Brass Monkeys Rd2 - 14th Dec - Tunnel Hill
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Oh brilliant. I look like a confused pensioner.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinsheldrake/16022...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinsheldrake/16022...
daddy cool said:
Oh brilliant. I look like a confused pensioner.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinsheldrake/16022...
Top helmet there.https://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinsheldrake/16022...
I found my mugshot on the second look through...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinsheldrake/15835...
...the photos don't do that slope justice, quite frankly. If you mentally turn the image so that the trees are vertical, it gives you a better sense of the steepness
This lass...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinsheldrake/15834...
...was two ahead of me going into the drop, and she got off and ran down. She was fast on the flat, and on the climbs, but appeared to not like technical descents very much at all, particularly steep loose descents with tight right hand turns at the top. To be fair, though, she was faster than me, and she named the ride on Strava as "Rd 2 Brass Monkeys - aka antibiotics and racing don't mix :-/" so I don't think she was feeling too well.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinsheldrake/15835...
...the photos don't do that slope justice, quite frankly. If you mentally turn the image so that the trees are vertical, it gives you a better sense of the steepness
This lass...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinsheldrake/15834...
...was two ahead of me going into the drop, and she got off and ran down. She was fast on the flat, and on the climbs, but appeared to not like technical descents very much at all, particularly steep loose descents with tight right hand turns at the top. To be fair, though, she was faster than me, and she named the ride on Strava as "Rd 2 Brass Monkeys - aka antibiotics and racing don't mix :-/" so I don't think she was feeling too well.
Edited by yellowjack on Monday 15th December 08:02
Edited by yellowjack on Monday 15th December 08:05
Heres the first ~17 minutes of the 2 hour race. Its not edited for exciting bits etc, so not the most thrilling movie ever! Just gives an idea of the course and the traffic at the start...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nahadcyd1vA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nahadcyd1vA
yonex said:
I hurt today. Strangely I am looking back quite fondly at it and wishing I had gone for the final lap, them rose tinted specs are always the same lol.
Anyway, back to coffee and pills.
Yeah, 16 miles in 2 hours... normally do more distance, at faster pace, in less time round my local trails with not a twinge the day after. But today i feel drained, my knees feel like they are made of smashed pottery and my back aches like ive been carrying a fallen comrade across a battlefield.Anyway, back to coffee and pills.
I am the only rider who appears running with the bike. No wonder I was so slow 
Crazy traffic so just got off and ran, then went full 'gump' and ran some more until the dips had gone.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinsheldrake/16022...
Crazy traffic so just got off and ran, then went full 'gump' and ran some more until the dips had gone.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinsheldrake/16022...
I didn't take many photos yesterday, and only one at the race...
...I snapped this as the riders were beginning to line up for the 2 hour race.
And this...
...was how the bike looked at the end of the ride home. Nice, considering I needed a shovel to clean the worst of the mud off it after the first round.
...I snapped this as the riders were beginning to line up for the 2 hour race.
And this...
...was how the bike looked at the end of the ride home. Nice, considering I needed a shovel to clean the worst of the mud off it after the first round.
daddy cool said:
4th Jan @ Windmill Hill? Another course I don't know, another freezing cold day, another piss-poor expected result... and yet im quite tempted.
I think you should start another thread and drum up support!
I have already recruited two people to do it, I am hoping they will make me look good I think you should start another thread and drum up support!
I mean what else are you going to do on a cold Sunday in January.....It's worse for me anyway as my whole year on the wagon will be 4 days in....someone will not be happy.
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