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

[Mo1959]

I get what you're saying.

I'll just take the data with a pinch of salt (not good for health!) and use as a comparative measure as time goes by.

No idea of the algorithm used by Strava/Garmin etc but it must be hard to come up with a formula that works across the board.

I think @Nigelnaturist should develop one for us to use in 'Beginners',

Don't encourage him. My brain gets frazzled with figures as it is!

 

[welsh dragon]

Don't encourage him. My brain gets frazzled with figures as it is!

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Don't encourage him. My brain gets frazzled with figures as it is!

I don't know. An accurate calorie counter would be exceptionally useful...
3kg down, 5kg to go, somehow don't think I will achieve that before I go on holiday. (decided loosing weight from me was the easiest and best way of getting the bike weight down for my up coming tour!)

 

[Mo1959]

I don't know. An accurate calorie counter would be exceptionally useful...
3kg down, 5kg to go, somehow don't think I will achieve that before I go on holiday. (decided loosing weight from me was the easiest and best way of getting the bike weight down for my up coming tour!)

My weight has started creeping up with the relative inactivity so it will make starting back even harder.

Where are you off to next?

 

[Nigelnaturist]

I believe there is a formula that is pretty accurate, I also believe its under patent.
When I was using the 500 last year the cals/mile were closer to the high 30's so going off that the R20 is a little high, there is no way of setting H.R.Z. on the R20 there is on the more upmarket ones, and these are taken into account, most sites you can set them but unless a recording of them is available they are pointless.
Most are over estimates and only go off age/weight/gender, when I have used the R20 without the HR monitor its 50/50 split between carbs and fats.
This is just a rough thing avgHr and MaxHr are usually pretty much the same in both units its shows the difference between the R20 and the Edge 705 (I believe later units are linked much more closely to H.R. than the 705 is) but it shows the calorie difference each unit shows and how much higher the 705 reads than the R20 in general. This table also has HRZ times (but hidden)

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

My weight has started creeping up with the relative inactivity so it will make starting back even harder.

Where are you off to next?

our annual holiday...

cycling out from home, off to pick up the final section of the TransPennineTrail, up to Southport, then freelance to Ravensglass in the Lakes (probably taking in 2 'interesting' passes out of Ambleside (Wrynose and Hardknott IIRC)... follow the Hadrian's Wall cycle path around the coast, and all the way to Tyneside, then down NCR 1 to Hornsea and picking up the TransPennineTrail all the way back to Warrington before heading home again... roughly 650 miles to do in 15 days, unsupported camping tour but with my OH as the workhorse... (checks over shoulder to make sure he is not looking as she types)...

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Just modified to show cals/mile for each unit and if you consider that on average i use 25-30% fat cals of these (and that where the weight loss is) I have to do about 3-400 mile to lose a pound in weight.

Its only a guide, this is why I didn't start using the 705 purely to record data as it would have been the third change in just over 6 months and doesn't show any consistence, as it is my figures dont really mean a great deal.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

our annual holiday...

cycling out from home, off to pick up the final section of the TransPennineTrail, up to Southport, then freelance to Ravensglass in the Lakes (probably taking in 2 'interesting' passes out of Ambleside (Wrynose and Hardknott IIRC)... follow the Hadrian's Wall cycle path around the coast, and all the way to Tyneside, then down NCR 1 to Hornsea and picking up the TransPennineTrail all the way back to Warrington before heading home again... roughly 650 miles to do in 15 days, unsupported camping tour but with my OH as the workhorse... (checks over shoulder to make sure he is not looking as she types)...

Passing close to here then.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I have also just purchased this new 'toy' to charge things along the way...
http://www.bike-discount.de/en/buy/lumotec-iq2-luxos-u-led-headlight-63073 to be fitted to my OH's bike... it will allow us to recharge the garmins whilst he is riding, but will mean I have to keep track of who uses which garmin on which day if I want an accurate record of my figures up climbs...

Also got one of these as well... https://www.powertraveller.com/en/shop/portable-chargers/outdoor-adventure/powermonkey-extreme-12v/ because our old PowerGorilla is playing up and on my last tour was a touch temperamental. It should have had more than enough power to have not needed plugging into the mains again during the 10 days I was away (just charging my garmin and smartphone) but when it throws a paddy, it then needs a reset which needs it plugging into the mains and I wasn't carrying the mains charger... It lasted 5 days happily, then threw a paddy at the campsite at Llantwit Major, which was OK because I had asked my OH to bring the charger down in the car just in case and we were able to get someone else to plug it in for us. But it went again when I was at on my own without the charger on the way home and I had to turn off my smartphone to save power and set arranged times to call Stuart. This was a touch annoying because I was using the smartphone as an alarm clock and on this model, the alarm does not go off unless the phone is turned on... AHHHHHhhhhh so we have decided to retire it and buy a new one. It did go out on our big tour with us, so has been well and truly battered and was 2 years out of warranty anyhow...

 

[Supersuperleeds]

I'll be keeping you company with little rides when I get back too To be honest, and it will be sacrilege to say this here, but I start getting bored and wanting back home when I go on long rides. I have two loops that are around 13 miles and one that is 23 and I think that will be my max for the foreseeable future. Oh, and I definitely won't be going out if there is the slightest hint of snow/ice over the winter either. I am gradually becoming less and less bothered about speed/distance/cadence etc and just want to enjoy pottering around my lovely countryside and sit up and take in the views.

Shoulder still feels incredibly weak and a bit painful with certain movements anyway so I think it's going to be at least another month yet.

In for two or three days of wet and windy weather here so I'm not missing much. Lol

I've decided that next year I won't be repeating this years mileage

 

[Nigelnaturist]

I get what you're saying.

I'll just take the data with a pinch of salt (not good for health!) and use as a comparative measure as time goes by.

No idea of the algorithm used by Strava/Garmin etc but it must be hard to come up with a formula that works across the board.

I think @Nigelnaturist should develop one for us to use in 'Beginners',

I have come up with things like effort and power of some sort to give an idea of how hard you worked but not really very good, I did try working out watts from converting cals to Joules ect but still a work in progress, one day when the O.H. isn't wanting something done and its a hollower of a gale I will sit down and have another go. The difficulty one works pretty well better than the just the ft/mile.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Passing close to here then.

close but I think you are safe
this is our route for that day... (last but one day...)

 

[Supersuperleeds]

our annual holiday...

cycling out from home, off to pick up the final section of the TransPennineTrail, up to Southport, then freelance to Ravensglass in the Lakes (probably taking in 2 'interesting' passes out of Ambleside (Wrynose and Hardknott IIRC)... follow the Hadrian's Wall cycle path around the coast, and all the way to Tyneside, then down NCR 1 to Hornsea and picking up the TransPennineTrail all the way back to Warrington before heading home again... roughly 650 miles to do in 15 days, unsupported camping tour but with my OH as the workhorse... (checks over shoulder to make sure he is not looking as she types)...

If they are still trading you need to try the chips at Sullivan's chippy on the sea front at Hornsea

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I've decided that next year I won't be repeating this years mileage

how come? have you finally decided you are human after all?

 

[Nigelnaturist]

I've decided that next year I won't be repeating this years mileage

Mmmmm at half way round the world distance in less than 8 months, not surprised.

@SatNavSaysStraightOn looks good.