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

[Supersuperleeds]

that ticker still needs adjustment!

Maybe next year

 

[Nigelnaturist]

@Supersuperleeds 1,650 a month

 

[Big_Dave]

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.

I feel your pain brother!! (Edit) Sister lol

 

[Effyb4]

Had a lovely ride with a friend today. We rode to a local wildlife centre. I did a total of 32 miles, but my stupid garmin turned itself off on the way home and I have a strange total of 3 trips, which don't add up to 32 miles.
http://www.strava.com/activities/201862219
http://www.strava.com/activities/201862231
http://www.strava.com/activities/201862212

 

[Effyb4]

@Big_Dave I might well change my target to 1500 miles, then I will be pleased if (when?) I go over it. Better than to be disappointed at not meeting a goal.

 

[Mo1959]

Had a lovely ride with a friend today. We rode to a local wildlife centre. I did a total of 32 miles, but my stupid garmin turned itself off on the way home and I have a strange total of 3 trips, which don't add up to 32 miles.
http://www.strava.com/activities/201862219
http://www.strava.com/activities/201862231
http://www.strava.com/activities/201862212

Well done. It's nice when you actually have a destination rather than just riding around.

 

[Effyb4]

@Mo1959 Having a nice coffee stop is one of the main reasons for our rides.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Well done. It's nice when you actually have a destination rather than just riding around.

Always got one of them HOME.

 

[Learnincurve]

@Effyb4 I would work out average speed and manually add that to strava if I were you, you won't get full stats but it will count towards your total.

 

[cyclingclueless]

Nigel that is true; home as the ultimate destination, but is nice to try and strike out somewhere new you wouldn't have considered in the car.. think partly due to fact its the effort involved in getting there makes you appreciate it, as well as what you see on the way. CAKE also helps!! Mean I would never have known bout them tunnels if i went to Market Harborough by car, but they were a unique experience by cycling!!

well done Effy, 34 miles in a day is great. I'm planning my next long distance to try hit 50 miles mark. hehehe.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

@cyclingclueless seriously I have seen most of the roads round here in all weathers and times of day, I personally would find it quite a struggle mentally to go much further than 3-4 hours riding, I am out sometimes longer but only because I touch friendly bases. I do have other destinations like the group on Fridays errands when the O.H. needs them ect...
I struggle to find roads I haven't been down, though did get a few new ones this week, even if they were through an estate.
I am somewhere middle left of all this spaghetti and none of that is any more than 25 miles as the crow flies. The red are new roads this year, blue what I did last year and pink the year before.

But many of my rides just take me over the same roads, though not always the same course.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Had a lovely ride with a friend today. We rode to a local wildlife centre. I did a total of 32 miles, but my stupid garmin turned itself off on the way home and I have a strange total of 3 trips, which don't add up to 32 miles.
http://www.strava.com/activities/201862219
http://www.strava.com/activities/201862231
http://www.strava.com/activities/201862212

I ended up with three files yesterday, my main ride about what you did there, then when I got home I realised I need 47 mins or so to reach 100hrs for the quarter, so off I went and did that, felt better on that ride than the one in the afternoon, then having calculated wrong towards my eddington no. I had to go and do a further 0.24 (well I a did 2.25)

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Nigel that is true; home as the ultimate destination, but is nice to try and strike out somewhere new you wouldn't have considered in the car.. think partly due to fact its the effort involved in getting there makes you appreciate it, as well as what you see on the way. CAKE also helps!! Mean I would never have known bout them tunnels if i went to Market Harborough by car, but they were a unique experience by cycling!!

well done Effy, 34 miles in a day is great. I'm planning my next long distance to try hit 50 miles mark. hehehe.

No doubt you will do it

 

[moo]

Just got back from another century, making it 2 in 3 days with a 30 mile recovery spin yesterday. Was a little slower than I'd have liked, so probably need at least 2 days recovery between centuries. Looking down at the Garmin to see grade exceeding 10% on many occasions was greated with a verbal "you gotta be kidding me"

http://www.strava.com/activities/201992667

 

[Big_Dave]

I did 49.8 miles today (didn't look at the mileage when I got off the bike Doh!!) another ride to Bakewell, steady ride today, and felt loads better for it, although very little difference in my av.Speed and a few PR's as well.

http://app.strava.com/activities/201875631