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Penzance Wheelers Gruppo Sociale (the slow/social group) Sunday ride 1/4/2012.
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This week’s social group comprised mainly regulars, but our number was supplemented by two guests, Emma from Hayle and Steve (a visitor from the Midlands, holidaying in God’s country). Our football (soccer not NFL) team sized group, lead as usual by Dave Henderson, enjoyed a sunny, if chilly ride o...
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Sun Sun Sun....4 become 3.... becomes sprint session....
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With the clocks going forward this could mean only one thing! British summertime is here! Yay....and there was much rejoice! Wardrobe selection was easy..shorts, short sleave top and gillet. Just as well as once again I was running late, so just a quick bowl of Alpen and a coffee, before going up to th...
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Group 2 ride 25/3/2012
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Group 2 ride 25/3/2012 Clocks changed so it felt a little colder at 9.00am, but once we set off, warmed up pretty quickly. Reasonable size group (Lloyd, Steve, Gail, John G, Gail, Cannodale Gary and myself – think I remembered everyone) saw us head over to Gulval, where bizarrely we passed Dave’s gr...
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"Social" group ride 25/3/2012
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Write up to follow ..... http://www.mapmyride.com/workout/106567868
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Mothers day Middle Group ride.
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Leaving home at 8am from Helston it was quite chilly with a cold breeze in my face as I headed toward Long Rock, another good turnout of riders in all three groups. I was tempted with going in the fast group but just felt it was to cold to push myself too hard, Lloyd had a route planned which would take us to th...
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SUN! (and a bit of rain.)
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I must of spent a good hour this morning checking the weather, then rechecking it, whilst getting my kit on and having breakfast. Will it rain or won't it? The decision was made based on this......if I took the winter bike, it'll be sunny all day. If I took the race bike, it'll rain! So best bike it was then...
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Eeeeee...turned out nice again!
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PZW Grupetto tranquillo 18/3/2012An 07:35 phone call from Group Captain Henderson saw me drafted in to lead the slow/tranquil/social/slow/group 3 ride. As Dave and Lloyd had previously agreed to make Chacewater Garden Centre our coffee stop of the day Lloyd and I decided to stick to that. I lead ou...
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Sunday Socialising 4/3/2012
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Social group ride 4/3/2012 Back under the command of "Big D" a.k.a. "The Don" a.k.a. Group Captain Henderson this week, Terry, Gerry, Mark, Patrick "the pathfinder", Maddy, Janet, Peter and I headed off in the decidely blustery conditions for The Grange cafe at...
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Wind.....Hill......Wind......Stupidly strong Gust......wind......
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Wind.....Hill......Wind......Stupidly strong Gust......wind...... http://www.endomondo.com/workouts/kPxloA6s0NM?post_id=581514537_264781316935834#_=_ The weather forcasters had for some reason got the weather report spot on.....(http://www.meteogroup.co.uk/) I use thi...
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Grand day out....
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http://www.endomondo.com/workouts/39457073 Richard had planned a devious route for the fast group today that would take in a large loop via Ruan High Lanes and back across the King Harry Ferry.. I woke up and was praying for dry roads....but alas was not to be, so big heavy bertha winter bike was th...
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Grupetto tranquillo a.k.a. the Social group 19/2/2012
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A lovely, breezy, sunny, cool February morning and dry roads, unusually I was late leaving home in Hayle, but thankfully Dave H had decided to head through St Erth and Hayle on the outbound leg of the ride and I met the group at Rosevidney. Another good turnout for February with 13 of us (and an even bigge...
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Social Group Ride 22/1/2012
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It was grey, damp and breezy as 9 PZW socialists, socialists, social group members left from Longrock. Destination .........Trevarno. Dave “The Don” lead us along familiar roads, through Marazion, Goldsithney and Millpool before tackling the Col de Tregonning. Despite a slight divergence of...
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Group 1 08/01/2012
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Fast Group report 08/01/2012 http://www.endomondo.com/workouts/33383967 I awoke bright and early this morning determined to get some miles in before the club ride start at 9am. I just about managed this and was able to get a few extra miles over Nancledra and Cripplease. I arrived at...
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Medio Group 08/01/2012
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The forecast was for drizzle, and that’s just what we got, despite the fact that as I was riding over to Long Rock, patches of blue were visible in the sky. The 3rd group headed out West, so dunno about them. Meantime, the intermediate group turned their faces east, on a route that was to take them via Hay...
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Xmas Breakfast Ride 18/12/11
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Cold, showery and nor very light-so the day begins, after an early warm up loop I arrived at Longrock to be greeted by a sizeable group of riders ready to make their way out to 'The Apple Tree' cafe at Lands End. A change from smokey joes and if I might say, a most welcome change from a cafe where if you ask for...
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Medio Group Ride 11.12.11
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Good ride today, it all started with some confusion! The slower group left heading with the wind in the Marazion direction.The fast group left against the wind in a Lands End direction, which left four in the middle group. Headed by Mike we set off towards PZ, Mike was telling me about his late night and...
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Medio group ride 27.11.11 - or - Superman joins PZW
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A flat start to the Medio group ride – Lloyd had a puncture to repair before we could set off.The cafe at Geevor tin mine was the destination – so naturally we headed off in the opposite direction toward St Erth. The gravitational pull of West Penwith turned us left at Hayle and up past Trencrom hill to Na...
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Group 1 Club Ride 27th November 2011
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Group 1 today had the most unique of routes, initially heading up north cliffs road to Portreath bound for Perranporth, before deciding beans were not good enough there so a change of plan, we headed to the chocolate factory on the lizard! Only four of us made it to the cafe as some people had to leave ear...
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20/11/11 'gruppeto uno' ride report
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With a misty Turneresque sunrise over Mounts Bay and temperatures requiring no more than armwarmers and jersey (yes of course there were shorts etc!) If nothing else, the day was already excellent. After getting a bit paranoid about the disdainful stares that group 1 seems to get these days, a smal...
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'Medio' group ride 20/11/11
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'Medio' group ride 20/11/11 No Garry James this week - self-confessed chocolate binge at fault, perhaps? Eight of us opted for the middle group - Mike, JG, Spanish, Graham, Gail, Caroline, Steve & Sol headed out along a sun-drenched PZ seafront to Mousehole, up the very steep Raginnis hill then...
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Social group ride 20/11/2011 - Lands End
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Social group ride 20/11/2011 - Lands End You can tell that Summer has departed and Autumn has arrived when, after a clear, rainless night, the roads really glisten with moisture. Such were the road conditions this morning when we mustered at Longrock. The social group, some 11 of us, having been bri...
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Social Group ride 6/11/2011
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Arriving from Hayle and finding nobody else at Longrock, I completed 5 laps of the “Longrock triangle” before anyone other PZWs appeared this morning. The cool, but sunny conditions had obviously encouraged me to start out from Hayle earlier than usual! Given that the fast, non book-reading, hard...
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Group 1 1st Camborne ride.....nice and steady.
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Obviously the threat of a long day in the saddle at a fairly reasonable pace (15-17mph average) was too much for some and all but three of us started from Camborne. I'm not going into all the ins and outs of it all....but when it is agreed by majority of continuing the Camborne ride and nearly everyone goe...
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First Group ride report October 30th 2011
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Not much to really report on today.... The weather was grey...misty...foggy. The roads were wet...muddy..etc, etc. The dawdling group opted for Scarletts and to be honest, I hadn't really given it much thought as to where we were going today, Both myself and a couple of others decided upon Bissoe Ca...
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No dawdling Ride report October 23rd 2011
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A wet road outside my house and the threat of rain meant mudguards and winter bikes were the order of the day again. An easy ride down to Longrock with Lord Garwell on his Ti winter steed meant that he had seen the same pointless BBC forecast that I had watched, as all the weather did all day was be a bit wind...
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LANDS END 100 (105.7 actualy)
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A Dark early start hit home that we are now past mid october, not really cold though and light winds hinted at a potentialy decent day for this 1st Sportive in this area. Signed on and met up with Ed, Hari and Lloyd 'I think I'll be doing the 100 miler' Peters and rolled out out just before 8 am. Hari and a cou...
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The Sunday club ride 18/9/2011
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At HQ on Tuesday night Grp. Captain Henderson asked me if I’d lead the Group 2/Social ride on Sunday. In my weakened state I easily agreed and last night saw me pouring over MapMyRide trying to plan a route, factoring in who’d be going, which cafe we’d stop at, the wind direction and general inclemency o...
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Fast/Race/Group 1 Ride Report Sunday 4th September.
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Fast/Race/Group 1 Ride Report Sunday 4th September. A good blast! http://http://www.endomondo.com/workouts/21505596 Listening to the rain beating on the roof of my conservatory last night made me think about taking the Steel barge with its recently refitted mud guards out for the ride Sunday...
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Slow/Intermediate/Lazy/Bone idle/Recovery Ride etc etc to Mrs Miggins! Cake!
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Listening to the rain beating down out side at 7am told me it was going to be a wet start to the day. A quick check off the BBC "We make it up" Weather report said showers for the day.... So 3/4 autumn bibs, arm warmers and over shoe socks was the order of the day. I had already decided that today was going to be a...
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Slow/Intermediate/Lazy/Bone idle delete as appropriate group ride report! 04/09/11
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Jonathan Butt Good number turned out on a reasonable morning. Our group followed the same route as the quicker / fast / man / number 1 / plum / *** please delete as appropriate group, until we reached Goldsithney where we decided to continue towards Leedstown on a roundabout way to Lands End. (That was...
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