Sunday Cycle  20^th April 2014

Another large group of about 30 cyclists turned up today for our 8am Sunday cycle, on this bright sunny, but initially chilly Easter morning.

On a nice morning like this, it was inevitable that we would head for the port.  There was talk about making it "a fast one” and so Anne shared out the gels (or Turbo Carbs as somebody refers to them).

Making a slight alternation to our normal route to the port, we headed via Kilrea.  When we got to Coleraine, a few of the group needed to be home early and so headed for Garvagh and home.  The rest of us stourred on through Coleraine town and out to Portstewart.  Then onto Portrush where, another first for the group, we did a tour of the town.  By this time it had warmed up nicely,  the waves and sea air was lovely,  and the town was beginning to fill up with tourists.

Then back to Coleraine and Garvagh,  where the remnants of any dust on our bikes was thoroughly shaken off by that terrible road surface on the A29 Road.

Garvagh, Swatragh and back to Maghera with 60 miles on the clock, and I think it was Tommy Evans average mileage that we agreed to go with --  18.9 mph

Well done to all.

As many of youse will know,  I have studied turbos and turboing techniques.  One turbo plan I have recommends that to finish off the session, you should do a quick 15 seconds of pedalling using only one foot at a time  (it improves stability, allegedly, and increases leg power).  It’s hard enough to do even in the flat confines of the front room.   Top marks then to Helen who brought this technique outdoors with her on today’s run,  and demonstrated it for us on quite a steep wee hill in the middle of Coleraine.  Well done.

BM