Nigelnaturist
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I forgot to mention, I over took an electric bike.
Show us your.......newbie progress! [4 Sep 2012 - 4 Oct 2014]
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Nomadski
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Feeling a wee bit disillusioned with all these youngsters knocking out big miles and great speeds. Have to stop comparing myself to them and just do my own thing.
You cant feel disillusioned, your an inspiration for all of us!
Mo1959
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Just back from visiting my Dad and see you are all leaving me behind again! Heavy sleet on the way home and really cold. If it freezes roads will be bad. Funny feeling it may be a rest day.
RWright
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Spring has sprung here, to celebrate I did an Imperial fiddy 
http://app.strava.com/activities/47789263.
It was just the reverse of the route I did a few days ago with a few extra twist, like forgetting my gloves and having to do a block of my neighborhood to go and get them and adding a few miles on each of the far ends of the route. I wasn't able to complete this one without getting off the bike. I didn't take anything to drink (and forgot to bring some money) so I stopped and drank about 10 swallows of water at the farthest point in the trip. I also started to get hungry toward the end, so I stopped and ordered Chinese so I could come pick it up as soon as I got back home. I actually did a couple of more miles than strava shows, I somehow managed to turn off my garmin timer after it got dark. I realized it after a mile or two.
The weather here this coming week looks great for riding. I don't have a lot scheduled at work so I am going to try and get some riding in. I may go for a 100k sometime this week. Everyone is having some great rides, that and the weather have given me more motivation to put in some extra miles.
http://app.strava.com/activities/47789263.It was just the reverse of the route I did a few days ago with a few extra twist, like forgetting my gloves and having to do a block of my neighborhood to go and get them and adding a few miles on each of the far ends of the route. I wasn't able to complete this one without getting off the bike. I didn't take anything to drink (and forgot to bring some money) so I stopped and drank about 10 swallows of water at the farthest point in the trip. I also started to get hungry toward the end, so I stopped and ordered Chinese so I could come pick it up as soon as I got back home.
I actually did a couple of more miles than strava shows, I somehow managed to turn off my garmin timer after it got dark. I realized it after a mile or two.The weather here this coming week looks great for riding. I don't have a lot scheduled at work so I am going to try and get some riding in. I may go for a 100k sometime this week. Everyone is having some great rides, that and the weather have given me more motivation to put in some extra miles.
Nigelnaturist
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Cleaning the chain last night, i found a broken tooth on my middle chain ring, it might be why the chain went or visa-versa.
Supersuperleeds
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Goldcoast
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saw that last night......wtf? That would avg out at just over 1,900km per rideI think none of us are going to get 1st place on the Stava Challenge. I suspect cheating or a dodgy upload!
Current leader:
OverallRankName RidesDistanceProgress
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Current Leader
Doug Low
Sydney, NSW, Australia 8 15,349.7
1163%
Cycleops
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Nigelnaturist
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Thanks, or maybe he wasn't using the battery at all, well I am back down to earth this morning, my avg over 22 miles was 13.52mph. but that did include nearly 50ft per/mile over the course climbing.
Though I did get a p.b. on this climb http://app.strava.com/activities/47828869#836068207 which I didn't expect as it felt slow.
And this but a little tailwind might have helped.
http://app.strava.com/activities/47828869#836068246
most of the ride and certainly coming down the hills was in to an 8mph easterly wind.
http://app.strava.com/activities/47828869
hopless500
Trundling along
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I've noticed that a lot of the threads in this 'beginners' section are from people who can do 50 miles easily or average 20mph over long distances. Which is a bit like those people who turn up for a beginners language course claiming not to know a word when in fact they own a property in the country in question, spend several weeks there a year and are semi-fluent. It is a bit disheartening for genuine completely unfit newbies like myself!
So I thought it would be nice for us complete noobs to have a thread where we can be brutally honest about our pitiful distances and average speeds and support each other to get fitter.
I'll get the ball rolling. I started off a month ago today doing 3 miles on a flat road twice a day at 8mph average. Now I am doing 20 miles a day (a hilly route in one go without stopping) and my average today was 11.6mph. I also have a shorter route of 4 miles which I do in an average of 14.0 mph.
So far I have also lost 5lbs of the approximately 30lbs I need to lose to get down to my ideal weight.
Pretty shameful really compared to a lot of the guys on here but I think I have made good progress in a month and I will get there eventually. Now let's see your newbie progress!
hopless500
Trundling along
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A week in and so far managing a daily quick two mile 'round the block' route to break my bottom back in. Average 8.8.
I need to be able to do 80-100 per day at nearly double that speed in a year's time
I need to be able to do 80-100 per day at nearly double that speed in a year's time
BrianEvesham
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Wow that's a big target, what are you in training for?
hopless500
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Should be going on a trip through Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia (not necessarily in that order!) through to Bangkok and then on to Phuket
I loved Bankok on the one trip (non cycling!) I've had there and want to go to Phuket, and with the rest thrown in I couldn't resist ....
Nigelnaturist
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A week in and so far managing a daily quick two mile 'round the block' route to break my bottom back in. Average 8.8.
I need to be able to do 80-100 per day at nearly double that speed in a year's time
You need to speak with satnav, they were doing a world tour, they will have plenty of advise.
Hope your feeling better Brian.
SWSteve
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The weather has stayed dry! Who'dve thunk it. Well done Nigel on beating an Electric bike! what was the rider like?
I had an awkward passing moment the other day with an elder gentlemen where I slowed as there were a couple of junctions approaching and I didn't want to cut him up, and he had slowed to allow me to pass...we both got very slow until he pulled over to stop. I felt bad as I wasn't exactly racing along and he felt the need to stop.
I had an awkward passing moment the other day with an elder gentlemen where I slowed as there were a couple of junctions approaching and I didn't want to cut him up, and he had slowed to allow me to pass...we both got very slow until he pulled over to stop. I felt bad as I wasn't exactly racing along and he felt the need to stop.
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