good morning today's ride is going to be a little tour of the peak district and
i'm actually going to meet an actual ultra endurance cycle one of my friends nikki
like i know you're like i know you all like congratulate me on the ride that i do but
the stuff she does is like on real and i've messed up the route because i've come up stones
you saw earlier and i thought i'd put a little home moss and this climb is not home off so
it's definitely a mystery tour off the peak district so yeah it's gonna be about 170k so
but the weather again is beautiful
so i'll catch you at the top of this i don't even know what this climb is
oh yeah this is home mask it's just i've never come from that way before
just kind of sprung me out on the road that i do recognize so that's it up there
how good is this climb though look at it i'm just at the top and i know i get super excited
when it's when it's hills and it's warm and there's loads of views but i'm just gonna say
it again i just love it i just love riding my bike in the sunshine also as well homeos after
valley of the tears felt pretty much flat so i think i guess i guess if you could want to make
some of your local hills feel easier just go and do loads and loads of half
hard stuff put yourself like through it and then your local stuff will feel easy just look at this
look at this beauty look at the views look at the road look at the hills
look at my sweaty face but really quickly going on from like the endurance out video
someone said what would you use or what would you take with you on a short ride and this is what i'm
taking it's going to be about 170k but it's warm so i don't have to really carry a lot extra top
tube bag the food and gopro repair kit and there's lights in case it gets a little bit misty later
look at this this is langston
i'm gonna say it again but oh this weather these roads just beautiful
beautiful this is nikki nikki so i was saying before how a lot of my viewers would be like
oh you're doing this really long ride like and i was like no no you do really long rides no
yes you do yes you do tell us some of the races that you've done
longest race i've done is trans alba how far is that um okay
second see she's she is fast and she's strong main goal this year is transcontinental which is
massive four thousand kilometers across europe end of july and honestly she's just insane like okay
then i'll stop like blowing smoke up your ass come on just don't drop me because she's fast
look what we found she's pilfering it she's found this clever little iphone
charger and i was like is this yours she's like no but i might have it
oh even lights up oh my god nice snazzy 101k 2 100 meters and now we're gonna go somewhere
i don't know what i've told you but i love this place right it's a i'll not spoil a surprise but
it was my favorite place to go to on a school trip and one of my friends was from there
and it's a very famous place have a stitch no not here where are we going to go next all right
not like this shop no no need to local it's in the history books right let's go
the place where i was excited to go is eem it's famous for being the plague village so i think
it was like fifteen hundreds um basically the whole village had to basically isolate because
they got bubonic plague and there's just so many little artifacts like the boundary stone there's
i think it's mumperson's well or grave anyway i love it it's like proper little quaint village the
temperature is 20. i was saying the temperature is 23.8 and whatever you had i love those scorching
hot sweets bloody soup in israel i was like i was just like a really cold kind of park
do you have any other tips for people that might be starting out trying to get into the ultra or
endurance practice your fat time and just try and minimize the fat even to the length
of like wear a watch of the stopwatch on it and every time you stop say i'm just gonna stop this
smart time how do you deal with when you're really struggling with it music really helps
me so i just put some really loud rock music loud just drown out the thoughts and the pain exactly
the best thing you can do is just keep going yeah and there's going to be those [ __ ] moments when
you want to stop but it always comes good again even if you know you're riding at walking pace
it's still it's all about forward progress and i think people stop because they're either bored
you know like fed up with the ride or the route
well enough so like just keep going and eat soup and have espresso yeah you're feeling love then
definitely have something to eat because like nine times out of ten it might be because you've just
not eaten it before drunk enough you might not have even realized it yeah buddy up that soupy
saying we've got an idea where we are we've come out and then that's as far as we know
i think we're going towards chapel
chapel and frisch where are we heading up to chapel oh where is it i thought that
i sensed it and then gloss up although i did pop the root so i should have some idea
rim breaks for forever it's up to the co-op so i get a smoothie and nikki was like
she had her hands all over my rims she was like are they wearing and i looked
and then she was like it was like when we were running along there was disciple where i was like
that is exactly why i don't like this i like to just do a adjustment
nikki's gone she's split off back to go home it's been such a good day though like the weather
really good climbs really good my legs are thin a little bit now uh but the one thing
kind of spoil it some some of the cars have just been i'm not saying to put anyone off
but there's just no patience for anyone
i don't want to finish this video being all sad but yeah i see the draw more of gravel my bike
so about 15k left and it just gets a little bit busier so i thought i would end the video here
where it's nice and green so nikki honestly she is just so so nice i'm gonna leave her instagram to
go and follow her and her adventures because she's just got some big big stuff planned this year so
i'm gonna be supporting her oh link to my strava for today's ride below if you want to have a look
at the hills that we climbed and the route we took basically it was just a big old loot around the
peak street right see you next video oh i need to burp really bad [ __ ] me back and burp me
you're very patient i'd like to get that camera out of my face
oh god i nearly fell back then jesus cried i lost my balance that good
welcome to the peak welcome to the peak so i messed up