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Strava version of our routeGB Tweenie

 Teletubbies  Thomas the Tank Engine  The Flumps new toy route on Garmin

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Each to their own right?  Today is my birthday.  I saw it coming, as you do, and I couldn’t think of any better way to enjoy my day than to go ride my bike.  I realise this wouldn’t float everyone’s boat, but it does mine.  Especially when the sun is shining and it turns out to be 20C out there.  What’s not to love?  So I took to the usual social media channels, told the world what I was planning to do, if not why, and garnered myself some company.  As if my birthday wasn’t good excuse enough, one of my birthday presents is, as I have a new toy, and you can’t get a new toy and not play with it, right? ;).

Such gorgeous weather :D.  Sun, blue skies…  My birthday is often blessed with beau temps, which is nice.  Layers, what layers?  Just the one all over, thank you.  A singularity of lycra?  I arrived in the Square at 10:00am and met up with the Tor 2000 race snake that is Mike, and some of the Mendip Cycling Club – namely Keith, Nick and Paul.  As you probably know by now, I get a bit nervous about riding with new people, but I needn’t have worried as they turned out to be a really nice bunch.  *phew*!

Where does one go when it’s sunny?  The seaside of course.  In fact exactly the same route I did two weeks ago because I enjoyed it then and I was too lazy to come up with anything new ;).  But there’s bound to be another reason right?  Oh yes, shallow, predictable, competitive me…there’s Strava.  Hills to beat myself up over, in both senses of the phrase *grin*.  I didn’t break any of my Shipham records, but it did feel easier, which was a tad irritating, so I shall put it down to not trying very hard and to being in new company, and…oh who cares, right? *grin*.

They’ve cut back all the trees at the top of Shipham.  Which may make it less dark and foreboding up there, but I’m not sure that’s sufficient justification.  There’s been a lot of arboreal destruction going on around here, which makes me sad.  I like trees.  Trees take a long time to get to being big enough to be “annoying”, and then just like that they’re gone.  Bet they don’t get replaced either.  If only there were Ents..they’d never let it happen!  Right.  Mini-rant over.

Time to go and be beside the seaside, via the continuing excitement that is the new bridge, and endless lovely flat country roads, enjoying riding my bike in the sunshine.  There are far worse ways to spend a Tuesday morning :).

After showing the new guys the wonders of North Somerset, including the rarity of the tide being in at Sand Bay, I was hoping for coffee at the New Castle Inn and was quite irritated to discover that it was closed.  The website, which I checked last night, implied that it would be open.  I foresee a grumpy email going their way…  The next café along, the name of which temporarily escapes me, is being totally redone, so that was out too.  I was starting to feel guilty for dragging all these people along from stop to stop with no refreshment – oops!  However one thing Weston has is cafés, although arguably this is a question of quantity over quality ;).  We ended up sitting outside the Victorian Café on the sea front, in the sun.  Which definitely wasn’t the end of the world, and had the advantage of meaning we didn’t have to be more than a few feet away from our precious steeds which, as we all know, is very important.

I think that even the bikes could have been accused of sunbathing…

I’m going to be uncharitable now…so please bear with me.  But I think the following picture kinda sums up Weston.  It has the traditional seaside (donkeys), the revamped and refurbished and regenerated (the pier), and then large chunks of ugliness still lurking around in between (the lorry).  There you are, a ride that comes with a photo that is a metaphor for the state of Weston.  Get me ;).

Mike, though off work, was still working.  I know how that goes.  But still, today has to qualify as a pretty good day at the office right? *grin*.

From Easter onwards Weston becomes a place to treat with even greater caution, to only ride through at quiet times, keeping an extra eye out for motorists not paying attention to anything other than where to park the car.  We’re not quite there yet, but with the sun out, we’re not far off, and the hordes were descending…!  SMIDSY could be designed for the stretch of sea front road along to Uphill…

So.  Time to put the grockles behind us and to go cycle up some more hills right?  Bleadon Hill first.  Remember this strange tree?  Well it looks a lot better in the sunshine let me tell you :).

I was having such fun.  The hills weren’t hurting, the downs were great, the sun was shining…just fabulous.  Very, very, happy birthday girl :).

The views from Loxton were lovely, and I bet I was happier out there on my bike than all those people in little tin boxes flying along the motorway too.  Happier, and by the sounds of it, a little smug too ;).

Just a couple more hills to go then, an announcement which elicited the odd groan out of my merry band.  Not from Mike though, who still eats such things for breakfast.  So it was up the hill to Banwell Castle, and down the fast main road, just so as to get me to the bottom of Winscombe Hill in the right place to try and get to the top in a better time than before.  And I did – I beat my previous QOM title.  ‘Rah!  I believe I’ve mentioned that small things please small minds right? 😉  Well I was pleased *grin*.  In fact Strava says I did pretty well all ’round today :).  I certainly enjoyed my final sprint down the bypass – made all that climbing well worth it – *flies in teeth*.

But that’s Strava.  Which is all very well.  But the Strava phone lives in the back pocket, or the saddle bag.  My fabulous new toy is there in front of me, telling me everything I want to know.  Ok, so I haven’t got the hang of it yet, and there’s some beeping going on to do with laps that I need to figure out, and so on…but it rocks 🙂  Can’t accuse me of over-recording now, not with all that lovely GPS data.  I wonder if I should give it a name?  See here for all my lovely shiny stats, downloaded like a dream, which I can no doubt over analyse until the cows come home :).

It was a truly great ride.  Thanks to everyone for coming out and keeping me company – it was good to finally meet you, and equally good to catch up with Mike who I’ve not ridden with in an age.  Mostly because he’s too fast!  After a couple of days that almost passed for rest days I guess my legs were raring to go.  Maybe they would have been anyway, as I’m so easily motivated by sunshine.  It really does make all the difference.  Besides it’s a lovely route, with flat and hills and scenery, and I got to ride it in company and drink coffee.  Miles and miles of smiles :D.  And probably burgeoning tan lines too – bonus!  It was almost a shame to come home, and it was certainly tempting not to…but too much of a good thing can be a bad thing, right?  Does that count for gadgets too? 😉  It’s a wonder there’s room for anything else in my pockets/saddle bag!

Cycling time: 2:08:59 hrs
Distance: 33.94 miles
AVS: 15.8 mph.
ODO: 12786 miles

Back to my birthday.  Well, it is a day that’s all about me, right? :P.  I was right about riding, it was a mighty fine way to celebrate.  And you can’t half tell I’m a cyclist if you look at my lovely gifts:  I have a digital weather station – so that I know what temperature it is out there, what the forecast is, and how many layers to put on.  There’s the gorgeous Garmin of course, which even colour co-ordinates with my bike.  Cycling books: Put me back on my bike, and The Tour is Won on the Alpe (thanks GB!) to read and to motivate me.  Donations towards my awesome new cycling shoes – bought to go with the new bike that I don’t yet have.  And some new music to listen to whilst on the bike.  OK, so there are a couple of exceptions to the cycling rule but…well, you get the general idea.  Happy Birthday to me :).

(PS: If you fancy listening to this entry’s eponymous song, it’s here, and it’s lovely).

 

It’s windy out there.  It may be kinda sunny, it may be fairly mild, but that easterly wind?  Nasty.  And such conditions do not make layer choice any easier.  I took myself down to George’s in my long sleeve winter jersey with a windproof jacket over the top.

I was already not totally feeling the love by the time I got there.  It just all felt a bit like hard work and that wind was proving troublesome.  Not a great start.  I got there before she did – it’s a school run thing – and was glad of the opportunity to take the arms off the jacket, as I hate being too warm on the bike.  I left the route down to George, with a request that it not be too challenging, and we took advantage of the Spring sunshine to visit the seaside at Burnham-on-Sea.

That’s some sticky looking mud out there.  I remember losing wellies in mud like that. Mud, mud, glorious mud :).  Considering how much the tidal range of the Severn limits sailing opportunities I bet some of these boats never actually go anywhere.  But they look pretty right? ;).

The long stretch along the coast road to Brean was pure slog, with far too much traffic.  The season starts down there on March 31st, and there was a lot of pre-season cleaning and preparation going on as all those businesses that have been closed for months prepare to try and earn as much money as possible in the short space of time they’re given.  Silly season is on the way.  I made a mental note to do my best to avoid the area until about October…

Home into the wind via Bleadon, Christon and Winscombe Hill, where there was nothing for it but to plod up.  Plus, having started from a different point on the hill to usual, I figured Strava wouldn’t be comparing my time so I had no challenge to beat *grin*.  Me, competitive? ;).

 

Sun, daffodils, clocks going forward this weekend…anyone would think Summer Time was coming ;).

Cycling time: 2:17:53 hrs
Distance: 34.2 miles
AVS: 14.9 mph.
ODO: 12715 miles

It would be easy to blame the wind for today’s average performance, but I think it was just one of the ingredients in the mix.  I was riding with George, which always feels like hard work but turns out to be slow, possibly due to the amount of nattering going on.  Mind you, she’s always been better than me ever since I started out, so I think I feel that keeping up with her should be a struggle…so I make it feel like one even if it isn’t!  Cycling is mental remember?

I may have managed to eat enough to get me through the Lionheart, but I don’t think I’ve done enough since on the recovery front.  My legs were feeling pretty heavy and there wasn’t a lot in the tank.  And even dosed up with painkillers the niggle was, and is, cutting through.  Too much going on all ’round if you ask me.  Must do better!

On the upside this year’s March mileage total is already greater than last year’s, and I got to ride for a couple of hours with a friend in what was practically sunshine.  Could most definitely be worse :).

After a few glasses of wine last night, what my body wanted to do today was to roll over and go back to sleep.  However considering what I do to my body on a regular basis, it often believes it has basis for complaint, and if I listened to it when it was complaining, then I’d never get on my bike.  I’m in charge right?  And I wanted to go ride the bike.  I wanted to find out how I was feeling post-Lionheart, I wanted to get out of the house and blow the cobwebs away, and I didn’t want to go to the gym.  Body over-ruled.

I figured I’d just do the usual kind of loop, take it easy, and please myself, which is pretty much what I did.  I didn’t push it and if I felt myself doing so I made myself ease off a bit.  I did the odd lump because all flat is boring, but nothing particularly notable, and I took those easy.  Even knowing that Strava was recording away in the background didn’t make me go up Mudgeley Hill faster.  How restrained of me ;).  I stopped when I wanted to, took which ever turnings appealed to me, and took photos as I went, so I guess this is more of a photo diary than a blog, but hey, pictures painting words and so on…

Let’s start with the lay-by on the bypass which, being resident here, I never stop at.  So I did.

Nice views from up there, and a shiny new Mendip Hills AONB gateway sign.  Who knew?

Time to go get some miles in and get those initial 20 minutes when you’re not warmed up other than in a feeling like death warmed up fashion and just feel rubbish.  Today was no exception, and possibly worse than sometimes.  Sweating those toxins out right?  It was mild and grey out there, but with rather too much wind for my liking, especially on the Levels.  Not so long ago I showed you fields of swans.  Today you get pigs.  Variety and so forth.  Cute pigs too, as these things go :).

It was the kind of wind that when you turned a corner and found yourself straight into it you had to instantly drop down a gear (or two).  Not ideal.  And possibly even more annoying when it was coming at me from the side.  As you can see, there’s nowhere to hide out there…

However much of a hindrance the wind was, and it really was, it was worth it for the help it became once it was behind me.  I got to fly around the long straights towards Mudgeley Hill at silly speeds without even trying.  Much fun.  I definitely did my loop the right way ’round today 🙂  Talking of Mudgeley Hill – here it is.  They’ve cut back some vegetation somewhere around there and you can now see all of it from a long way off.  Not that it’s a massive hill or anything.  It’s not an Alp right?  But is that better or worse do you think?  Do you prefer to see what you’re about to face, or do you prefer not to know?

I climbed the hill.  Slowly.  My legs wanted me to know that they would cheerfully have not gone up hill and weren’t best pleased at being made to do so, but I told them to shut up, and got on with it, which worked surprisingly well.   Then all I had to do was head home via Wedmore and the Nyland loop.  Easy.  One of the nice things about Strava is that it knows where I’ve been and draws the route map for me, so I don’t have to try and figure that out for you when I get in.  I’m lazy ;).

Cycling time: 2:03:32 hrs
Distance: 32.4 miles
AVS: 15.7 mph.
ODO: 12681 miles

One easy recovery ride done.  I’m not saying I would like to, or even could, have ridden a sportive today, but my body, for all it’s early morning complaints, was pretty much on form.  Good to know.  On the layers  front it was all change, and after I’d warmed up, I did the ride in my very lovely, christened by being worn for the first time, Rapha Galibier jersey, and my ever reliable bolero arms.  (Before you tell me off for buying more Rapha – I got the jersey in the winter sale.  Besides, my palmares to allow me to wear it – so there!).  I didn’t have to wear a winter jacket so I guess we’re talking layer in the singular, not layers really.  I can feel the time coming when I can expose my legs to the world once more, as the light at the end of the winter tunnel grows ever closer.  It’s also time I mentioned my Rapha gloves which I’d like you to know that I love more each time I wear them.  They’re so comfy and fit so well it’s almost like you’re not wearing gloves at all :).

So there you go.  It was a nice relaxed ride and I felt much better afterwards.  If you try sometimes, you get what you need, right?.

On the rear window of my car I have a #saveacyclist sticker that says “it’s not a race, give cyclists space”.  Today an elderly gentleman of my acquaintance, on seeing and reading this, informed me that it should be the other way round.  That cyclists should be giving motorists more space.  That in his day cycling used to be about transport, and not fitness, and that he thought the flash kit made cyclists over confident and badly behaved.  That cyclists don’t seem to think the rules of the road apply to them. That motorists give horses space because they don’t expect them to have a brain, and cyclists should have.  Etc.  Oh me, oh my…  I was actually wearing my cycling kit getting ready for today’s ride.  Cycling is what I do.  Clearly I am not about to agree with him…  I merely pointed out that there are few bad apples in any barrel, be they motorists or cyclists, who probably give the rest a bad name.  Other than that I bit my tongue – a lot! – and merely pointed out that this was not a subject we were about to agree on.  Sometimes there’s just no point…but really…*sigh*.

I think I may be living my very own version of Groundhog Day…  This was my view out of the window this morning.  Look familiar at all?

I mean…really?  Fog?  Again?  I was bored of it before…so for variety’s sake this time I opted for being grumpy and unamused instead.  This is not a good frame of mind to be in when you’re contemplating riding the bike, and if it wasn’t for the fact that I was riding with someone else – namely George – I’d probably have opted for a session in the nice warm gym instead.  It being her ride, and her route, I didn’t even really know where we were going, other than that it was due to involve hills and Portishead, which again wasn’t all that motivating.  The hills that is, not the Portishead bit, before all you Posset residents take offence.  It’s just with hills I usually get to watch her disappear into the distance whilst I slog along behind her feeling sorry for myself.  Did I mention how crotchety I was feeling? *grin*.

If you want to see my route, you can hit the Strava link and there it will be, in all its glory, though considering that Strava are currently having capacity problems, I can’t guarantee that ;).  It was another chilly, grey, gloomy, foggy, featureless ride.  With my sunglasses relegated to the back pocket and my helmet dripping water onto my face.  Having said that…it wasn’t all that bad.  There were some hills that I haven’t been up in a long time, which is always nice:

• The fairly gentle climb up past the Walled Garden from Wrington to Redhill, having convinced George that the road around the runway would be mucky and unpleasant.  Well it is at this time of year, right? 😉
• Wraxall Hill, which is a slog, but which I remember as being worse last time I did it, an improvement aided and abetted no doubt by the nice road surface.
• The long climb along Nore Road in Portishead, where we waved in Mum & Dad’s direction and wondered where Wales had gone.  Along with the Severn.  MIA.
• The climb up the initially steep Holly Lane into Clevedon, made easier by the thought of imminent coffee.

At least with the ups you also get the downs, though this was sometimes hairier than usual.  Unfamiliar descents, with limited visibility, damp roads, and very cold hands…ick!  I put my over-gloves on at some point which made all the difference though.  Having shown you a misty pier the other day, I of course leapt at the chance to show you a slightly better version of the same sort of thing. Voila – Clevedon Pier.  Equally atmospheric, but rather more intact.

We had our coffee stop at Tiffin, on the seafront.  Talk about busy!  We were lucky enough to get the last table, and some people ended up outside which, on a day like this, takes some dedication.  The reviews at TripAdvisor may be behind this – it’s clearly very popular, and we may well have been a little under-dressed ;).

Mind you, all the coming and going meant people kept opening the (large) door that we were sat next to and letting the cold air in, which ain’t all the pleasant when you’re sitting in clammy lycra.  However that not withstanding, it was all very pleasant.  The staff were friendly, they didn’t flinch at our non-conformist apparel, and they had two types of gluten-free cake – gluten-free being amongst the things I can risk eating.  No guarantees, but it’s safer than most.  My safe sticky ginger cake was nice, if more ginger than sticky, George’s toasted teacake, served with a selection of jams, looked nice, and more importantly the coffee was good.  You know me and my coffee :).  Not the cheapest in the world though – that lot came to £9.90…

So that left me caffeine-fuelled, with my painkillers topped up (yet more caffeine in there) and raring to get home and warm up.  I think the fog had marginally lifted, and the temperature raised likewise, as it wasn’t quite as chilly setting off as it might have been, even when I stopped again for more photos.

George is not going to thank me for all these photos but since she rarely comes out these days, I feel the need to over-compensate for her absence and immortalise her here while I can – so there :P.  We took the fairly direct route home – Yatton, Sandford, Winscombe.  I was going pretty well, and George was kind enough to suggest I’d been towing her around all morning, which is a nice thought, but since her back light is better than mine (the batteries on mine are running out) I think she was really only sitting there for safety reasons ;).

Having been up Winscombe Hill the other day to get my Strava QOM (as you do) I decided we were going back up that way again.  George did try and talk me out of starting at the bottom, but since she’s usually the one making me go up hills, I decided I wasn’t having any of it *grin*.  And I made it up faster today too, so clearly it was all well worthwhile.  Oh dear, oh dear, what is becoming of me…? 😉

George, having had gear problems all day, and not wanting to push her still recuperating knee too much, was a little behind me, so I had time to get the camera out again, and catch her one more time before we went down the bypass to home.  Tee hee hee…*grin*.

I can’t be bothered with multiple sets of stats anymore – so for the time being, these are those from Strava, even if they do make me slower:

Cycling time: 3:06:11 hrs
Distance: 45.1 miles
AVS: 14.5 mph.
ODO: 12544 miles

After all that pre-ride preamble, it went surprisingly well, and I’m very glad I went, as it was good to catch up with George, and riding on my own can get a bit boring.  My legs were feeling pretty good on the flat, but a little less so on a couple of the hills, so I’m thinking it might be wise to take it a little easy over the next couple of days before the Lionheart.  It’s the first 100 miler of the season and it’s inevitably going to be hard work.  It would probably help if I remembered to drink and eat properly too – not easy when the weather is like this, and when I’m not sure what I can eat…  Talking of weather, the forecast is not brilliant, but that’s alright, I don’t need a weather forecast, because I know what it’s going to be like.  Foggy! :D.

I am SO bored of fog.  Bring me sunshine, please?  It’s bad enough when you wake up to fog and it burns off just as you get in from a ride, as usually happens, but at the moment it just never seems to go away :(.

Since I have the Lionheart on Sunday, and a fairly long ride planned on Thursday with George, today I was planning on just doing the usual kind of loop.  You know, taking it easy, enjoying the ride, and coming home.  But the fog makes everything boring.  It is uninspiring.  Featureless, monotonous and drab.  Chilly and damp too.  Not the best for doing a not challenging, not exciting, very predictable, route.  So I decided to do something different.  Sadly I will also have to admit to being minorly motivated by Strava, and hill climbs, and to my competitive side peeping through just a little too…

So I decided to do one of my seaside loops, but one of the ones that includes hills, to spice things up a little.  Starting with my bete noire, which did not go particularly well.  I guess I didn’t push as hard as I could have done, and I definitely slackened off at the top when it became clear that today was not a record breaking day.  Maybe it’s hard to aim for a goal that you can’t see?  Maybe last night’s red wine wasn’t the best form of carb loading?  But 15:12 to the top is not the end of the world, it’s still towards the top of my table, and now it’s on Strava I can compete with me and everyone else, knowing that there’s room for improvement, right? 😉

My fog covered sunglasses went into the back pocket, and it was down t’other side to Churchill and round the back roads to Sandford, where I discovered that the road to Puxton was closed.  I was in the process of figuring out what to do about this when the nice (probably very bored at having to sit there all day and manage traffic) man got out of his van, moved the barrier, and gestured me through.  Apparently the way was passable for those on two wheels, as is often the case, if I wanted to use it.  Which clearly I did.  They’re re-laying patches of the road surface so there were a couple of bits where I had to walk and carry the bike, but other than that it was indeed rideable.  And blissful since you know there’s no traffic around to trouble you.  Gotta love closed road events ;).

On to what I was fully expecting to be my next cyclo-cross section – getting up and over the scaffolding bridge at Wick.  But no.  It was not to be!  The temporary bridge had completely gone, and once again I was ushered through.  I was allowed to cycle over the shiny new bridge, which is now open to pedestrians and cyclists if not yet to traffic.  How exciting is that?  Trailblazing!  Well I thought it was exciting.  There’s a lot to be said for novelty value, and precious little of it to be had when you’ve been cycling around here for a few years *grin*.

I nipped down and took a photo of it afterwards just for you, which was good of me no?  It’s a pretty substantial bit of kit, so I’m thinking that the “Weak Bridge” signs at either end of the road may now well be superfluous…

The fog continued unabated, along with the associated lack of wind, which did at least help with the flying along feeling.  Or more to the point not hinder it.  Me and my happy legs flew all the way around the wiggly bits, along the straight at Sand Bay, and up the beautifully re-surfaced hill from the Commodore Hotel.  A decent road surface does make it easier, if not easy, if you see what I mean :).  The views, usually so nice from the coast road, were non-existent.  It’s not easy taking photos when everything is being so uniformly boring, but I thought the old pier was looking nice and atmospheric.

It being a grey and miserable day, Weston was a relatively pleasant place to be, in a getting from A to B sense that is.  Not too many eejots in metal boxes, and not that many pedestrian grockles, but still too many traffic lights.  It does amaze me how slowly it is possible to cross the road…I mean really, do you not have places to be?  Candy floss to buy?  Fruit machines to feed?

I do like the long straight seafront section through Weston, mostly because I enjoy the fact that all the cars expect you to be doing no speed at all, whereas actually it’s possible to fair hurtle along there.  You do have to be a bit wary of SMIDSYs misjudging you though…but since it’s wide and fast and flat at least you can usually see them about to be prats even if they haven’t seen you!  Anyway, time to go up some more up, at the appropriately named Uphill, and then over Bleadon Hill proper.  I stopped 3/4 of the way up the latter because I love the way this tree has been allowed to grow around the cables, rather than being cut back completely.   There’s been a lot of tree-hacking going on around here lately, so it’s quite nice to see one left to do its own thing with minimal interference.  It was also time to take the next dose of pills, so two birds with one stone ‘n all that.

I wasn’t finished with hills yet. No siree jim bob.  After another nice descent, and some quiet country lane meandering, I had the option of going right at Loxton and home past the Webbington, but I had time in hand, a two hour rule to stick to, and besides which I was enjoying myself…so I took the left turn.  I don’t like wimping out 🙂  So it was along past Christon, and up the little kick of a hill to Banwell Castle, which can be a stinker but wasn’t too bad today.  Yes, we have a castle.  Kinda.  I gather it probably doesn’t count for castle purists but hey, it’s not like there are that many of them to go around out here, so beggars can’t be choosers ;).  It has peacocks too, but today they were only audible not visible.

See basically I’m doing all these ups to get me my downs.  You spotted that right?  OK, so I’m shallow *grin*.  And the down down the main road to Winscombe is a lot of fun :).  That just left me with one more hill to go up; the ever challenging Winscombe Hill.  Plod plod plod.  To be fair hills are much easier when you’ve done them before, because you know you can do them even if it’s going to take a while, and I’ve done this one a fair few times now :).

Once at the top there was a brief lull in proceedings for a quick drink and a foggy photo of the descent…before picking up speed proper and getting my favourite zoom home.  Irritatingly there was just enough wind around to make the bypass slightly underwhelming on the fun front, but such is life :).

As ever, we have the whole compare and contrast joy for my figures, since I haven’t yet completely gone over to the Strava dark side.  Time is coming…  So according to the usual cycling computer – even tweaked to check wheel size – I did this:

Cycling time: 2:13:01 hrs
Distance: 36.73 miles
AVS: 16.5 mph.

According to my route on Strava –  I did this:

Cycling time: 2:13:18 hrs
Distance: 34.0 miles
AVS: 15.3 mph.

ODO 12499

Being as I’m the only girl doing the Strava thing around here I’ve turned into the Queen of the Mountains in about 8 places around here now, which is laughable, but hey, if the crown fits ;).  I think I’d probably have been better off trying to beg, borrow, or steal a Garmin to use for the season, so as to get accurate figures, rather than adding this whole unnecessary competitive element to my riding – comparing myself to all the others out there is not good for my PMA!  It’s not a race, right? 😉