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Another Daft Idea - The "Minor Tours" Challenge...
No - Not Minotaurs - Minor Tours. I guess most of us know about the Grand Tour Challenges I run, over the Giro d'Italia, LeTour and LaVuelta. But, while playing with Jason's marvelous CycLeagues website, a thought struck me... Just out of interest, and for a bit of a diversion, why not do something for the Minor Tours as…
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2016 MFP Giro d'Italia Challenge - Podium Ceremony
Ladies and Gentlemen Welcome to the Prizegiving ceremony. First Up, We have the Sprinters Jersey - The Maglia Rossa Passione (or the Red Jersey) - this is based on the highest average speed over the entire Giro duration. This Jersey was won with an average of 31.01kph - a 1.25kph faster than his nearest rival... Our Jersey…
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2016 MFP Giro d'Italia Challenge - Logging Thread
Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to the 2016 MyFitnessPal Giro d'Italia Grand Tour Challenge. This thread is solely for entering ride details into. Please keep all questions, discussions or general banter and inter-team trash talking in the discussion thread (…
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2016 MFP Giro d'Italia Challenge - Graham Watson Thread
After the success of the Graham Watson Award last year, it's back again this year... For those of you who don't recognise the name, Graham is pretty much the top dog when it comes to racing cycling photography - if you have spent any time whatsoever looking at bike race Images, chances are you've seen an awful lot of his…
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A Morning at the Races...
Decided to have a roll down to one of the local villages, to see a bike race that was passing through... Looks like it was reasonably well promoted... and they've got the security working overtime to make sure its safe... Seems I wasn't the only person who decided to go and watch... the locals were getting into the spirit…
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How Do I Join the Classics Challenge
Seems that I may have badly promoted this challenge - as it'd been going for a while, I assumed that "the regulars" would join in, as would the folks from the Winter Challenge... Sadly, it's been much quieter in the Classics than I hoped - so, when I was asked via a PM on here "how do I join the Classics Challenge" a) I…
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What this Group NEEDS is a Bike-Related Meme Thread...
Well - that's what I reckon anyway... I'll start.
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Winter Training Challenges - Signup/Discussion Thread
I bet you've been wondering when this thread would start. I've been agonising over what to say/do about this for the past few weeks now - indeed, since my "medical episode" during the Vuelta Challenge, I've had to give quite a bit of thought to the whole thing. Truth be told folks, I don't think that I have the time this…
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Is it me.... ??
Or does this actually say "Team Lardass Cycling"... Finger poised over the "buy it now" button...
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Breaking News - Mechanical Fraud in cycling...
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Strava "Toolbox"
something to pull out a few statistics from your Strava Account... http://www.marcellobrivio.com/projects/strava-toolbox/
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Public Service Announcement...
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Well - It's that Time of Year Again Folks...
As I don't have your addresses, and I've missed the last posting day for most of your countries anyway, I'll have to make do with a "cyber" card once again... Wishing everyone a happy and safe 2016 on the roads...
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Indoor Training... I'm Bored with Wattopia and Richmond to be honest...
Think It's time to Dust off the Tacx TTS software (or more accurately, install TTSv4.17.n) and start working my way through this little list of beauties...
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2015 - Bit of a Curate's Egg...
... Good In Parts... Good - getting out and riding for the Giro and TdF challenges... Bad - Being Ill for the first 4 months of the year, missing most if not all of the Classics Challenge rides, only doing the first few days of the Vuelta... Good - Still being alive, and back on my bike (albeit indoors for the moment) Bad…
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Got some new Meds Yesterday from the Doctor...
Think he's trying to tell me something ??
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One for the Google Chrome Browser Users...
Stravistix... It's a Chrome "plugin" that adds quite a few extra bits of analysis and download extras to the basic Strava Experience... Activity improvements * Zone distribution through charts and tables of* Speed/Pace: Quartiles, standard deviation, ... * Cadence: Quartiles, Pedaling/freewheel time, Crank Revolutions *…
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2015 MFP CLassics Challenge - Ride Logging Thread
Dates for the Diary... 07/03/2015 - Strade Bianchi 08/03/2015 - Roma Maxima 22/03/2015 - Milan Sanremo 29/03/2015 - Gent Wevelghem 05/04/2015 - Ronde Van Vlaanderen 12/04/2015 - Paris Roubaix 19/04/2015 - Amstel Gold 22/04/2015 - Fleche Wallonne 26/04/2015 - Liege Bastogne Liege 04/10/2015 - Il Lombardia
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Okay, Who's YOUR nomination for the Worlds Second Best Cyclist then ???
Obviously, there's no point in asking who the Best cyclist ever is... that place has been sewn up for years by Eddy Merckx since the early 1970's, and, with the modern trend for Grand Tour riders not to race anything but their one or two chosen tours and a couple of "previews" it's unlikely anyone's going to have a chance…
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2015 MFP Vuelta Espana Challenge - Results Thread.
Ladies and Gentlemen Welcome to the Prizegiving ceremony. First Up, We have the Sprinters Jersey - The Green Jersey - this is based on the highest average speed over the entire Vuelta duration. Riders who fail to complete the course, either by declared illness, injury or by simply not logging their final bunch of rides are…
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2015 MFP Classics Challenge.
Dates for the Diary... 07/03/2015 - Strade Bianchi 08/03/2015 - Roma Maxima 22/03/2015 - Milan Sanremo 29/03/2015 - Gent Wevelghem 05/04/2015 - Ronde Van Vlaanderen 12/04/2015 - Paris Roubaix 19/04/2015 - Amstel Gold 22/04/2015 - Fleche Wallonne 26/04/2015 - Liege Bastogne Liege 04/10/2015 - Il Lombardia Usual Rules Apply,…
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2015 MFP LaVuelta Challenge - Graham Watson Thread
After the success of the Graham Watson Thread for the Giro/LeTour, I guess it would be a shame not to do the same again for the Vuelta. For those of you who don't recognise the name, Graham is pretty much the top dog when it comes to racing cycling photography - if you have spent any time whatsoever looking at bike race…
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2015 MFP Grand Tour Challenge - SIgnup and Discussion Thread...
For those of you who didn't join in with last years challenge, what I propose is that as a team of 9 riders we try and ride between us a distance each day equal to or greater than the distance of that day’s stage in the Grand Tours (The Giro d'Italia, Tour De France and La Vuelta Espana). The person in the team who rides…
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2015 MFP La Vueta Espana Challenge - Ride Logging Thread
Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to the 2015 MyFitnessPal La Vuelta Espana Grand Tour Challenge. This thread is solely for entering ride details into. Please keep all questions, discussions or general banter and inter-team trash talking in the discussion thread (…
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Garmin Connect finally Admits Defeat
Just opened my GC "dashboard" this morning and was greeted with a big orange square where the "Garmin Segments" box used to be - Garmin Connect will now link to your Strava Account and pull into Garmin your "Starred" Segments... I understand that there's an update to the firmware of the 510, 810 and 1000 head units that…
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Just back from An evening at the Races...
British National Circuit Race Championships were tonight, on a city centre criterium circuit about 10 miles from my home - it'd have been churlish not to nip over there. Sadly, it's been pissing down with rain most of the day, so riding over there wasn't high on my prioritys so I drove over instead and took the camera.…
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2015 MFP Tour De France Challenge - Results Thread
Ladies and Gentlemen Welcome to the Prizegiving ceremony. First Up, We have the Sprinters Jersey - The Traditional Green Jersey- this is based on the highest average speed over the entire Giro duration. This Jersey was won with an average of 30.44ph - a mere 0.42kph faster than his nearest rival... Our Jersey winner this…
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Happy MFP Birthday to me...
As I may have mentioned on my newsfeed yesterday, Today actually marks my 4th "MFP Birthday". Four years and one week ago, on the 16th of July, I visited my Doctor, regarding a small problem with an infected cut on my leg. In order to give me the correct dosage of antibiotics he asked my weight. I replied that I hadn't a…
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Project BikeCave
Decided that I can't take the Squalor of my current bike area, so I've started to renovate it... It began something like this... Squalid Bike Cave by The Big Yin, on Flickr As you can see, I'd already begun to tire of the woodchip wallpaper. It wasn't exactly easy to remove - aside from the first bit that had been removed…
