This section is for the Team to chat about training rides, events and any equipment bargains or advice. Even if you are going out for an hour after work or at a weekend and fancy some company post on here and see if anyone fancies joining you.
I will start the posting with the 3 Team Training rides:
DATES
Sunday 19th April Scunthorpe 30 - 40 Mile Team Riding Basic Skills
Sunday 17th May Kippax (leeds) 50 Mile Navigation Trial 50/50 Split Urban/Rural Navigation
Sunday 28th June Hawes - Wensleydale 50 Mile tough hill ride, see what the hills do to us as a team.
Let me know who is up for this and I will arrange transport.
Wednesday 25 March 2009
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Hi all, after completing the Humber Sprint Triathlon yesterday, 1hour 16mins, chuffed with that very hilly course, its now the begining of the Burringham Duathlon Series. Even if its not your cup of tea, cross training is good for overal bike fitness and can be an advantage for anyone wanting to shed a few pounds...names unmentioned. They cost £2/week or £10 for the full summer series, the first one is Wednesday 8th April 6.30 at Burringham.
ReplyDeleteFollow this link here to the Lincsquad website with all of the details on
http://www.lincsquad.co.uk/view_event.php?event_id=20
you will probably have to paste the text into your browser to get it to work.
Matt
Hi, matt just to confirm i am ok for the second and third rides but not the one next weekend, taking the daughter dancing, what joy. Are you doing the time trials?. spoken to Jamie and he seems up for it, the more the merrier.
ReplyDeleteYes, will be doing the time trials, need to work on my bike speed, it's one area that I am lacking. My muscles are built for endurance, if I work on my short distance speed, I might be able to catch you up at the duathlons!
ReplyDeleteI think I should be ok to do all the training rides, do we know what sort of time we'll start next weekend? ? ?
ReplyDeleteShould we say a 9am Start, gets everyone home for dinner time. How about starting at Burringham picnic site, bit more room than outside Jamie's house for parking.
ReplyDeleteThe starting point will be the
ReplyDeletePicnic Site next to the Church at Burringham 9am Sunday morning.
The route will be:
Burringham
Gunness – follow trent bank past Grove Wharf
Up hill to Flixborough
Back way to Burton Stather
Normanby
Thealby
South Ferriby
Horkstow
Elsham
Brigg
Scawby
Messingham
East Butterwick
Burringham
This ride is approx 35 miles and estimated time will be 2 hours, back at Burringham for 11am.
The first Treaderz Team training ride went well yesterday morning with 8 riders in total. Weather conditions were good with a light north easterly wind, which kept the temperature down but didn't put any wind related obstacles in our way! All the team stayed together throughout the ride and we were back to the finish point by 12.30.
ReplyDeleteThe details from my bike computer can be viewed via this link, if you copy and paste it:
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/3919423
The next ride starting from Kippax, near Leeds will be a lot more challenging with hills, town centres and motorway junction crossings, I will post the map details for this ride shortly but will also be producing a paper map for the day for all riders who let me know that they want one in advance.
To all who have been looking at the Team Training ride, I may have to alter the date of the June ride to the following weekend as I am struggling to get a flight back from our holiday before this date but will keep you all posted.
ReplyDeleteIf anyone is interested in a nice long ride this weekend, I will be doing a 50 mile hilly circuit from Kippax up around Ilkley, Harrogate and Wetherby, should have some big grinding hills in it if anyone needs the practice. Let me know if you are interested and we can talk about start time and location
Hello all. Whilst up in Yorkshire last weekend, I took the opportunity to climb Greenhow Hill (it's been playing on my mind a little), and I thought I'd share the experience with you ...... Its bleeding steep.
ReplyDeleteThe final training ride was a tough but enjoyable one. I think i suffered most having just come back off holiday, very little sleep and nk training on the previous 2 weeks certainly showed, plus 2 more punctures added to my misery of the day.
ReplyDeleteIt was an enjoyable ride taking in some of the highest hills in Wensleydale, the 55 mile ride took just over 4 hours, leaving us with an average speed of about 14.5 mph, which given the terrain was acceptable.
Well that's it for the training, on to the real thing.
My final weekend before we set off will consist of a 30 mile ride Friday night after work, a 50 mile ride on Saturday (Wakefield/Dewsbury route) and a 60 mile on Sunday through the hills. If I can cope with this lot the ride will be a walk in the park, I hope. lol