The daily "I cycled to work" thread

[thepawbroon]

Steve vRS said:

I bet they've just been eaten.

I'm on my second banana!

Steve

Not yet!!!! I even also have a banana sitting tempting me (can't have two - company policy is 1 fruit per person per day. Not sure how this applies to the grapes.)

[GarryDK]

God almighty are you lot hobbits? fisrt and second breakfasts! lol.

[Psimpson7]

Did 30k at lunch time today without any breakfast

Was pretty windy though. averaged 29.3km which wasn't too bad.

[TheLemming]

S10GTA said:

But did you have 1 or 2 breakfasts?

Breakfast? For a commute?

I'm barely conscious enough to gargle a Redbull before I set off. It's only 10 miles

Do we have to quote "The Rules" on this one for rides of less than 2 hours duration? *grin*

[lufbramatt]

S10GTA said:

lufbramatt said:

Not loving the warm mornings. ugh sweaty.

Only a cyclist could say that!

I rode to work this morning (10.5 miles) without having breakfast and ate a banana once here. I'm not sure if this is too much or not enough

My new route involves getting off the train 2 stops earlier adding 3.5 miles of cycling, but I still pass my normal station on the way to work. This means I end up racing the train and getting hot and sweaty in the process!

[daddy cool]

Nice ride in this morning, was planning to take it easy but halfway in someone started catching up with me, which meant i had to go hell for leather for the rest of the way - thats the rules, right? Anyway, meant i got a few PR's.

Not looking forward to the ride home, mind.

[Johno]

lufbramatt said:

S10GTA said:

lufbramatt said:

Not loving the warm mornings. ugh sweaty.

Only a cyclist could say that!

I rode to work this morning (10.5 miles) without having breakfast and ate a banana once here. I'm not sure if this is too much or not enough

My new route involves getting off the train 2 stops earlier adding 3.5 miles of cycling, but I still pass my normal station on the way to work. This means I end up racing the train and getting hot and sweaty in the process!

I more and more often do a 10 miler to work .... In 30 degrees. I look like I've had a shower when I get to work.

I don't breakfast before .... I do shower before and then again when I've got to work, but then I struggle to wake up without a shower!

[yellowjack]

lepetitoeuf said:

Does a banana count as a breakfast?

Not if you eat it at lunch time

[Gizmoish]

Ride in today. One coffee. (Instant, one sugar. Grey mug.)

Took it really easy, just enjoying riding in the beautiful sunshine.

Then I got overtaken by a bloke on a Carrera MTB. Clearly that slight could not be tolerated so I dropped him. Then I caught a bloke on a Synapse (best bike Friday came early?) and blazed past. Continued in like style all the way in. Oops.

[AC43]

Had to stand outside the office for a good 10 mins yesterday to cool off.

Went to the pub after work only to get a call reminding me of my son's school play. On the other side of London.

Hammered it back, rushed into the school hall and had a 20 minute flop sweat.

That must have been nice for the people sitting next to me...

[Justin Cyder]

I rode about 20 miles over the downs last night. About ten miles in, I started to get a headache & by the end, my head was pounding. I took a water bottle with me & was drinking all the way round, but last night, I sunk four pints of water & didn't need the loo until midnight. It was murderously hot & I didn't enjoy that ride at all.

[daddy cool]

But had you been drinking all day? If im going out for a MTB ride on a hot afternoon/evening i make sure that my last widdle before i leave is as clear as a fresh alpine stream.

[Justin Cyder]

Evidently not enough, but I had been on water all afternoon at work. I thought I was ok, but I wasn't.

[Usget]

This thread is rapidly approaching the "Show us your teaspoon thread"

[Gizmoish]

Another beautiful morning. Four times this week, first time I've managed that.

Today's baffling event: a huge woman in the passenger seat of a Pug 206 (thought she might overflow at one point) bellowing at me "learn to ride a bike!" as she overtook. While I was riding my bike. Incidentally I hadn't passed her at any point, so who knows what that was about...

Anyone know how long it takes for Street View images to turn up online? I saw one of the cars this morning...

[S10GTA]

Met a lad coming the other way up Eling hill this morning, he was almost at a stand still, hopped twice to the right and then had "that" moment.

It's funny when it happens to somebody else.

[WinstonWolf]

100g of porridge, a teaspoon of honey and some raisins followed by an unexpectedly wet ride in

[daddy cool]

WinstonWolf said:

100g of porridge, a teaspoon of honey and some raisins followed by an unexpectedly wet ride in

You took a gamble on a fart and lost?

[WinstonWolf]

Never trust a fart

[WarrenG]

S10GTA said:

Met a lad coming the other way up Eling hill this morning, he was almost at a stand still, hopped twice to the right and then had "that" moment.

It's funny when it happens to somebody else.

Cool! I grew up there. I can't imagine struggling with that 'lump' now, but as a kid, it was like a hill-climb course.