Cycling 1km in 57 Seconds, is this any good??

[rogerzilla]

I've done 1km in 40 seconds before. There may have been a hill involved.

 

[Once a Wheeler]

Never mind the figures. The fact that you did it and want to know if it is any good means that you are striving and competitive. Join a club, get racing. Enjoy the thrill.👍

 

[fossyant]

Tour de France winner next year

 

[Solocle]

Never mind the figures. The fact that you did it and want to know if it is any good means that you are striving and competitive. Join a club, get racing. Enjoy the thrill.👍

If you go straight from indoor spinning to racing you'll probably fall flat on your face, racing has a huge dimension of group riding skills and also strategy with taking aerodynamic advantages.

The easiest way to see how you measure up against others in terms of raw speed is to enter a time trial.

(Dual carrigeway courses are optional, they're just wickedly fast).

 

[HLaB]

Hi there, I’ve just completed 1km in 57 seconds using my own cycling machine at home. Is this time any good?? I don’t cycle much but I try to cycle twice a week (10km each time), my record 10km is in 11m:30s, also my record 5km is in 5m:30s, is this a good time for a beginner? Should I go into cycling comps? 🤔

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Depends how good your equipment is and how well its calibrated. I've no idea what happened on this ride garmin has some how picked up 300+miles from the same trainer Freewheel as strava which only picked up 14.5

The most important stat being the 5beers

Also bear in mind indoors is different from out, indoors with no wind, hills etc I can relatively easily do 30mph + for a theoretical 10miles, but in the real world the best I've done is 26.7mph (pulled along by traffic, 25.5mph when not).

 

[Cycleops]

I think after all this competition advice Hugo should be giving us all a slice of his winnings.

 

[CXRAndy]

Don't be mean to him. He's just starting out.

Keep it going Hugo

 

[Jameshow]

Go out and do a 2h30* 100km ride?


View: https://youtu.be/t9jEy1rKavg?si=GWbmUoHzaRQs7XEo


Then we'll forward your details to ineos... they need talent!🤣

*Well give you 10 mins for not being in a bunch.

 

[craigwend]

Though he/she/they/them/us/Velo has not been back since Saturday - there's always online Zwift racing and racing teams...

 

[Cycleops]

I think we've frightened the OP off.

 

[DogmaStu]

Though he/she/they/them/us/Velo has not been back since Saturday - there's always online Zwift racing and racing teams...

Need a Smart Trainer with Powermeter for that though and Hugo clearly is only using a spin bike/adjustable resistance trainer/gym bike where there is zero comparison to real-World road conditions.

 

[craigwend]

I think we've frightened the OP off.

Virtually...

 

[T4tomo]

Virtually...

pedalling away from their laptop, like fury, on a static bike....

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I think we've frightened the OP off.

The Bot you mean?