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Club hill-climb this morning...
250 metres of climb, lovely...
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.sr...5&y=555065&z=3 -- (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/ ;; Drivers in the UK kill more people every single year than ;; Al Qaeda have ever killed worldwide in any single year. |
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Club hill-climb this morning...
Simon Brooke wrote:
250 metres of climb, lovely... http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.sr...5&y=555065&z=3 Over the years I haven't believed a few thing you have written. This without doubt goes top of that pile. |
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Nick wrote:
Simon Brooke wrote: 250 metres of climb, lovely... http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.sr...5&y=555065&z=3 Over the years I haven't believed a few thing you have written. This without doubt goes top of that pile. Sorry to be clear I believe you did it I just don't believe it was lovely. |
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Nick wrote:
Simon Brooke wrote: 250 metres of climb, lovely... http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.sr...5&y=555065&z=3 Over the years I haven't believed a few thing you have written. This without doubt goes top of that pile. Why? Although I'm not good at it, I love climbing. All my leisure rides are centered around the question, "which climbs do I want to tackle this time". In fact, the steeper they are, the more I like them. I'm no masochist though, I have the gears to deal with them. -- Membrane |
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Membrane wrote:
Nick wrote: Simon Brooke wrote: 250 metres of climb, lovely... http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.sr...5&y=555065&z=3 Over the years I haven't believed a few thing you have written. This without doubt goes top of that pile. Why? Although I'm not good at it, I love climbing. All my leisure rides are centered around the question, "which climbs do I want to tackle this time". In fact, the steeper they are, the more I like them. I'm no masochist though, I have the gears to deal with them. Well maybe I'm just different. I have always judged my rides (and commute) not by how far I have to go but by how many climbs I have left. Of course if I had climbed 250m in 2km I would be very happy once I was at the top. And would no doubt be replacing my cycling specs with a suitably rose tinted pair. |
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"Simon Brooke" wrote in message
250 metres of climb, lovely... http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.sr...5&y=555065&z=3 Come try the Weavers or Roaches and discover a climb or two... Tim -- Sent from Birmingham, UK... Check out www.nervouscyclist.org 'I find sometimes it's easy to be myself, but sometimes I find it's better to be somebody else.' - Dave Matthews 'So Much To Say' My 'reply to' address is valid, mail to the posting address is dumped |
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Club hill-climb this morning...
On Oct 21, 9:12 am, Simon Brooke wrote:
250 metres of climb, lovely... http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.sr...5&y=555065&z=3 An off-road climb? ...d |
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Club hill-climb this morning...
in message .com, David
Martin ') wrote: On Oct 21, 9:12 am, Simon Brooke wrote: 250 metres of climb, lovely... http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.sr...5&y=555065&z=3 An off-road climb? Yes. No traffic. As it happens, all but three of those who rode today were under 16, and it's a lot easier to do things with kids on bikes off road. Needless to say the fastest of the under sixteens made it up in slightly less than half my time...! -- (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/ ;; I'll have a proper rant later, when I get the time. |
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Club hill-climb this morning...
in message , Nick
') wrote: Nick wrote: Simon Brooke wrote: 250 metres of climb, lovely... http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.sr...5&y=555065&z=3 Over the years I haven't believed a few thing you have written. This without doubt goes top of that pile. Sorry to be clear I believe you did it I just don't believe it was lovely. It was, in an odd sort of way. http://www.stewartry-wheelers.org/wh...ticle_109.html I went out at half past nine and rode half way up the course to put out the waymarks, and then dropped down to the bottom again to see who would show up. In the end it was almost exclusively the kids, and among other things the person I'd hoped would do 'top timekeeper' hadn't come. So I agreed to do 'top', as it was a way of avoiding showing off quite how slow I am up hills. I started up the climb at 10:12, having asked the bottom timekeeper not to start the kids until 10:20. In the event he held them back until 10:25, for which I'm grateful, because otherwise I wouldn't have had any time to spare - they might have caught me on the climb. It is brutal; it doesn't let up. I certainly hadn't been at the top for five minutes when the first of the kids got up to me. It was cold up on the hill, and the visibility wasn't great - a bit misty - but dry; and it's just lovely being out on the bikes. I think everyone was a little disappointed how short an event a hill-climb is; we may schedule it for December next year. A fortnight ago we did the run over the Mennock Water, which is about 370 metres in a single climb, but in about six miles. That's tough enough. Screel Hill's 250 metres in not much more than a mile is severe. I am not a good climber. I'm too heavy and I'm not strong enough. But I really do enjoy these rides. -- (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/ ;; An enamorata is for life, not just for weekends. |
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Club hill-climb this morning...
Nick wrote:
Nick wrote: Simon Brooke wrote: 250 metres of climb, lovely... http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.sr...5&y=555065&z=3 Over the years I haven't believed a few thing you have written. This without doubt goes top of that pile. Sorry to be clear I believe you did it I just don't believe it was lovely. Depends what you enjoy. If you like pushing yourself out of the comfort zone then hills can be fun. At Glentress I enjoyed the climb up to Spooky Wood (without resorting to my granny ring) almost as much as the descent (which is admittedly partly because I'm a big fearty). ;-) Tim |
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