Well done to Bradley Wiggins for coming the first British rider to win the Tour de France. And to Mark Cavendish for claiming his fourth consecutive final-stage victory.
Big thanks to ITV1 HD and ITV4 for showing it live today!
RST Pro Series 1 Piece Leather Suit local woods
I had great fun putting on my RST Pro Series 1 Piece Leather Suit, then my cycling waterproofs on over the top, so no one could tell what I was wearing. Then I cycled to some local woods to take these photos! Hope you like them, after how hot I got cycling there!!
I will leave you with the cycling statistics. Which will give you an better idea for how long I was geared for up!!
Route statistics:-
- Distance: 8.91 miles.
- Time: 00:42:48 (h:m:s).
- Avg Speed: 12.5 mph.
- Max Speed: 31.6 mph.
- Elevation Gain: 85 meters.
- Min Elevation: 31 meters.
- Max Elevation: 76 meters.
Data from: Garmin Connect.
June 2012 cycling statistics
Here are my cycling statistics for June 2012. Could have done better, ended the month doing 50.2 miles less than I did in June 2011 :(.
So far my yearly stands at 2,720.9 miles. Total miles since April 2003 is now at 24,346.7.
Here is the data from June 2012:-
- Total cycles: 17
- Total Distance: 406.39 miles
- Total Time: 31:07:27 (h:m:s)
- Avg Speed: 13.1 mph
- Max Time: 3:17:11 (h:m:s)
- Max Speed: 33.6 mph
- Avg Distance: 23.91 miles
- Max Distance: 41.21 miles
Data from: Garmin Connect.
Here are my favourite cycling photos from the month:-
Third time cycling to work this year
So far this year, I have cycled to and from work three times. That may not sound much, but it still comes to around 138 miles. Since the round trip is 46 miles. If Google is to believed I have saved £23.40 in fuel.
Check out the following two pages, to see the route I take to and from work:-
The only bad thing about cycling in a skinsuit is…
The only bad thing about cycling in a skinsuit is… when you have to stop and have a loo break!
Hope you like these photos, more can be found at www.gordon-valentine.com/zenphoto/me/2012/page/7.
Place’s I have cycled to from Little Bytham (updated 14/06/2012)
Just posted an updated map of all the places, I have cycled to from Little Bytham.
More cycling maps can be found at www.gordon-valentine.com/zenphoto/cycling/, which also include the End to End cycle maps.
Waltham TV Transmitter cycle loop
Happy days, at long last I have done my first long cycle of the month. Till now, only been doing 20 miles cycles, mainly due to weather not being at it’s best for cycling. Put it this way, I last went out a cycle on the 7th June and my cycling shoes are still not fully dry.
I am very pleased with how this cycle turned out. Ended up covering lots of roads I have never been on before. Even found my local TV Transmitter :).
I will now leave you with the route map, elevation graph, route statistics and photos.
Route map:-
The dark blue section of the route, shows new roads I covered during the cycle.
Elevation graph:-
Route statistics:-
- Distance: 40.70 miles.
- Time: 3:01:02 (h:m:s).
- Avg Speed: 13.5 mph.
- Max Speed: 28.6 mph.
- Elevation Gain: 441 meters.
- Min Elevation: 43 meters.
- Max Elevation: 163 meters.
Data from: Garmin Connect.
Photos from the cycle:-
One of the most influential cycling blogs
Just noticed that this website is showing up in the “The most influential blogs Cycling – Sort by influence”. Right now it’s showing at number 8 out of 20! Don’t believe me then check out labs.ebuzzing.co.uk/top-blogs/cycling.
Guess, I better start posting even more cycling related stuff to see, if I get it any higher!
May 2012 cycling statistics
Here are my cycling statistics for May 2012. Well pleased with my statistics for this month.
So far my yearly stands at 2,314.5 miles. Total miles since April 2003 is now at 23,940.3.
Here is the data from May 2012:-
- Total cycles: 21
- Total Distance: 599.65 miles
- Total Time: 47:52:33 (h:m:s)
- Avg Speed: 12.5 mph
- Max Time: 5:31:03 (h:m:s)
- Max Speed: 33.1 mph
- Avg Distance: 28.55 miles
- Max Distance: 71 miles
Data from: Garmin Connect.
Here are my favourite cycling photos from the month:-
May’s 2012 most popular photos
Below are the top three most looked at photos on this website during May 2012.
Number 1 (123 views) : PBK Team Long Sleeve Skinsuit + HJC ZF-10 Karlie helmet
Number 2 (116 views) : Rutland Water
Number 3 (112 views) : RST Pro Series 1 Piece Leather Suit
