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

[Nigelnaturist]

In preparation for the new forest 100 a week on Saturday, I'm going to ride around 135 km this weekend,in a single ride mostly flat. Good idea or bad?

Well I am off to do a gentle 50km, so yea its good, though put a little effort in in places, you can ride right upto the event so long as you don't over do it the preceding few days.

 

[Justinslow]

In preparation for the new forest 100 a week on Saturday, I'm going to ride around 135 km this weekend,in a single ride mostly flat. Good idea or bad?

Well it depends how much you have done in prep up to this point, if you haven't got a few "biggies" under your belt then it will probably hurt..........a lot, you will be in the saddle for 5 plus hours! But on the other hand if your used to big rides then I'm sure you will be fine.

 

[Stonechat]

Well it depends how much you have done in prep up to this point, if you haven't got a few "biggies" under your belt then it will probably hurt..........a lot, you will be in the saddle for 5 plus hours! But on the other hand if your used to big rides then I'm sure you will be fine.

Having done a longer ride on Friday I am now tapering off, and my rides will not over exert myself
A week before may detract from your effort on the day

 

[Trevor_P]

@Stonechat I did two rides last weekend, 55 and 30 miles. The legs are feeling it a bit still, but I reckon I'll be fine tomorrow. Chances are the only riding I'll get in between now and the event is this weekend. As the only 100 I've done before was very flat, this one might be one step too far. 50-55 I'm comfortable with. But I've only been further twice... Hence the plan to do a longer, if flatter run this coming weekend. Of course I might benefit more from doing a couple of shorter runs, one Sat and one Sun.

The plan is to register for the 100 on Friday night, so I can start early Saturday, and allow myself nine hours to complete including stops. That way I can take it steady.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Well I didn't enjoy that very much.
http://www.strava.com/activities/201444171
much preferred yesterdays ride.

 

[Big_Dave]

(*sigh) wanted to get out today and bump the end month mileage up a bit, poor show again September only 219 miles YTD 1530 miles, YTD climbs 87,388 ft

I need a new approach, plan my schedules around cycling (in an ideal world lol), instead of trying to get out cycling and not being able to

 

[Mark White]

I was 0.86 miles short of 50 miles for yesterday's ride, but couldn't be bothered to cycle around the estate for it if that makes you feel any better

Same sort of thing for a 100km on Sunday. The extra detour of 800m was done at a very leisurely pace...

 

[Big_Dave]

Well I didn't enjoy that very much.
http://www.strava.com/activities/201444171
much preferred yesterdays ride.

16mph av good effort
*Drool I want a long flat road like that to ride lol

 

[Nigelnaturist]

16mph av good effort
*Drool I want a long flat road like that to ride lol

Naw you dont, it is extremely boring, even this little pimple I couldn't get going on at the end
http://www.strava.com/activities/201444171/segments/4747180842
mind you I did keep an avg cad of 90 on it.

I did 16+ on Sunday with another 500ft elevation over a similar distance and the ride was technical twice as hard.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Today

Sun

Mind you it was a tad windier today by 1mph on average.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Same sort of thing for a 100km on Sunday. The extra detour of 800m was done at a very leisurely pace...

What do I do about this then

I need to ride for 47.4 mins to make this 100 hrs for the quarter

Last years 3rd quarter in comparison to this one.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Well I think I did three things, 50 miles for the day 100hrs for the quarter and the 50 I think takes me two away from an eddington number of 50

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Well I think I did three things, 50 miles for the day 100hrs for the quarter and the 50 I think takes me two away from an eddington number of 50

I finally have a fully automated spreadsheet up and running for that... mine are now 80 for metric with 2 rides needed to make 81 and 53 for imperial with 5 rides needed for 54...
so after the BT engineer comes tomorrow to fix my telephone line for the 4th time since July... I may be able to get out and test the indexing on the rear gears and perhaps if I am well enough consider a longer ride later in the week/weekend...

 

[Nigelnaturist]

I had to go out again I was 0.24 miles short of 50 miles.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

@SatNavSaysStraightOn I think a few of us have had a poor year really.