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

[boybiker]

I wanted to commute in twice this week which is double the amount of times I did last week, and I done it (positive thinking and all :P ) . So I have done over 50 miles of committing this week which is helping me get my mileage up. I have improved in time overall despite different weather conditions/traffic which have worked for and against me. I'm going to have a rest Thursday and Friday and try and do a longer ride on Saturday .

Ride in : http://app.strava.com/activities/42412452

Ride home : http://app.strava.com/activities/42462386

 

[themosquitoking]

I have a day off tomorrow, i am definitely going out.

 

[RWright]

Ok.. that makes sense..

I made a mistake I think, if you follow someone you don't get an email when they post an activity, you just see the ride when you go to the Strava dashboard. I get the emails when I get kudos on my rides.

 

[RWright]

Well done Andy, I passed 500 miles this month today, 4,000 since I started in June, the other day, and finally my speed seems to be increasing (dont want to say to much about that, I usually go back down under 14mph avg), it's just I did it on an avg 1% grade for half the distance (obviously the other half is -1%) it's not the first time (14.01mph 25.3miles 55.45ft per mile) today 14.36mph over 27.4 miles 53.05ft per mile, the other ride was marginally more difficult @ 65.92 today 64.53 (these figures are / by 100 to make a usufull figure),
Also having had a visit from the fairy, I still managed to 82% of the time I was out, about 15 mins to change the tube and check the tyre.

Very nice on getting the 500 this month, especially with the elevations you have been doing. I barely got over 200 for the month, including today's ride. I hope to get the monthly mileage back up closer 400 in March.

I did the normal 10 mile track again, part of it in the dark. I started a little late because I was getting
my other bike cleaned up and ready for reassembly, just in time for another cold snap this weekend.

 

[Boon 51]

Day off today its bloody snowing...

 

[Boon 51]

I made a mistake I think, if you follow someone you don't get an email when they post an activity, you just see the ride when you go to the Strava dashboard. I get the emails when I get kudos on my rides.

I'll get the hang of it soon, never was good at school either..

 

[Billy Adam]

I'll get the hang of it soon, never was good at school either..

I get an email showing strava activity of people I follow.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

It depends how you have your email settings in strava set up, as to what you receive.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Anyone doing the latest Strava challenge? Ride 15 hours in a week, ends Sunday. I know you are Nigel as that is how I saw it.

 

[Billy Adam]

Anyone doing the latest Strava challenge? Ride 15 hours in a week, ends Sunday. I know you are Nigel as that is how I saw it.

Didn't know about doh!

 

[Boon 51]

It depends how you have your email settings in strava set up, as to what you receive.

I will look right now..

 

[Boon 51]

Right just looked and I have two things that might help.
A red box with ... Invite athletes To Starva and a link which says find or create a club in your area..
Will any of these help?

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Right just looked and I have two things that might help.
A red box with ... Invite athletes To Starva and a link which says find or create a club in your area..
Will any of these help?

You can join cyclechat club, or go to explore (along the top menu), and search athlete or club.
If you go to a ride of yours and just copy the web address in the address bar and just post here people here can see it, and invite you as a friend, or likewise if you follow this link to my ride today and click on my picture it will take you my summary page where in the top right under my name is a follow tab (some say request to follow) click that and you should start to follow that person, after which it should show in your dashboard.
http://app.strava.com/activities/42546734
The run was good though quite a strong headwind going north, seemed worse than the 4.2mph it says it was.
Pleased with this 2' 05" quicker from 11.7mph to 14.1mph elev gained 188ft 2.4 miles. 0.8% avg
http://app.strava.com/activities/42546734#715078237
an improvement on this 11" quicker 12.1 to 12.8mph elev gained 73ft 0.7 miles 1.8% avg
http://app.strava.com/activities/42546734#715078234
this was an improvement but only marginally
http://app.strava.com/activities/42546734#715078231
overall 20.2 miles 1:25:32 @ 14.2mph 1002 (corrected ft) 49.65 ft/mile

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Anyone doing the latest Strava challenge? Ride 15 hours in a week, ends Sunday. I know you are Nigel as that is how I saw it.

I will not get it done, not the time this week.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

I will not get it done, not the time this week.

I should just about do it, only need to do another 4 1/2 hours, should get 3 1/2 of those done by commuting if I push it, then will get the last hour in with our lass over the weekend.