Hope no one was around for the dumpster diving! I was rearranging the trash on Monday night at 11pm and someone walked by 
Bad lighting, these are more impressive in person:
They line both sides of the driveway.
Corn planting completed!
TR Outside Workout: Nunburnholme +3
Have family visiting for two graduations and a birthday, so I made a last-minute decision to ride outside this morning and not get on the trainer, which is next to the guest room. Was supposed to do 6 x 5 @ VO2 but couldn’t find a suitable road, so did what I could - 9 x 3.5 @ VO2. Somehow got a KOM and Local Legend out of it. So good to be back on my own bike after a week of travel for work AND to get outside! Perfect weather, too! Have a great weekend!!
It was my ‘A’ today not that you could really tell from my mojo. At least Im consistent 1sec slower than last year at 42:28 today. It was 9w stronger this year but that’s because into stupid sidewinds and a cr@p surface, I rode 95% of it bolt upright ! Working back from power and time in my Windsock my effective CdA was just 0.243
Easier/short day today on the TT bike.
9w is a nice improvement!
9W is a nice gain!
@rkoswald Last night I popped out a 702W thirty seconder to start a set of those, putting that first one in the top 3 all-time for myself. And then a really really long recovery and 10-minutes a little below threshold. Re: my comments on mixed workout. If my fitness was higher I would have done the threshold after a 5-min break following the 30-sec jobbers.
Gravel ride yesterday with unseen cowbell but seen cows sans bell.
This local, non-flat ride had some nice views, including:
And some single track:
The climbing for the 16.8mi ride was generally clumped together:
Today, spotted a hedgehog while walking Paisley before my run. He, the hedgehog, didn’t seem to be doing well, unfortunately.
After returning Paisley home, went out for a quick HIGHR run… that’s my clever new acronym that’s surely wholly original for high-intensity hill repeats. There were 10x75s, most of which were on gravel hillside trail of 15-22%. Oddly, Strava’s mapping & segment feature put me on a different, flatter trail. The last three were not repeats per se but continuing the ascent to get over the ridge toward home. Total was distance 4.6mi.
On the way to the river-side start:
I rode out to meet a couple of mates for an early one in Elton (pre the Tour of Cambridgeshire road closures). It was pretty steady until one mate said he wasn’t feeling it and would go straight to the cafe. So it turned a bit rapid and my HR crept up to 90%MHR. Lol, after the cafe I thought it would calm down with him back but he said he was going straight home. So cue another hour of stupidly high HR chasing my strong mate. The elastic was about to burst and I think he turned right to get home for 11am. Being less time constrained I carried on straight and went for a bimble exploring bridleways.
I almost never share pics because I live where it’s hot and flat and frequently ride the same roads, but I decided to snap a few to share with you this morning. I live about 20 miles southwest of downtown Houston, in Sugar Land, Texas, so named because it was the home of the Imperial Sugar Company plantation. It sits along the Brazos River, with a population of 110,000+. The Brazos runs 2,000km, all the way from New Mexico, through Texas, to the Gulf of Mexico. We built 30 miles of mtb trails along the river, with lots of short, sharp, ups and downs, which is a blast, but every few years the river floods and we end up losing many of our features. Between rebuilding and the weeds, trailwork is constant around here.
Did mention that the roads are FLAT? I rode 3 hours of Zone 2 today. 50 miles and only 500ft of elevation!
We had heavy thunderstorms last night, which left some standing water and debris on the roads, but I love our tree lined streets.
Here you can see the storms from last night off in the distance
Once you get out in the country, the trees go away and you get lots of 2 lane roads with high heat. This one leads to a regional airport. It’s fun when the small planes fly overhead, and the radar always sets off my Varia.
We came in by the hillier side of Peterborough that day and we got it up to 700ft in 50 miles (its a similar sort of elevation east of Peterborough but bleak unlike your good pictures, I hardly ever go there).
The day before was more typical heading west is undulating and if you continue north its actually hilly for here, just over 5,000ft in just over 100miles.
50 miles while on chemo is impressive!
It comes in cycles so it was probably week 2or 3. You get intravenous week 1 and day one your wrecked but its oral chemo for the next 2 weeks, which wasn’t as bad, then a 3rd drug free recovery week, before it starts again. I mentioned in the notes of the hilly 100miler the day before that it was a slow start but I’m glad I persevered. My chemo drugs attacked my nerves and any coolness and they went numb. The best way to combat it is to attack it and get the intravenous out of your system, its a vicious circle if you don’t. If you lie down to the symptoms they hit you harder and you need to lie down more and the next time they hit you harder
That’s good advice. Thanks for sharing, and I’m sorry you had to live it!
Wrapped up the last ride of a big week this morning.
502 miles for the week! Just shy of 27 hours and 24k ft of gain and 1300TSS!
Leave tomorrow morning to crew a Solo RAAMer! Looking at ~3 weeks off the bike.
Wow. That’s a huge week and you have a huge event in front of you. Have fun with it!
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Lake Tahoe is beautiful! Lots of locals did that, need to go check my Strava feed.