A lazy way to drink more on the bike
Equipment: Not A Camelbak
Training: Progress Report
The process of turning a fat knacker into a sleek audaxer. How it's going so far.
Ride Food: All Hail the Mighty Guava
Possibly the nicest on-bike snack I've ever tried
Rides: Miles Go Faster With Friends
Le Gibbon Express 400km and Dustman Dave's Diddy Doddle
Training: Gently Does It
A steady recovery ride after the heavier exercise of Friday and Saturday. Pleasingly I maintained an average of 103bpm, but still held a reasonable pace (average 24.4kmh). Despite mostly being on the river path, the route wasn't pan flat. 224m of climbing over 27km is a little below the 1/10 ratio which is the baseline …
There and Back Again
A two day ride, from Dad's back to Devon and then back to Dad's to collect my car. Roughly 145km and 1600m of climbing each way, so a total of 290km and 3200m. The climbing is concentrated in the half of the ride closest to home, where the route crosses several river valleys, and the …
Training: Panic Stations and the Boom Titty Boom
For the last 10 years or so I've been having a minor panic attack on the first hill of a ride. No matter how slowly I've ridden, by the time I reach the top my body tries to convince me that we're never going to get our breath back. Within 30 seconds or so it …
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Testing Times
A few notes on recent rides and some annoying failures. Some human, some technical. Benjamin Allen's March Madness, 01/03/25 A much harder ride than it looked on paper. 100km across the Welsh Marches, with 1400m of climbing. There were a couple of really stinky climbs and the general terrain in those parts is distinctly Devonian …
My LEL Schedule of Lies
A customisable schedule for LEL
Benjamin Allen’s Spring Tonic 200km Feb 1st 2025
As I'm having another crack at LEL, I'm going to try to keep a ride diary of sorts. Don't think it'll be amusing. It's mainly to keep a note of what worked, what didn't, what went well and what went horribly, catastrophically, OH MY GOD IT'S EATING MY LEG, wrong. If you're a fellow long-haul …
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Well Chuffed Cycling 