Looks great. Love a technical trail!
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Yes, you keep your heart rate in that zone when you drive at that speed, so 25 average in my case
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Took Mrs S on a bike ride to a lovely country pub for Sunday lunch in West Sussex.
Got there, and was told that unless we’d reserved a table we could only have a ploughman’s! Never been in that situation before. Potential for a domestic increased significantly!
A quick beer was had, and then hot footed it to an “old reliable” pub, and Sunday lunch was procured. Domestic bliss restored 
Extra wine was drunk - so was a train back to Brighton after !
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Nine hour trailride yesterday. Very tired today! My phone ran out of battery four hour into the ride. Used both batteries. 190%.
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Top spot for lunch
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Looks awesome. Trails look interesting without being too technical
Technical enough for most. But not hell. There is a lot of vertical edges up to 50cm both up and down, but it goes with some momentum. I can take pictures of more tech stuff another day. 
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Breakfast on Southsea beach, Hampshire, UK.
Mileage: negligible
Breakfast: fresh orange juice; Shreddies and granola with semi-skimmed milk and banana; Fair trade tea
Wind speed: bracing
Smiles per hour: many
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Out on my Trek e-bike - I’ve done a Bob Dylan and gone electric.
I bought the extension battery which gives me 65 miles on power 1 and enough in power 2 to fight the winds on Romney Marsh and level 3 to get up the hill home.
Stopped off at Ruckinge for lunch yesterday. How is it they thought this was going to stop Napoleon when he got across the Rhine.
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Everything changed in our preparations in the last two weeks for the London to Brighton bike ride.
Oh well.
A great day out. Last year we stopped at every official stop. This year we only stopped once at an unofficial stop for an egg, cress and mayo sandwich, black coffee and a muffin.
My longest ride…
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Job well done, impressed by both the vertical and the mileage.
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And looks like you’ve cycled to the start - so an extra 25km!
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Myself and Mrs S have been cycling through Normandy - enjoying the sun, quiet roads, food, wine and calvados.
Essential bike packing gear required for such trips 
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We were supposed to be staying with friends in Balham on the Saturday night. Unfortunately they had to cancel. Early to rise on Sunday morning to cycle to the start for 06.15 
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55 miles and 4k feet gravel ride over the NY moors and then back. Was really hot and tracks at limit of gravel bike capacity.
Now completely shattered 
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Ahead of a trip to the Dolomites at the start of July, I thought I’d be well served going out on a long ride to test my stamina and identify any movement issues which can cause problems over a longer period in the saddle. For some reason I was very groggy y’day morning and it wasn’t until after noon that I headed off to attempt a lap of Lough Neagh.
Apart from my poor time discipline and clouds of May flies along stretches of the shore, it wasn’t too bad. Long old stint in the saddle though!
Peter
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Nothing like flies sticking to suntan cream arm hairs !
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Puncture! 
God damn it…
I’ve had a good innings - a couple of years since the last one.
This one happened 8 miles into a 22 mile ride, half way up hill found a convenient neatly trimmed grass verge to settle on.
Found it a bit challenging without having my reading glasses on me, and there is a need to scrutinise the cause of puncture …so that thorn/glass/splinter/nail/flint doesn’t remain to re-puncture the spare inner-tube).
Anyway couldn’t see or feel the cause without levering the tyre off and pulling out the tube, …a sort of snake bite on underside, and my memory kicks in, these Bontager wheels are indestructible and last forever but the spoke holes are finished with edges sharp enough to cut a tube (it’s happened before)
Anyway, a part of the rim band had rolled up and exposed a part of one such spoke hole and twas here the damage done.
A replacement tube and a blast from a CO2 charger sorted out the flat, and the ride continued and completed.
Back home the rear wheel got stripped down again but this time the old Velox cloth tape removed, the rim cleaned to perfection, and the same but brand new Velox re-applied very carefully and neatly making sure the (rear wheel) off-set spoke holes are covered on the non-sprocket side. I guess a good practice would be to always remove the tyre with levers on the sprocket side so the rim tape is less likely to be disturbed with any tyre level action.
Incredibly these [Made in Taiwan] wheels are dated 06/10/2016 but the condition remains excellent with summer use only, the mileage must be around 15k, the rear bearing is smooth as silk, and they both still spin in true 
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