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

[moo]

I work evening shifts (3pm start) so could probably fit a 3 hour ride in on the way to work... one day

 

[fivepence]

Had originally planned go 200KM+ this morning as I said in a previous post but the early morning start left me travelling bout 10KM before realising I hadn't switched the Garmin on.
Switched it off at Finish line and strolled home as I didn't want my AVG Speed slide further as the fatigue monster was winning the battle and it was dropping fast

http://www.strava.com/activities/142602554

 

[Leescfc79]

@fivepence incredible average over that distance!

 

[Phoenix Lincs]

Anisah still has yet to buy a bike (lack of cash, space and time).

Suj is still waiting for the replacement bike. Is entire with courier but is taking an eternity.

She will be doing an Isle of Man trip at the weekend so hope she gets sow miles in this week. :S





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My speed has gone backwards, but probably because I'm doing a fair amount of hills.

Hope A isn't waiting too long for her steed, actually, hope S isn't either!!!

When is your big ride?

 

[rogdodge52]

Had a very good morning..did 34 mile ..the most I.ve done since taking up cycling..just over 1700 ft of elevation too. The new gloves have done the trick..had no cramps today.now and again very slight pins and needles..moved my hands more instead of just gripping the handlebars...hopefully money well spent..Got there early and avoided the masses..Haven't worked out how to put my Strava on here yet lol

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

made it passed 1,000km on the new bike today... she's 4 weeks and a day old! hope there's no upper distance on that free 6 week service because boy is she going to have done some miles by then....

Just back from my 2nd +100km ride in 4 days. Sun from door to door, nasty headwind (southerly) and sunburnt as well... time for a cold shower and some tlc before tomorrow's commute... hoping for cooler weather... temps have been high today. average temperature was 25C and when I sat in the sunshine on the only available bench, garmin spiked at over 34C no wonder my arms are burnt!

Curiously - and this is one for @Nigelnaturist can you tell me why my garmin edge 500 recorded the journey as 100.4km, my OH's garmin 200 recorded the identical ride at 102.3km (his trip metre makes it 102.5km) and exporting my garmin's ride and uploading it into bikehike.co.uk has the recorded distance as 102.6km. I can understand a few hundred metres being out, but the error on my device seems to be around 2% I nearly didn't make the 100km mark

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Had a very good morning..did 34 mile ..the most I.ve done since taking up cycling..just over 1700 ft of elevation too. The new gloves have done the trick..had no cramps today.now and again very slight pins and needles..moved my hands more instead of just gripping the handlebars...hopefully money well spent..Got there early and avoided the masses..Haven't worked out how to put my Strava on here yet lol

glad the cramp has gone. As for strava, when you can see your ride, just copy the hyperlink in the address bar and paste it in to here as though it is a set of words... the system will detect it is a link and sort it for you.

 

[fivepence]

@fivepence incredible average over that distance!

Cheers , I've come along way in 10 months on the bike and reading posts here , seeing the improvements people made on here was a great motivation to improve as they did. I've been through many plateaus where I felt I wasn't improving and come through them but now happy at seeing the results come into fruition. So glad I sat in and watched the Tour de France last year and jumped on the bandwagon of cycling as I've now seen beautiful countryside I would never have seen otherwise, my local knowledge of roads / shortcuts is now better than most of the people who lived round here all their lives, and the added bonus of been quiet a lot lighter and fitter to go with it.

 

[Mr_K_Dilkington]

First 100 mile plus ride after adding 25 miles or so on top of the club run I went on to Box Hill (we did 3 loops of said hill). Well pleased with this plus my climbing progress. These are my efforts on Box Hill (I'm also sure for a couple of reasons that I can easily shave a good 30 seconds to a minute off my best time today):

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Had a very good morning..did 34 mile ..the most I.ve done since taking up cycling..just over 1700 ft of elevation too. The new gloves have done the trick..had no cramps today.now and again very slight pins and needles..moved my hands more instead of just gripping the handlebars...hopefully money well spent..Got there early and avoided the masses..Haven't worked out how to put my Strava on here yet lol

What do you use to record the ride.

@fivepence amazing ride. well done

@SatNavSaysStraightOn I cant say I have ever come across that one before, on the face of it it could possibly be an inaccurate wheel size of the speed/odometer, but know you a little seems unlikely, the mileage on strava also shows 100.4230656Km , I would need to build a small spreadsheet with wheel circumferences to see if any had a 2% difference, have you noticed any differences on any other rides, can you send me the fit file by email and I will look further also just check that the wheel size is correct the difference between a 23mm and a 25mm is 0.6% I think if i have my maths right thats only 597meters in other words if you were on 25mm tyres and the unit set to 23mm tyres it would show 100.4Km instead of the 100.9978Km I know still way out.
If the unit was set to 23mm tyres and your on 28mm the difference 1.5% which would be 1.48Km given a total of 101.88Km

Just a thought.

Which now has me think are some of these speed types setting the units to smaller wheel sizes (only joking, might give people ideas), I mean 1.5% on 15.5mph is 15.73mph after all,

 

[rogdodge52]

What do you use to record the ride.

@fivepence amazing ride. well done

@SatNavSaysStraightOn I cant say I have ever come across that one before, on the face of it it could possibly be an inaccurate wheel size of the speed/odometer, but know you a little seems unlikely, the mileage on strava also shows 100.4230656Km , I would need to build a small spreadsheet with wheel circumferences to see if any had a 2% difference, have you noticed any differences on any other rides, can you send me the fit file by email and I will look further also just check that the wheel size is correct the difference between a 23mm and a 25mm is 0.6% I think if i have my maths right thats only 597meters in other words if you were on 25mm tyres and the unit set to 23mm tyres it would show 100.4Km instead of the 100.9978Km I know still way out.
If the unit was set to 23mm tyres and your on 28mm the difference 1.5% which would be 1.48Km given a total of 101.88Km

Just a thought.

Which now has me think are some of these speed types setting the units to smaller wheel sizes (only joking, might give people ideas), I mean 1.5% on 15.5mph is 15.73mph after all,

 

[Nigelnaturist]

First 100 mile plus ride after adding 25 miles or so on top of the club run I went on to Box Hill (we did 3 loops of said hill). Well pleased with this plus my climbing progress. These are my efforts on Box Hill (I'm also sure for a couple of reasons that I can easily shave a good 30 seconds to a minute off my best time today):

I dont think I would be climbing it at that speed

 

[rogdodge52]

Strava..set it up when i started cycling but not sure how to put it on here ..the kind lady from Cheshire has come to the rescue once more..whether I understand her instructions is down to me being useless with computers lol
www.strava.com/athletes/3177535

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

What do you use to record the ride.

@fivepence amazing ride. well done

@SatNavSaysStraightOn I cant say I have ever come across that one before, on the face of it it could possibly be an inaccurate wheel size of the speed/odometer, but know you a little seems unlikely, the mileage on strava also shows 100.4230656Km , I would need to build a small spreadsheet with wheel circumferences to see if any had a 2% difference, have you noticed any differences on any other rides, can you send me the fit file by email and I will look further also just check that the wheel size is correct the difference between a 23mm and a 25mm is 0.6% I think if i have my maths right thats only 597meters in other words if you were on 25mm tyres and the unit set to 23mm tyres it would show 100.4Km instead of the 100.9978Km I know still way out.
If the unit was set to 23mm tyres and your on 28mm the difference 1.5% which would be 1.48Km given a total of 101.88Km

Just a thought.

Which now has me think are some of these speed types setting the units to smaller wheel sizes (only joking, might give people ideas), I mean 1.5% on 15.5mph is 15.73mph after all,

yep - we have noticed it on my mtb as well, but had assumed that it was related to the tyre size being 26 inch and there being no cadence/speed sensor detected (mtb does not have one)...
Ironically the cadence & speed sensor was set up with the old bike on 25c tyres and is now on the new bike with 23c tyres! I think I will run a reset on it when I get the chance...

 

[Nigelnaturist]

@SatNavSaysStraightOn
A gps unit uses the gps plots for speed if no speed sensor is used, all the sp/cad sensor do is count each revolution, its the unit that does the work, you could run two units each with a different tyre size and it will give the corresponding distance as if you had been on said tyres.

Strava..set it up when i started cycling but not sure how to put it on here ..the kind lady from Cheshire has come to the rescue once more..whether I understand her instructions is down to me being useless with computers lol
www.strava.com/athletes/3177535

Sorry I miss read it.