1 minute ago, mac11irl said:

@olduns be worth an xray to be on the safe side if it feels worse than soft tissue damage.. or possibly an mri....

 

good to know the group look after you properly too!

I've had a poke around in a non Medical style and in my expert opinion I think it's bruising so a few rest days and see where I am with it

so the OH was asking today what i failed at to fall off...

more or less the spot and direction i was going...riding parallel to kerbing and heading to the right...how i failed to lift the front up i have no idea 

current culprit is too much sag in the forks  

 

 

Edited 28 June, 20214 yr by olduns

perhaps you were aiming ( with your eyes closed) for that bit where the kerb is missing/at footpath level? and missed it..

Forgot we had a Strava group.

 

See I do silly things, like buy a bike, go for a ride. Then a few weeks later go for another one. Then a few more weeks, another one. 
thing is each one I think, last one was grand, I can go further, faster, higher.

 

so it was I headed to the woodhead   Is the trans pennine trail. It passes a few minutes north of me, rude not to.

 

Mostly flat  had a nice avg of 20kph as it was very devoid of people. Unlike previous weeks where it’s been busy, so you keep stopping for errant dogs, children, horses.

 

but 5kms from the woodhead, my left knee began to hurt, really hurt quite quickly… and I climbed on it, figuring it might pass if I slow down… #manscience. However it hurt some more, but I was near enough at the top and I could chill for 30mins with a cliff bar. So I carried on. Got to the high point, wolfed my cliff bar, turned back. Oh crap it hurts pedalling downhill... only 30km to go.

 

need to go and see a physio for it, probably the itb. Too much desk jockeying.
 

However, got to climbing for a week first, you know wrack up the aches and pains a bit more 

 

So after 4 weeks off I'm back on the 'horse'.... Arm is aching but no pains from gripping bars or brake. 

 

 

excellent news @olduns delighted you got out without any major issues

i was out myself for the usual route. decided to chance going the "eagle segment" route over the hill and through rooty stumpland when in the trees. discovered the coillte crew also cleared a load of timber in the middle of that section too,  so had to dismount and carry the bike out through a load of felling waste to get out on the main path again. 

pic of what eagle looks like though...

thats a not bad bit... ill take more pics next time im on it

 

1 hour ago, mac11irl said:

the coillte crew

I wonder who else actually understood this?

19 minutes ago, KenONeill said:

I wonder who else actually understood this?

pronounced 

Kweel-cha they own and operate the bulk of forestry services in Ireland. 

the Clonmel MTB Club are one of only 4 irish clubs who have permission from Coillte to use the forestry for off track trails

 

a ride out with the group again and mainly on fire roads etc, should have been an easy'ish ride....my body and Strava say otherwise 

highest peak HR i've had and average a good 7-8+ on usual and not alot of climbing TBH, obviously the 2 stone i've put on in the last year or so needs to come off!

 

 

A ride where the weather couldn't make up its mind.... Layers on, layers off. 

Not quite so far as we normally do but we did stop at one point and try a Hill Climb challenge 😅

Probably a 10%'er?, sandy, loose gravel, I mean how difficult could it be 🤔

Very apparently.... Leader on his eBike, half way, 3 others tried and we all ended up at more or less the same point... No grip and front wheel lifting so no steering, ill try and dig a pic later

 

 

Edited 8 August, 20214 yr by olduns

It really is steeper than it looks here honest 😀

Where the rider is basically the point we stopped at... This one is a 12yr old who will try anything, I get tired when I'm behind him, just watching drains me with nervous energy, he's non stop hopping, jumping, moving around even when we're all having a breather not Ben 🙄

Edited 8 August, 20214 yr by olduns

so another unexpected day off due to our 'planner' 

 

2 mile discrepancy, i'll take the Strave one please 

 

time to return to the steep climb...still failed 

turns out on Strava its named as  'Mission Impossible' and the fastest time is 12secs 

gradient is around 23% , 0.06mile and 19ft height gain according to Strava.

i'll keep trying...

 

 

aaaannnnnd another 'unexpected' day off due to you know who...

 

first longish ride out with the 'Baboon Bottom' liners, not too bad TBH for the price, just feel a touch strange at first being shorter legs than my Madison's

 

 

see my progress thread... im matching you nasty hill climb gradients in a couple of spots

 

Well today's ride was curtailed slightly due to a mechanical. 🥴

As the Whyte rear brake is a Chocolate fireguard at the moment it was time to give the Felt with its new "old" drive train a run out plus its more of a sit up and beg ride to help my arm. 

It obviously didn't like being messed with so the freehub has gone into self-destruct mode, stamp on the pedals and metal on metal. 🤕

 

So new freehub or new wheels with a freehub 🤔 - I know, I know I did say on the other thread about stopping.... 

just pop down this little hill, through the gate near tge hedgerows and then a short dink up the hill the other side...

 

see... no problems... other than the incredibly steep bits, and no tractions on the rocks or in the peaty soil under the heather...

and, the other pic was taken from the trail at top of the hill, just to the right hand side, about a 1km of pedalling away.

Van in for service today so throw bike in back and spend some time around Chasewater. All flat, very little climbing. 

I appear to have attempted some Strava "art"... 😀

 

 

and 3 1/2 hrs later still not ready so off we go again... 

Then straight onto the Saturday normal ride.... A fairly easy ride, not much climbing due to a girl returning after 12 months away, I'm not complaining about an easier ride 😀

I got a worldwide fastest segment crown today

 

 

we walked to a safe start point, didnt have the same of time as the last day, so didnt go as far, but had longer playing on the embankment slopes at the park.

 

is this strava art?

 

So this weekends ride was a little different.... 

Last Aug Bank Holiday was a few days away at OH"s cousins in North Wales and a Saturday ride with her hubby up in the Snowdonia Park.... Hot, puncture at start, straight into a mile plus of 15%+ climbing and a fried breakfast = stopping, dizziness and being physically sick. 

Better prepared this year... Lighter breakfast, higher up in the car and the Whyte not the Felt 👍.... errrrmmm... No! 

Still warm, left water bottle in car, tyre pressures way too low for grippy tarmac, very rocky tracks and soft grass everywhere else = hard going, dehydration, several long stops and getting up at one stage, feeling dizzy and back on the floor in a heap 🤔

I survived the day..... just. 😀

I got whooped both rides by a German who loves hills on a Haibike Sduro Trekking eBike  hardtail with rack, 80mm front suspension and gravel tyres at 50psi 🙄

The result now is I've been 'forced" to start looking at ebikes as the OH insists she buys me one, although she draws the line at a Specialised Sworks turbo levo at 12k 😂

your elevation gain and distance pretty much match my most mornings routes 😅 though tbf, the first couple of kms of mine is on tarmac, so bit less hardship than the gravel, and my average gradients are only about 10-15% 

looks majestic up there though, i cant wait until little guys are a bit older, and i can make time to take weekend mornings to **** off a bit of a distance and rack up some genuine mountain miles...