This weekend (Easter) has had the strangest weather. Normally Easter is associated with spring and nice cool sunny days, but not this weekend! I went out on two training rides, one on Friday (here) and one on Monday (here). Both days I had to contend with hail stones, which kill on cold bare legs, and [...]
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I’ve just been looking around on the Internet for references to Lon Las and I cam across this site on Just Giving.
http://www.justgiving.com/lonlas-stopthetraffik
The rider in question was going to cycle the Lon Las in 3 days, like us. He also says that he will update his blog during his training and during the ride itself. I [...]
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Ok, I thought day one of the Lon Las was a toughie! It looks like day 2 will be the real killer with two climbs of about 500?metres (that’s over 1600ft for you imperial fans out there). Those two climbs combined are higher than England’s highest peak, Scafell Pike, which at a mear 978?metres (3,209 [...]
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Well, it’s at moments like this that you realise how stupid you’ve been saying you can ride from Holyhead to Cardiff (known as Lon Las) in three days. It seemed like a good idea at the time, trying to minimize the amount of time needed off work, etc..
I’ve now put the first days route into [...]
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