Selling my Carrera Virtuouso road bike. Cost me £375 just over a year ago. Has done two London to Brighton's, plus training, so around 500 or 600 miles in total. Was serviced before this years event, and had a new rear tyre (gatorskin) and new rear innertube.
My bike is back from being repaired and with the weather hopefully cooling a little am looking forward to getting back out. What's sorts of distance are you all doing before you consider eating? It's all I can do to drink without throwing up!
My bike is back from being repaired and with the weather hopefully cooling a little am looking forward to getting back out. What's sorts of distance are you all doing before you consider eating? It's all I can do to drink without throwing up!
I carry 4 small packs of wine or fruit gums and 3/4 cereal bars on a 100 miler. Also have two water bottles with isotonic tablets added. Usually fill both twice while out.
I stopped 3 times today 10mins at 30 miles 20mins at 55 and 10mins at 80. The middle stop is usually half an hour and includes some proper food from either a cafe or something similar. Cardinal sin today, wasn’t overly hungry so just had a packet of chrisps.
Fat bastard coke or vanilla yazoo is also a favourite of mine on long rides. Good sugar hit in those. Don’t eat gels as they play havoc with my guts the day after.
My bike is back from being repaired and with the weather hopefully cooling a little am looking forward to getting back out. What's sorts of distance are you all doing before you consider eating? It's all I can do to drink without throwing up!
I'd always go by time as opposed to distance. Eat after 1 hour. My preference was peanut butter and banana sandwiches cut into quarters. Clems right about gels.
My bike is back from being repaired and with the weather hopefully cooling a little am looking forward to getting back out. What's sorts of distance are you all doing before you consider eating? It's all I can do to drink without throwing up!
I carry 4 small packs of wine or fruit gums and 3/4 cereal bars on a 100 miler. Also have two water bottles with isotonic tablets added. Usually fill both twice while out.
I stopped 3 times today 10mins at 30 miles 20mins at 55 and 10mins at 80. The middle stop is usually half an hour and includes some proper food from either a cafe or something similar. Cardinal sin today, wasn’t overly hungry so just had a packet of chrisps.
Fat bastard coke or vanilla yazoo is also a favourite of mine on long rides. Good sugar hit in those. Don’t eat gels as they play havoc with my guts the day after.
My bike is back from being repaired and with the weather hopefully cooling a little am looking forward to getting back out. What's sorts of distance are you all doing before you consider eating? It's all I can do to drink without throwing up!
I'd always go by time as opposed to distance. Eat after 1 hour. My preference was peanut butter and banana sandwiches cut into quarters. Clems right about gels.
Thanks, with the school holidays coming up it'll give me more time to start towards a 50/60 mile target over the next 8 weeks or so.
Gels aren't for everyone, but other people are fine with them. They're OK for me - the Torq ones are absolutely lovely. If I do a solo training ride I don't eat if its less than two hours - longer than that I try and eat about halfway through. After two hours I always eat every hour - usually a gel, sometimes a bar if I have one to hand.
Gels aren't for everyone, but other people are fine with them. They're OK for me - the Torq ones are absolutely lovely. If I do a solo training ride I don't eat if its less than two hours - longer than that I try and eat about halfway through. After two hours I always eat every hour - usually a gel, sometimes a bar if I have one to hand.
I'm ok with gels but don't like them. I usually have (vegetarian, I have to watch what gelatine is in them) jelly babies, bananas, biscuits and cake. It helps that I almost always take my pannier bag. With a sports drink in one bidon and water in the other. Usually taking too much for what I do.
If I'm training/needing to lose weight, I don't eat before I go out and then I don't eat for the first hour at least, when I'll have a banana/half a bar...after that, I may have a nibble as and when I feel like it up to about 3.5/4 hours..if I'm still out after 4 hours and I haven't eaten much/at all other than after the first hour, i start to get hungry and will have whatever a cafe will provide me: cake, sausage roll etc....just enough to get me home. Don't use gels at all as suffer with the guts... Don't like anything other than squash or water in the bidons either...although if really hot and have stopped, may well get a lemonade or similar...
If a social ride (100km/3.5-4 hours etc), then will likely have breakfast and carry a banana as well as stopping and having some cake etc half way round... Trick here is not to over eat when getting home and feeling that 'you've done some exercise so I deserve it'...
For bars, I've just been introduced to Veloforte and I used them through the Pyrenees in June...dense, natural and not full of sugar...not cheap though... :-( Would recommend.
Cliff bars do it for me, although I've just made a batch of my own protein bars using peanut butter, honey, maple syrup, protein powder, rice crispies and nuts. You just warm the first three ingredients a little and then mix in all the others. Press in to a baking tray and shove it into the fridge for a couple of hours. Then you can cut them into bars. Much cheaper, although my kids tend to eat them really quickly.
Did my usual 25 miles for work today. Which is my commute plus going from one workplace to another. Felt like much further due to the heat. Might rely on public transport and shanks's pony later in the week.
Desperate to get out on my newly repaired bike but not enough to want die doing it. Rode the 6/7 miles home from the shop in low to mid 20s so I'm not stupid enough to take these temperatures on.
Ride London completed. Rode an extra 19 miles as I pedalled to the Olympic Park and home from Buck Palace.
Mixed emotions on the day. Ride itself was far easier than I was expecting. However, unless I get a start time around 6.30am I won’t be doing it again. Leith and Box were ridiculously busy with loads walking. Killed my average speed completely.
Loads of crashes in awful conditions. Some utter helmets riding the course. One bloke crashed on an 8% descent, he thought doing it no hands and at about 25mph was clever. Thankfully when the inevitable happened he only took himself out.
Horrible moment at the bottom of Leith Hill. Old guy receiving CPR and being shocked. Didn’t look good at the time and subsequently found out he died.
Yep, it needs changing. Same shit every year. I binned it a couple of weeks ago when I found my start time was 7:50, despite putting down an expected finish time of 4 hours. I knew loads of people riding it - all said the standard of riding was horrendous. They'd be better off taking the 'hills' out of it completely for anyone who estimates a finish time over six hours. People just unclip and start walking at the bottom of Leith without even attempting it. Add ran and wind into that mix, and it's not difficult to see why it has a reputation of being such a chopfest
Yep, it needs changing. Same shit every year. I binned it a couple of weeks ago when I found my start time was 7:50, despite putting down an expected finish time of 4 hours. I knew loads of people riding it - all said the standard of riding was horrendous. They'd be better off taking the 'hills' out of it completely for anyone who estimates a finish time over six hours. People just unclip and start walking at the bottom of Leith without even attempting it. Add ran and wind into that mix, and it's not difficult to see why it has a reputation of being such a chopfest
Not only do the unclip and start walking, they walk 3 abreast!
Some of the crap I witnessed today was terrifying. How some of those idiots haven’t killed themselves is beyond me. Had some silly bint scream abuse at me when I leant down for my water bottle, tiny wobble and she was effing and blinding at me. The fact she appeared to be about 2 inches from my back wheel probably didn’t help her.
Burning toes, anyone got any top tips to avoid pain in my feet when cycling. After about an hour in my left foot only, my two toes next to the big one start to get pins n needles (burning sensation) I have loosened my shoes completely, to no avail. If I unclip, it does ease of. I have Sidi shoes wide fitting. But also get the same pain when on my MTB with flats. I,m considering bolt cutters to remove them
Yep - very common. Slightly different cleat position, knee tracking differently causing pressure on a different part of your foot in the pedal stroke, shoes too tight, inserts needed, saddle too low, pushing too big a gear for too long with more inherent weakness in your left leg ...
There's a long list that could cause it. Good news is that you can generally fix this a lot easier than you can knee pain - you just need to experiment. Inserts are a good shout - because you can go and get your feet analysed and have definitive scientific proof that you need them, rather than waste money on something that might or might not work.
One thing you might want to try - don't laugh. Looser socks. I used to wear two pair of socks in the winter to keep my feet warmer - but it had the opposite effect because the inner sock was stopping my toes from moving. If your socks are tight, that might cause it - and you may only get it in one foot because your pedal stroke is different and your left stroke encourages your sock to pull tighter round your left foot
Usually around February. I wouldn't worry too much about the target time - I put down estimated 4 hours and got 7:50 start, club mate put down 5 hours 30 and got 6:10. The way they allocate start places is an absolute farce.
Usually around February. I wouldn't worry to much about the target time - I put down estimated 4 hours and got 7:50 start, club mate put down 5 hours 30 and got 6:10. The way they allocate start places is an absolute farce.
I put down 8.5 hours! On the assumption most over estimate their time. Even I go faster than that.
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I stopped 3 times today 10mins at 30 miles 20mins at 55 and 10mins at 80. The middle stop is usually half an hour and includes some proper food from either a cafe or something similar. Cardinal sin today, wasn’t overly hungry so just had a packet of chrisps.
Fat bastard coke or vanilla yazoo is also a favourite of mine on long rides. Good sugar hit in those. Don’t eat gels as they play havoc with my guts the day after.
I usually have (vegetarian, I have to watch what gelatine is in them) jelly babies, bananas, biscuits and cake. It helps that I almost always take my pannier bag.
With a sports drink in one bidon and water in the other.
Usually taking too much for what I do.
If a social ride (100km/3.5-4 hours etc), then will likely have breakfast and carry a banana as well as stopping and having some cake etc half way round... Trick here is not to over eat when getting home and feeling that 'you've done some exercise so I deserve it'...
For bars, I've just been introduced to Veloforte and I used them through the Pyrenees in June...dense, natural and not full of sugar...not cheap though... :-( Would recommend.
Felt like much further due to the heat.
Might rely on public transport and shanks's pony later in the week.
Mixed emotions on the day. Ride itself was far easier than I was expecting. However, unless I get a start time around 6.30am I won’t be doing it again. Leith and Box were ridiculously busy with loads walking. Killed my average speed completely.
Loads of crashes in awful conditions. Some utter helmets riding the course. One bloke crashed on an 8% descent, he thought doing it no hands and at about 25mph was clever. Thankfully when the inevitable happened he only took himself out.
Horrible moment at the bottom of Leith Hill. Old guy receiving CPR and being shocked. Didn’t look good at the time and subsequently found out he died.
Some of the crap I witnessed today was terrifying. How some of those idiots haven’t killed themselves is beyond me. Had some silly bint scream abuse at me when I leant down for my water bottle, tiny wobble and she was effing and blinding at me. The fact she appeared to be about 2 inches from my back wheel probably didn’t help her.
I,m considering bolt cutters to remove them
Google - pain foot cycling
There's a lot of good info from that, about why we get the pain and how it might be overcome.
Good luck.
There's a long list that could cause it. Good news is that you can generally fix this a lot easier than you can knee pain - you just need to experiment. Inserts are a good shout - because you can go and get your feet analysed and have definitive scientific proof that you need them, rather than waste money on something that might or might not work.
One thing you might want to try - don't laugh. Looser socks. I used to wear two pair of socks in the winter to keep my feet warmer - but it had the opposite effect because the inner sock was stopping my toes from moving. If your socks are tight, that might cause it - and you may only get it in one foot because your pedal stroke is different and your left stroke encourages your sock to pull tighter round your left foot
Anyone know when they let you know if you're in?
Even I go faster than that.