Monday, March 3, 2008

3/30

Wow, that was deeply unpleasant. Temperatures have dropped sharply so back on with full winter clobber. Unfortunately I neglected to put on overshoes which I realised after a few mins. Oh well, shouldn't be a problem with dry roads. 10 minutes later I was being blasted by hail being driven into my face by the strong wind. The road turned white in seconds but then the hail melted leaving it soaking. This is when I started regretting forgetting to put my overshoes on! Cold wet feet for the rest of the ride. The 2nd half of the ride was was worse. Lots more hail and I was mainly riding into the strong wind. I resorted to pulling my beanie as far over my face as I could and covering the rest of it with my gloved hand. At least occasionally the hail was replaced by less painful sleet & snow! I would have rated this ride a zero but conditions were so unpleasant at one point that I spent a few minutes laughing out loud at the sheer stupidity of it all. I also thought of those poor sods that have resorted to rollers and turbo trainers to get through 30 in 30 :)

edit: Still plenty of green stuff coming out of my lungs

24km|65mins|Hail/sleet/snow, very cold, very windy
Rating 2/10

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Simon, reading that I am now deeply grateful not to have started this 30 from 30 nonsence... of course, in 6 weeks time you will all be even faster than you are now, while I will not, so it's not all good.

Cheers,
Adam

simondbarnes said...

Either that or I'll be very tired Adam :)

dRjON said...

keep charging!

G as in Chris said...

What a stud. ;~)

Anonymous said...

Power to the outdoor cyclists!!!

\oo/

Nick said...
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Nick said...

Cold wet and dark by the time I get back from work, so once again down the gym for 20 minutes each of rowing, steps and swimming.

Intervals o nthe step machine are hard and I reach a new max Heart Rate, 20 higher than I've been able to get on the turbo-trainer.

If max heart rate = 220 minus your age then I'm 16 all over again.