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Had a nice cycle yesterday with my son ( two days off work ) -- a bit blowy but temperature OK --- tried again today - very windy and started to rain as we left so turned back -- grrr
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Yeah, I was out riding yesterday. 20miles and windy, but thankfully not cold.
Maybe its a bit milder today, though rained cats and dogs once or twice.
Maybe its a bit milder today, though rained cats and dogs once or twice.
Mick F. Cornwall
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Cowsham wrote:Had a nice cycle yesterday with my son ( two days off work ) -- a bit blowy but temperature OK --- tried again today - very windy and started to rain as we left so turned back -- grrr
Got out a bit later for an hour but had to pedal home in the dark. Roads not too bad though. I'm out of cycling shape since that bitter cold weather has kept me in.
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forcecast is a little on the cold side for sunday!
screenshot from the otherwise excellent Windy.com
https://www.windy.com/?55.377,-2.650,5
screenshot from the otherwise excellent Windy.com
https://www.windy.com/?55.377,-2.650,5
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Pebble wrote:forcecast is a little on the cold side for sunday!
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Absolutely Kelvin. Brrrrrrrrrr
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Rather nice weather today.
I had planned on a bike ride as it was the only day over the next few that the weather is good.
Then I took the doggie for a walk ........................
He's a bit wayward and energetic. 40mins of a walk, intending to be back in time for a couple of hours on a ride.
I usually let him off the lead at the bottom of our lane, and he runs home - few hundred yards - and he waits at the gate, or goes under it and waits up the drive.
Today, I let him off, and off he runs as usual.
He's not at the gate, he's not on the drive, he's not at the front door ......... call for him and nothing ............
I go back down the lane, and a neighbour is in his garden, and says he's just seen him chasing off after two female deer and he went that-a-way ........ pointing into the woods.
Sigh ......... so off I went, calling for him, and up and up and along and along, pushing through undergrowth, calling all the time. There's acres and acres of woodland to go though, and no sight or sound of him.
Came back down, and down and down, and went along the river bank looking for him, calling all the time. He likes it by the river.
No sign of him.
Spoke to people walking, and they'd not seen him.
Spoke to further away neighbours, and they'd not seen him.
Went all the way up and way back into the woods .............. and there he is. Happy as Larry with a stick in his mouth enjoying himself immensely.
I'd walked him a couple of miles, and then walked another two or three just trying to find him!
It was after lunchtime before we got home, so I opened a can of beer ........................
Sod the bike ride!
I had planned on a bike ride as it was the only day over the next few that the weather is good.
Then I took the doggie for a walk ........................
He's a bit wayward and energetic. 40mins of a walk, intending to be back in time for a couple of hours on a ride.
I usually let him off the lead at the bottom of our lane, and he runs home - few hundred yards - and he waits at the gate, or goes under it and waits up the drive.
Today, I let him off, and off he runs as usual.
He's not at the gate, he's not on the drive, he's not at the front door ......... call for him and nothing ............
I go back down the lane, and a neighbour is in his garden, and says he's just seen him chasing off after two female deer and he went that-a-way ........ pointing into the woods.
Sigh ......... so off I went, calling for him, and up and up and along and along, pushing through undergrowth, calling all the time. There's acres and acres of woodland to go though, and no sight or sound of him.
Came back down, and down and down, and went along the river bank looking for him, calling all the time. He likes it by the river.
No sign of him.
Spoke to people walking, and they'd not seen him.
Spoke to further away neighbours, and they'd not seen him.
Went all the way up and way back into the woods .............. and there he is. Happy as Larry with a stick in his mouth enjoying himself immensely.
I'd walked him a couple of miles, and then walked another two or three just trying to find him!
It was after lunchtime before we got home, so I opened a can of beer ........................
Sod the bike ride!
Mick F. Cornwall
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You must have had a good cardio workout with the stress and worry before you found him. Glad it had a happy ending.
Glorious weather here too. I’ve been out cycling for only the third time this year (nursing a neck problem). Just a short 6 miles to drop off a copy of Beryl Burton’s biography at a friends house and to test a revised, more upright riding position. A very strange, wayward feel to the front wheel with less weight on it but definitely more comfortable.
Blue skies all the way and a good temperature. T-shirt and waterproof felt a bit overdressed at times.
Glorious weather here too. I’ve been out cycling for only the third time this year (nursing a neck problem). Just a short 6 miles to drop off a copy of Beryl Burton’s biography at a friends house and to test a revised, more upright riding position. A very strange, wayward feel to the front wheel with less weight on it but definitely more comfortable.
Blue skies all the way and a good temperature. T-shirt and waterproof felt a bit overdressed at times.
The older I get the more I’m inclined to act my shoe size, not my age.
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Pebble wrote:forcecast is a little on the cold side for sunday!
screenshot from the otherwise excellent Windy.com
https://www.windy.com/?55.377,-2.650,5
Isn't that what we should be expecting with climate change - extremes of weather!
Or maybe someone got a calculation, or error trapping, wrong giving this sort of thing. And it would be a shame not to preserve it for posterity, wouldn't it?
I used to use metcheck some years ago but found they "went off the boil" a bit & I moved on to other sources. But not before I managed to get this corker at the opposite extreme to the above.
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Wow. I’ll take that tailwind for a JOGLE ride. I’d be having lunch in Penzance on the first day!
The older I get the more I’m inclined to act my shoe size, not my age.
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Rode away this morning, knowing the weather was going to get warm by lunchtime.
Off I went, down over the bridge into England but as I got to the top of the long hill out of the valley, I was too warm. Way too warm!
Tights, shoes and socks, base layer and a windproof LS jersey. After three miles, I stopped and stripped off the base layer and stuffed it into my pocket. Still way too warm, so I cut my ride short - 20miles instead of 30.
I should have been in shorts and a SS top. Sandals instead of shoes and socks as well probably.
20degC out there now.
Off I went, down over the bridge into England but as I got to the top of the long hill out of the valley, I was too warm. Way too warm!
Tights, shoes and socks, base layer and a windproof LS jersey. After three miles, I stopped and stripped off the base layer and stuffed it into my pocket. Still way too warm, so I cut my ride short - 20miles instead of 30.
I should have been in shorts and a SS top. Sandals instead of shoes and socks as well probably.
20degC out there now.
Mick F. Cornwall
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12 c and overcast in the Scottish Borders! In between the rain iin the north and sun somewhere south
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Exactly so. We have been warned. And I imagine too, alongside the increase in the frequency of extreme weather events, goes a decrease in the ability to predict them... This is called, "As thou shalt sew, so shall you reap.".expecting with climate change - extremes of weather!
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(on the look out for Armageddon, on board a Brompton nano & ever-changing Moultons)
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Just home from a 20 mile ride around the Somerset levels. 22° outside now. Shorts, short sleeves, and shades.
More warm weather here until Friday. Bring it on.
More warm weather here until Friday. Bring it on.
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Baltic blizzard up here -- " Sometimes it Snows in April " -- comes to mind.
https://youtu.be/C-iS6DYB5G8
https://youtu.be/C-iS6DYB5G8
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+1 Baltic!
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