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2015 MFP Tour de FranceChallenge - Graham Watson Thread
After the success of the Graham Watson Thread for the Giro, I guess it would be a chame not to do the same again for the Tour de France. 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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Getting the Equivalent of SRAM WiFli on Shimano 10 Speed.
Okay, I'll admit it, I'm useless at climbing. Even when fully fit and healthy I have problems with climbing anything longer than a couple of miles, or steeper than 8% or so, and the combination of the two is just pretty much impossible for me at the moment with my current state of fitness / recovery from illness... at…
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2015 MFP Tour de France Challenge - Ride Logging Thread
Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to the 2015 MyFitnessPal Tour de France 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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Fun Challenge ride Themed around the Tour de France
I may be preaching largely to the converted, but I'm currently organising a 3 week cycling challenge over in the Century+ Cycling Group... it's themed around the Tour De France, and consists of 4 teams of 9 riders, each of which are tasked with riding (between the 9 of them) a distance and ascent equal to that days stage…
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Thinking of Giving TrainerRoad A Try...
It's looking like indoor training time's coming around again. And, as this time I was seriously considering going for something a little more structured than I did last year, I was toying with the idea of grabbing a months subscription to TrainerRoad and seeing if any of the training plans fitted my needs. Luckily, even…
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2015 MFP Giro d'Italia - Results Thread.
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 30.58kph - a clear 2kph faster than his nearest rival... Our…
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2015 MFP Giro d'Italia Challenge - Ride Logging Thread
Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to the 2015 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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2015 MFP Giro d'Italia Challenge - Graham Watson Thread
As mentioned in the Discussion thread, This year, a new innovation is an additional award, which I'm Calling the Graham Watson Award. 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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Giro d'Italia - Photo Caption Competition...
Just for laughs folks... Add your caption for this Photo from the end of todays Stage... My Entry... "for the last fecking time, I'm NOT ED MILLIBAND, Okay!"
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"popup" Strava Teams for the MFP Challenges...
In case anyone's missed this - there are 4 "popup teams" for the MFP Grand Tour Challenges.. Each of these teams SHOULD only have members in there who are actually on the rosta of that particular team in the challenge, and have their own "owners/moderators" The "POP UP" teams for this challenge are as follows...…
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Tour de Yorkshire Stage 1 - in pictures...
Welcome... by The Big Yin, on Flickr South Bay Panorama by The Big Yin, on Flickr ...Ended Up at the Grand Hotel... by The Big Yin, on Flickr 3KM to Go... by The Big Yin, on Flickr East Coast Pave - Or is it Scarborough Rock? by The Big Yin, on Flickr
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Show Us Yer Bike...
Can't believe we haven't had a "Readers Rides" thread yet... I'll start - then you can all feel smug and post something far more posh... Here goes then... Main Roadbike Planet-X Superlight Team Alu. Frame, Ultegra 9 speed Groupset, FSA and Specialised finishing Kit, Fulcrum Racing 5's with Vittoria Open Pave Evo CG2's…
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The Big 2015 Road Racing Chat Thread
Well - seeing as lots of my challenges are based around the Pro Riders Race Itinerary, it sort of seemed a good idea to start up a little "chat thread" for all the discussion of how the "real" races have gone while we're out there riding our own little versions of the race... So, with a view to that, here's a little…
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MFP Winter Omnium Challenges - Results now in...
From November 1st, it's time for the "off season" challenges. Last year I ran a series as follows: * Base Distance Challenge * Hour-and-A-Lap Cross Challenge * Indoor Cycling Challenge * Rule #9 Commuter Challenge Now, problem is, I can't actually remember exactly how we based the calculations, and of course MFP has thrown…
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2014/5 WS-Rule #9 Base Distance Builder-Logging thread
Post your Rule #9 Rides in this thread. No non-ride posts, keep all the chatter in the discussion thread if you can please.
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2014/5 WS-Indoor Trainer Logging Thread
Post your Indoor Training Rides in this thread. No non-ride posts, keep all the chatter in the discussion thread if you can please.
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2014/5 WS-Commuter Challenge Logging thread
Post your Commuter Rides in this thread. No non-ride posts, keep all the chatter in the discussion thread if you can please.
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2014/5 WS-Cross Challenge Logging
Post your Indoor Training Rides in this thread. No non-ride posts, keep all the chatter in the discussion thread if you can please.
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Show us Your Cycle Torture Chamber
Inspired by the feature on the Sufferfest website I thought it might be interesting to see where us poor souls not blessed with temperate climates are spending our "hard hours" in preparation for the season to come... Suppose I'd Better Start... 5,4,3,2,1,Vai..... by The Big Yin, on Flickr Tacx Bushido trainer, coupled to…
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2014/5 WS-Commuter Challenge Signup/Discussion
Okay Folks, one for the weekday warriors here - nice and simple, this one, log your commute distances with a strava link to prove the distance. Points are accrued at a simple rate of 1 point for every 50km completed. So, 99km = 1 point, 101km = 2 points. No partial points awarded, as this is going to be running from today…
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2014/5 WS-Rule #9 Base Distance Builder Challenge Signup/Discussion
For those of you unaware of rule #9, it's basically the second most important rule of the Velominati... Basically, it goes like this: With that in mind, and in view of the fact that for the majority of the northern hemisphere riders on MFP / In this Group, any longer ride (50km or above) that may be considered as being a…
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2014/5 WS-Cross Challenge Discussion/Signup
Okay - one for the 'cross bike owners. Two ways to score here - one is to post the strava from your cross race. 1 point for each race. - other one, is for the non-competitive off-road riders. This gets a little more involved, but basically cyclocross in my era was always based on "a hour plus a lap" (though I understand…
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2014/5 WS-Indoor Trainer Challenge Discussion/Signup
Well, as I sit here, there's rain hammering horizontally at 30kph on the window, temperatures are still in single figures as it approaches mid-day, and my newsfeed is filling up with people bemoaning the fact that they're getting ready to drag the dreaded turbo-trainer out and get the "Bike Torture Chamber" set up for the…
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A little Off-Topic Posting...
Just an indication of how bored I've been recently not getting out on the bike or walking when it's been totally frigid out there... I've dug out the camera and started having a play around with some tabletop photography... a bit of the "product shot" stuff... Really Should Get this Cleaned by The Big Yin, on Flickr And…
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Strava Stories - Share Yours...
I'm sure most of you have already spotted this one, but running up to the new year, Strava came up with a neat little gizmo to do a "video roundup" of your year... Mine's here http://2014story.strava.com/video/165533 Feel free to share yours folks ;)
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Well - I guess it's that time of year...
As I don't have everyone's address on here, I'm afraid this is the best I can do folks... Wishing you everything you would wish for yourself... Here's to 2015 :D
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Well - I guess it's that time of year...
As I don't have everyone's address on here, I'm afraid this is the best I can do folks... Wishing you everything you would wish for yourself... Here's to 2015 :D
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Well - I guess it's that time of year...
As I don't have everyone's address on here, I'm afraid this is the best I can do folks... Wishing you everything you would wish for yourself... Here's to 2015, look forward to seeing your rides pop up in Strava :D
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Todays To-Do List...
