{"id":13502,"date":"2025-05-04T10:58:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T08:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/?p=13502"},"modified":"2025-05-04T10:58:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T08:58:39","slug":"a-relaxed-bike-club-switzerland-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/a-relaxed-bike-club-switzerland-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"A Relaxed Bike Club Switzerland Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

I considered going for yet another hike yesterday. I didn’t, for two reasons. The first reason is that I had to commit on Wednesday night and I wasn’t ready to commit on Wednesday for Saturday. The second reason is that the group has a black list for people that don’t turn up with a valid reason. I much prefer the "If you’re late we won’t wait" school of punctuality.<\/p>\n

I decided instead to join a Bike club Switzerland ride. I have been thinking about joining them for a few weeks, but because of hikes, or logistics I didn’t bother. The logistics are ‘needing a light for an evening ride’ or having to get Geneva, going for a ride, and then having to get back.<\/p>\n

Originally my plan for yesterday morning was to wake at 6 and be ready to ride by 07:30 to meet the group at 09:00. I woke to the sound of very heavy rain so I checked whether it was forecast for when I was riding between Nyon and Geneva. As it was I mentioned the rain. It was suggested that I meet the group at Tartine & Co and this was perfect for me.<\/p>\n

As usual I arrived half an hour early and waited, and around the expected time the group arrived. We had breakfast\/snack before riding from Nyon to Geneva. The pace was comfortable for me.<\/p>\n

When I ride with the Divonne Skoda group I usually find that the ride is exhausting because whereas I have a few hundred kilometres of riding in my legs, they have thousands. With the Skoda group I have to work hard to keep up. With the BCS group I had no such issue with the relaxed group. In reality I felt so good that I toyed with the idea of adding an extra 40 kilometres to the loop to get my 100k ride goal achieved.<\/p>\n

When speaking with people I said that I enjoyed the pace, and that I considered doing a longer ride. The issue is that when I rode by myself, out of Geneva, I pushed. I pushed myself to the point of bonking, and having to work towards just getting home.<\/p>\n

My goal was to find a group of people to ride with that didn’t exhaust me. I did. I achieved my aim. Now I want to ride with this group more often. I want to ride with people, where I am not pushing so hard that I am knackered at the end of the ride. With a slow pace I can work on covering longer distances. I want to have a group to ride with on a regular basis. I could then choose between cycling and hiking, and every so often via ferrata.<\/p>\n

The second reason for my lack of energy, on the way home, is that it was around 14:00 and I had not had lunch. If I had stopped to eat something then I believe I could have attempted to ride 100k. I have ridden 100k, more than once. It’s a matter of energy reserves.<\/p>\n

And finally, my reason for setting off at 07:30 if the weather had been good is that it would have given me an hour and a half to cycle from Nyon to Geneva and I could have tried to resist the urge to sprint. If I cycle at a relaxed pace then I can cycle far, but if I push hard, then I can cycle fast, but not far. That’s why group rides have value. That’s why I want to cycle with groups regularly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>I considered going for yet another hike yesterday. I didn’t, for two reasons. The first reason is that I had to commit on Wednesday night and I wasn’t ready to commit on Wednesday for Saturday. The second reason is that the group has a black list for people that don’t turn up with a valid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[255],"tags":[733,6526,6528,6603,6855,250],"class_list":["post-13502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-swiss-walks","tag-cycling","tag-groups","tag-relaxed","tag-ride","tag-rides","tag-switzerland"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13503,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13502\/revisions\/13503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}