Colin McPhee

I’ll check in the morning but more than likely I’ll be on Zwift 

I'll do a weather check in the morning and will meet at bridge

Will meet at clubrooms at 9

My Garmin died in the rain but I think I did over 100 in that 1

My Garmin died in the rain but I think I did over 100 in that 1

Great route unfortunately away. Hope weather good for you !

Cheers for the run lads

Won't manage unfortunately

Great run today longest time back in the saddle for me. Training had restarted. Thanks for the company 

Great run today longest time back in the saddle for me. Training had restarted. Thanks for the company 

Speedy recovery big chap 

Hope to start getting back on bike for some of this nonsense 

I'm on the case for a business like bunch for New years DAy, posted the below on Messenger
Next remotely decent day is Monday. Which is also new years day. What better way to start the year than a 10am bunch. Post up if you plan to be out.

 
 
 
 

with the festive 500 i hope to be out a fair bit. not sure when i will be out on christmas eve but should be good for boxing day down to largs or something like that

8 hardies for the winter opener with me and Jan from wheelers. Weather atrocious after Gourock and it became a serious MTFU day. Pure banger all the same. There were 5 hammers and 2 or 3 nails today. I was one of the nails and got a comprehensive kicking. Got to Beith and small ringed it home. Always a pleasure to get back into some hard cycling !

Good to get the first one done, i'd like to think the weather wont get much worse for the rest of the winter than it was along the coast today...but i suspect it will at some point - same wind, same rain but 10 degrees colder!
 
Gregg came off on the Bowfield descent - there has been a bit of resurfacing and either the new tar or new white lines are a bit slippy. So worth taking care going down it for the next few weeks as it is on one of the corners. He seems to be ok managed to cycle home

Good to get out again and catch up with the club. Good to chat with so many members past and present.

Good to get out again and catch up with the club. Good to chat with so many members past and present.

Hopefully see you there Chung

Good to see you back out Colin, stick with it and you'll be dishing it out in no time

Sorry stopping for punctures is wrong defeats the purpose of the run are we now going to stop if somebody drops a chain all points should be nullified and a blank space should be recorded in the records and official spread sheet

Seems there is no definite Sunday run anymore - gets hijacked by those "in the know". And now Thursdays could go the same way. Anarchy and that feeling we are trying to herd cats.
 
I like Billy's interpretation. It's a short ride. If you get a puncture it's hardly as if you're on your own for hours and if numbers stay above 10 there will be a mechanical every second or third week.

great day out, sun, great company and some Brutal climbs. Well done to Darryl for keeping us together for 90 miles.
 
I locked my back wheel and ran off on a descent,I was lucky there was a bit of grass to run of and managed to stay upright. I gave the rest of the descents the respect they deserved after that. in the wet as George said they would have been awful.
 
My 36 cassette managed to get me up the climbs, well worth the ribbing I got for fitting the Saucer.
 
Well done everyone today, cracking event... I wont be going back either ðŸ˜

We couldn't have asked for a better day for the Fred. As we rolled out at 7.30 it was quite nippy, but it would warm up throughout the day. I'll leave it for others to add their thoughts but a couple of things that stand out for me are that we managed to ride the event together as a club, which made a very hard day seem slightly less so. Everyone was on good form and survived what is acknowledged to be the toughest UK sportive.
The climbs before 90 miles soften you up for the main event of Hardknott and Wrynose. Bloody hard, barely rideable steep steep roads.
Had to walk a bit on Hardknott but was ok apart from that.
 
Thanks to all who took part and were part of an epic day out.
 
cheers

That was an excellent and informative evening with lots of delicious bits to eat. Thank you to Tracey for all of your hard work and letting Colin out for the evening. I will certainly be trying to put some of it to good use.