Coffee stop in a 60km ride?
Have a word fella 
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Coffee stops are for recovery rides.
What does it say about your core temperature if you want to chuck half a pint of hot milk in a large cappuccino into it?
330ml cold Belgian tripel as you warm down for home… 
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. These days, if a coffee stop isn’t involved then I’m not really interested.
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Yep, ignore poet he’s wrong 
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At the end is ok?
Weird stopping mid ride but most don’t think that way on here.
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Best stop is like 30-40 mins from the end so that folks can decide to hang out or truck on imo
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These days, I only cycle with 2 other people, or on my own. My closest mate is like me, affectively retired from long distance nonsense so we very much align when it comes to coffee stops. Our other buddy is still a bit of a monster; sub 9 at Roth; Norseman black t-shirt etc, so when he’s around we just sit behind him until he decides to stop for a coffee.
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Great mate !
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So after my little ramble earlier, I’ve followed up with a run in the sun. Nothing silly or complicated, just 7 odd kms on the road in this glorious weather. Vest and hat required. Lovely! Was harder than it should have been, but this is the way of things right now.
Also my buddies are planning an easy 12km tomorrow evening on the Woodbury Common route - which is more rolling/lumpy than hilly. Plus a good few of them did a super hard race yesterday, so they’re all knackered or not going! 
So the pace should be nice and relaxed!
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Trained twice today.
30 minute spin class first thing.
At lunch, another functional fitness workout.
1.5k hard run, 3 continuous sets of dumbbell push press, kettlebell thrusters, kettlebell deadlifts, 1.5k hard run.
Shattered.
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Golden rule of group cycles/runs is to invite your slower mate
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Sunday
First ride outside over 5km (which was a few kms buying a second hand bike) since last July.
26.7km – 58 minutes
5km easy run after bike (not straight off the bike though, although semi soon after)
103.1km run week 
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Strength/physio
Barbell squats 3x5 55kg
Barbell rows 5x5 55kg
Barbell bench 5x5 55kg
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The bleeper has made swimming a little stressful. Last night I ditched it and just went for a steady swim. No watch either. Felt really nice. Got to 1500m (according to the dodgy mental odometer… it might have been 1300, it might have been 1700…). No idea what pace but didn’t want to stop so carried on for 2000m. Might do the same this evening.
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I remember when I swam a lot the bleeper was great, right until it wasnt. Fatigue, motivation whatever dropped and it just became a reminder you werent hitting your targets anymore.
Good idea to drop it for a bit and then pick it back up and add quarter/half a second until its comfortable again.
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I found the same, great to start with but then became demotivating.
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2025•86 - 15km Run with 10km Tempo
Mondays have become long tempo day, either 15km or 10km on a bi-weekly rotation.
10km was 45:26 with the last 1km 10s per km under the average so maybe a 43:xx to low 44:xx 10km is in the legs.
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Yesterday was 15-20 minutes gentle spin on the turbo whilst I tried to install MyWhoosh.
This morning was a run of just under 10k. I’m feeling it in my legs from my run on Sunday. That’s all good though and to be expected.
I’m happy with how things are right now. I was expecting to be in a worse place.
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45 minute spin class.
Extremely hard. Shattered since.
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Monday am 6k easy run with zl
Monday pm 30min TRX and plyometrics
Tuesday am 28k run, 1st 6k easy with zl, then rest faster
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