Monthly Archives: December 2008

Last group ride before xmas

December 21, 2008 – 10:43 pm

The Buxton loop plan was put on hold as one of our number only had a short ride window. So a late afternoon ride from Hayfield to Lantern Pike via Snake Path was decided upon.
For the first time I cleared the start of the climb from the road at Hayfield towards the kissing gates [...]

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wet run

December 20, 2008 – 9:39 pm

Were did all this liquid come from? A very wet and boggy off road run this evening - around 40 minutes and not pushing it as saving myself for a geared ride around Buxton tomorrow.
‘orrid feet

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Strange misty run

December 9, 2008 – 10:26 pm

Very cold, off-road run this evening. There was a really thick patchy mist which seemed to linked to the faster parts of the river - never seen that before. I also learnt that running tights (Nike Dri-fit Fiament tights) are a definite improvement on wearing shorts when -4 degrees and worth 25 English [...]

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Cold pain

December 7, 2008 – 10:11 pm

Short-ish icy ride on the iO - highlight of which was ‘crashing’ on black ice whilst climbing slowly and what I thought to be cautiously on a road section.  I lay in the road for a few seconds trying to work out if everything was intact as I came down hard considering I was [...]

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Crunchy run

December 5, 2008 – 9:02 pm

A lovely crunchy night run on the lingering frozen snow - legs are still feeling last weekends race.  (I really need to start measuring some distances and times to make recording any of this half useful)

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