2016 MFP Classics Challenge - Ride Logging Thread
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17.04.2016 Amstel Gold Race
A relative newcomer to the calendar, The first race, on April 30, 1966, was organised by two Dutch sports promoters, Ton Vissers and Herman Krott, who together ran a company called Inter Sport.
Vissers was a house decorator and hockey player from Rotterdam whose break in cycling came in 1963 when a friend asked him to manage a minor team in the Tour of Holland. Those who were there say he was as hopeless as his riders. Officials banished him after he did a U-turn and drove back towards the oncoming race after hearing that one of his riders had punctured. Three years later, in 1966, he became manager of the Willem II professional team that at one time included the classics winner, Rik van Looy of Belgium.
Krott's background in cycling was scarcely deeper. He ran a car-parts dealership called HeKro and, because he admired the Dutch rider Peter Post, worked as his personal assistant. He had also worked as a salesman for Amstel. Together, Krott and Vissers organised small races across the Netherlands. Krott also used his contacts at Amstel to start an Amstel professional team and then the sponsorship to run an international professional race bigger than the round-the-houses events Inter Sport had been promoting until then.
The first Amstel Gold Race was announced for April 30, 1966, the national day of the Netherlands. The plan was to start from Amsterdam and follow a 280 km loop round the east of the country before finishing in the south-east at Maastricht. There would be prizes of 10,000 guilders - about €5,000 - of which a fifth would go to the winner.
Things started going wrong from the beginning. Krott and Vissers had announced the start, the finish and the distance without taking into account the many rivers and the zigzags needed to cross them. The course would be far longer than 280 km. Further plans were made to start in Utrecht, then in Rotterdam. The finish was moved from Maastricht to the unknown village of Meerssen. Less than three weeks before the start, the organisers realised they had not obtained permission to cross the Moerdijk bridge, the only way out of Rotterdam to the south. The route had again to be redrawn and the start moved to Breda in the south.
The problems had not ended. Whatever the police thought of the constant changes they were asked to approve, they now had bigger concerns. The Provos, militant hippies, had declared Holland a state of anarchy. At the other end of the social scale, Dutchmen were also protesting against the marriage of the queen's daughter, Beatrix, to a German, Claus von Amsberg. The police feared that a race organised on the royal family's big day would bring uprisings and possibly attacks.
On April 26, Vissers and Krott called off their race. But still there was a twist. A press conference to break the news had just started when the Dutch roads ministry in The Hague called to say the race could be run after all - provided it was never again scheduled for Koninginnedag.
The race was run, there were no serious protests, and the conditions set by the roads minister lost their significance. The Amstel Gold Race has never started in Amsterdam, Rotterdam or Utrecht and it never again started in Breda. The finish was moved to Maastricht from 1992 and after 1998 the race also started there.
Inter Sport ceased trading in 1970 and Herman Krott ran the race by himself until 1995. It was then taken over by the former professional Leo van Vliet.
The course has changed many times over the years. In 2005 the race took place almost entirely within the boundaries of the province of Limburg, but there have also been editions that covered significant parts of Belgium. Before 2003 the finish used to be in Maastricht. From 2003 till 2012 the finish was at the top of the Cauberg hill, in the Valkenburg municipality. The final was redesigned for the 2013 edition and the finish was moved from the top of the Cauberg to Berg en Terblijt, 1,8 kilometers after the Cauberg. The new finish will mirror the finish that was used for the 2012 UCI Road World Championships.
The race is the Netherlands' largest professional race but is frequently criticised for the danger of its course. The Netherlands is a densely populated country and the race runs through many suburbs and villages. With pressure on land being so great, many Dutch houses do not have garages and cars are left parked in the street. There are also many traffic-calming obstacles such as pinches, chicanes and speed humps, and further obstacles such as roundabouts and traffic islands. Crashes are not uncommon in the race.
The course is tough and selective, mainly because of the 31 hills that have to be climbed, some with angles as steep as 20% (Keutenberg). The Amstel can be confusing for first time riders, because the course features a lot of turns, plus some spots are visited more than one time during the race.
Velonews summarized the race in 2009 as follows:
This is the mack-daddy race on the Dutch calendar. It’s Holland’s most important event and Dutch teams do their best to try to dominate the demanding, 258.6km course... Held in the hilly Limburg region in southern Holland, Amstel Gold often gets bundled with next week’s Flèche and Liège races to create what pundits like to call “Ardennes week.” Though geographically distinct than the nearby Belgian Ardennes, the Limburg region serves up a similarly endless menu of steep, narrow climbs. Any race named after a beer should be a big party and tens of thousands of beer-guzzling Dutch fans turn up to line the endless string of bergs and clog outdoor beer gardens to cheer on the pack as they ply treacherously narrow roads. The course starts in the main square at Maastricht and, since 2003, ends atop the Cauberg climb just above Valkenburg (site of another huge party). The route map looks like a plate of spaghetti, with four loops tracing back and forth over deceptively steep climbs. An endless string of 31 climbs are wickedly steep, with Keutenberg featuring ramps as steep as 20 percent. Coupled with the narrow roads, strong winds and the danger of crashing, Amstel is one of the season’s most nerve-wracking races. The addition of the Cauberg finish dramatically altered the race dynamics. The finish used to be on the flats alongside the Maas River, giving teams a chance to regroup after the last climb and position their sprinters for a sometimes-large group sprint. [It now favors whippet-thin climbers and hilly course specialists.]
Attempting to explain the difficulty of the course Peter Easton recounts a mathematician's calculations:
...applying logic to overcome a sense of incomprehension is the key to understanding this race. And there is truth in numbers. Six of the climbs come in the first 92 kilometers - one every 15.2 kilometers. The remaining 25 come over the final 165 kilometers. That’s one every 6.6 kilometers. Breaking it down further, the final hour of racing has eight climbs in 42 kilometers. Now we’re down to one every 5.25 km. At 40 km/h, that’s one every 7 ½ minutes. Not overly funny, and definitely all business.
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Finalised list of Amstel Bonuses...
Dutch Beer - Amstel do sponsor the race, so it's kind of a given. Anything Dutch will do - it's a tough week ahead!
Stroopwaffels - extra kudos (though no extra points) if they're on a proper "Koffie verkeerd" (or "Wrong Coffee" - order a Cafe Latte with a false passport :laugh: )
Patat / Vlaamse Friet - yep chips and mayo. It was always coming at some point :laugh:
or, as an alternative, some form of Cheese Related Action - Edam/Gouda/Limburger or other cheese of Dutch Origin.
No ride related bonuses this week - for once you can just get on the bike and ride, without hunting for Windmills or looking for something that vaguely resembles Pave, or any of the other bloody silly stuff I've been dreaming up recently... Let's all just have a ride "for smiles as well as miles" - something my Dad always nagged me to do more often.
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16/04/2016 - Amstel Gold - https://www.strava.com/activities/547401046 - 108.14km1
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16/04/2016 - Amstel Gold - 90.2km - https://www.strava.com/activities/547610211
Got tired of being wet, turned in early.1 -
16/04/2016 - Amstel Gold -
I actually did 80 km today but that included my ride to and from the group ride, and I had such a good average pace for the ride itself that I didn't want to ruin that by having my slow ride home decrease the speedy average so I stopped and then started my computer
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So 70.6 km is my Strava claim
https://www.strava.com/activities/5473074661 -
minimal report from me today, just a quick ride around my regular loop as i've been having the odd twinge from my ribs and didn't really want to go out and cause any further discomfort.
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17/4/2016 - Amstel Gold - https://www.strava.com/activities/547916465 - 31.3km
and the obligatory Stroopwaffel shot... pity that stava shortchanged me (31.4 on the Garmin Screen...)
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13/02/2016 - Trofeo-Laigueglia - 104.2km - 1054m https://www.strava.com/activities/492312839
27/02/2016 - Omloop het Nieuwsblad - 84.6km - 535m https://www.strava.com/activities/503716004
28/02/2016 - Kuurne-Brussels-Kurne - 109.1km - 780m https://www.strava.com/activities/504647290
02/03/2016 - Le Samyn - 14km - 60m - https://www.strava.com/activities/506906310
06/03/2016 - Strade Bianche - DNR
20/03/2016 - Milan SanRemo - 113.9km -707m - https://www.strava.com/activities/521705403
23/03/2016 - Dwars d Vlaanderen - 59.5km - 412m - https://www.strava.com/activities/524366447
25/03/2016 - E3 Harelbeke - DNR
27/03/2016 - Gent Wevelgem - DNR
3/4/2016 - Tour des Flandres - 55.4km - 484m - https://www.strava.com/activities/534447923
6/4/2016 - Schelde prijs - 59.4km - 446m - https://www.strava.com/activities/537152796
10/04/2016 - Paris – Roubaix - https://www.strava.com/activities/541494447 - 167.1km - 1582m
17/4/2016 - Amstel Gold - https://www.strava.com/activities/548266195 - 112.7km - 803m
Another super cold start to the morning didn't really inspire me to get out on the bike so I shortened my scheduled Imperial to a Metric for a just get out and enjoy a few hours without it being too much, hopefully warmer days to come. Sadly no waffles in the house, I'm just not that organised to get these edible points
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14/02/2016 - Trofeo-Laigueglia - 50.5km - 306m - https://www.strava.com/activities/493320711
27/02/2016 - Omloop Het Nieuwsblad - 74.0km - 1409m - https://www.strava.com/activities/503453486/
28/02/2016 - Kuurne-Brussels-Kurne - 35.1km - 438m - https://www.strava.com/activities/504497558
02/03/2016 - Le Samyn - DNR
05/03/2016 - Strade Bianche - 40.2km - 404m - https://www.strava.com/activities/509103646 - Unmetalled road piccies on Strava/Instagram
20/03/2016 - Milan San Remo - 41.7km - 262m - https://www.strava.com/activities/521798967 - No bonuses
23/03/2016 - Dwars door Vlaanderen - 21.1km - 128m - https://www.strava.com/activities/524752536
25/03/2016 - E3 Harelbeke - DNR
27/03/2016 - Gent Wevelgem - DNR
10/04/2016 - Paris Roubaix - 12.1km - 39m - https://www.strava.com/activities/541320903
13/04/2016 - De Brabantse Pijl - DNR
16/04/2016 - Amstel Gold - 30.3km - 376m - https://www.strava.com/activities/547001036
Totals: 304.4km - 3362m0 -
17/04/16 Amstel Gold 44.8 km
Garmin and Strava currently not playing nicely together, will add the link when they finally speak to each other0 -
13/02/2016 - Trofeo-Laigueglia - 58.6km - 291m
https://www.strava.com/activities/492350991
27/02/2016 - Omloop Het Nieuswsblad - 25.2km - 42m https://www.strava.com/activities/503259452
19/03/2016 - Milan - San Remo - 19.7km - 82m - https://www.strava.com/activities/521156520
23/03/2016 - Dwars door Vlaanderen - 20.8km - 132m -https://www.strava.com/activities/524814214
25/03/2016 - E3 Harelbeke - 14.9km - 11m - https://www.strava.com/activities/526214534
27/03/2016 - Gent Wevelgem - DNS
10/04/2016 - Paris Roubaix - 14.6km - 11m - https://www.strava.com/activities/540854648
17/04/2016 - Amstel Gold - 115.7km - 1612m - https://www.strava.com/activities/548533172
Totals: 269.5km & 2181m
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17/04/2016 - Amstel Gold - 53.4km - 71m - https://www.strava.com/activities/548690081
Felt like crap, but I rode anyway.0 -
17/04/2016 - Amstel Gold - 49.8km - 453m - https://www.strava.com/activities/548778499
After a 'mild' Jan/Feb it stayed the same temp until mid April (for example: 3 days of snow forecasted for first week of April). But looks like warm weather is finally here so time to get BACK into shape!0 -
17/04/2016 - Amstel Gold - 51km - 272m - https://www.strava.com/activities/5488695280
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Jakess1971 wrote: »13/02/2016 - Trofeo-Laigueglia - 104.2km - 1054m https://www.strava.com/activities/492312839
27/02/2016 - Omloop het Nieuwsblad - 84.6km - 535m https://www.strava.com/activities/503716004
28/02/2016 - Kuurne-Brussels-Kurne - 109.1km - 780m https://www.strava.com/activities/504647290
02/03/2016 - Le Samyn - 14km - 60m - https://www.strava.com/activities/506906310
06/03/2016 - Strade Bianche - DNR
20/03/2016 - Milan SanRemo - 113.9km -707m - https://www.strava.com/activities/521705403
23/03/2016 - Dwars d Vlaanderen - 59.5km - 412m - https://www.strava.com/activities/524366447
25/03/2016 - E3 Harelbeke - DNR
27/03/2016 - Gent Wevelgem - DNR
3/4/2016 - Tour des Flandres - 55.4km - 484m - https://www.strava.com/activities/534447923
6/4/2016 - Schelde prijs - 59.4km - 446m - https://www.strava.com/activities/537152796
10/04/2016 - Paris – Roubaix - https://www.strava.com/activities/541494447 - 167.1km - 1582m
17/4/2016 - Amstel Gold - https://www.strava.com/activities/548266195 - 112.7km - 803m
Another super cold start to the morning didn't really inspire me to get out on the bike so I shortened my scheduled Imperial to a Metric for a just get out and enjoy a few hours without it being too much, hopefully warmer days to come. Sadly no waffles in the house, I'm just not that organised to get these edible points
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logged14/02/2016 - Trofeo-Laigueglia - 50.5km - 306m - https://www.strava.com/activities/493320711
27/02/2016 - Omloop Het Nieuwsblad - 74.0km - 1409m - https://www.strava.com/activities/503453486/
28/02/2016 - Kuurne-Brussels-Kurne - 35.1km - 438m - https://www.strava.com/activities/504497558
02/03/2016 - Le Samyn - DNR
05/03/2016 - Strade Bianche - 40.2km - 404m - https://www.strava.com/activities/509103646 - Unmetalled road piccies on Strava/Instagram
20/03/2016 - Milan San Remo - 41.7km - 262m - https://www.strava.com/activities/521798967 - No bonuses
23/03/2016 - Dwars door Vlaanderen - 21.1km - 128m - https://www.strava.com/activities/524752536
25/03/2016 - E3 Harelbeke - DNR
27/03/2016 - Gent Wevelgem - DNR
10/04/2016 - Paris Roubaix - 12.1km - 39m - https://www.strava.com/activities/541320903
13/04/2016 - De Brabantse Pijl - DNR
16/04/2016 - Amstel Gold - 30.3km - 376m - https://www.strava.com/activities/547001036
Totals: 304.4km - 3362mruthbardell wrote: »17/04/16 Amstel Gold 44.8 km
Garmin and Strava currently not playing nicely together, will add the link when they finally speak to each other
post up the garmin link if you can... that'll do in this case if there's a problem.
loggedKitTheRoadie wrote: »13/02/2016 - Trofeo-Laigueglia - 58.6km - 291m
https://www.strava.com/activities/492350991
27/02/2016 - Omloop Het Nieuswsblad - 25.2km - 42m https://www.strava.com/activities/503259452
19/03/2016 - Milan - San Remo - 19.7km - 82m - https://www.strava.com/activities/521156520
23/03/2016 - Dwars door Vlaanderen - 20.8km - 132m -https://www.strava.com/activities/524814214
25/03/2016 - E3 Harelbeke - 14.9km - 11m - https://www.strava.com/activities/526214534
27/03/2016 - Gent Wevelgem - DNS
10/04/2016 - Paris Roubaix - 14.6km - 11m - https://www.strava.com/activities/540854648
17/04/2016 - Amstel Gold - 115.7km - 1612m - https://www.strava.com/activities/548533172
Totals: 269.5km & 2181m
logged17/04/2016 - Amstel Gold - 53.4km - 71m - https://www.strava.com/activities/548690081
Felt like crap, but I rode anyway.
loggedsteffenson wrote: »17/04/2016 - Amstel Gold - 49.8km - 453m - https://www.strava.com/activities/548778499
After a 'mild' Jan/Feb it stayed the same temp until mid April (for example: 3 days of snow forecasted for first week of April). But looks like warm weather is finally here so time to get BACK into shape!cowbellsandcoffee wrote: »17/04/2016 - Amstel Gold - 51km - 272m - https://www.strava.com/activities/548869528
logged16/04/2016 - Amstel Gold - https://www.strava.com/activities/547401046 - 108.14km
logged16/04/2016 - Amstel Gold - 90.2km - https://www.strava.com/activities/547610211
Got tired of being wet, turned in early.
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I actually did 80 km today but that included my ride to and from the group ride, and I had such a good average pace for the ride itself that I didn't want to ruin that by having my slow ride home decrease the speedy average so I stopped and then started my computer
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So 70.6 km is my Strava claim
https://www.strava.com/activities/547307466
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Amstel Gold: DNS
Snowing Saturday morning, out of sorts Sunday (plus the wife was finally home) = no ride, no matter what Mr. Kelly says.0 -
Spatialized wrote: »Amstel Gold: DNS
Snowing Saturday morning, out of sorts Sunday (plus the wife was finally home) = no ride, no matter what Mr. Kelly says.
thanks for the confirmation tom.
And with that, I think we'll close off for the Amstel, Results to follow in the Discussion Thread, and write-up for this wednesday's episode... La Fleche Wallone in here later.
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20.04.2016 La Flèche Wallonne
The first of two Belgian Ardennes classics, La Flèche Wallonne (the Walloon Arrow) is today normally held mid-week between the Amstel Gold Race and Liège–Bastogne–Liège. At one time, La Flèche Wallonne and Liège–Bastogne–Liège were run on successive days as "Le Weekend Ardennais"
La Flèche Wallonne was created to boost the sales of a newspaper Les Sports during the 1930s and was first run in 1936. While perhaps not as revered as one of the Classic 'Monuments', the race is widely regarded as a Classic, and featured on the UCI Road World Cup and UCI ProTour. It became part of the UCI World Ranking calendar in 2009.
Like many cycle race events, the course has altered considerably over the years, both in route and length. The event was first run on roads from Tournai to Liège (growing from 236 km to 300 km - its longest ever distance - in 1938), after which Mons became the starting point. From 1948, the race started at Charleroi; from 1960 the event ran in the opposite direction, starting at Liège and finishing at Charleroi (or, from 1965, Marcinelle). Some years have seen the event start and finish in the same place: Verviers (1974–1978) or Huy (1983–1985). From 1986, the race started in Spa and finished in Huy. Since 1990, the race distance has not exceeded 210 km.
Today, the 199.5 km event starts in Charleroi and heads east to Huy, where the riders do three laps of a tough circuit including the steep Mur de Huy (The wall of Huy) climb, with several sections steeper than 15% and up to 26% on one section. The finish is at the top of the Mur after the third ascent.
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Once again, I'm keeping spot prizes simple this ride, as with most of the mid-week rides, there's not really been any chance for anyone to pre-prepare and seek out strange foreign foodstuffs...
Snacks - chocolate
Recovery Drink - Any Belgian Beer / Cidre / Other Alcohol.
Ride Photo Bonus - in-keeping with the name La Flèche Wallonne (the Walloon Arrow) - a photo of ANYTHING archery related (a chance to be creative)
Riding Bonus 1pt per 500m of climbing, up to a maximum of 3pts for 1500m or above. Ascents taken from Strava. No Gradient % requirement, just metres gained.
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Garmin link for my ride https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/1129483504
Garmin in its wisdom gave it a date stamp of 02/05/16. I guess I shall just have to wait a few more days until it appears in Strava!0 -
ruthbardell wrote: »Garmin link for my ride https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/1129483504
Garmin in its wisdom gave it a date stamp of 02/05/16. I guess I shall just have to wait a few more days until it appears in Strava!
You could upload directly into Strava if it's taking it's sweet time.0 -
ruthbardell wrote: »Garmin link for my ride https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/1129483504
Garmin in its wisdom gave it a date stamp of 02/05/16. I guess I shall just have to wait a few more days until it appears in Strava!
ah, that's easily fixed... PM me an email address and I'll send you a date fixed version of the ride that's on Garmin Connect (I've already fixed it, took about 30 seconds...)
sadly, its going to be too late to include for this weekends stuff, but at least it'll keep your logs on strava etc correct...
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Jakess1971 wrote: »ruthbardell wrote: »Garmin link for my ride https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/1129483504
Garmin in its wisdom gave it a date stamp of 02/05/16. I guess I shall just have to wait a few more days until it appears in Strava!
You could upload directly into Strava if it's taking it's sweet time.
downloaded a .TCX version of the Garmin Ride, and it's well screwed... ride date is okay, but the "clock" dates against all the events were wrong - as Ruth said, they're all set on 2nd May... easy "search and replace" fix in a .TCX file though, and the resulting fixed TCX should upload perfectly into strava (it went into GoldenCheetah on my PC, and that's WAY more picky than Strava's import filter...)
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20/04/2016 - La Fleche Wallonne - 32.4km - https://www.strava.com/activities/550906908
Does a ride to the beach with proof count for a bonus pic?
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20/04/16 DNR :-(0
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13/02/2016 - Trofeo-Laigueglia - 104.2km - 1054m https://www.strava.com/activities/492312839
27/02/2016 - Omloop het Nieuwsblad - 84.6km - 535m https://www.strava.com/activities/503716004
28/02/2016 - Kuurne-Brussels-Kurne - 109.1km - 780m https://www.strava.com/activities/504647290
02/03/2016 - Le Samyn - 14km - 60m - https://www.strava.com/activities/506906310
06/03/2016 - Strade Bianche - DNR
20/03/2016 - Milan SanRemo - 113.9km -707m - https://www.strava.com/activities/521705403
23/03/2016 - Dwars d Vlaanderen - 59.5km - 412m - https://www.strava.com/activities/524366447
25/03/2016 - E3 Harelbeke - DNR
27/03/2016 - Gent Wevelgem - DNR
3/4/2016 - Tour des Flandres - 55.4km - 484m - https://www.strava.com/activities/534447923
6/4/2016 - Schelde prijs - 59.4km - 446m - https://www.strava.com/activities/537152796
10/04/2016 - Paris – Roubaix - https://www.strava.com/activities/541494447 - 167.1km - 1582m
17/4/2016 - Amstel Gold - https://www.strava.com/activities/548266195 - 112.7km - 803m
20/04/2016 - La Fleche Wallonne - DNR
With a face that's feels like it's been in a bar fight I didn't fancy riding today so I'm benched, share really as the bonus point of the Robin Hood statue would have been an easy one to grab.0 -
14/02/2016 - Trofeo-Laigueglia - 50.5km - 306m - https://www.strava.com/activities/493320711
27/02/2016 - Omloop Het Nieuwsblad - 74.0km - 1409m - https://www.strava.com/activities/503453486/
28/02/2016 - Kuurne-Brussels-Kurne - 35.1km - 438m - https://www.strava.com/activities/504497558
02/03/2016 - Le Samyn - DNR
05/03/2016 - Strade Bianche - 40.2km - 404m - https://www.strava.com/activities/509103646 - Unmetalled road piccies on Strava/Instagram
20/03/2016 - Milan San Remo - 41.7km - 262m - https://www.strava.com/activities/521798967 - No bonuses
23/03/2016 - Dwars door Vlaanderen - 21.1km - 128m - https://www.strava.com/activities/524752536
25/03/2016 - E3 Harelbeke - DNR
27/03/2016 - Gent Wevelgem - DNR
10/04/2016 - Paris Roubaix - 12.1km - 39m - https://www.strava.com/activities/541320903
13/04/2016 - De Brabantse Pijl - DNR
16/04/2016 - Amstel Gold - 30.3km - 376m - https://www.strava.com/activities/547001036
20/04/2016 - La Fleche Wallonne - DNR - Injured
Totals: 304.4km - 3362m0 -
20/04/2016 - La Fleche Wallonne - https://www.strava.com/activities/551238200 - 69.8km
Beautiful spring day, sunny and bright, enough of a breeze to move the air around and let you smell the countryside, without it feeling like you're riding into a brick wall...
Normal route deviated from because of a railway level crossing closure, which ended up making a big detour, and deterred me from adding the extra loop that i'd originally intended to drop in - still, nearly 70km on a school-day isn't too bad I guess. Might not be in the last 2-3 riders today, if I'm not careful.
Tenuous proof of "archery related" photo in Strava - where i'd be without that grotty pub in Pontefract "The Robin Hood" I don't know... it's a dive, but it's got me 3 bonus points so far IIRC.
Chocolate isn't going to happen, not enough kCals burned for that AND a beer... and the Beer kind of relies on my not overdoing it for my Dinner... Proof to be added later if I decide to indulge.
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20/04/2016 - La Fleche Walloons - 70.1km - 748m - https://www.strava.com/activities/5512163361
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20/04/2016- La Flèche Walloons
56.6 km 785 m
https://www.strava.com/activities/551585345
Today's ride was through an area near where I live that is called Santa Luz
The average 'family home' in the 'neighborhood' is probably anywhere between 5,000 to 10,000 square feet, (no exaggeration) they are built I believe in Italian style, it's an amazing neighborhood with fantastic views and photos do not do it justice, so I didn't take any, the pictures on my Strava ....
The flower is from my beach workout this morning and I thought it was so pretty that I needed to share it, and the other photo is just one of the tree lined roads we were on in another rich area called Rancho Santa Fe -
Nothing going on for extra points in the photo department.
Just a nice day of riding0 -
20/04/2016- La Flèche Walloone
5.79km 51.2m
My Wahoo speed sensor was not picked up the first half (out leg) of my ride ... this should have been 15 km and almost 200m of climbing ... but Strava rules so I'll post it.
https://www.strava.com/activities/5516358070
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