THE STRUGGLE!
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- čas přidán 27. 05. 2018
- This was The Struggle sportive which is classed as Yorkshire's toughest route, and it was an absolute belter!
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Well done Katie lovely video don’t know how you do it but glad you do then I can see the videos.
Well done!! I did this ride last year and this year as well, very tough this year very windy, and park rash was a killer, well done.
Well done Katie. Looks an amazing route!
Well done Katie. Awesome as always 😊
Just amazing! What a gorgeous place to ride 👌🏻 Well done!
Good for you! Keep up the good work.
The view is amazing, there is that massive stone wall or cliff I would love to ride that ride. Awesome Katie, truly awesome video and ride thank you for sharing it.
your a brave tough young lady. well done on your rides...!!!!!
Fun times! Thanks for bringing us along.
Anytime my friend x
I have gone through your older vedios and actually you are a good climber and your endurance level is good
Looks fantastic 👍🏻 Well done. Any chance you can do a video on your photography as you produce some amazing photos. The cameras you use, how you attach them to your bike and the software you use to edit your videos. Thanks.
I don’t know how you do it Katie, you must be absolutely exhausted or at least should be! Glad you’re doing these epic rides and sharing them with us, you’re doing a great job 👍
Fantastic video 📹 👏 I'm relatively new to cycling but came across this event and tempted to take it on in 2021 if I can drag some of my cycling club mates along too. Videos like these are really inspiring. Any tips for training for such an epic?
Wow... your doing so well lass... another box ticked off :). Love the footage (and editing) you do during the rides, always entertaining to see what you've been up to and I always look forward to seeing them. Well done :)
Thanks so much Dave, glad you enjoy them. I love filming and making them for you all to watch 😊
There's that bonkers excitement for big hills again! Fantastic video and fantastic effort! 🚴👍🙂
Ha ha, I do love the hills!
You're a proper all-rounder Katie with your climbing and endurance riding. I reckon you'd be great at multi-day tours or stage races.
Really nice tour
Woo! Good job Katie! What a strong one you are 😁
Finally some action footage of you climbing🤘good show😊👍
I know, normally there's no-one there to do it but luckily my speedy cycling friend Richard got there and got this clip. One day.... I will get more promise! x
Well done. That looked very steep!🤨🏔
Immer schön deine Videos zu sehen, auch wenn sie in englisch sind. Immer schöne Impressionen. Mach weiter so!!!!!
Your enthusiasm is absolutely contagious! Well done!
Thanks Don! x
seven climbs and a few not categorised like the one after the climb out of Park rash which I did not expect to see a 20% climb to get out of the valley. Have to say it was an epic ride very hot and really windy (nearly blew my bike over at Park Rash and some really fast descents. Shame you did not show the descent after Park Rash more and the 20% climb out of the valley.The Moors on July 8th which is even harder with Rosedale at 93 miles.
Doing it this time😎 should be good.
I live in Harrogate to, so couldn't get a handier one to do!!!🙂
Great climb Katie, you are a real Pro now. The scenery was terrific, thanks for the video
Thanks Walter, I’ve spent most of the day sleeping today though haha. Thanks again ☺️☺️
Did this one in 2017, absolutely brutal but awesome sportive! Well done :)
Fantastic Job, that was definitely one brutal, but beautiful ride....Wow, 10k ft of elevation in 108 miles....You earned that Medal for sure
Well done to you and all 😁
9:30 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 you guys brought a smile on my day!
Well done Katie! You’re friggin’ amazing gyal!😉👍🏻
Thanks so much Steven!!!!!
Smashed it KK, proud of ya!😌
Thanks Stuart! 😊
Nice going Katie on another spectacular ride. What is your weekly distance goal or don't you have one? About elevation goal?
Hiya Fai, I don't really have one. If you look at my Strava it varies week to week. but next week will definitely be a steadier one 😊😊
Well done you :) Inspires me to try longer rides. Was wondering about your Garmin. I'm looking at getting one and was wondering if you could do a video about your experiences with them. The Good, Bad and the Ugly type thing. I'm hearing so many conflicting reports about them.
Yeah - I hear the same things but I really like it. It's simple, straight forward and the maps screen is amazing. That's why I bought it - for the maps. The battery life isn't great for audaxing or rides over 8 hours if using the map. But I just take a battery pack along.
Thanks - I'm a long way from being able to do an audax just yet so I should be ok lol
Class Katie... I'm a company owner solo regular KOM kinda hill rider as light but not huge power max 270 threshold hour. I need join a club do social stortives..... Inspiring stuff your vids esp seeing Majorca bits also ridden
I did this yesterday...THOUGHT i saw you in the car park..should have trusted my ability to recognise a youtuber, doh! well done on the ride. I enjoyed it, but found the decents were tricky with the bad crosswinds..didn't get much chance to rest on them!
Ahhhh Daniel, you should have come and said hello. Well 'Hello' virtually ha. Yeah that wind was brutal!!!! Glad you enjoyed it but yeah I felt the same about the descents. They are normally the bits we get to have a breather, when yesterday they seemed harder than the climbs. Well, almost 😉
Another impressive ride and you looked pretty fresh at the end! I've booked in to do a stupidly long ride on Friday and I keep checking the wind on the BBC website-it makes a massive difference to your overall energy expenditure.
Yeah the wind is a brute! You will be great, how long is it?
It's 500km, north of Scotland to the border...nervous! I don't know how you never complain about knee or neck pain-your bike must be made to measure. I just followed GCN's tips for making oatcakes-The gels don't agree with me and bananas get dull. I might even try those wee bars you swear by if my oatcakes fail. It's all good though, nice problems 😁
Nice work, Katie - riding-wise and filming-wise! Pity about the wind but you've gotta have it sometimes. Why were all those blokes walking? Don't they have low gears?
Thanks Charlie, I think it was the sheer amount of climbing and I have done a fair bit this year already and have low gearing. Doing all that on a 28 would be brutal.
Thanks, Katie. I was hoping for a response from the men themselves. I know I'd be no show on my 25.
Great scenery too! Pretty sure I saw William Wallace on horseback in the hillside.
RYTHMIC RIOT A.bit further north
Well done Katie, what size rear cassette have you got I struggle on long climbs on my 11/32 so thinking of changing to maybe a 40. Thanks. Cheers
I have a 40 and love love LOVE it! I'm doing a video this week about the gearing.
I still don't know how do You manage riding all these miles within such short period of time. Amazing. :)
I've slept most of today to be fair haha.
Have looked at the entire "Park Rash" climb on various You Tube channels.. It is pretty scary from a distance out as you close in on the 1st ultra steep section... then it drags on for ever and ever.... congrats for getting up the whole way without unclipping.:).
Thanks so much, yeah it's so steep at the hairpin and the only other time I did it I unclipped just after the steepest part as I thought it was going to carry on at that gradient. I have to do a climb once and then next time I can generally do it all the way. Apart from Hardknott... !! One day I will crack it! 😊
Yes Hardknott is whole world of Pain . bad enough but the cars can squeeze you on the narrow bits on busy days as well which does not help when doing a zig zag... You should try the Abergeswyn Mountain road in Wales one day . It includes the infamous "Devils Staircase Pitch" www.dangerousroads.org/europe/wales/3989-abergwesyn-road.html
After a 400 km epix bike ride nothing like a 100 miller with a couple of epic climbs to relax :)
Haha well ya know..... But this week and next weekend it's a steady one! No big ones! I need a rest haha
Nice one Katie! Think the toughest sportive in Yorkshire goes to The Yorkshire Beast though. You should check it out, be right up your street.
JEEEEZUS!!!! It looks HARD!!!
Katie i see your running the b&m lumotec with the integrated usb. Great powerful light with free charging to boot!
Only problem with it is it isnt very waterproof, there's a small hole on the underside of it(to let condensation out, the makers say) , problem is it let's water in too! It starts goin on the blink then, I had to dry it out on the radiator for a few days. Definetly consider put strong tape over the hole if your out in the rain, the spray from the front wheel will hit that hole as well.
Dec, you are a life saver! Thank you so much for that tip, will have a look into that. Did you have this one then?
I have one katie , after a bit of water got in, I researched online, and others had that issue as well. I thought it was buggered, so got a different light(son edelux 2, which I used on a 600km) which is advertised as waterproof. It doesn't have a USB, the light is as good as the b&m, I was gonna return b&m but It came good again after the radiator, I've been giving the b&m another chance in the last few weeks,(in the dry though). And with that hole taped!!
You didn't mention Malam Cove climb it's a personal favourite of mine
Malham Cove is a really great climb and the best of the Struggle dales climbs.
Great video Katie - I first came across your channel when I discovered that you'd done the Fred Whitton this year, which I did too. I did this event as well but felt that it was a bit of a grind at times as I wasn't sure whether I'd got the Fred out of my legs completely. How did you find that aspect of it? Did you feel that two weeks was sufficient recovery between two big events?
Yeah to be honest I was feeling pretty tired as last weekend I rode my first 400km so could have done with a bit more time to recover haha. Next time a tad more rest I think! How did you find it? My legs felt ok on the climbs to be fair, it was the flat sections in between that somehow felt tougher.
You did the Fred, then 400k, THEN the Struggle? Wowzers. I thought it was a great route; didn't quite have the same fear factor as the Fred but getting up Park Rash without stopping was a big boost. I was ostensibly doing it with two mates, but they started very quickly and I just didn't have it in me to follow - I could feel the rustiness from the Fred weighing me down. Legs came back a bit after I'd told them to go on without me and I got a couple of messages from them later saying "we went off far too quickly...", but I agree, the long drag between Park Rash and the last feed stop (calling it 'flat' is perhaps overstating it) was pretty tough. Do you find you recover quicker now than when you started cycling? I've been cycling two years and my first century was about a month before the Fred.
you should have done this years... rain, hail, strong winds and at the top of Malham Cove thick fog.you need to sign up for the Moors struggle as it makes this a walk in the park
How did you find it? Scenery Stunning isn't it especially round malham cove. Which sportive was harder... fred whitton or the struggle?
boroneil I’d say Fred Whitton is harder - longer and steeper. But does it really matter, both are excellent events
Richard Horswill I've never done the fred whitton and found the struggle testing. I'd like to do it mind as it's looks a brilliant route, get to see plenty of the lake district
They were both incredible but the Fred it tougher just because it has Hardknott in it and it's the steepest in England. But this has INCREDIBLE climbs so it's pretty close.
It was a great ride. The wind on park rash got me
It was pretty brutal wasn’t it! 😩😩
I would say that's am understatement
Another awesome video from the cycling vegan goddess! I bow down before your total awesome cycling ability! Wind is the enemy of all cyclists. The saying don't stand when you can sit is a famous pro cyclist tip. Stay awesome!!!
Thanks so much James, you are so kind. Don't think I didn't have times when it hurt or I had enough. I get that practically all rides haha. But I am a stubborn bugger! haha
What are those numbers on top tube??
Where the climbs are along the route 😎🚴🏼♀️💪🏼
Were the roads closed off to car traffic?
No, it was just a quiet day 😊
You're the only one I know who talks about climing like it's a good thing. I guess women like climbs because, 1, you're half our size 2. you can bare more pain? I might be wrong, but, tell me, how come you talk about climbs with such an enthusiasm.
I weigh 90kg by the way. Climbing is my worst cycling nightmare right above 105 5700 groupset.
I don’t know I think it’s the challenge, the views and the sweat haha. Also it’s a mindset... if you hate them they will feel harder and you won’t enjoy them. Tell yourself and believe you love them.
I would believe if you loved climbing and weighed as much as I weigh. It's easier to say, "it's just a mindset" when you probably weigh max. 50kg gain 40kg more and you'll know it's not about mindset or anything else but pure physics, gravity fighting weight. Simple.
Don't get me wrong, I love going down hill on the other hand, and I love everything till 8% gradient. I love your positive attitude too, and just love women that like cycling in general.
@@kay19833 it is definitely tougher for heavier riders but the mindset absolutely makes a difference.
If you dread a climb in the minutes before it is more likely to break you compared to if you give yourself positive reinforcement that you will be fine.
Strategy and gearing goes a long way as well
Ahhhh, nothing like winds to rob you of your momentum. Well done, yet another achievement for you. So much better than Zwifting eh?
Absolutely!!!!!!
Please have a rest now Katie! Can’t believe you’ve done those 3 big rides in the space of 2 weeks.
I knowwwwww, resting it up this weekend for sure! Thanks for looking out for me my friend! x
Don't want to be cheeky but how old are you .? What age u start cycling
I'm 32 and started cycling only around four years ago.
My wife started at 40 yr keep up blogs
That's amazing! Did you think I was older or younger?
closed course? didn't see any cars
No it wasn't closed but a lovely and quiet day! 😊
Yorkshire Yorkshire Yorkshire !
EXACTLY!!!!
buy an edge 810 great battery life
This one is ok with a battery pack but I love the maps on the 1000. How are the maps on the 810?
I have used the nav on it a good few times work great battery life is much longer due to non colour screen.... I will test it soon doing a 300 audax route 🤔
Why stand when you can sit, why sit when you can lay, why lay when you can sleep!
I think you're cute ! keep up your cycling, which I know you will :-). And indeed magnificent views
Thanks so much Dick! 😊
Those poor sods walking up hill with cleats on. Bet they didn't put a 32+ on before the sportive