I spent a very pleasant three or four hours pootling around the highway and byways surrounding Holmfirth with a colleague who lives in the area.
I found it a a wonderful experience, full of climbs and descents both on road and off road. I found it really funny when my Turkish colleague, who's English is still improving commented on the fact that I do not appear to breathe on the climbs...once I recovered from the laughing fit, I added panting to her vocabulary...
The area has the West Yorkshire cycle route passing through it and the roads are just crying out for a return visit...I saw quite a few expensive clad and equipped cyclists out on the roads and I will have get myself out there soon for some riding.
When I think of my fitness levels last year: ... then I would have seen the area as impossible terrain now I just want to get out there and have go. What a transformation of mind and body over the past 15 months.
"vernon levy" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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When I think of my fitness levels last year: ... then I would have seen
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area as impossible terrain now I just want to get out there and have go. What a transformation of mind and body over the past 15 months.
Ain't cyling wonderful?
Indeed. My colleagues look on me as some sort of superman, especially since a lot are 25 years younger than me and struggle up the stairs. I tell them I'm just an ordinary old bloke who bikes to work, but they think I'm some sort of freak who does the impossible ;-)
'ere, you aren't one of those three old blokes doing daft things are you? Can't abide daft things... --
Given the chance - yes!
I'd like to grow old disgracefully and become Compo - what a role model :-)
I've been out and bought an OS map of the area along with a West Yorkshire Cycle Route map that cuts through the area. Although I think I'll like the cycling - I've no aspirations about becoming a resident of the area. It'll make a nice change from the Aire Valley and Wharfe valley routes that I've been cycling for the past year.
