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

[Stonechat]

Monthly summary
480 miles, second best monthly total
13713 feet climbed - average
Average speed 15.5 mph - definitely fastest average.

Highlight is the 87.8 mile ride last Friday

 

[Nigelnaturist]

@Stonechat you beat me this months, but this is basically just two weeks as I was in bed for one and almost house bound for another.

200 of those miles in the last seven days.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

and my quarterly, not formatted this yet.

 

[RWright]

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

I am a lot below last year. I don't remember what my goal was for this year but I know I am going to miss it by a lot. I am feeling better just doing the one hour rides and hope to increase it a little for October, I think I will be able to spend more time riding and doing other exercises, at least I hope I can.

I got right around 350 miles in for September. I am still liking the evening/night rides on the unopened highway but I may alter my track this month to add a couple of miles. It is just so stress free that it is hard for me to not ride out there. No cars, no dogs, just me and the wildlife...but that includes quite a few flying bugs at least for now. The weather may get rid of a lot of them in the next month or so.

I see some really nice rides from a lot of y'all. Nice work. I haven't done any longer rides lately but I feel like I will get in a few soon.... but I did find
a nice pair of diagonal cutting pliers on my ride this evening.

 

[Effyb4]

My statistics don't match up to those some of you are doing but I am very pleased with them nevertheless. I started riding in December, very slowly and only 2 miles, 3 months after heart bypass surgery. This year I have ridden 1,199 miles and climbed 19,626 ft. My average speed hasn't changed much, being around 10 mph. My target was to do 2,000 miles this year. I don't think I'm going to quite make it, but you never know.

 

[Big_Dave]

My statistics don't match up to those some of you are doing but I am very pleased with them nevertheless. I started riding in December, very slowly and only 2 miles, 3 months after heart bypass surgery. This year I have ridden 1,199 miles and climbed 19,626 ft. My average speed hasn't changed much, being around 10 mph. My target was to do 2,000 miles this year. I don't think I'm going to quite make it, but you never know.

Good for you, at least you are out and about, Change your target to 1,500 miles, it's a pretty respectable mileage to achieve after heart surgery, and maybe next year do your 2,000. Well done so far

 

[Nigelnaturist]

@RWright I have had a few unexpected meals whilst out recently, possibly why I felt better on last nights ride than during the day.
@Effyb4 as @Big_Dave says not many do that mileage after a bypass, it surly can only help make your heart stronger for next year, just doing regular excercise is best not so much how far or how fast, but just keep things working, last winter I did very little my performance dropped a bit but never to the point I couldn't do any of the rides I did and the hills were never as bad as when I started June 2012, my average speed this year so far compared with last year is only 0.4mph faster at 15.4mph and the max average speed on any ride is actually slower. I managed a ride at over 17mph last year this year I haven't.

 

[Mo1959]

@RWright I have had a few unexpected meals whilst out recently, possibly why I felt better on last nights ride than during the day.
@Effyb4 as @Big_Dave says not many do that mileage after a bypass, it surly can only help make your heart stronger for next year, just doing regular excercise is best not so much how far or how fast, but just keep things working, last winter I did very little my performance dropped a bit but never to the point I couldn't do any of the rides I did and the hills were never as bad as when I started June 2012, my average speed this year so far compared with last year is only 0.4mph faster at 15.4mph and the max average speed on any ride is actually slower. I managed a ride at over 17mpg last year this year I haven't.

Mind you, you are half a century old now! .............and, come May, I will be nearer 60 than 50 so I don't think we do too bad.

 

[Studley]

@RWright I have had a few unexpected meals whilst out recently, possibly why I felt better on last nights ride than during the day.
@Effyb4 as @Big_Dave says not many do that mileage after a bypass, it surly can only help make your heart stronger for next year, just doing regular excercise is best not so much how far or how fast, but just keep things working, last winter I did very little my performance dropped a bit but never to the point I couldn't do any of the rides I did and the hills were never as bad as when I started June 2012, my average speed this year so far compared with last year is only 0.4mph faster at 15.4mph and the max average speed on any ride is actually slower. I managed a ride at over 17mpg last year this year I haven't.

Were you running on super unleaded ?

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Were you running on super unleaded ?

corrected

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

corrected

4 star tasted so much better you know... remember those days when petrol stations had that really nice smell!

 

[Supersuperleeds]

I doesn't matter how fast you are, you ride how you want, apart from @Supersuperleeds hes lost the plot I think.

I've not lost the plot

 

[Supersuperleeds]

My statistics don't match up to those some of you are doing but I am very pleased with them nevertheless. I started riding in December, very slowly and only 2 miles, 3 months after heart bypass surgery. This year I have ridden 1,199 miles and climbed 19,626 ft. My average speed hasn't changed much, being around 10 mph. My target was to do 2,000 miles this year. I don't think I'm going to quite make it, but you never know.

Good for you, as I always say targets are very personal and somebodies 2,000 mile target can be infinitely harder than someone's 10,000 mile target

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Good for you, as I always say targets are very personal and somebodies 2,000 mile target can be infinitely harder than someone's 10,000 mile target

is that what you are aiming for this year then?

 

[Learnincurve]

Rest day, it's lovely out and I'm doing housework On the plus side I'll get a guilt free ride tomorrow. Also I'm swapping bikes round, ridegback hybrid is so filthy it's effecting the gears something chronic and I've had to order the tools and products to sort it out. Mountain bike comes out of the shed and the trail/winter tyres go on the audux.

The latter is because I can't learn the riding position and braking on the roads near me, the flater road is a A road and the B roads are just treacherously hilly "aww really, another 15% gradient just for me? Really Derbyshire you shouldn't have, what a treat". Once I can ride on the trail and learn how the bike steers and handles without fear of wobbling into HGVs/black cars/new 4x4s I'll be as fine on the roads as I am with flat bars.