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

[welsh dragon]

Blimey I do a lumpy ride home from work that is 25 miles and I get to a whopping 600 feet (To be fair most of that is squashed into about 4 miles of the ride). Definitely flat around here.

You can go off people you know. That is the flatist area I can find around here. That's why I may not go out for long, and I may not go far, but I get a good workout because of the terrain. That's the price I pay for living in the foothills of the Cambrian mountains I suppose.

 

[stevey]

....Day like this and i am having to go to physio assesments, Docs, Benefit office....Etc,Etc,Etc

 

[BrianEvesham]

A quick pre lunch spin for me
http://www.strava.com/activities/188751257

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Just out of interest
As some may recall I have complained that when away I need to take the (reallly old) laptop so that I can send in ride to Strava etc.
Now got a lead for the tablet with USB adapter on the end. With a couple of apps, I can now access and upload via the tablet where I have Wifi access
Might report this on another forum as there may be interest on doing this

From my understanding, any device that can access a webpage should be able to do everything the webpage offers, however its transferring your info (gps track) to the tablet all depends if your tablet sees the garmin as an external device if so, you should beable to transfer it and up, or just upload from the device, this is unlikely to work with brytons.

 

[Coggy]

I do everyting on my samsung galaxy tab tablet. You can load, strava, map my ride, ride with RGPs is it. Just about any of the riding apps as well as aps for walking and running. I use it to work out how far I have gone, and what elevation. Today withi 1 mile I had 600 feet of elevation and that is a flat bit round here.

600ft in 1 mile ! I did 1000ft in 45 last Sunday and was knackered ! Tonight I will do 21 miles with about 300ft gain ! I like living in East Anglia !

 

[Nigelnaturist]

600ft in 1 mile ! I did 1000ft in 45 last Sunday and was knackered ! Tonight I will do 21 miles with about 300ft gain ! I like living in East Anglia !

Bit like North Lincs, flat and boring and you start looking for motorway bridges just to break up the monotony.

2.6 miles into town and back with 181ft, and its pretty flat round here

 

[Trevor_P]

@Stonechat I'm doing the new forest 100 on the Saturday. It's much more hilly than my previous and only 100. Last time, I seemed to find a second wind at around seventy miles. Eat and drink properly and you'll be fine.

 

[BrianEvesham]

My OH, Sue went for her first ride on her own with the new Carrera, it was a big thing for her as I'm normally hovering around making sure things are ok.
Unfortuanatly she changed down to the small ring to soon, span out, lost her footing then balance and went down quite hard
Covered in bruises and gravel rash she just picked herself up, got back on and continued homechapeau!

Bike has been straightened out now, the only lasting damage is the outer cage on the right pedal.

 

[Goonerobes]

Well have now booked the New Forest Sportive - Epic Course - 100 miles for Sunday 12th October
Need to train more seriously and - my longest to date is 74 miles so need to do one or two longer rides (It's not that I am not able it's just making the time for a longer ride)
Think I will move saddle forward and up a little.
100 miles and 5013 feet of climbing

I shouldn't worry about it @Stonechat . The hillier bit is when it goes out of the forest to the north but from my previous experience I doubt your Garmin will show that much elevation when you've finished.

Good luck anyway & I may be there too but I'm planning on doing the South Downs sportive the following week.

 

[GravityFighter]

Hi all. Complete and utter newbie to the world of cycling here - at the grand old age of 30! Not due to a lack of fitness, more because I never really took up cycling as a kid. However, my fiancee has gotten more and more into it over the last few years. So... I had an adult cycling lesson 3 weeks ago, which went well; just need to tighten up my control and balance a little bit, but overall all fine. So I then decided to dive right in and buy myself a Cannondale CADDX 105 CX bike last weekend! Only took it out for a brief 8 mile spin at the weekend, but we're out for another 6 - 10 miles tonight depending on how much time we have, and a bigger ride on Sunday afternoon.

I'm sure I've got good base fitness and love spin at the gym, so here's hoping I continue to get bitten by the bug. Determined we will be able to go on some nice rides down in Pembrokeshire when we have a 4 day break in October...

 

[stevey]

My OH, Sue went for her first ride on her own with the new Carrera, it was a big thing for her as I'm normally hovering around making sure things are ok.
Unfortuanatly she changed down to the small ring to soon, span out, lost her footing then balance and went down quite hard
Covered in bruises and gravel rash she just picked herself got back on and continued homechapeau!

Bike has been straightened out now, the only lasting damage is the outer cage on the right pedal.

Hope it doesn't put her off @BrianEvesham

 

[welsh dragon]

This is a ride I did a while ago. It is only a 2.7 mile segment, but you can see the elevation I think.

 

[welsh dragon]

600ft in 1 mile ! I did 1000ft in 45 last Sunday and was knackered ! Tonight I will do 21 miles with about 300ft gain ! I like living in East Anglia !

I think I'd like living where you are. Believe me, that is as flat as it gets around here. No wonder I don't go far. I tet as good a work out in 2 miles, as you do in 40.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Just realised two more 50+ mile days and my edington no. is the same as my age

We expect it to be done by Friday

 

[GravityFighter]

Hope it doesn't put her off @BrianEvesham

Ditto, hope she's out again quick-smart. I'm dreading my first off, but no doubt I'll get it out of the way sooner rather than later...