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

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Right - ran the 2 garmins side by side today with the same settings. Just on a ride and they tie in together, so it does appear that it was the auto pause that was most likely the cause of the lost distance on my edge 500 yesterday... Well they tie in to 100metres over a 69km ride so I'm happier with that!
Still not happy about the 500's ability to follow a course and give directions (refresh issues) but hey ho...

 

[rogdodge52]

yep - got sunburnt again... can you please send some rain this way... it is really humid, hot and awful here and a good thunderstorm would work miracles. We are not that far from the welsh border - I went there and back by bike yesterday, so it shouldn't be too much to ask, honest.... a little bit of rain please?

you can have your rain in Cheshire as long as it doesn't wander over the border lol

 

[Pieface]

Thought I'd cycle to Chester today as I'm planning on moving to there soon, but work where I currently live. Got halfway to Chester (After going the wrong way a few times, trying to follow Google Maps). Then it started raining during the trip, thought it's not heavy I can cope, then about 10 minutes later the lightening started and I just turned around and thought screw this lol!

http://www.strava.com/activities/143130658

 

[Nigelnaturist]

yep - got sunburnt again... can you please send some rain this way... it is really humid, hot and awful here and a good thunderstorm would work miracles. We are not that far from the welsh border - I went there and back by bike yesterday, so it shouldn't be too much to ask, honest.... a little bit of rain please?

You will get some over the next 2hrs

I thought I liked numbers but you guys are stats crazy.

I saw a video on google glass which looked nice. Real time stats in your eye line as you are cycling. Apparently links to Strava as well.

I only want to see 5 things when I ride Cadence, HR zone, distance emmm possible speed and avg sp, the rest the database sorts out, though a course can be useful.
It only takes me maybe 5-6 mins to enter the data from Bryton most of the data, RWGPS elevation Garmin for weather, I thing export from RWGPS to upload to Strava (got fed up waiting for Strava to correct the elevation from the exported Bryton tcx file), all nice and simple even my data entry form just follows the data as I see it on the screen.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

you can have your rain in Cheshire as long as it doesn't wander over the border lol

we didn't have the thunderstorm you had your way this morning... I cycled over to Alsager in the sunshine to be met by puddles of water rapidly drying off the road. Was confused as anything because there was no sign of it this way whatsoever. My parents' said that there had been a really good storm with loads of rain!

 

[Stonechat]

My VV score has crept laborously up to 64

 

[rogdodge52]

we didn't have the thunderstorm you had your way this morning... I cycled over to Alsager in the sunshine to be met by puddles of water rapidly drying off the road. Was confused as anything because there was no sign of it this way whatsoever. My parents' said that there had been a really good storm with loads of rain!

nothing in Stoke all day...forgot yes we had a shower this morning lol

 

[Pieface]

yep - got sunburnt again... can you please send some rain this way... it is really humid, hot and awful here and a good thunderstorm would work miracles. We are not that far from the welsh border - I went there and back by bike yesterday, so it shouldn't be too much to ask, honest.... a little bit of rain please?

I blame you for my ride getting cut short with rain and thunderstorms

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Right - ran the 2 garmins side by side today with the same settings. Just on a ride and they tie in together, so it does appear that it was the auto pause that was most likely the cause of the lost distance on my edge 500 yesterday... Well they tie in to 100metres over a 69km ride so I'm happier with that!
Still not happy about the 500's ability to follow a course and give directions (refresh issues) but hey ho...

You get use to it, its generally where the gps plot is beyond a certain distance away, to be honest with you I have found both the Rider 35 and 20 (even though the latter only plots every 3's) are more accurate tracks, still get the odd wayward bit, but nothing is perfect.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

nothing in Stoke all day....yet

Having said that we were forecast some this afternoon that never turned up.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

My VV score has crept laborously up to 64

I was up at 83.something last year and it dropped to 78.something score for this year is 72.78, my first 6 months from the August with a phone then a Rider 35 for a month then the 500 was 46.2

 

[L14M]

Today I went out for 2 short rides. Trying to set a kom. Ended up getting 2 second places. Near to them though, and to be fair my bike is missing a gear as its no longer shifting smoothly, that'll get tuned on Wednesday! Also there was a little traffic which may have slowed me down slightly! I've also moved a spacer on my handle bar down so now its shorter. Feels much much nicer on the brakes and better for my back! Its amazing how much better it feels!
http://www.strava.com/activities/143149362/segments/3269096793 - that's the decent one.

Planning to start doing hill work. Also half term so some longer rides too. At the moment I haven't got the time to spend hours on a ride so I think focusing on hilly rides is better "effort for time :P"

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I blame you for my ride getting cut short with rain and thunderstorms

please send it this way... too hot here...

oh you may well have done... I can here the thunder... give me a moment, need to pull the potatoes out from under the house so they get rained on!

(time to celebrate!)

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Heres something else, according to VV I have set 109 PB's whilst the bike has been 9sp this year so thats like since I came out of Hospital opposed to just 40 as an 8sp Jan-Mar.

 

[Biggler]

Just put the Gatorskins on and they were a right bugger!

And after any tinkering a ride is in order. Only a mile or so because I could hear my brakes squeezing on the rim of the tyre instead of the wheel.
Decided to try a segment I thought was possible to get a KOM on... who needs brakes to get a KOM?

Joint first

http://www.strava.com/activities/143153226