{"id":601,"date":"2010-07-21T12:16:59","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T12:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/?p=601"},"modified":"2017-01-12T04:26:22","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T04:26:22","slug":"soggy-sunset-cycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/soggy-sunset-cycling\/","title":{"rendered":"<b>Soggy Sunset Cycling<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday night is riding night. \u00a0I have taught myself that this must be so despite the best\u00a0efforts\u00a0of Mother(<em>fecker<\/em>) Nature. \u00a0I got my jacket and tights on and donned helmet and gloves with the words of <a title=\"Clive's Splendidly Motivational &quot;Massive MTBer&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/massivemtber.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Clive Chapman<\/a> ringing\u00a0in my ears:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;There&#8217;s no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothes.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;You only get wet once&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Littleborough Roadie Practise Loop<\/h2>\n<p>The slicks are still on, and I&#8217;ve got a road loop planned for Saturday with <a title=\"Biking 2 Work, Joby's ranting and rambling\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biking2work.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Joby<\/a> and <a title=\"Chris is too important to update a blog so this is his Twitter profile.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/chrisb112\" target=\"_blank\">Chris<\/a>. \u00a0I therefore opted to stick to the roads, especially as it was pouring down, and have a little uphill stint in the night&#8217;s ride. \u00a0I won&#8217;t talk too much about it, but here&#8217;s the route I took. \u00a0Just click it to see it a bit bigger:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_602\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20072010GoogleEarthLboroRoadLoop.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-602\" data-attachment-id=\"602\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/soggy-sunset-cycling\/20072010googleearthlbororoadloop\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20072010GoogleEarthLboroRoadLoop-e1279713983617.jpg?fit=800%2C481&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,481\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Littleborough Road Loop\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Last Night&#8217;s Road Loop&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20072010GoogleEarthLboroRoadLoop-e1279713983617.jpg?fit=300%2C180&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20072010GoogleEarthLboroRoadLoop-e1279713983617.jpg?fit=300%2C180&amp;ssl=1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-602\" title=\"Littleborough Road Loop\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20072010GoogleEarthLboroRoadLoop.jpg?resize=300%2C180\" alt=\"Littleborough Road Loop\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-602\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Last Night&#8217;s Road Loop<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Two things are worth mentioning:<\/p>\n<h2>Climbing:<\/h2>\n<p>As practise for Saturday&#8217;s loop, which you can check if you <a title=\"Saturday's Planned Road Loop With Joby and Chris.\" href=\"http:\/\/beta.mapmyride.com\/route\/detail\/19777264\/\" target=\"_blank\">click this link<\/a>, I rode the first part of the climb to Blackstone Edge. \u00a0I only went as far as The Moorcock pub &#8211; and no I didn&#8217;t pop in for a pint: \u00a0had I not been a drowned rat I would&#8217;ve been tempted.<\/p>\n<p>I was happy to have worked my way about 40% of the distance up the hill, but I know I have much steeper gradients to contend with at the weekend. \u00a0Also, the fact that my heart was trying to escape\u00a0through\u00a0the top of my head when I rested in\u00a0the\u00a0pub car park can&#8217;t be a good thing! \u00a0Ah well, no more rides until weekend, so fingers crossed&#8230; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<h2>I Slew The 30mph Ghost!<\/h2>\n<p>My usual downhill from t&#8217;Lake only mustered 26mph last night through the puddles, so I didn&#8217;t hold out much hope of besting my PB speed on the Fat Boy. \u00a0But, I was wrong. \u00a0The longer descent from the Moorcock back into Littleborough gave me a <strong>30.7 mph top speed<\/strong>. \u00a0Wooohoooo! \u00a0I did it!! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Now what? 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