Show us your.......newbie progress! [4 Sep 2012 - 4 Oct 2014]

[Mo1959]

I now regularly commute 60 miles a day and am now 3 1/2 stone lighter. I still hate the hills though, I reckon I need to lose another 3 stone before I will be happy on them!

We will then have to nickname you Kate Moss, or some other equally anorexic look alike!

 

[Cold]

Did my first big hill today , I had to stop at one point going up as I just ran out of breath.
The rest of the ride was hard work as my legs felt like they had no power left in them.

http://www.strava.com/activities/135086905

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Did my first big hill today , I had to stop at one point going up as I just ran out of breath.
The rest of the ride was hard work as my legs felt like they had no power left in them.

http://www.strava.com/activities/135086905

Well done, I cheated and lowered the gearing on my bike when I started, but i ended up crawling up them, mind you not much faster now,
That is a quite big, I am not surprised you stopped, think I might as well. You should create a segment from the bottom to the top, I bet its a least a cat3 providing there are no dips on it. Well RWGPS reckons its a cat3 anyway. This is from the point where there are no downhill bits even though you had climbed about 100ft to this point.

 

[Melv]

I feel reasonably comfortable with the 50k now that I have ridden the distance a few times. I'm looking to ride in the Staffordshire Cycling Festival in August as my next organised ride. The choice is between 35 or 70 miles and I am pretty torn. The 70 miles sounds incredibly daunting at the moment as my 50k training really takes it out of me, the thought of doing it all over again straight after isn't a nice one !! I might just go for it though, it will give me something to aim / train / lose weight for.

 

[Cold]

Well done, I cheated and lowered the gearing on my bike when I started, but i ended up crawling up them, mind you not much faster now,
That is a quite big, I am not surprised you stopped, think I might as well. You should create a segment from the bottom to the top, I bet its a least a cat3 providing there are no dips on it. Well RWGPS reckons its a cat3 anyway. This is from the point where there are no downhill bits even though you had climbed about 100ft to this point.
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Thanks now I know I can do it I will try again without stopping, I looked on Strava and it says it's a cat4.

http://app.strava.com/segments/746149

 

[Stonechat]

Did my first big hill today , I had to stop at one point going up as I just ran out of breath.
The rest of the ride was hard work as my legs felt like they had no power left in them.

http://www.strava.com/activities/135086905

Yes definitely a big hill - as big or bigger than any I've done. I know the out of breath feeling, there are only two things to counteract this
(Well done)

1. Get fittter/lose weight
2. Go up slower if possible. You are out of breath becauseyou are using more energy and oxygen than you can get. But in the meantime it may be necessary to stop. But pacing over the length of the ride and over the longer hills will help

And I made sure when I got this road bike that it has a 32 tooth rear gear (But it is a compact not a triple)

 

[morrisman]

Another local hill killed off

Wendover up to Dunsmore including some 12+% (according to RwGPS), though admittedly I did have to stop to calm my breathing 2/3rds of the way up.

http://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/488966719

 

[Nigelnaturist]

I am really p****ed off I have just done 50Km in about 1:51 and gps packed up, so maybe it wasn't the h.r.m. I am jacking it it

 

[Nigelnaturist]

However I can finish the challenge by being creative, not cheating, but to ride routes I have done before, times will be wrong but distance will be right, give or take the odd 1/2 mile or so

Thanks now I know I can do it I will try again without stopping, I looked on Strava and it says it's a cat4.

http://app.strava.com/segments/746149

Strava is a load of w***, I created a loop and it said its elevation gain was greater than the whole ride, go figure that one, create the segment from where I did or rwgps on strava, you will have to zoom in on the satalitte view to get in as close as possible, than go see, I know thats a cat3 I did one a whole lost easier and it was a cat3.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Good news, I have managed to get most of the ride back I think, 30.49 miles of it anyway basics from bryton are 30.47 mile @ 16.8mph uphill cad 87 downhill 86 avg 86 max 117, i really would have loved to have known my H.R. on this one. Bryton also says 502ft rwgps 921ft,
Full summer gear, compare that with yeaterday, chuffed or what, its the first real chance I have had of test the 9sp since coming out of Hospital what with being tender there, and stiff after a week Sunday in my thighs, and then the stronger winds we have had.

http://ridewithgps.com/trips/2552491

I need to sort some things before I put it on strava.

Things are looking up, H.R.M. arrived, though it should have been by 1pm, and it works, feeling a little better now

 

[Deleted member 18052]

Another ride with the GF

http://www.strava.com/activities/135135791

Mountain bike pace.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

This is the main ride on strava
this the missing bit it was 2 miles after all

It also means I have passed 12,000 miles on strava

 

[MattMM]

@BrianEvesham @Nigelnaturist Dunno if you guys have seen this, it's a pretty decent tutorial on gear index...sorry adjustment


View: http://youtu.be/SkzvfCaIbyQ

 

[Nigelnaturist]

@BrianEvesham @Nigelnaturist Dunno if you guys have seen this, it's a pretty decent tutorial on gear index...sorry adjustment


View: http://youtu.be/SkzvfCaIbyQ

Seen it, I can do it, sometimes takes a while, but i really think its down to things settling after they have been disturbed, I change stuff all the time, gear ratios for instance, I can change individual sprockets on a cluster, for example I have 13-14-15-16-17-19-21-23-25, but I could drop the 16 and put a 28 in if I am doing hills, so 13-14-15-17-19-21-23-25-28. Bikes aren't rocket science, try rebuilding a 1960 LWB Landrover Camper.

But thanks for the link, it does get mentioned from time to time in this thread, I think @Mo1959 was the last to link to it.

 

[DavidD]

Seen it, I can do it, sometimes takes a while, but i really think its down to things settling after they have been disturbed, I change stuff all the time, gear ratios for instance, I can change individual sprockets on a cluster, for example I have 13-14-15-16-17-19-21-23-25, but I could drop the 16 and put a 28 in if I am doing hills, so 13-14-15-17-19-21-23-25-28. Bikes aren't rocket science, try rebuilding a 1960 LWB Landrover Camper.

But thanks for the link, it does get mentioned from time to time in this thread, I think @Mo1959 was the last to link to it.

Have you rebuilt a landrover lwb camper?