Iain67

Hi all, committee are reading latest guidance and will post our views in next couple of days. It's important for public safety,  our insurance and our club image and local standing that any official club activities, (especially those performed in club kit) comply with guidance. Thanks for your patience, could be a good end to summer!

Thanks Jan, you inspired me to go out tonight for an unplanned ride
 

Another pointless post by the club troll. Yawn 😂

Have you been to Wuhan recently?

This was a terrible ride today and I feel I owe it to you all to share my view:
1.  Too much focus nuero  muscular,  VO2 max, and threshold. Too many sweet spots and not enough zone 2. Just maximum rubbish with minimum gain.    
I was knackered by inverkip 
2. Riding in a slow cadence is almost universally accepted now as silly. You want to grow your quads - sprint flat out for 10s. Churning for 3 hours is like going to the gym and squatting the bar for 3 hours
. Really!!!. Slow cadence and wheel sucking is my mantra but could the fit dudes please stop increasing the pace. I not getting enough time to get out my banana.
3. This ride was not just time inefficient (we spent half our time free wheeling when we could have been on the sofa practising our duolingo Spanish) but more, now my legs are semi shredded for tomorrow.  
 
Think we could  have done with a bit more free wheeling.
4. Not even the social benefit of riding in a group. Either semi puffing or waiting for Billy in his big ring.
 
Billy was smart and stuck to turbo on this horrid day. But you right. Only chat I got was from Andy when we got pumped off bunch in to Largs
We all have different goals I know. But this ride is ill conceived  I appreciate some guys like it. I wondered why Lynsey Curran refused to turn out - I’d told her we were touring round the lanes  - now I know. It was a testosterone fix.  C’mon guys. We can do better than this.
 
Lynsey Curran Was smart enough to look at forecast to conclude that this was madness
My suggestion is to stick to a long zone 2 ride. Throw in a few 10s sprints and if you like, 30mins at sweet spot.
if only !!!!
I appreciate this will involve reprogramming our very own Duracell toy,  Charlie.
Never mind reprogramming I need a total reservice 
I guess the forum is not for this type of comment. Won’t take offence if the moderators take it down. Honest 
And for those looking to hire a car from Alicante airport try Rentalcars.co.
Naw Billy giving me a lift.

State of play:
Archie has spent all winter at various hot weather training camps so should hit the spring in peak form. However he has also spent the winter annoying everyone so every breakaway attempt will be chased down by eager volunteers.
Gregg is now a wheeler so will that mean everyone is racing for 2nd in the sprints?
Billy is knocking out 1200watts standing starts at the track...if he could just wait a bit longer to unleash that power with about 100m to go he could be a contender
Richie, Darryl and Paul are all flying and about to get faster again after their trip to Spain
Marc, at the start of the ride will be telling everyone how he not been doing much and is really unfit...but then over the next hour will rip everyones legs off
Charlie back in form and as a wheelsucker par excellence will be difficult to shift along the Georgetown
Stuart has been getting some good results at cx so he could be the bunches van der Poel and van Aert
Jess will find out if giving birth is the equivalent of taking EPO in terms of the impact on red blood cells
George has promised to be utterly dominant and I have no reason to doubt his word
Not seen Galeb, Robbie, Paul and Sam out on the bike for a while, i can only assume this is due to lots of secret training!
 
The rest of us? well the only positive i have to say is that we've still got 6 weeks to get fit
 

I will be utterly dominant.

Stay in Bedion at the foot of the long classic way up. There are three ways up I have done all 3 but the classic route from the car park in the town is the best and most well known, from there it’s fairly gentle out through the town then after a few Ks you take a turn and the mountain starts proper , through the wooded section with the average slope every 1k just to tease you , after what seems like an age you come out at the chateaux and you see the top and now it can be really hard if the wind is blowing if not it’s just hard summit is just over 2100m I think.
Orange is another fairly close town and within riding distance , your mate could try and join the three routes club by riding all three in a day but Bedouin is definitely the best route 
If he wants a longer challenge ride the stage of a few years ago fro Vallence along the river then through some up and down country 
 

Hi Stuart away next week, will contact you when back weekend 8th-9th Feb to arrange 

Pleasant tour of the shire today with Ian and Alan. Coffee at Kilmacolm and then home. Not bad considering the rain earlier.

keep me posted lads, might be up for a late morning spin
 

Sounds like a plan 
 

I would. Forecast is to be dry at 11. I’ll post up at 10.30 to let you know what I’m doing.

If forecast pans out would anyone fancy a 2/3 hours tour of the shire from 12'ish onwards? 

hope to be out
 

My son’s set me the challenge of riding around Arran once each month of 2020.
I’m planning on doing the January lap on Sunday 5th if anyone fancies joining me. 
08:20 ferry 😴

can recommend the digs, great place and defo worth the money. Just don't send big Alex for milk😂

I’m right there on Ramsey’s wheel. You put your nose into the wind too early, Alan.

I would recommend dong the 179km route, On the long route the first 50km is riding on cycle tracks(2 abreast with traffic calming)/main roads escorted by police motorbikes in the dark. You have to leave about 4am? to cycle to bus then have 1-2 hours coach to start, done this twice and probably the worse two hours on a bike, followed by 179km of perfection. Skip the bull and enjoy the real route.  

You don’t have to go to bed the night before 🕺🍺

Sorry just heard gents, emily selected for Scotland academy squad against Dundee so need to go up  - apologies 

Liverpool this weekend, via the erskine bridge 😁
 

Small bunch of 4 up to Sinclair street, coffee at Corrie’s in Balloch and headed up to Auchenhowie to see the hockey and Iain, Greg and Tommy headed back over the bridge - cold but nice run 

sadly not next year Martin, i fly back from holiday same day. Ramsey i have done both routes and the middle route 174kms is my preference. 04:00 start long route versus 08:00 start for the middle route makes a big difference. Sure you and Elaine will have a ball,. One of my favourites days on a bike and the beer at the end also plays a big part
 
whats getting added to the collection this year Mull, full beer pump?😀

hope to be out mate, but suggestion, why don't we meet at bridge.........😂