MC's Cycling Diary

Date: 17 February 2017 Total distance: 308 Kilometers Start Time: 12:40 am 17 February 2017 Return Time:  4:20 am 18 February 2017 With: Rajkumar Khot Altitude Profile: Lavelle Road – Mysuru Airport - Lavelle Road After completing the SR series ride for the 2016-17 year I did not have any plans on riding brevets during the year. However, Rajkumar had still not completed his SR and when he enquired about riding the 300 BRM to Mysuru Airport I agreed. The route was not new and as such I was not keen on the route, however it was an opportunity to ride and as I did not have any other plans, I opted to ride. The ride was starting at 12:30 pm in the afternoon. Rather odd considering that the rides had always started in the early morning hours or in the evening. The timing was set probably keeping in mind that the cut-off time for the 400 BRM and 300 BRM should be the same, which was 8:30 am in the morning. As the 400 BRM had started at 5:30 am the 300 BRM starters ha

Date: 4 February 2017 Total distance: 88 Kilometers Start Time: 6:00 am Return Time:  12:30 pm With: Dennis Nicholas Altitude Profile: Koramangala – Manchanabele Dam - Koramangala It was just 4 days since I had returned from the Kodai-Munnar-Kochi cycle trip. However, 4 days without any riding of substance was hitting me. I wanted to get back on the road and at the same time I knew that I had not recovered sufficiently from the ride and therefore did not want to push too hard. I wanted it to be a relaxed ride without any climbing just to get the body going. The possible locations were Chikka Tirupathi and Manchanabele. I checked on the group if anyone would join and did not get any response. I checked with Dennis if he wanted to ride and he was game. I told him that it would be a relaxed ride and that we should start at 5:00 am and that we would be back by 11:30 am. We decided to meet at Hudson circle at 5:00 am. As has been the trend lately, I missed the alarm