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

[matth411]

Nearly there then @Mo1959 only 33 days until the start of October. Have you at least found something to do with your time? Not just sit there staring at your bike, like I did for a few hours trying to get the energy to go out. If you are close to a park or something similar with hardly any distractions/danger of falling off, then crack on. You will know your own limits. HINT: If it hurts, stop.

 

[Mo1959]

Nearly there then @Mo1959 only 33 days until the start of October. Have you at least found something to do with your time? Not just sit there staring at your bike, like I did for a few hours trying to get the energy to go out. If you are close to a park or something similar with hardly any distractions/danger of falling off, then crack on. You will know your own limits. HINT: If it hurts, stop.

I have an energetic dog to walk at least a couple of times per day so not too bad. I have an exercise bike but find it extremely boring but have used it a few times.

I feel like I have a little devil/angel on each shoulder. One telling me to be sensible and wait for the surgeon's go ahead to ride in another five weeks or so and the other is saying go on, a few little rides will be fine. Lol

 

[stevey]

Mine's saying "Go on its ok to eat the cake while not exercising its ok" the other is "Step away from the goodies you now its not good for you"

 

[Mo1959]

Mine's saying "Go on its ok to eat the cake while not exercising its ok" the other is "Step away from the goodies you now its not good for you"

Ha, ha....I know what you mean. Stuck some cash in my pocket so I could pop in to the supermarket for bread and milk when I was out with the dog, and I have just consumed a large bag of crisps which I just happened to buy when I was there.

 

[welsh dragon]

Ha, ha....I know what you mean. Stuck some cash in my pocket so I could pop in to the supermarket for bread and milk when I was out with the dog, and I have just consumed a large bag of crisps which I just happened to buy when I was there.

Oh. Cheese and onion crisps. Do be quiet and stop talking about things like that.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Afternoon everyone. I haven't done a write up for a while, so today I thought I would remedy that. It looked like it was going to pour down with rain and it was quite windy, nevertheless, I decided to go for a pootle,, working on the premise that I can always beat a hasty retreat if needs be. I went on my usual flat (tish) route along an unnamed lane. The railway people have been out in force all over the place and have cut back a lot of undergrowth that waa making it really difficult to see properly. Its been an excellent year for things to grow, they have given the railway bridge a short back and sides haircut View attachment 54477

off i went under the bridge and carried on down the road to the stream that a couple of weeks ago was practically bone dry, but now has a fair amount of water flowing View attachment 54478

there wasnt anything exciting that happened, accept that the rain clouds kept getting darker and darker, until in the end i had no choice but to turn back towards home. A nice quiet ride. it was good to get out and turn the pedals and blow away the cobwebs. i had a nice quiet hour to myself. What can be better than that.

Short back and sides, plus facelift?



This is what that sign was relating to... only the both signs were no where near the bridge, let alone either side of it as you might have expected and indicated 1 day... this is day 4 and I don't think they have even started with the other side of the bridge yet! They have admitted to finding more dead/rotten bricks than they were expecting and now trains are having to go over the bridge veeeerrryyyyy slowly. In fact on yesterday's walk where I have to cross the 2 lines on a footpath, there was a train coming towards me and it was going that slowly I got fed up of waiting for it and walked across in front of it... (you can see about 1/2 mile in each direction...) and the train driver didn't get upset or anything!

 

[Stonechat]

Thought I had better do some training instead of just riding as I have almost made up my mind to do New FOrest 100 in Oct
Did some intervals. In early part of run found I was leaking money through pocket seam coming undone, Then a road was closed , cycled through anyway - one of the workmen shouted at me to get on the pavement!
However stuck to the road which was fine. Nearing home, felt good and wind was behind so blasted the last road for 3rd place on a segment. Only a short segment but did it at 24.6 mph, 6 seconds faster than before. 2 seconds better would get 2nd place, but would have to beat 29.9 mph to beat the KOM so that is out of reach

Still nice short outing totalling 15.7 miles
Just noticed at the end of that segment, reached 27.1 mph on the flat!

http://www.strava.com/activities/186858532

 

[Mark White]

Not sure how to share the map my ride details? but that is what I used today to track my progress.

Make sure the workout is shared with Public, then just paste the URL like this:

http://www.mapmyride.com/workout/702744329

 

[Stonechat]

The devil sitting on my shoulder usually wants me to eat or drink more
I don't drink that much but some more bad news in the family today so will have a couple tonight.

Worst thing is when you are buying some ready made sandwiches which we did on holiday in Cornwall recently and they have a meal deal, meaning you have to get a bag of crisps too

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

The devil sitting on my shoulder usually wants me to eat or drink more
I don't drink that much but some more bad news in the family today so will have a couple tonight.

Worst thing is when you are buying some ready made sandwiches which we did on holiday in Cornwall recently and they have a meal deal, meaning you have to get a bag of crisps too

the devil on my shoulder is finally being fed. Today is feed up day, the diet is over until I return from holiday....

 

[Batgirl]

Make sure the workout is shared with Public, then just paste the URL like this:

http://www.mapmyride.com/workout/702744329

Thanks!

Here we are: http://www.mapmyride.com/workout/709384857

 

[Stonechat]

the devil on my shoulder is finally being fed. Today is feed up day, the diet is over until I return from holiday....

For years I never worried about weight at all
In fact I was very slim
But if you took a graph over many years you could have seen a slow increase from about 10 stone at age 20 to about 12 1/2 stone before I took up cycling
There was some cycling through my 40's and weight went down at that period.
I don't have to be too careful, but I need to exercise some restraint as well as exercise!

 

[Batgirl]

I'm a struggler in the weight region, always have been. I have to try really hard to get it off and keep it off. sucks. So hoping cycling will help.

 

[Stonechat]

JUst noticed this segment from my holidays
http://app.strava.com/segments/6935475?filter=overall
I don't usually rank very high in sttep hilly segments but on this average 20% and max 25% short section I was 12th out of 207
(This was the segment where I had a little trouble with the rear wheel spinning a bit as I pedalled)
I often rank quite low on climbs, e.g. Box Hill I am 18,556th out of 27,576
I am amazed

 

[stevey]

I'm a struggler in the weight region, always have been. I have to try really hard to get it off and keep it off. sucks. So hoping cycling will help.

It will trust me