http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Given a Lesson in Ascending This Morning en Wed, 13 May 2026 02:59:58 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3494#post-36504 Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:52:23 +0000 wingpig 36504@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A few weeks back I popped out once or twice with a calorie-estimating GPS-tracking app running to try and estimate how many laps of the hill it would take to counteract one standard Stockwell &amp; Cohen ISB chocolate chip muffin (two, including Abercorn Avenue on the way out and looping back both times round Old Church Lane then Meadowfield Gardens rather than just going straight downhill past the Crags) but haven't otherwise done anything which could be called hill training since I went up Kaimes at lunchime a few times to see what it was like when it was mentioned as a target Twelve Steepest. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3494#post-36500 Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:43:36 +0000 kaputnik 36500@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>We can aqlways re-run the 12 hills ride, and you can carry an extra-heavy bag full of flour and sugar. Or cakes for the rest of us. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3494#post-36498 Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:37:09 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 36498@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm going to start working through the <a href="http://ccgi.pinniped.plus.com/cols/">Cols d'Ecosse</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3494#post-36497 Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:28:56 +0000 Min 36497@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>(Right click and copy it into another tab to see the full picture) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3494#post-36496 Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:23:59 +0000 Min 36496@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If you had worn this</p> <p><img src="http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y48/20050314/00002.jpg"></p> <p>You would have gone much faster </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3494#post-36495 Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:23:06 +0000 DaveC 36495@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Try West Lomond hill in Fife out of Falkland. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3494#post-36491 Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:55:56 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 36491@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ah, much too kind, both. I need to work on my climbing. Tomorrow I go round Arthur's Seat AND the Royal Mile... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3494#post-36487 Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:49:50 +0000 kaputnik 36487@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>From reading Wingpig's blips, he has also been doing weight training by hauling the wingpiglet around the place </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3494#post-36483 Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:28:39 +0000 wingpig 36483@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>In your defence, you had been out last night and have only been doing that route for <a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3040#post-32087">two months</a>; being woken at twenty past five by a gurning toddler every morning probably just makes me more alert and energised at half-past eight. Plus I had two energy-rich cakes yesterday afternoon and tend to start sweating much more noticeably only when I reach the heated and unventilated car park. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3494#post-36481 Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:12:30 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 36481@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ah. Just seen the spotted thread.... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3494#post-36480 Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:11:58 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 36480@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Right! Where were you? Hmmm? Eh?</p> <p>The indignity of it all!</p> <p>I <em>was</em> ever so <em>slightly</em> slower than normal, but anything about feeling a little ropey this AM just sounds like an excuse, and even at full fitness I would have been miles behind.</p> <p>Though actually the camera-whipping-out-for-a-shot-ability was aided by me getting caught by a red light. So nerr. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3494#post-36479 Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:07:33 +0000 amir 36479@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>He even had time to take a photo! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3494#post-36474 Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:44:21 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 36474@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I thought my times up the Royal Mile were getting respectable, until this morning I chanced up Mr Wingpig heading the same way and I was quite simply massacred on the slope. He didn't even have the good grace to look out of breath with a bead of sweat on the brow when I caught up after he'd waited. Pah. And here's me supposedly training in the hope of getting a place on the Etape du Tour next year with my brother... </p>