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

[Nigelnaturist]

@RWright weighing yourself can be good...but in the same token disappointing. List time I weighed myself I was 12st9ld (177lb) and whilst this is good, at one point I swear I was nearer 20 than 10, I'm only 5'7" so it's a bad way to be shaped. I try to not weigh myself more than twice a month or I know I'll feel bad about myself. I'd love to get down to 12st as the last time I was that was probably at the start of uni

Just keep cycling Steve, the more miles the better, to much is written about it all (or maybe I just can't be bothered to shift all the data), providing you have a healthy diet and you want to lose weight a little more, just eat a little less (health issues aside that is), avoid to much alcohol (none is best ). I don't eat any special diet, in fact it not changed much at all, though I eat a little more cereal in the mornings.
Mind you probably now all this Steve, so it's just a general comment really.

 

[SWSteve]

This was today's attempt to add some more metres climbed to the Rapha challenge. The plan is to do 1200-1500ft(400-500m) of climbing every day this week to give me a simpler weekend, however on the feeling of today I may be taking Wednesday or Thursday off. One thing I would say is that I enjoyed doing this more than the normal route home.
Hopefully it will help me get a higher average speed over the flat route home once this week is through as well.

http://app.strava.com/activities/67304285

 

[Nigelnaturist]

This was today's attempt to add some more metres climbed to the Rapha challenge. The plan is to do 1200-1500ft(400-500m) of climbing every day this week to give me a simpler weekend, however on the feeling of today I may be taking Wednesday or Thursday off. One thing I would say is that I enjoyed doing this more than the normal route home.
Hopefully it will help me get a higher average speed over the flat route home once this week is through as well.

http://app.strava.com/activities/67304285

Nice top speed there Steve.

 

[SWSteve]

@Nigelnaturist the weight is coming off, I would just like to speed it up. I think doing some more miles on the bike will be a big help. I will start to make changes to my diet, it's just too hot to go back to soup based lunches

 

[RWright]

@RWright weighing yourself can be good...but in the same token disappointing. List time I weighed myself I was 12st9ld (177lb) and whilst this is good, at one point I swear I was nearer 20 than 10, I'm only 5'7" so it's a bad way to be shaped. I try to not weigh myself more than twice a month or I know I'll feel bad about myself. I'd love to get down to 12st as the last time I was that was probably at the start of uni

I have lost 4st 8lbs since August. Another 2st 8lbs will put me about where I will want to be. If I get there I will just see if I want to go lower. I stay on top of my weight but I don't weigh every day, but not far from it. I could probably lose 6 pounds today if I tried in this heat. Dog days of summer are here now.

I am going more for the healthy lifestyle approach, I still eat quite a bit but count calories and try to eat healthier food. It has been sort of fun learning all this stuff about eating and health, wish I had paid more attention when I was younger. I am learning now that my late Grandmother was so right about food and health, she was telling me things fifty years ago that are sort of the norm for healthy eating now. I learned a lot from her but never put it to practice. I am doing that now. Just wish she was still around to help guide me now that I would pay even closer attention, not to mention that I really miss HER and her cooking.

She was vegetarian and never ate any meat, she did eat fish once when she was a child and didn't like. I am not vegetarian and she did not make me eat only vegetarian when I was a kid. There was always natural healthy food around her house and I spent a lot of time there when I was a kid. I still eat meat but mostly chicken and fish.

The older you get the more difficult it is to lose, just try to stay active and eat sensible and I think you will be ok...don't drink too much beer either.

 

[Mo1959]

This was today's attempt to add some more metres climbed to the Rapha challenge. The plan is to do 1200-1500ft(400-500m) of climbing every day this week to give me a simpler weekend, however on the feeling of today I may be taking Wednesday or Thursday off. One thing I would say is that I enjoyed doing this more than the normal route home.
Hopefully it will help me get a higher average speed over the flat route home once this week is through as well.

http://app.strava.com/activities/67304285

It's certainly a toughie of a challenge Steve. The climbing definitely hurts the legs, especially having to keep it up for a few days. Hope you manage it, but no shame if you or any of the rest of us that are giving it a try fail, as I say, it is pretty tough.

 

[SWSteve]

It's certainly a toughie of a challenge Steve. The climbing definitely hurts the legs, especially having to keep it up for a few days. Hope you manage it, but no shame if you or any of the rest of us that are giving it a try fail, as I say, it is pretty tough.

I'm doing as much as I can now to make sure that if I'm struggling on Wednesday I can take a day off to recover. I have a feeling that next week I won't be doing much cycle commuting.

 

[Mo1959]

I'm doing as much as I can now to make sure that if I'm struggling on Wednesday I can take a day off to recover. I have a feeling that next week I won't be doing much cycle commuting.

I think I only have a very slight chance of managing it, especially since there is wind forecast for the next couple of days which I hate Yes, definitely would need some rest days or very easy days after it I think.

 

[SWSteve]

@Mo1959 do I show on the cyclechat leader board for you? I've looked and it just says -/27. I'm in this group but it won't let me see where I am compared to everyone else

 

[Mo1959]

@Mo1959 do I show on the cyclechat leader board for you? I've looked and it just says -/27. I'm in this group but it won't let me see where I am compared to everyone else

No. I wondered about that myself, why I wasn't seeing you.

 

[SWSteve]

No. I wondered about that myself, why I wasn't seeing you.

Well, firstly we live opposite ends of the country. Secondly, STRAVA obviously thinks I'm a cheat/fraud. Maybe I shouldn't have taken all that EPO

 

[Mo1959]

Well, firstly we live opposite ends of the country. Secondly, STRAVA obviously thinks I'm a cheat/fraud. Maybe I shouldn't have taken all that EPO

Ha, ha. I know I had problems when I did the women's 100k thing. I think I left the challenge then re-entered it again and the next time I logged back in it seemed to sort itself. Weird.

 

[SWSteve]

Ha, ha. I know I had problems when I did the women's 100k thing. I think I left the challenge then re-entered it again and the next time I logged back in it seemed to sort itself. Weird.

I'll give that a go I think

 

[RWright]

I entered the climbing challenge just to see how much I climb normally, I have a good idea anyway. I did a five mile ride around the housing developments very close to mine. Some of the first routes I started on when I started riding, they happen to be about the most concentrated hilly area not far from home. I could get 358 feet in 5.8 miles. I think that would be about a zillion laps for the challenge and the people would get sick of seeing me ride by....I would get sick of riding by too. I really don't see any feasible way for me to compete that didn't involve something like going to the mountains for a week, but I did consider that too lol. I think I am just going to be along for the ride on this challenge.

 

[SWSteve]

I entered the climbing challenge just to see how much I climb normally, I have a good idea anyway. I did a five mile ride around the housing developments very close to mine. Some of the first routes I started on when I started riding, they happen to be about the most concentrated hilly area not far from home. I could get 358 feet in 5.8 miles. I think that would be about a zillion laps for the challenge and the people would get sick of seeing me ride by....I would get sick of riding by too. I really don't see any feasible way for me to compete that didn't involve something like going to the mountains for a week, but I did consider that too lol. I think I am just going to be along for the ride on this challenge.

I'm driving out 2 ridges south either Saturday or Sunday so I can do hill repeats. This is going to be an incredibly tough challenge