Not only has Ed thrown his typewriter (that’s what everyone uses to do a PhD right?) in the bin he’s thrown down the gauntlet and challenged the slackest of them all to some cycle-related stuff in 2008: My eyes they saw a better day, as I looked across the fields.
I think he’s just worried about me since I said I’d stopped drinking! 🙂
He says.. I therefore challenge him:
* to go on a long ride with me at some point, through the Chilterns or wherever, as long as we do at least 100 miles. Though we ride for the same club and have read each others blogs for years now, we have never actually been on a proper ride together! Maybe he’s trying to tell me something 🙁
Yeah, I’m trying to tell you that 100mi of hills might kill me! 😛
Anyway, I was almost always on club runs and I never saw you.. where were you? I reckon you were avoiding me. I do smell pretty bad so fair play 🙂
I’m up for this.
* to ride the first West London Combine TT out near Maidenhead (this should be early March – last year a good Willesden showing, it’s only a 10 mile TT and easily reachable by train from Ealing!)
Is this one of those silly ones you need to enter by post? That’s pushing it a bit. 10mi I can do (slowly). If you keep an eye out and let me know when you’re entering, then I’m up for this as well.
* to ride the Chiltern 100 sportive (Gran Fondo) in early June. Lots of hills!
This one was already on the cards, being so close to where I live. It’s only a week after the 480k/300mi, 3-day Tour of Wessex sportive so I’m likely to be totally shagged, but, what the hell! 🙂
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I did a couple of the club runs at the start of last year, then I was racing most weekends :p
The WLC combine events: no, not postal entry, it’s more laid back – you just email the TT secretary of the club about 10 days before, and you’re put down with a time. The course is OK, not super-quick but not super-slow either. Some draggy bits, but no big hills.
I didn’t realise you’d stopped drinking. Last I read, you’d bought back many bottles of vodka from Poland.
That’s right, it’s coz I’m not a racer any more.. my bad. You could’ve had _one_ week off 😛
Yeah, a couple of bottles for mates and a couple for my collection of Polish vodka. I’ll make up for my time off by drinking everything at once. 🙂
When I took weeks off, it was usually because my bike was in bits after my hilarious series of near-death accidents.
I like your drinking plan – perhaps you could carry one in your bottle cage during the chiltern 100?
You gotta ride safe man and stop snapping bars! You bloody gorilla! 🙂
I’ll carry a bottle of vodka around the Chiltern 100 if you do as well. Haha.. methinks neither of us would make it home intact 🙂
I remember, early on in my cycling career, I discovered a bottle cage would snugly accommodate a wine bottle. Very handy for parties.
I lose out there, I don’t drink wine. But I’m angrier than you so I could just force fit in a bottle of bourbon! haha 😉