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MichaelDonnelly@hotmail.co.uk 
| 20 Jun 16:58 |
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Joined: 20 Jun 2012 Posts: 10 Bike: My Profile | Dear guys I'm new this site and quite new to the sport.im planning a journey from northern Spain to southern Portugal . First time I've toured any! Can any body advice me on routes? Strategy things to see things to avoid? Anything would be helpfully guys or just to chat to somebody with experience, thanks kindly mike |
| Winklesan | 23 Jun 15:10 |
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Joined: 23 Jun 2012 Posts: 9 Bike: | Hi 3 work colleagues and I are planning a charity ride from Bilbao to Gibraltar in Sepember this year. We will have a support vehicle but are struggling with a decent route we are based in Kent |
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MichaelDonnelly@hotmail.co.uk
| 24 Jun 07:30 |
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Joined: 20 Jun 2012 Posts: 10 Bike: My Profile | Hello ther I will problem have company too are your is charity based. Were looking at sept oct. Bilbao albufiera. I'm lookin for info on terrain ect. When I get info I will pass it on. Do you have a strategy on time scale of your tour eg miles per day or are you guys gonna take it easy? Mike. |
| Winklesan | 24 Jun 07:35 |
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Joined: 23 Jun 2012 Posts: 9 Bike: | We are looking will be cycling for eight days and have set a very rough route averaging 85 miles per day with one day at 116 miles. I am also struggling to get info on terrain and routes however map my ride will give terrain but isn't very user friendly. |
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MichaelDonnelly@hotmail.co.uk
| 24 Jun 07:36 |
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Joined: 20 Jun 2012 Posts: 10 Bike: My Profile | Sorry I meant probably have company and our tour is charity based. This device I'm using just writes what it wants! |
| Winklesan | 24 Jun 07:36 |
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Joined: 23 Jun 2012 Posts: 9 Bike: | We are riding for save the children |
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MichaelDonnelly@hotmail.co.uk
| 24 Jun 07:45 |
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Joined: 20 Jun 2012 Posts: 10 Bike: My Profile | Thanks for that I've driven the route your talking about an a car and van a few times from recollection the north of Spain is quite hilly and some of Madrid I'm going to ask some friends who accompanied me. Ther recollection too I have been to alicante Murcia and Malaga many times from Cheshire but used different routes sometimes through France otherwise ferry from both Santander and Bilbao. |
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MichaelDonnelly@hotmail.co.uk
| 24 Jun 14:38 |
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Joined: 20 Jun 2012 Posts: 10 Bike: My Profile | Great charity your raising for. Are charity will be help for heros. Have you done many other tours? I'm a beginner I've never been in the forces I'm joining the tour with a friend who has recently left the army after approx 18 yrs. I'm generally fit and well but haven't attempted anything like this before. Any advice is much appreciated I'm doing my regular gym workouts Monday to Friday. I generally do some wights or weight circuits nothing to intense 30 mins or so then finish on a treadmill run for about 30/40 mins covering beet tween 5/10 kilometres. My worry is fitness I'm riding with soldiers and ex soldiers. We don't have a strategy as yet we have the ride penciled in for sept oct.any training tips. I'm gonna change my runs for some spinning classes and try ridin 20/30 miles two or three times a week. Is this enough? |
| Winklesan | 24 Jun 15:26 |
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Joined: 23 Jun 2012 Posts: 9 Bike: | I have only been back on a bike for a year. I did a sixty mile charity ride last year in the pouring rain up and down some very steep hills. I tend to do a flattish 20-30 mile ride once a week and a 16-20 mile hilly ride a couple of times a week. Ius either a ten year old mountain bike or my trek road bike. I have found using the strava app on my iPhone helps with motivation. |
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MichaelDonnelly@hotmail.co.uk
| 25 Jun 15:13 |
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Joined: 20 Jun 2012 Posts: 10 Bike: My Profile | Thank you for the info. |
| Winklesan | 29 Sep 11:24 |
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Joined: 23 Jun 2012 Posts: 9 Bike: | Pr my oher forum entry we have completed the journey attached is a rough route. We actually did it in 869 miles. http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/141235597 |
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