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[Closed] **** **. Hardest ride of my life.

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I had planned a route around the Ardennes using ridewithgps, and headed out to tackle it at lunch time today.

I just got back.

88kms with 1600 metres of climb. Much of it on gravel. Spent a good hour not knowing where I was. Tonnes and tonnes of false flats.

It was all lovely until Roche-en-Ardennes. I wish I could say it was then literally all downhill from there, but it wasn’t.

I think I might take tomorrow off.

Jeez.

 
Posted : 17/04/2019 6:52 pm
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🤦‍♂️

 
Posted : 17/04/2019 6:55 pm
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no one likes a show off

 
Posted : 17/04/2019 7:00 pm
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No showing off here, I assure you. I am an idiot.

 
Posted : 17/04/2019 7:38 pm
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You literally do need to get out more.

 
Posted : 17/04/2019 7:43 pm
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You literally do need to get out more.

Bit by bit, scotroutes, bit by bit.

 
Posted : 17/04/2019 7:46 pm
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You should try the Roche Ardennes stage race.  Dubbed the hardest race in the world and it was, even in the dry.   I didn't complete day 3.

 
Posted : 17/04/2019 7:51 pm
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Bit by bit, scotroutes, bit by bit.

I know, I know 😊

 
Posted : 17/04/2019 7:53 pm
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Only 1600m of climbing in 54 miles ... practically a flat ride.

I guess you even fatter now than before the accident James?

 
Posted : 17/04/2019 8:04 pm
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1600m of climbing in 54 miles

WTF!!! Don't do that.

 
Posted : 17/04/2019 8:10 pm
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1600m of climbing in 54 miles

WTF!!! Don’t do that.

Yeah right.. FTFY: 0.99miles of climbing in 86.9km

 
Posted : 17/04/2019 8:56 pm
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I guess you even fatter now than before the accident James?

I gained 7 bloody kilos! So I have a lot of work to do now...

 
Posted : 17/04/2019 9:15 pm
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Seven kilos ? or put another way just over 3lbs
..whats so hard about losing that ?
I could lose that much with a good dump..

 
Posted : 18/04/2019 9:24 am
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Seven kilos ? or put another way just over 3lbs

7kg is over 15lbs. You're dividing instead of multiplying 😉

 
Posted : 18/04/2019 9:26 am
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That's a really big dump then. Best get that toilet paper in the fridge

 
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oh yeah ..you're right Scotroutes..
..still I've probably been close to dumping that amount previously 😊
As you were then ...😁

 
Posted : 18/04/2019 10:06 am