Author Topic: [HAMR] 20 March - Day 79 (Read 4830 times)

wilkyboy · « **on:** 20 March, 2015, 04:52:59 am »

After a good night's sleep, Steve's up bright and breezy and looking forward to a day of calm, "go anywhere" weather. He's just getting ready to set off into the dark, cold gloom of a Cambridgeshire morning ...

And at 5:04 he's off. Another day in the saddle. Although it's a bit chilly, it feels like a nice day to be on the bike out there.

Go Steve!

Marmitegeoff · « **Reply #1 on:** 20 March, 2015, 05:28:55 am »

GO STEVE

Jaded · « **Reply #2 on:** 20 March, 2015, 05:57:07 am »

Go Steve! And get some sleep wilkyboy

Wobbly · « **Reply #3 on:** 20 March, 2015, 06:02:38 am »

Go Steve, go!

Sleep Wilky, sleep!

CrazyEnglishTriathlete · « **Reply #4 on:** 20 March, 2015, 06:29:04 am »

Go Steve.

We're getting near to April now when we'll start to get more warm days. And the clocks go forward in 9 days - so the start of longer evenings.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #5 on:** 20 March, 2015, 07:24:12 am »

That'll be nice for Steve. He won't have to get up so early.

T42 · « **Reply #6 on:** 20 March, 2015, 07:46:51 am »

Hope he's got his bit of smoked glass with him.

Vince · « **Reply #7 on:** 20 March, 2015, 07:53:44 am »

Go Steve

Wobbly John · « **Reply #8 on:** 20 March, 2015, 08:29:39 am »

I was about a minute late in my timing to shout "Go Steve!" at him this morning I saw him cross the junction at the end of the street 50 yards ahead of me.

Go Steve!

BobScarle · « **Reply #9 on:** 20 March, 2015, 08:34:31 am »

Well done Wilky, another sterling effort by one of Steve's army. Hope today is a day off for you.

CrazyEnglishTriathlete · « **Reply #10 on:** 20 March, 2015, 08:42:44 am »

Steve is on track to complete 15000 miles for the year during the solar eclipse. Presumably all part of the master plan.

Ningishzidda · « **Reply #11 on:** 20 March, 2015, 08:54:25 am »

Quote from: wilkyboy on 20 March, 2015, 04:52:59 am

After a good night's sleep, Steve's up bright and breezy and looking forward to a day of calm, "go anywhere" weather. He's just getting ready to set off into the dark, cold gloom of a Cambridgeshire morning ...

And at 5:04 he's off. Another day in the saddle. Although it's a bit chilly, it feels like a nice day to be on the bike out there.

Go Steve!

The big question that must be asked is,,,

What sausages did you get?

Lars · « **Reply #12 on:** 20 March, 2015, 09:53:16 am »

Quote from: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 20 March, 2015, 08:42:44 am

Steve is on track to complete 15000 miles for the year during the solar eclipse. Presumably all part of the master plan.

And in Cambridge where Steve started his day the solar eclipse couldn't be seen at its peak 15 minutes ago.
Guess the solar eclipse was eclipsed by Steve's presence in town!

rabbit · « **Reply #13 on:** 20 March, 2015, 10:44:21 am »

Hope Steve saw the eclipse. It was actually quite magical here through the hazy cloud - could see it with no glasses clearly and the light was properly eerie.

Wobbly John · « **Reply #14 on:** 20 March, 2015, 10:57:17 am »

Unless it was clearer 15-20 miles North of here - where Steve would have been at the time - it was cloudy and just got noticably darker.

CrazyEnglishTriathlete · « **Reply #15 on:** 20 March, 2015, 11:16:39 am »

Steve exploring the fens today. He could probably ride every road in the fens this year. Although I notice he is giving Gedney Hill a wide path so far.

Is there anywhere with Hill in its name that is lower than Gedney's princely 2m above see level?

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #16 on:** 20 March, 2015, 11:26:07 am »

Steve's probably worried that he'd wear it away and then it would be no longer a hill.

clarion · « **Reply #17 on:** 20 March, 2015, 11:30:02 am »

2m is positively towering in an area where much of the land is below sea level.

I do know of The Mountain in Derbyshire, which is a small hill with massive pretension.

Anyway, Go Steve!

Legs · « **Reply #18 on:** 20 March, 2015, 11:31:18 am »

Quote from: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 20 March, 2015, 11:16:39 am

Is there anywhere with Hill in its name that is lower than Gedney's princely 2m above see level?

Most of the village of Hill on the Severn floodplain in Gloucestershire is not much higher than that (certainly below the 10m contour), though the naming is perhaps understandable in light of the mighty 55m-high peak just to the east.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #19 on:** 20 March, 2015, 11:53:05 am »

Quote from: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 20 March, 2015, 08:42:44 am

Steve is on track to complete 15000 miles for the year during the solar eclipse. Presumably all part of the master plan.

It was the sun's plan to celebrate Steve's 15,000 miles by hiding.

Justin(e) · « **Reply #20 on:** 20 March, 2015, 01:30:04 pm »

Allez Steve

Tim Hall · « **Reply #21 on:** 20 March, 2015, 02:10:35 pm »

Looking at the Hackney page, he's done over a hundred miles so far, but is still up by Spalding. The calendar suggests he's back in MK this evening, which means a long day. Or the calendar is differently correct.

(Allez Steve!)

Legs · « **Reply #22 on:** 20 March, 2015, 02:34:59 pm »

He spalded 20 minutes ago.

Oaky · « **Reply #23 on:** 20 March, 2015, 02:46:24 pm »

Quote from: Legs on 20 March, 2015, 11:31:18 am

Quote from: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 20 March, 2015, 11:16:39 am
Is there anywhere with Hill in its name that is lower than Gedney's princely 2m above see level?
Most of the village of Hill on the Severn floodplain in Gloucestershire is not much higher than that (certainly below the 10m contour), though the naming is perhaps understandable in light of the mighty 55m-high peak just to the east.

I thought about Peak Hill in Lincs, but wikipedia informs me it is at the dizzying height of 5m.

madcow · « **Reply #24 on:** 20 March, 2015, 03:23:04 pm »

In the Cambridgeshire fens the word" hill" often refers to the remnants of the old rivers that flowed all over the place. Because the river bed was silt or sand and the surrounding area was peaty , when the land was drained the peat shrank but the silt didn't.
A hill could be a metre or less.
It confused me when first introduced to the term by a fen farmer.