Today's Ride

[wynne]

Setting myself up for another month of potential misery. Day two of my promise to myself to ride my fixie at least ten miles every day in December - whatever the weather.
I swear it gets harder every year - some inappropriate hills this morning - and the bike gets uglier.

 

[moonlite]

Setting myself up for another month of potential misery. Day two of my promise to myself to ride my fixie at least ten miles every day in December - whatever the weather.
I swear it gets harder every year - some inappropriate hills this morning - and the bike gets uglier. View attachment 1023579

That's a hell of a challenge to set yourself! The closest I've come is to ride a different bike every day for a week -- and haven't achieved that yet, either. Also, please tell us more about that stem -- there's a thread starting up for That Sort of Thing.

 

[db95]

Setting myself up for another month of potential misery. Day two of my promise to myself to ride my fixie at least ten miles every day in December - whatever the weather.
I swear it gets harder every year - some inappropriate hills this morning - and the bike gets uglier. View attachment 1023579

Fair play mate, my weekly mileage aim is 100 and that's been a bit of a struggle due to the season let alone 70 a week on fixed, good luck! In lieu of longer rides I've turned to the dark side and went KOM hunting instead. Grabbed one on a short uphill last week and I'm pretty sure the guy I knocked off top spot proceeded to flag it for cheating Got up to around 33mph on a flat sprint today and thought maybe with a tailwind taking #1 would be possible, checked the leaderboards when I got home and the top spots were taken by an assortment of names like Enrico Battaglin, Anders Johannessen, Matteo Jorgenson etc during the 2022 Tour of Britain - gonna need one hell of a tailwind to beat those!

37.67 miles/60.62km with 2411ft/734m elevation today. Sunny but slightly chilly, lot of the backroads flooded. Went and gave Silverhills a crack - #159 from Simon Warrens Another GCC book. 1.4 Miles, max of 15%, average of 5%, got up it in 8:56. Definitely gonna try for a better time as I thought it started way later than it actually did, plus two cars coming head on mid climb didn't help.