Plenty of off-road Duathlons and Tri's for us to work towards

Rich C said:

Any ideas where we can go?  Barnard Castle for a cup of tea?

Hello You

Been checking up on you, Yes you can get a nice cuppa (With your Bike) at Broom House Farm Witton Gilbert DH7 6TR or Thorpe Farm Greta Bridge DL12 9TY or try website

www.visitcountydurham.com

Your big sis

Also is it worth having some volunteers to take out the slower group so that its not always one person ? we could do a week each & have a 5 week turnaround (I don't mind)

Cheers-Ade

http://www.cycle-route.com/routes/Stapleton_to_Barnard_Castle_Loop-Cycle-Route-2523.html

Other route was longer:

Stapleton to Middleton Tyas (total 6 miles)

Middleton T=> Scorton (total 10 miles)

Scorton => Catterick Garrison (total 15.5 miles)

Catterick Garrison => Wathgill (total 20.5 miles)

Wathgill => Grinton (total 26.5 miles) — Stop at the Dales Bike Centre (http://www.dalesbikecentre.co.uk/index.html) –

Dales Bike Centre => Richmond (total 38 miles)

Richmond => Skeeby (total 41 miles)

Skeeby => Middleton T (total 44 miles)

Middleton T => Stapleton (total 49.5 miles)

http://www.cycle-route.com/routes/Stapleton_to_Grinton-Cycle-Route-2522.html

       Well done those of you who came out on Saturday 14th March, give yourself a pat on the back. For the ones that did not come you missed a good ride out. We all went on a steady ride to Northallerton, here the group split into two, one group went for a cuppa then went on a slightly longer ride back, the second group pressed on, despite the strong winds and lack of refreshment and and successfully completed a ride of about 55 miles. There might have been a couple of climbs in there as well, but you would have to ask those who completed the ride .

Hope to do a long ride on March 28th if anybody would like to come long please just drop me a line or meet at the usual place.

                                            Yours Richard Marsay

richmarsay@hotmail.co.uk   

 The nights are starting to grow light , if anybody  would like to go out for a spin, on Wednesday nights about six thirty. The ride would last about one hour anybody interested you can contact me by email or through forum.

                           Yours Richard marsay  richmarsay@hotmail.co.uk

       Hope to see more out on Saturday , I will try to get some routes done this week with the help of  Matt.  I am going to do about 60miles if any one wishes to come along the pace will be steady about 17 to 18 mph I will be setting of from Barton about eight o'clock any one reads this and is interested in going please contact me on 01325 401858 or by email on richmarsay@hotmail.co.uk .

                                        Yours Richard Marsay

For the members who missed the bike ride , the weather was not bad at all, even warm on the way back. I have just joined the club , I used to be in Cleveland tri club , I have been doing tri's for a couple of years and would say for the people who are not yet going out on the bike rides  summer is coming and the season is not that far away, please start soon. If you need any advice on setting up , repairs and training I would gladly help, we need more people out on Saturday mornings to make a couple of groups as the pace for the quick ones is too slow, but too fast for the slow ones. We all get something from the ride as we will meet at the same cafe stop, please come along enjoy the ride and the pit stops.

                         Yours Richard Marsay   ps if help is needed you can email me on

richmarsay@hotmail.co.uk

If enough people were interested in having two cycle groups on some occasions, where some can do the standard route and others can do an extended route with the aim of starting off at the same point and hopefully meeting halfway at the same cafe, then this could probably be arranged.

If anyone is interested then could they please drop me a line at richmarsay@hotlmail.co.uk or put a note on the forum and maybe suggested what length of ride they would like to do.

Cheers

Rich

Step 1: - 3 mile flat course identified

Step 2: - No eating for 2 hours before test and 40 mins before take a high-carb drink

Step 3: - Warm up for between 10 & 20 mins, riding hard enough to sweat, but not as hard as you can

Step 4: - Start by having someone hold the bike and you in the riding position ready to go

Step 5: - Start the clock. Set off and get in a gear that allows a cadence of 80 to 90 rpm

Step 6: - Settle into a rhythm.  Apparently if it does not hurt you ain't going fast enough

Step 7: - Finish 3 miles and stop the clock

Step 8: - Cool down with 15 - 30 mins of easy pedaling

Thinking about giving this a go if others are interested.  The roads near Tees Valley airport and up to Long Newton are long, flat & straight, unless someone knows somewhere better?

Outward leg:

Stapleton to Richmond via Barton, Melsonby, over A66, Gilling Bank

Richmond for tea

Return leg:

Richmond, Scorton, Moulton, Middleton Tyas, Barton & Stapleton

Depends on the wqeather if I go out, don't mind rain or cold but no ice & snow

Count me in for some Boxing Day madness!

Come -on every-one it will be a laugh!

Dont let me and Rorie freeze alone

Could you confirm so we could possibly car share thanks

I'm assured the water temp is only 1ºC colder than summer, it's the -5 air temp you need to worry about!

Anyone fancy it?