Author Topic: [HAMR] New challenger - Bruce Berkeley AKA Cycle_dr 1  (Read 164545 times)

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Re: New challenger - Bruce Berkeley AKA Cycle_dr 1
« Reply #800 on: 29 January, 2016, 06:48:45 pm »
Quiet everyone! Now Matt's fallen asleep too! Let's put his hand in a bowl of lukewarm water and see if he wees himself.
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Re: New challenger - Bruce Berkeley AKA Cycle_dr 1
« Reply #801 on: 29 January, 2016, 06:51:59 pm »
What do you think woke you up?
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Re: New challenger - Bruce Berkeley AKA Cycle_dr 1
« Reply #802 on: 30 January, 2016, 08:26:28 am »
I'd be more concerned that Matt doesn't know if he wee'd himself or not.
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Re: New challenger - Bruce Berkeley AKA Cycle_dr 1
« Reply #803 on: 30 January, 2016, 09:27:23 am »
I'd be more concerned that Matt doesn't know if he wee'd himself or not.
If I'm asleep, I dont know if its mine or jo's.

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Re: New challenger - Bruce Berkeley AKA Cycle_dr 1
« Reply #804 on: 30 January, 2016, 09:46:29 am »
no more news about the knee
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Re: New challenger - Bruce Berkeley AKA Cycle_dr 1
« Reply #805 on: 30 January, 2016, 10:18:34 am »
According to Strava 197.6 miles yesterday, yearly total so far 6,324.2 miles so far! and the knee is still playing up.
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Re: New challenger - Bruce Berkeley AKA Cycle_dr 1
« Reply #806 on: 30 January, 2016, 11:56:29 am »
no more news about the knee

Two hours ago Bruce tweeted a photo of a tube of Voltaren and "Had to use more of this and a whole lot of MTFU, leg still a bit off".
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Re: New challenger - Bruce Berkeley AKA Cycle_dr 1
« Reply #807 on: 30 January, 2016, 12:00:54 pm »
so far 6,324.2 miles so far!

Granted it's rather a long way but no need for hyperbole old chap.
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Re: New challenger - Bruce Berkeley AKA Cycle_dr 1
« Reply #808 on: 30 January, 2016, 04:54:01 pm »
In my experience knees that cause problems need rest. The bad knees and twitter posts are not a good sign. You can push through the pain for a while, but eventually rest is required.

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Re: New challenger - Bruce Berkeley AKA Cycle_dr 1
« Reply #809 on: 30 January, 2016, 06:01:14 pm »
no more news about the knee

Two hours ago Bruce tweeted a photo of a tube of Voltaren and "Had to use more of this and a whole lot of MTFU, leg still a bit off".
Ugh, I hope it sorts soon, not a lot of accommodation for mtfu in hamr
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Re: New challenger - Bruce Berkeley AKA Cycle_dr 1
« Reply #810 on: 31 January, 2016, 09:27:30 pm »
Wot's appenin'? I haven't read this to days - is he still going? Got a tracker yet?
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Re: New challenger - Bruce Berkeley AKA Cycle_dr 1
« Reply #811 on: 31 January, 2016, 09:36:32 pm »
I've just updated https://goo.gl/RBHtiS with the latest rides from Bruce.

Currently he's 297.7 miles up on where Kurt was at this point, but is only 50.3 miles up on his average pace, having dropped back from a high of 127.5 miles up on average pace 3 days ago.

Re: New challenger - Bruce Berkeley AKA Cycle_dr 1
« Reply #812 on: 01 February, 2016, 09:01:07 am »
Wot's appenin'? I haven't read this to days - is he still going? Got a tracker yet?
Nope

No tracker, getting sore knees, spirits seem to be good. gave himself a rest day of 171km
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Re: New challenger - Bruce Berkeley AKA Cycle_dr 1
« Reply #813 on: 01 February, 2016, 07:58:58 pm »
from bruce, when asked if he was " going to try to get the official bit of it on track or is that just an unresonable bunch that run that side of the record attempt ?"

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Just going to continue riding the bike mate, don't have the time for all that bollocks and if I do it, its there for everyone to see anyway!

Bruce is the unreasonable one, IMO
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Re: New challenger - Bruce Berkeley AKA Cycle_dr 1
« Reply #814 on: 01 February, 2016, 08:04:30 pm »
I hope he enjoys his riding this year. It won't be a record.
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Re: New challenger - Bruce Berkeley AKA Cycle_dr 1
« Reply #815 on: 01 February, 2016, 09:41:26 pm »
It will be as far as he's concerned, and that's all he cares about it seems.
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LittleWheelsandBig

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Re: New challenger - Bruce Berkeley AKA Cycle_dr 1
« Reply #816 on: 01 February, 2016, 09:43:49 pm »
It will be as far as he's concerned, and that's all he cares about it seems.

So it seems ... but history won't care about that.
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Re: New challenger - Bruce Berkeley AKA Cycle_dr 1
« Reply #817 on: 02 February, 2016, 12:36:56 am »
My gut tells me that he'll throw in the towel before 4 months is out and none of this will matter anyway.

Re: New challenger - Bruce Berkeley AKA Cycle_dr 1
« Reply #818 on: 02 February, 2016, 09:39:14 am »
Whatever happens, go Bruce, best wishes to you!

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Re: New challenger - Bruce Berkeley AKA Cycle_dr 1
« Reply #819 on: 02 February, 2016, 10:43:37 am »
My gut tells me that he'll throw in the towel before 4 months is out and none of this will matter anyway.

I recall at the tail end of 2014 some commentators opining that Kurt would blow up by Easter 2015 and that'd be the last anyone would ever hear of him.
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Re: New challenger - Bruce Berkeley AKA Cycle_dr 1
« Reply #820 on: 02 February, 2016, 10:46:52 am »
I thought Kurt would have head problems perhaps 1/4 or 1/3 through the year. He wobbled around that time but Alicia changed things around enough to keep him going.
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Re: New challenger - Bruce Berkeley AKA Cycle_dr 1
« Reply #821 on: 02 February, 2016, 10:51:40 am »
I think it's good that someone is carrying the torch for the new generation of Strava riders. It's a very accessible form of cycle sport. I don't think I would have got deeper into cycling if I hadn't had access to 'enter on the line' 10 and 25 mile club TTs  in the mid 1990s.

Strava seems to conform to some of that ethos, but with more flexibility. Bruce will get enough of a following to encourage him on, but the physical demands remain the same.

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Re: New challenger - Bruce Berkeley AKA Cycle_dr 1
« Reply #822 on: 02 February, 2016, 11:08:11 am »
I hope he enjoys his riding this year. It won't be a record.

for some people it will, for some it won't. everyone of us have different perspectives of how we see things and the meanings we give. Bruce seems to be a free spirit enjoying (i hope!..) what he's doing and best of luck to him in this challenge.

Re: New challenger - Bruce Berkeley AKA Cycle_dr 1
« Reply #823 on: 02 February, 2016, 11:12:59 am »
My gut tells me that he'll throw in the towel before 4 months is out and none of this will matter anyway.

I recall at the tail end of 2014 some commentators opining that Kurt would blow up by Easter 2015 and that'd be the last anyone would ever hear of him.
I might have been one of those people.

Kurt, and the dear Whip won me round.
Good humour, good sportsmanship, being respectful; they both have it in droves.

Bruce and his supporters; nope. They don't. Even rude stuff said about Kurt.
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Re: New challenger - Bruce Berkeley AKA Cycle_dr 1
« Reply #824 on: 02 February, 2016, 11:18:40 am »
I used to belong to a distinctly low-key club, the Central Lancs RC. All our club records were within reach. Then Joe Pinon-Shaw joined, and put them all on the shelf. That took some of the fun out of it, and the club folded a couple of years later.
I foresee a similar process with Strava, all the KOMs etc. will fall to Elite riders, and Strava will fragment into clubs.