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

[sutts]

First ride out tonight in 3 weeks after 2 1/2 weeks of illness.

Definitely feel my fitness has dropped a bit but so has my weight by over 3lbs which I am
Guessing could be down to lost muscle mass due to 2 weeks of being pretty much bed bound.

I was interested in this, so I looked it up and found this was quite interesting:

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/fitness/training/detraining-the-truth-about-losing-fitness-22330

 

[SpokeyDokey]

My favourite short Strava segment the aptly named "cow sh*t corner" on this mornings ride. Some times of the year this section is completely covered in, erm. Mud.

http://www.strava.com/activities/167049415

Slippery stuff to ride on and sticks to your bike like glue - I live half a mile from Smelly Farm - nuff said!

 

[sutts]

Today I did a PB! Not much by some of your standards perhaps, but I did my 25 miles route (well, it's 24.6) in 1:22:51 and that was some 2 mins and 12 secs off of my previous best! 17.7mph average and I am so bloody pleased, because the last 8 miles was a head wind! ;-) Bloody hard work it was!

 

[Nigelnaturist]

I was interested in this, so I looked it up and found this was quite interesting:

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/fitness/training/detraining-the-truth-about-losing-fitness-22330

Pretty much what I said I have found.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Today I did a PB! Not much by some of your standards perhaps, but I did my 25 miles route (well, it's 24.6) in 1:22:51 and that was some 2 mins and 12 secs off of my previous best! 17.7mph average and I am so bloody pleased, because the last 8 miles was a head wind! ;-) Bloody hard work it was!

Faster than me normally, very rare I turn in 17+ avg.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I was interested in this, so I looked it up and found this was quite interesting:

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/fitness/training/detraining-the-truth-about-losing-fitness-22330

Just had a quick scan and will read/digest later - looks interesting!

 

[Stonechat]

Faster than me normally, very rare I turn in 17+ avg.

I have yet to do this 16.8 is the best to date so well done @sutts

 

[Arualsti]

Meant to go out for a 15-16 mile ride today, got a little lost and decided to push myself so it turned out to be over 20 miles! I am honestly amazed I could do that. I am horrendously exhausted and I ran out of water 2/3rds of the way through, but I did it

 

[Nigelnaturist]

All done. now I have to get used to the different changer

Edit
about three hours, cassette, FD chain and shifters, re-tape the bars and adjust.

 

[sutts]

Faster than me normally, very rare I turn in 17+ avg.

It's very, very rare for me too Nigel! I knew that a PB was on from the 2 mile mark, so every hill, every step of the way, I pushed and pushed and pushed...and that's the thing with PB's, they aren't easy, they are damned hard work and not too pleasant if we are entirely honest!

I feel really great now, and I have just been sitting in the garden with a beer, relaxed in the knowledge that I have achieved something really, really special today (well, for me). I doubt I will ever better that time on my current bike (but I said that last August when the record was set)..sorry, this is that said beer talking...

 

[Learnincurve]

Got the MTB all ready to go last night. going 20 miles on it today in this heat was A Mistake. My speed dropped by 1 mile an hour for the first half but I'm not sure if that's because my legs are feeling it, the heat, or the smaller tyre size. Second half I know I went slowly because of the heat. I only have four biking days left till September, unless I dump the kids on my parents once a week and go out into the hope valley

 

[Arualsti]

Hear are a couple of pics from my ride today, need to get into the habit of taking more, but it is so fiddly getting my phone out of my backpack. Need to invest in a handlebar bag for my phone/keys.

 

[morrisman]

Well that's a 70 mile ride in 'Phew! what a scorcher' temperatures (maxed at 88F/31C). Not so bad when you are moving but v sweaty when you stop. Still that's 205 miles so far this week.
http://www.strava.com/activities/167136815

 

[Stonechat]

All done. now I have to get used to the different changer

Edit
about three hours, cassette, FD chain and shifters, re-tape the bars and adjust.

All that fettling and tinkering you must have had plenty of practice.
Think it would take me twice as long

PS anyone notice the change in my avatar

 

[welsh dragon]

All that fettling and tinkering you must have had plenty of practice.
Think it would take me twice as long

PS anyone notice the change in my avatar

Have you changed it? Didn't notice.