rode some usual routes but with a new workout; endurance but with some sprints to eliminate the anaerobic trickle into the endurance adaptations.
REALLY enjoyed it, give it a try!
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57km (2 ‘full laps’ of the local cycleway - start at midpoint, 7km to Claremont, 14 back to Hobart, 14 to Claremont, 14 to Hobart, 7km to midpoint). From 8:45pm (dusk - hence grainy gopro frame) to 11:21pm. ‘endurance’/base stuff.
Mt Faulkner in silhouette
Mt Wellington
Tasman Bridge (River Derwent), from North side.
“Bridge of Remembrance” (very end of Southern bit of route - Cenotaph monument & eternal flame directly ahead)
Tasman Bridge from Southern side [Entrance to cycleway, Foreground clutter to right is public gym equipment and a couple of park benches.
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Went out on one of my favourite MTB loops today. PRs all round and couple of top 10s in there too. TrainerRoad works! It was pretty tough going but as they say “it doesn’t get easier, you just get faster”
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Not today but from last week in Norway.
Unlike @DaveWh falling off did hurt! I broke my collarbone on the descent back to the valley 
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Went out for a ridiculously early morning ride (left the house at 4h30AM) to the east of Paris. My wife works nights so I’m up at all hours most days and decided I couldn’t wait until the weekend to ride my sweet new Focus Izalco Max this weekend.
Normally the roads around Paris are pretty congested so it was nice to roll out with hardly a car to be seen. Coming back in the morning rush hour had started and I had to weave in and out of traffic. Next time I’ll plan it so I can get a train back.
It did feel pretty cool to have put in 100K before heading into the office for a pretty non-productive day of hiding behind my screens pretending to work
Hey at least I’ve got my priorities straight!
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Hope you have a speedy recovery! I’m a little jealous of your snow, nothing but mud in Bergen.
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We were in Geilo so just 3hrs on the train from Bergen. The locals were saying it was a crazy season, high temperatures and high winds, lots of ice below about 800m but up on the plateau the snow was really good.
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Oh gorgeous, I haven’t been to Geilo yet. Did Voss a couple years ago and got lost, ended up on a downhill track with cross-country skis. It was a trip.
Ouch! Yeah, things can get squirrelly on fast descents. Fat bikes don’t carve like skis!
Heal up quick.
I wasn’t going fast, about 5km/h at most 
and the slope turned to sheet ice then I got blown over by the wind before I’d chance to do anything. Then slid about 100 metres down the slope until I got to a churned up bit which stopped me. I was wearing mountaineering boots and couldn’t even kick a small nick into the ice for purchase it was that hard.
Too hot (and smoky and windy) to ride much today.
“Necessary” short hop to friend’s place and back. Mostly on footpaths and cycleway - because Friday afternoon Traffic on arterial roads and highway and me ‘taking it even easier than usual’
Temp feels like it’s dropped a few degrees since [temp thing is ‘current’]
Reassuring… standing in a mid-point “island” for 3 minutes where the “Keep Left” sign is perpetually recently-replaced, or recently-impacted (missing currently)
Mt Wellington through the haze
Got in a ride yesterday afternoon. Daylight at the start, lights required but not quite dark of night at the end, 1:45 later. Winter skipped us this year. Snow has fallen on us 2-3 times but it never stuck, either at all or for more than a couple of hours.
This is last year this weekend at a slightly lower elevation than the picture above but within about 2mi.
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Nice easy ride today, really good weather 
https://www.strava.com/activities/3065538160/analysis
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I love how this thread gets so much love in the dead of winter lol keep it up everyone, I don’t have the dedication to go outside till April at best
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As per workout thread, and most rides for me, ‘the local cycleway’. It’s just “too convenient” - 500m from my front door to almost the exact midpoint of a 14km stretch. Claremont Returned Services League at one end, the Hobart Cenotaph and Bridge of Remembrance at the other.
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midsummer here, but Tasmanian weather had me in winter kit for a low-intensity ride.
Dim GoPro shots, because was riding from 9:50pm to 11:50pm.
The Cenotaph & Eternal Flame.
The Bridge of Remembrance [recent infrastructure, another related pedestrian/cycle bridge ‘almost open’ nearby]. Not sure why, the lights have been out on the bridge the last couple of nights.
Cycleway entrance, & the Tasman Bridge
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Your Exploro is badass.
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Thanks. It’s a blast to ride.
Every year on SuperBowl Sunday the cycling clubs and shops of DFW all come together in Downtown Dallas.
Roomate and I rode to our local bike shop and rode with them into Dallas.
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Zwift + skiing with my family. Spring is a few months away…
