GreigM
Veteran
- Location
- Cowdenbeath, Fife
14 miles today and yesterday not as far as I would like, last few rides been feeling my right hamstring a bit tight when cycling, maybe it's time to get a bike fit?
Show us your.......newbie progress! [4 Sep 2012 - 4 Oct 2014]
- Thread starter Typhon
- Start date
- Status
Page may contain affiliate links. Please see terms for details.
Justinslow
Lovely jubbly
- Location
- Suffolk
My mate did that one aswell, rode to and from also, totalling 88 miles, asked me if I wanted to go but I thought it was a bit much too soon as they are a bit fast! I ended up doing 61 miles on my own elsewhere (as mentioned before) @16.4mph, but definitely gonna do an organised run soon. Two options near to me are late September Dedham ride and early October Ipswich. Oh and legs are a tad stiff today!
Nigelnaturist
Guru
- Location
- Pontefract
I can't read all the posts yet, I am off the road with right infected undercarriage this time.
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
Stonechat
Guru
- Location
- Staines, Middlesex
Well
- Won't and can't make the time
- I get stiff after about 50 miles, need to keep stretching. Tried adjusting saddle position - it was fine on the ride.
- Start getting weary at around 60 miles,
stevey
Guru
- Location
- sutton coldfield
@Nigelnaturist Gell well soon bud
Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
- Location
- Leicester
puffinbilly
Veteran
Is it the bottom bracket or the crank
- sure your LBS would take a look for you 
Hope you're better soon Nigel
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
GWS Nigel.
Mo1959
Legendary Member
- Location
- Perthshire,Scotland
@Nigelnaturist Hope it heals quickly Nigel.
@Stonechat Kind of agree with most of your comments re really long distances. I'm afraid I start to lose interest after around 4 hours and start to want to get home. If I ever do manage an imperial 100 it will just be a one off just to say I've done it but would probably never repeat it.
@Stonechat Kind of agree with most of your comments re really long distances. I'm afraid I start to lose interest after around 4 hours and start to want to get home. If I ever do manage an imperial 100 it will just be a one off just to say I've done it but would probably never repeat it.
Nigelnaturist
Guru
- Location
- Pontefract
Cheers, well most of you on here know how long it took last time, I wouldn't mind so much I was riding well, any way this is the first time since last Wed I have been able to actually sit up, the sadist thing though is that the O.H. didn't once ask how I was yesterday and only made me something to eat on Sat because I hadn'nt been done stairs all day (which for a guy that must drink 20 cups of a coffee a day even she must have noticed),.anyway enough of my moaning, hope everyone has been enjoying what looks to be great riding weather.
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Your boredom threshold is still higher than mine.
I did around 31 miles at the weekend in a bit over 2 hours and tbh I was thinking this is too long on a bike!
I found the distance easy and have no doubt I could do 50 and I just might do it so I can say I did.
Might even do a 100 one day for the same reason but there is not much appeal - oddly I will happily go and do a 12 hour day in the mountains and occasionally I do longer than that.
Maybe a big factor is that I am with my mountain buddy and we yak and yak all day (women, football, politics, finance etc - same old conversations we have been having together for decades!
).I do like cycling but it can get a bit tedious. I have no idea how those who get out and crack off 30/40/50 miles day after day manage to keep so focused - every credit to them; whilst my legs and lungs seem to go on and on I'm afraid my brain is all too easily frazzled!
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
Your boredom threshold is still higher than mine.
I did around 31 miles at the weekend in a bit over 2 hours and tbh I was thinking this is too long on a bike!
I found the distance easy and have no doubt I could do 50 and I just might do it so I can say I did.
Might even do a 100 one day for the same reason but there is not much appeal - oddly I will happily go and do a 12 hour day in the mountains and occasionally I do longer than that.
Maybe a big factor is that I am with my mountain buddy and we yak and yak all day (women, football, politics, finance etc - same old conversations we have been having together for decades!
I do like cycling but it can get a bit tedious. I have no idea how those who get out and crack off 30/40/50 miles day after day manage to keep so focused - every credit to them; whilst my legs and lungs seem to go on and on I'm afraid my brain is all too easily frazzled!
I have to agree. I'd rather do 10 miles and enjoy it than do , 50, 60 and hate it, and feel like I'm only doing this because others do, and maybe people will think im a fraud because I don't do it and more importantly people won't think im a cyclist because I don't do that kind of mileage. on the plus side, im too old to care what others think.
as long as i enjoy it thats OK.
Justinslow
Lovely jubbly
- Location
- Suffolk
I know what you both mean, it's easier to chat on a mtb at more sedate speeds, on the road yesterday with another guy who I tagged along with I couldn't hear a thing he was saying as the wind and traffic noise was overpowering and on a main road I wasn't going to go 2 abreast.
I just wanted to get a high miler done just for my own satisfaction and if I do do a charity biggie at least I'm some way prepared for it.
I just wanted to get a high miler done just for my own satisfaction and if I do do a charity biggie at least I'm some way prepared for it.
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
I have to agree. I'd rather do 10 miles and enjoy it than do , 50, 60 and hate it, and feel like I'm only doing this because others do, and maybe people will think im a fraud because I don't do it and more importantly people won't think im a cyclist because I don't do that kind of mileage. on the plus side, im too old to care what others think.
I read a thread elsewhere on CC about 6 weeks back where someone was talking about mileges and someone dismissively said that "100 miles a week is not much really" and I thought to myself how ridiculous that statement was.
I did 73 miles in total last week and was pretty pleased and in reality it's quite a long way - would get me from where I live to more or less the outskirts of Greater Manchester.
If I talk to my non-cycling friends/family they think that more than a coupe of miles on a bike is a long way!
All relative I guess.
I have an acquaintance who cycled over 17000 miles last year and whilst dead impressive (he runs long distances as well) I think to myself that that is just plain obsessive.
- Status
