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

[Phoenix Lincs]

Everybody has been doing fabulously recently. Well done folks. I'm just trying to work out where I can squeeze in a few short sessions into my diary this week to get ready for our Sportive on Sunday.
Have a great week one and all

 

[NorvernRob]

Well, less than 4 months after I first sat on a road bike, I managed to get up Holme Moss today in one hit. Not only that but I didn't actually find it horrendously difficult, we'd already done 25 miles and over 2,000ft of climbing to get there and ended up doing 57 miles and over 5,000ft of climbing.

Got my first century on the horizon next week too on the Lincoln Arrow sportive.

 

[Phoenix Lincs]

Well, less than 4 months after I first sat on a road bike, I managed to get up Holme Moss today in one hit. Not only that but I didn't actually find it horrendously difficult, we'd already done 25 miles and over 2,000ft of climbing to get there and ended up doing 57 miles and over 5,000ft of climbing.

Got my first century on the horizon next week too on the Lincoln Arrow sportive.

Lincoln? We are doing Grantham on Sunday (unless I've entered the wrong one!)

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

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Might not of explained that very well, but it means that when I enter my ride data, my Eddington number is automatically displayed along with the number of days I need to hit the next five numbers (It then steps up in 5s to 100, but I am 92 off that, so a long way to go yet!)

that's 8 less than I am!
I stopped my spreadsheet at 89 miles at a count of 1... and it is all on its own by a very long margin (but I will point out that that day was an epic by all of my standard's including 15km in tunnels/underground, the lowest level I have ever cycled to 212m below sea level, the most I have climbed in a single day - estimated between 4,000-5,500metres - hard to work out when elevation data for tunnels is not available but we got to see the midnight sun at Nordkapp so it was worth it!)

I'll sit and work on the MAX and IF statements later... perhaps whilst I am cycling over to my mothers. pre-8am in the morning is just too early in my book for thinking about things like that!

 

[Nigelnaturist]

@SatNavSaysStraightOn I am usually better in the mornings for stuff like that its my body that takes time to shake off the meds. otherwise I could have been out at Motime and missed the worst of the rain.

 

[Stonechat]

Well, less than 4 months after I first sat on a road bike, I managed to get up Holme Moss today in one hit. Not only that but I didn't actually find it horrendously difficult, we'd already done 25 miles and over 2,000ft of climbing to get there and ended up doing 57 miles and over 5,000ft of climbing.

Got my first century on the horizon next week too on the Lincoln Arrow sportive.

Well that is fantastic, I have yet to to that much climbing, it's hard to find so much.
Strava says I climbed 2943, but was actually over 3300 I believe.

Judging by Sunday's run I could do more, after the L2B I will seek out some more tough hills

 

[Stonechat]

Everybody has been doing fabulously recently. Well done folks. I'm just trying to work out where I can squeeze in a few short sessions into my diary this week to get ready for our Sportive on Sunday.
Have a great week one and all

Aren't you supposed to "taper off" before a big event, i.e. reduced effort in the week before?

 

[Stonechat]

Joining a club is the single best thing I have done as a cyclist - great for meeting people, going on great rides, motivation to improve, advice on getting better and much more.

Going out now to test myself on a local 10 mile TT route - hopefully it won't **** down with rain on me while I'm out!

I believe they will be too fast for me and am wary

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

@SatNavSaysStraightOn I am usually better in the mornings for stuff like that its my body that takes time to shake off the meds. otherwise I could have been out at Motime and missed the worst of the rain.

my head has been really foggy the last few days, my body not much better I am afraid. Done nothing since Friday at all, not even replaced the chain on my mtb which needed doing. in fact all I have done is sleep and sleep some more.

As for rain, well it rained at 6:30am here, but stopped around 7am... now the Pennies seem to be doing a really good job of keeping the rain on them and there is a nice gap of dry weather running up the Cheshire plains. Hopefully it will stay that way today. I do have the option of the car today, but don't really want to use it. Must go now though, have to be on the road soon after 8:30am if I am to reach my parents' home at a sensible time and I have yet to pack or wake up properly!

 

[Mo1959]

@SatNavSaysStraightOn I am usually better in the mornings for stuff like that its my body that takes time to shake off the meds. otherwise I could have been out at Motime and missed the worst of the rain.

Lol. That was my thinking this morning. Getting very dull now.
Not that far, and a bit slower but quite a steep climb in the middle.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Lol. That was my thinking this morning. Getting very dull now.
Not that far, and a bit slower but quite a steep climb in the middle.

I suspect if I got up at dawn I would be fine. I am one of those 'can only sleep when it is dark' people and don't go to sleep until it is dark and wake before first light.
24 hour daylight has 'interesting' for more than 3 months. I did learn to sleep from exhaustion, but seem to have lost that ability again.
Curiously my OH has now stated since a conversation with him at the weekend, that he is more than happy for me to wake him up at 4:30am to go for a bike ride! it will be an interesting experiment the day I do try that one out .
cancelled going to my parents' today, my head is telling me one thing and one thing only and that is whatever I have had over the weekend is not yet gone and I need to take off my cycling kit and go back to bed! sleep is about the only thing I am good for right now

 

[Mo1959]

@SatNavSaysStraightOn Sorry you're feeling under the weather. Sounds like you definitely need to rest up. Here, have a virtual hug then get back to bed

I am finding the older I get I seem to need less and less sleep. Partly age I suppose and maybe all the years of working shifts haven't helped either. Who knows.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

@SatNavSaysStraightOn hope your feeling better soon, @Mo1959 or maybe its just because your fitter and your body recovers better, there are more benefits from cycling fitness other than going faster and climbing better.

 

[MattMM]

So cool, relatively calm with no wind and dry. Perfect conditions. Did my Moor loop and hit about 15 top 3s, more satisfyingly however...
DROPPED MY FIRST ROADIE....on a hill as well!

A momentous event and a first in my 6 month newbie career. Was doing some nice speeds on a hilly part near the start of my run, and just caught and sped by the guy. Weird sensation, but oddly satisfying. Also managed to do the entire route in a fasted state, normally stop for a cereal bar half way through, but wasn't hungry and had more than enough beans to finish without bonking

1. Rule #91
   // Or, as Fignon put it, sometimes, when we train, we simply have to go out to meet the Man with the Hammer.
   
   http://www.strava.com/activities/146108683
   
   

 

[Nomadski]

@Phoenix Lincs - which sportive are you doing?