Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Within cycling range if I do a one way. A return trip would be a long day out
Cycling Workouts: Discussion/Encouragement/Sharing/Banter
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HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
I had planned to do an outside workout but the UK train strike meant the train I’d usually get was cancelled and I’d be at least half an hour late. I still harboured some hope of getting out but some poor soul on that train had a heart attack and that train was cancelled too. So I got home an hour late and on a dull night the light was fading fast, so turbore trainer it was for a VO2max session. Even with 4 fans it’s too hot in my narrow pain corridor at this time of year. . I didn’t have the best of warm ups either, with the gear cable snapping straight away. So I could get the session in I tightened the limit screws so I wasn’t cross chaining and the chain would run smooth but after a few moments I discovered I should have tightened the limit screw more (forced the bike into a lower gear), I couldn’t without dropping cadence fall to the power target on recoveries (even on 0 resistance) and resistance mode was too slow to change up without gears. Another spanner in the works was I couldn’t get the garmin working. I prefer to read power of it when I’m chewing the TT poles and I also like to see my %max HR. I definitely could have done with the latter as I only got to 90% MHR and psychologically I would have felt more comfortable with it and pushed harder knowing I can push it to circa 93% and be repeatable (95% + in final efforts) and not gave into RPE.
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Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
I’ve started doing some upper body strength work. I’m not a gym person and thus am doing body weight exercises. Mostly push ups and planks three times a week. I’ve never really been one for strength work, and I’m starting slowly hoping to make it a habit. Great thing about body weight exercise is I can do it any time I have a few minutes spare, and don’t need to get changed. Today’s session was whilst waiting for washing up water to cool.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
My secret weapon exercise is that I stand on one leg and sometimes do one leg squats while cleaning my teeth. My toothbrush has a timer so that's two minutes at a time. I've no idea if it does me any good and if it doesn't it's no loss.
TOday is My first day after my Strava premium subscription lapsed (yes Im a tightarse at heart and the Strava subs increase was more than I was prepared to stump up).Definately feeling like I’m entering the cold turkey zone as my last 2 rides couldn’t be interrogated the way I wanted to / was used to. I’ve just dabbled with intervals.icu and it looks really good. When I had Strava premium I had what I wanted at my fingertips but having been forced to look more at intervals i am starting to like what I see. I’ll give it a week or so and if I can work out the finer points of it then I’d be happy to subscribe to it. The only thing I’ll miss from Strava will the the segment leaderboards.
UphillSlowly
Making my way slowly uphill
You can link your Strava account to intervals.icu to get a lot of the same data from your rides and training?
Yes for some reason only the last 3 or 4 weeks of Strava data was showing, but I’ve found a setting to link to my Garmin connect account which if I figure it all out I’ll be able to use the intervals work out builder tool to design some workouts to upload onto my Edge810. I’m quite impressed so far. I like the options under the power data to get custom best data over different time frames.
UphillSlowly
Making my way slowly uphill
The intervals forum can be useful for troubleshooting too
Just subscribed
Legs
usually riding on Zwift...
- Location
- Staffordshire
dunclane
Regular
- Location
- Stourbridge, UK
Hi everyone, I'm new here and just beginning my road cycling journey. I've signed up for a 52 mile local sportive on the 16th September and roped a couple of friends in. I've mountain biked for a good many years but not for a while but have been a regular gym goer and Peloton user.
I went on my first ever road bike ride on Monday and completed 16.5 miles in 1hr 21 and it felt good (good weather helped!), I also did a 10 mile flat ride with my son last night on canal paths. I'm thinking of doing another 20 mile ride on Saturday morning.
Is this too much?
What would a sensible approach to getting me to the 50+ mile mark?
I went on my first ever road bike ride on Monday and completed 16.5 miles in 1hr 21 and it felt good (good weather helped!), I also did a 10 mile flat ride with my son last night on canal paths. I'm thinking of doing another 20 mile ride on Saturday morning.
Is this too much?
What would a sensible approach to getting me to the 50+ mile mark?
At this early stage in your cycling, it is all about time in the saddle but interspersed with regular days off - and not building too fast. I'd say a 20 on Saturday will be fine but then take Sunday off.
Pretty much this. Steadily increasing miles with rest days . Work upto around 40-45 miles by September. Then come the event the excitement and adrenaline will carry over the line
mjd1988
Guru
As others have said it's likely not going to take anything too crazy to get you there other than sensibly increasing length of long ride and getting rest. Does depend a little bit on whether it's 52 flat miles or 52 hilly miles.
In a sportive you generally benefit from a bit of draft and ride the high as well.
View: https://youtu.be/IFXmvohNrP0
you are starting from a better base than this but some useful bits and pieces, particularly around fueling and riding in a group etc
Edit; do you have a road bike?