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How was your cycle commute?

I cycled home during lunch - couldn't sit in that office any longer.

And what the hell is up with the weather now? Feel sorry for those cycling through this.
 
the second time i'm just about to leave the house and this starts up. i NEED some exercise. haven't slept for three days.
might go ride anyway. it's ok when it's warm
 
Virtual Blue said:
Running hurts.
But something happens in the body to counter the hurt.

I think it's hard to get this feeling cycling.
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makes no difference in the rain. anyway, i'm gonna chance the bike as i need to get groceries and it seems to have stopped. let's see if i get soaked.
 
An odd day for commuting. Event at my future Uni so new commute, so planned to do my usual route but instead of swinging West at the half way mark I would go South. this was much longer but had the advantage that I knew where I was going. Instead, I was running late, the forgot my glasses and had to head back so went the direct route and got lost three times, went up a dead end and used my granny gear for the first time in about three years going up what I had assumed was a pretty gentle incline on a segregated cycle path round Arthur's Seat.

Then on the way home I get a joint fastest time if the day on Strava, on a horrible uphill section. Think I must have been getting a decent tow from the taxi in front.
 
So many riders on the Blackfriars-Ludgate Circus bit of the new NS route, we don't all go through on the same green light. Absolutely chocka. They're going to need to keep up this pace of building these things!
 
I've broken my middle toe, a spiral fracture. Doc reckons I'll be back on the bike in a week. I hope so; I miss my bike...
 
The BBC weather lies frequently. For me it was about the wind direction last night, looked good for an attempt at reclaiming a Strava KOM during a minor diversion from the commute home but it felt like a headwind not a tailwind once I got going. Probably nothing to do with the couple of kilos I've gained on the waistline during a month of barely riding, including ten days full board with a buffet. There's work to be done on that. In the meantime I should probably stick to downhill attempts.
 
Fast run in this morning due to luck with the lights on the first few miles down into town, under 26 minutes, without a tailwind, 19.8mph average. Maybe the holiday waistline is less of a burden than I was expecting.
 
soaked to the skin this morning, and then this evening: standard abuse hurled, then shot at with blanks! what the actual buggering fuck is wrong with some people?!?
 
26:24 yesterday, 27:32 today (bad luck with the lights). Despite the holiday waistline those are pretty good times for me, maybe if I shift the spare tyre and get a good wind I can get a personal best.

They've 'finished' building the western part of Leeds' cycle 'super'highway (although you wouldn't believe it from the unfinished surfacing and loose gravel all over the lanes) so some of the associated roadworks and pinch points have been removed, so I'm gaining a bit of time from that - they spent some of the cycling fund money on resurfacing the main road :hmm: but that's fine for me as I can belt down it at 30 keeping up with the traffic without having to do the old pothole slalom.

Less than two weeks left of this commute now then a few months off, possibly never to return.
 
My first cycle since last Wednesday - pretty speedy and I managed 10 miles in 38.36 (did run through a red light or two).

Work dictates and I'm training it from Thursday/ Friday.
Tomorrow will be my last cycle for the week :(
 
Crispy said:
So many riders on the Blackfriars-Ludgate Circus bit of the new NS route, we don't all go through on the same green light. Absolutely chocka. They're going to need to keep up this pace of building these things!
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Blackfriars - Thameslink - Farringdon - Kings Cross is a route I sometimes take.
That bit around Blackfriars/ Fleet Street is minging. Too slow and too many people.
 
Oof. So glad I made the decision to cycle this morning. Really didn't want to, as I'd been off the bike for weeks while it was being fixed, then I did L2B on Sunday and a 6½ mile hike in the Chilterns yesterday (*), plus I had to take my laptop into work (on my back, as I don't have a pannier right now... this may need to be rectified). Thankfully it had stopped raining by the time I'd faffed about getting ready, and no wind, so it was a pretty nice ride all-in-all. Deepest sympathies to anyone caught up in this morning's transport shitstorm, though.

P.S. First time through new Stockwell Cross -- looks pretty good, although I hope there'll be a cycle cut-through to SLR when it's 100% complete.

(*) This was to celebrate being reunited with my phone, which I'd left at Cherwell Valley services a couple of weeks ago on the way back from my folks'. A nice person had handed it in at Bicester police station, and my address was on the lockscreen so they were able to contact me. Hooray!
 
Can't decide whether to cycle or not today. It's not raining and sunny right now, but what will it be like when I need to come home at 9pm?! The weather reports don't seem to know. Do I risk it....??
 
Hellsbells said:
Can't decide whether to cycle or not today. It's not raining and sunny right now, but what will it be like when I need to come home at 9pm?! The weather reports don't seem to know. Do I risk it....??
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You get a change of clothes and a hot shower when you get home, so no need to be scared of the rain. On yer bike*

*says the guy who hasn't cycled in a fortnight :hmm:
 
Woke up early this morning so decided to take advantage and set off on clear roads, left at 6:45 rather than the usual 7:20. Some nice clear stretches for sprinting on which I enjoyed. Moderate tail wind (about 10mph). Managed a half-mile flat sprint at 30mph that bagged me a crown, despite it not actually feeling like I was going fast or getting in a good rhythm. It might be my last ever commute on this route since it's my last day before going off on shared parental leave after Monday next week, and I'll probably drive in then so I can take all my shit home. I'll possibly try and relocate to another office rather than come back to this one, and the other commute will only be two miles through busy traffic. It's been fun.
 
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