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fancy a new (push) bike
Bush Tucker Man:
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--- Quote from: Bush Tucker Man on July 14, 2008, 21:41:08 ---It's back to Greetland on Wednesday evening :D
I think SWMBO is coming too
She's driving me there as well!
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It's the last event of the series next Wednesday (at New College, Salendine Nook. Huddersfield)
She's already said that she'll attend that one too (so it looks like another Mondeo trip again)
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Bush Tucker Man:
I went out for a run at about 09:50 on Monday morning.
I wasn't over-dressed in any sense of the word, (proper) running shorts & a t-shirt, but I probably only did about 3 & 1/2 miles.
I got back absolutely soaked, t-shirt sticking to me - worthy of wringing it out, sweat drippping off my brow,nose & chin.
Not a pleasant sight!, if I'd known it was so humid, I'd not have gone :doh:
I considered going again at about 20:30 that evening, but thought "sodit", & turned the radio on to listen to the ramblings of Radcliffe & Maconie
Yesterday afternoons run wasn't much different :twisted:
I'm hoping that the overcast weather keeps the temperature down for the Cyclo-Cross this evening, but more importantly that the humidity is at a reasonable level [-o<
Bush Tucker Man:
--- Quote from: Bush Tucker Man on July 30, 2008, 09:44:52 ---I'm hoping that the overcast weather keeps the temperature down for the Cyclo-Cross this evening, but more importantly that the humidity is at a reasonable level [-o<
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Well it was an 'interesting event.
By the end of the third lap, I was still placed in the mid 20's (60 starters), but come (I think?) lap 5, I got an agonising Cramp in my left calf at the top of a short run-up.
I just fell sideways & lay there swearing at my leg :oops:
The worst part was that I lost about 7 places :evil:
Once the worst of it subsided, I had to go even harder to try & make places up.
I think I made about 4 of them back, & lapped quite a few back-markers (a couple of them twice)
Not too sure of a position (for the race, or the 'overall' in the series), as they're not on-line yet.
So here's a few photos to be going on with..
Click on pic to enlarge (12 images)
Bush Tucker Man:
Oh, & for the ones out there with an interest in bikes, I saw a nice one in the afternoon (& one at the Cross*)
I had dropped the wife off at Dewsbury District Hospital (ot give a friend moral support during an appointment) & went to look at Hargreaves Cycles, ostensibly to look at their Treks,but ended up drooling over certain models of the Ridley range
Nice!!!!!!!!!, and what 'chunky' frame profiles!!!!
*Some lucky soul had a Yeti ARC-X & very nice it was too :drool: :drool:
After all the years since it was first announced, I still fancy their ARC
Bush Tucker Man:
Rode to work this afternoon, between the downpours.
Walked onto the Consultants corridor where I leave the bike.... "Bu**er!, a puncture!"
Fixed it after some difficulty getting the rear wheel out (quick-release siezed, so shows how long since I had a puncture)
Changed inner-tube
Tried to put wheel back in. Broke Q/R skewer :evil: :evil:
"Damn!"
This would have meant carrying it home, as it wouldn't have pushed properly (& riding would certainly be out of the question)
Made rapid arrangements for a lift home during my dinner-break to collect the 110 (Joanne & Amelia, over at the 'Posh Porta-Cabin')
One of our Security guards gave me a lift home & dropped me off
Back in 110, bike thrown in back
Once home after shift finish, bike thrown in garage.
Had a 12" 'Asian-Style Meat-Feast' pizza for a late tea/supper :dance:
Up early in morning to either...
1. Try & get the old skewer out & put a replacement in
2. Swap the tyre, tube & rim-tape onto a spare 8-speed wheel that's hanging up in the garage.
Although I did tell Joanne about it when I phoned her whilst picking the 110 up, & she said to me that I knew that bike was 'on the way out'.
So..............does that mean, she's going to let me replace it?, or downgrade the Dyna-Tech into its position :-k
And get a new 'best bike'?
I can hope so
--- Quote from: Bush Tucker Man on August 01, 2008, 00:30:20 ---Not too sure of a position (for the race, or the 'overall' in the series), as they're not on-line yet
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Just checked & the results are up
That bl**dy Cramp did me no good at all :x
http://www.yorkshirecyclocross.org.uk/ (see Round 7)
I ended up 33rd/55 finishers & 7th/14 in age-group
I was set on a top-20 place if I'd not got that Cramp & lost ground (& went slower to prevent it happening again0
But, I can't change what happened
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