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

[matth411]

I seem to have gone back to just commuting recently. And haven't really wanted to go for a long ride like I wanted to 3 months ago. Hoping that changes soon though. Oh and I have gone from smoking to "vaping" in the last 24 hours. Meaning I am now on the e-cig and hoping to get away from the damned nicotine habit. (Cue the ones who just stopped saying the ecig is useless) it is start though.

 

[welsh dragon]

I seem to have gone back to just commuting recently. And haven't really wanted to go for a long ride like I wanted to 3 months ago. Hoping that changes soon though. Oh and I have gone from smoking to "vaping" in the last 24 hours. Meaning I am now on the e-cig and hoping to get away from the damned nicotine habit. (Cue the ones who just stopped saying the ecig is useless) it is start though.

Well done on getting rid of the cigs. Keep going. Its well worth it. I gave up 2 years ago.

 

[Mummy3monkeys]

@Mummy3monkeys dont tell the O.H. the likely future cost.

Lol, he is cycle mad too, so I'm ok there!! Managed 26 miles today

 

[Stonechat]

Short outing for prescription call at a couple of shops etc
Managed to take KOM for segment near our house (where we are not currently livng), I held it already for the other direction.
Really just a short ride but my wife might think I am makng up excuses for another ride, when I say it's the only think that clears my head and the remains of thius cold

http://www.strava.com/activities/197913595

 

[Nidge]

Finally made it to the top of the highest point in Pembrokeshire, the one I failed to do last week. Went with some workmates, was bloody hard work, bit to much for me
really, I must of stopped 15-20 times, but glad I did it
Me second from left in pic, looking gormless.

http://www.strava.com/activities/197395359

 

[Torvi]

Great Comeback! Hey guys ive been recently offline due to my 2 weeks holiday in poland where i had no time to cycle and came back broke and more tired than when i was going there haha

So going back to thread, it's my first day off since im back from holidays and decided to use this beautifull weather untill it lasts and went ahead!

I have to say something weird is happeing, even tho i had more breaks, ive found myself beating uphills much easier than before holiday and on top of that every uphill was on outer cog so double success for me! Ofc i did some pics and here they are :P

My last bits from h5 race pack only gel and tab left now

Soo China got it's great wall right? So why We cant have it too? Well, Sywell came up with solution

seriously that wall was about 2 maybe 2,5 mile long ahaha xD it was probably even longer but i had to turn

Someone saw Loch Ness? Well what about a flat road in uk? Nope? MYTH BUSTED

And for good end of post, selfie of me getting beaten by route

please dont look at my belly, i know it's big

route:
http://ridewithgps.com/routes/new
length: 16.6 mile
estimated time 1,35 hour and +/- 20 minutes break(all together)

Forgot to mention that when i turned to park farm from sywell ive seen from afar a fellow cyclist going the same way... On first i tought, "hey let's head to him and go together" but the closer i was getting to him the more i wanted to just outrun the shoot out of him and after 5 minutes of catching up and sprinting hard (when i saw him he was about 100 maybe 150 yrds away) ive managed to get close to him and outran him with style, ~looking at birds not even trying to catch breath~ one thing i noticed he was on his training bike i bet cuz he had very nice and muscular legs (wish i had the same) and a nice full set of clotches think i made him giggle cuz he didnt even tried to catch up with me afterwards

 

[Stonechat]

Second short outing of the day, visiting Mum
On the way tucked in behind a rider who overtook me, he was making about 22 mph.
9.32 miles at 18.32 mph
http://www.strava.com/activities/197993844
Good speedfor me at least

 

[Alasdair Geddes]

This week I've been doing 30 miles without stopping a day at an average speed of 16 mph. As soon as I get a new bike that'll increase because my current bike that I got for free is completely falling apart (it's 30 years old). I have to fix it roughly 4 times an hour.
Also, unrelated, but SPD pedals are awesome, I've just bought a set.

I said I'd improve with my new bike, I've just done almost 50 miles in one go!
http://www.strava.com/activities/198038806

 

[Harv]

First ride out in over a week.

I'm definitely a fair weather cyclist. Need some motivation to keep cycling over winter.

http://www.strava.com/activities/198078948

 

[welsh dragon]

First ride out in over a week.

I'm definitely a fair weather cyclist. Need some motivation to keep cycling over winter.

http://www.strava.com/activities/198078948

I'm a fair weather cyclist as well.

 

[Big_Dave]

First ride out in over a week.

I'm definitely a fair weather cyclist. Need some motivation to keep cycling over winter.

http://www.strava.com/activities/198078948

It's the "numbers", they're bad dude! Get out on your bike or you could end up looking like Hurley, how's that for motivation

 

[Phixion]

I'm just over a month in to cycling and so far I've lost 10lbs, I was 15 stone 11lbs before I started and I'm now 15 stone 1lbs.

The only change to my diet has been to avoid eating fast food and pizzas.

I do 10-20 miles per day and I'm hoping I can keep it up over the Winter, I went a short ride a few nights ago when it was really drizzling - It wasn't a great experience but I grit my teeth and pushed through it.

 

[Big_Dave]

I've done approx 1500 miles & put 2 stone on since April I keep telling myself it's good for the legs tho

 

[welsh dragon]

It's the "numbers", they're bad dude! Get out on your bike or you could end up looking like Hurley, how's that for motivation

The numbers aren't bad. Any miles no matter how few are better than nothing. Well done @Harv

 

[Big_Dave]

The numbers aren't bad. Any miles no matter how few are better than nothing. Well done @Harv

Sorry for the confusion guys, I was referring to the numbers in his avitar, "4 8 15 16 23 42" are from the tv series "Lost" Hurley was a character in the program