Joined up with Stamford Cycling for an early Sunday morning ride into the Rutland Countryside
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Good morning. 6:30 a.m. Sunday morning. Cars packed. Just going to head 11 miles up the A1 to a place called Stanford. Going to ride out this morning with Stanford Cycling Club. Really nice little group. Rode out with them last week and enjoyed it. So, going back today for more. They meet at 7:15 on a Sunday morning from Red Lion Square. So, if you’re ever in the area, I’m sure you’ll be more than welcome to go and join them. uh leave sharp at 7:30. It’s only going to be about a 30 km ride today. I think they said uh a lot of the guys got young families, so give them a chance to get their ride in and then get back and spend a day with the family. Yeah. Good luck. Yeah. Stopped at the bin. That’s all it was. Lift 10. Clear. Clear. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Clear both ways. Yeah. I a couple weeks ago and um You’ve been out in the week as well. No, I never get out. No, this is all my exercise. All in one day. Yeah. I was saying to my partner, can you go out with these boys? I need to get a bit more training. I went out for a little one yesterday. This 24 mileer. Yeah. And then uh I just bought the Swift bike. Yeah. Sorry. I bought the Swift bike. Oh, did you? Yes. Yeah. Just so you don’t have people swapping over and Yeah. messing about. Just that through the winter, I suppose. Yeah. Good idea. No, I don’t like riding at home. No, I’m not a big me. I’d rather go to the gym and jump on the bike there. Yeah. How long you been riding with this lot? Pretty new to it. Yeah, pretty new. Yeah, same m. Okay. When these guys when I started with them, they were sort of doing 15 and a half 16. Okay. They grow faster. Yeah. How do you find the place? Um, yeah, last week I was blowing at times. Okay. So, we’re sort of hitting my limit, I would say. Yeah. It’s around about 18. Yeah, precisely. Yeah. Yeah. What are you? Um, 18.5. Okay. You got a GR in or No, no, no, nothing. 21.5. Now, we should start getting They are handy. Yeah, I think you can over rely on technology sometimes. Yeah. I never car back. Back. I’m getting one of those, too, as well. I think they’re really good. The best thing I bought. Yeah. So it links to here, links to my headphones. Right turn right. Clear. Clear both ways. I don’t know why saying that. We’re at the back. Heat. Heat. We normally go up that hill. So, okay, that’s bonusing. Yeah, unless there’s another one out this way. Yeah. Always. Always. Yeah, that’s why you’re right. Where’d you say you’re from? Wister away. Uh, it’s hilly. Um, where did you go? I’m sort of near Iron Bridge. Yeah. Go sort of uh truck hill, but yeah. Yes. Um come back this way and go more rolling. Yeah. You did one of these mad people that like hills. I think I think you Yes. He had a choice to make. I think you say I got to sort of crack on. Okay. Riding with your time really you question otherwise riding time. Yes. Um I’ve noticed last week you have been riding down there and you you don’t seem to feel anything two weeks and he’s gone well just you know I was so good for so many years. Yeah. The winter you win base and just Yeah. the past few years we’ve not done it back up. No, the spring is off the face. Um, yeah. So, it’s not just a fitness side of it’s clearing the head as well, isn’t it? 100%. Yeah. You come back, you just feel you do. Yeah. Yeah. banging. Clear. Get the legs working again. Straight into straight into red. Straight into red. We got a little way. Then we hit red. And then uh little bit further than red again. Oh yeah. And then red at the top. Oh god. At least it wasn’t any worse than that. Coming out. Car back. Car back. There’s all these triathletes to pull us up the hill. Yeah. I’m a retired triathlete. That was 20 years. Everything. I looked at Johnny’s map and it didn’t seem that hilly. No, I think that sticks. Yes, we’re going to go right here. Let’s hope so. Half a hill and a whole hill. Oh, look at him. He’s got one of those Swift fluorescent bikes. Yeah, he has. You Heat. Heat. Clear. Right. Clear. Clear out. Heat. Heat. I think the pace is dropping a few. Drop the group back. A bit of a break, don’t we? It’s a hole. Left. Clear. Right. We lost him. Clear. Is everyone on? Come on. Is he? Okay. Just keep it steady then. Yeah. Steady and steady up this hill and then we’ll give it some to go. Okay. I can’t go fast on this. I just don’t have any. Is it a big one? It’s not big, but it’s kind of quite long. Okay. Relatively. Yeah. It’s not showing on my map yet, though. No. All right. That don’t mean anything though. No. Have we got in? We haven’t got in. If we slow up, we’re going to lose him again on the hill. Let’s just meet at the top of the hill. Yeah. Okay. Take it slow and meet with the top. Okay. are we going to wait for him or I think back on riding back on practice 20 on your right. Give you a bit of a break out that we all right drop back for Darren. Yeah. And they dropped back down. I think they’d almost read him back on. And then we shut off. No guilt. No. No guilt. Do you like all shot off up that hill? That was I couldn’t handle that. Yeah. Everyone come past me. I think it’s totally different. What you need going up hill is so different to what you need on the flat. I can do the flat as soon as there’s more than 3 4%. I just can’t do it. I think they hit seven. I’m okay on the hill, but it was Don’t do enough of these round this way though to you can’t really get it in the way. This is going to roll down. Yep. Just a straight roll in from here, isn’t it? Yeah. I’m going to go past my house. I think I’m going to go up to the garden center and then turn around. Okay. Okay. Another bloody hill. Yeah. It’s about to be served. And then I just go You’re heading back. Yeah, I’m heading back. Cheers. We’re here. Oh, don’t believe it. We hit two sets of lights on green. Are we going to the square? I think so. I’m going to go to Fica after for a coffee before I head back, but don’t know about anyone else. 18.26. Was there 31.98 miles? Great. Yeah. Is there a green WhatsApp group? There is, I believe. Yes. I’m not on it currently on it. I’m not on it. I’m told there’s one, though. Yeah. Okay.