to sleep."
― if you hipster on your fixie tonight, dont forget, wear black. amen. (Hunt3r), Monday, 22 August 2011 02:29 (twelve years ago) link
Shed-derived shoulder injury has me off the bike for five days. Sad face.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 22 August 2011 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
Another 30 miles yesterday, making about 110 in three days and 216 in eight days. Rain today and holiday nearly over.
― My heart goes out to the people of platitudes (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 08:59 (twelve years ago) link
Back in the saddle this morning, and did my 27-mile-round route to the parents and back for bacon and eggs. 6.30am starts = I need arm warmers and 3/4 bibs soon. It was chilly.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 27 August 2011 09:22 (twelve years ago) link
I kind of refuse to buy either until it's officially September, though.
I've had a crash. Much blood. Will tell all in the racing thread tomorrow.
― My heart goes out to the people of platitudes (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Saturday, 27 August 2011 23:54 (twelve years ago) link
no bueno amigo. heal up soon.
― Puff Daddy, whoever the fuck you are. I am dissapoint. (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 28 August 2011 00:07 (twelve years ago) link