Yet Another Cycling Forum
General Category => Audax => Topic started by: jamesld8 on 14 March, 2015, 04:45:28 am
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No sign tracker firing up yet---maybe a slight lie in? , but another great day yesterday
GO STEVE :thumbsup:
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Still no movement
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He's off now. 4.6 miles at 5:55am
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and... the boy is on the move again. Starting off heading North East on the A422. too slow
Go Steve!
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It looks as though we are in for a couple of days of north-easterly winds.
Good luck Steve!
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Straight as a die at the heart of down-town Peterborough. Another long-spoon manoeuvre coming up?
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New tactic, no messing about going NE with a purpose. Main roads all the way, A45 and 605, rarely quiet roads I would never ride personally.
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Yes, those roads are interesting.
He's got a great average speed though.
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Good luck for today Steve :thumbsup:
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New tactic, no messing about going NE with a purpose. Main roads all the way, A45 and 605, rarely quiet roads I would never ride personally.
TG is used to that sort of road - I think he is trying to take advantage of the traffic, seeing as he has a bit of a headwind.
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Definitely looks like the slightly warmer days and more daylight is helping him to up his speed.
Is he
Walking on Sunshine
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It's not that warm today. The temperature has crept up to 7°C so far.
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New tactic, no messing about going NE with a purpose. Main roads all the way, A45 and 605, rarely quiet roads I would never ride personally.
TG is used to that sort of road - I think he is trying to take advantage of the traffic, seeing as he has a bit of a headwind.
"A bit of a headwind" is an understatement! I'm just back in after a short ride, and the 10 miles outbound into that wind was like a blast freezer brrrrrrrr!!
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Go Steve!
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Yes, I'm just back after 60km into that headwind (and then a thankful 60km with it behind me). It's bloody cold and hard work.
g-g-g-go st-st-st-steve.
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Is he going to
Hell Hull and back, again? :o
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Steve is on the road again
Wearing his red clothes again...
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Wind blowing up his nose again...
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I have come off the sea wall to my lunch stop at the Fox & Hounds, Tillingham. I have had the treat of some unexpected sunshine but the wind is cold. It was SE at first but changed to NE. I'm looking forward to my Balti - the chef is putting an extra chilli in it. Incidentally, the Fox & Hounds is where we had lunch during WARTY III, the occasion of Jane nicking Steve's chip.
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Is he going to Hell Hull and back, again? :o
Doesn't look like it and, unusually for a Saturday, there is no calender entry for an over night stay, so ones assumes not.
Did a bit of work this morning, and it was a lovely morning....got damn parky now though.
Go Steve!
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Looks like he turned around at what would have been about 100 real miles (as opposed to tracker miles)
I've been out doing stuff this morning and I really didn't enjoy to into the wind bits. But 100 miles of it?
That boy has mental fortitude.
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Tracker showing 146 miles already so looks good for another 200+ day. Rock n Roll Steve.
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Yay!
H
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For the first and probably only time this year, I was on the road before Steve ;D but unlike Steve in didn't do over 200 miles yesterday.
Go Steve Stay Strong
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saw Steve out in the Fens near Billinghay during the Yellowbelly Tour, section i saw him was into an awful headwind, i said a cheery hello as i passed and let him get about his business
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Not long got back after completing the Carlton le Moorland 200K event and riding home.
I was at Penny's Café in Coningsby eating beans on toast and who should walk in, only the great man himself !
One question, does he carry two (I think there were two but might not have been) enormous I Love Tea mugs around with him for when he gets to a café for them to fill as he got his tea served in them whereas us mere mortals had standard white mugs ?
Made my day only wish I'd got him to sign my brevet card.
For info the wind in these parts has been awful today strong biting North Easterly making it feel far colder than the thermometer would suggest. Steve was well wrapped up as usual.
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Still going and 193 tracker miles in the bag so far.
Keep going Steve!
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Need to get team marginal gains to work on developing lightweight tea mugs (* that don't lose the ambience of china ) :)
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Just had a near Steve experience from the train
(http://happymtb.org/forum/file.php/1/file=262462/filename=20150314_194723.jpg)
I also had a near Gibbon experience when visiting the velodrome in Manchester today; there is a "Gibbon street" leading up to the velodrome.
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Blimey! Just checked the tracker after a couple of hours. 203.32! He's nearly home though, if not actually finished.
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Another good day.
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343.8 kms! - Man of Steel!
Day 73 - so he's a fifth of the way there - Go go Steve!
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He's doing what he needs to do.
The weather looks pretty static for the next few days, so I'd expect similar rides.
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213.6 miles on Strava :thumbsup:
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Well done Steve :thumbsup:
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I love to see a well-thought-out plan being brilliantly executed.
Great work, Steve! More!
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I would say they don't call him Teethgrinder for nothing....but actually they don't, that's what he calls himself!
Great cycling Steve. Just settling into it now.
Sleep well.
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I love to see a well-thought-out plan being brilliantly executed.
Great work, Steve! More!
Absolutely agree.
I know you've made the point on more than one occasion that Kurt came to the show late in the day and doesn't appear to have done the same preparation and testing that Steve has. Yesterdays GPS issue was another example.
How hard can it be to come to the conclusion even before you start on an enterprise such as this, that you need at least one back up GPS ? Even more so when you've had more than one issue since the start.
Kurt is a phenomenal cyclist - no doubt about it, but he may let himself down because of his planning.
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Go Steve!!
(Well, wait until you wake uo :) )
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I can only re-iterate what was said further down this thread. I also did the Yellowbelly 200km. I saw Steve in Heckington whilst I was sat on a wall drinking a can. The headwind on that 40 odd mile section was evil - strong and cold. For a relatively flat route, that was a very hard day in the saddle.
Maximum respect to Steve for putting up with 100 miles of that wind.
I am very sore and stiff this morning.
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Yellowbelly 200 strava playback with added Steve Abraham. Unfortunately we missed him as he passed us while we were in Sylv's cafe in Heckington and then we passed him while he was in the cafe in Coningsby while we went for an ATM receipt for POP.
Strava Playback clicky (http://labs.strava.com/flyby/viewer/#268191213,0/P5D2yC+g/6/voPYSX7DyYp+w8KdPsPe4L7D+CD+w9EiPsPm4n7D3qe+w/coPsPK677D9no+w8v7fsPhfD7DycY/A+qH/wP0Vn8Dwxk/A8srPwP5r38D9ks/Q/4sf4PxvT+D7wL/w8jR/8P)
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@Pedal Castro - I've never seen that function before. Had a look on the Strava site but couldn't find it. Am I missing something?
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http://labs.strava.com/flyby/
It's a Strava Labs function. I don't know where, or whether, the link from the main Strava site is, but the above is the direct link into which you can paste an activity url.
Alternatively, Veloviewer has direct links against each of your activities which open the flyby site and inserts the url for you. i.e. one click, then press 'play'.