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

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Mo1959

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@SpokeyDokey. Sounds good to me. Enjoy walking too, although my walks are mostly pretty flat. My dog is a lab cross springer so you can imagine the energy she has so I am out at least twice a day with her.

I want to get back to having a bit more energy in my legs and not the constant tiredness that continual high miles brings.
 

g0kmt

Well-Known Member
Location
Fleetwood UK
Woo hoo, slow progress but progress ;-) I have managed to get out a couple of times, spurned on by the new toy - edge 810 and being on holiday. I did a 5 mile ride yesterday, no breakfast before but I managed it no problem. Fleetwood does not have any real hills, its kinda flat. Some elevation changes but they are nothing major. There is one exception, its called the Mount in the 1890s it was called Tupp hill, but for as long as I have been alive its called the Mount. In reality the road around it has no more than 20 foot elevation change over around 100 feet so its not steep by any means, but to a novice cyclist its is Mount Killamanjaro - Its still no Everest. But I made it up without stopping.

Today I went shopping in the next town down the coast, Cleveleys. Its about 4 miles away down the sea front. This is a cycle route, but I cant remember the number. What I do remember is the first time I did this with my nephew. I had to stop every so often and had to push the bike up slopes so gentle you could not tell the were slopes. Today I had the wind mostly against me and did it in one go. http://app.strava.com/activities/68965148

I called in at Argos then went to a sea front café (Café Cove - I can recommend it) where I stopped for lunch and play with my new camera (Canon 700D) It looks like I forgot to start the timer outside Argos because when I saved the ride at the café it came out as a direct route to there from Argos - see strava.
There is actually a gentle rise from Argos to the café which did not cause any problems at all.

The morel of this tale is - Keep hitting the slopes - they do get easier. Well I think so ;-)

What was that saying? onwards and upwards?
 

SWSteve

Guru
Location
Bristol...ish
I have not been out again tonight :sad:
life gets in the way sometimes but I will have to make up for it.

So I have been searching the net looking at bikes I am nowhere near good enough to own :laugh:

I'm too busy looking at kit/bolt on tri-bars. I do think that my speedo might get in the way of the bars so that's stopping me buying them
 

Nomadski

I Like Bikes
Location
LBS, Usually
Well done @g0kmt, great progress.

Had another night adventure roaming London along with @themosquitoking. Not as dodgy as it sounds, just another gentle stroll thru the normally busy streets seeing the sights.

This time we headed for St Marys Hospital as it was all happening there tonight with the new HRH. We strolled in via Stamford Bridge (Chelsea FC's ground), and used my Garmin 800's navigation for the first real time (normally following a pre destined route, rather than navigating to a POI).

Getting to St Marys we cut right through the police lines (!) and went past a few hundred media people with cameras filming their news, stopping at the other end.

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After this went for a cuppa in a fine Hookah establishment called Fatoush (thats Hookah, not Hooker) and got a nice water refill with ice cubes!

On the return visit went back following the Garmin again via Craven Cottage (Fulham FC's ground) and we suddenly had the marvelous idea of a mini challenge one day to go out and cycle round all London League Clubs grounds - its quite a challenging distance (roughly 75 miles apparently) but would be quite fun.

Crappy average as we were on touring mode, but another great night out in the city, didnt get mugged, had a great chat with @themosquitoking, and I didn't get rained on by the late thunderstorm unlike my poor cycle-buddy-in-arms!

http://app.strava.com/activities/69103223
 
Location
Spain
Well done @g0kmt, great progress.

Had another night adventure roaming London along with @themosquitoking. Not as dodgy as it sounds, just another gentle stroll thru the normally busy streets seeing the sights.

This time we headed for St Marys Hospital as it was all happening there tonight with the new HRH. We strolled in via Stamford Bridge (Chelsea FC's ground), and used my Garmin 800's navigation for the first real time (normally following a pre destined route, rather than navigating to a POI).

Getting to St Marys we cut right through the police lines (!) and went past a few hundred media people with cameras filming their news, stopping at the other end.

xa6.jpg


After this went for a cuppa in a fine Hookah establishment called Fatoush (thats Hookah, not Hooker) and got a nice water refill with ice cubes!

On the return visit went back following the Garmin again via Craven Cottage (Fulham FC's ground) and we suddenly had the marvelous idea of a mini challenge one day to go out and cycle round all London League Clubs grounds - its quite a challenging distance (roughly 75 miles apparently) but would be quite fun.

Crappy average as we were on touring mode, but another great night out in the city, didnt get mugged, had a great chat with @themosquitoking, and I didn't get rained on by the late thunderstorm unlike my poor cycle-buddy-in-arms!

http://app.strava.com/activities/69103223


Getting rained on at the end just means the ride qualified under rule 9 for me.
How many countries news reports do you reckon we got on?
 

RWright

Guru
Location
North Carolina
Getting rained on at the end just means the ride qualified under rule 9 for me.
How many countries news reports do you reckon we got on?

would have been an excellent time to do some wheelies :bicycle:
 

Ciar

Veteran
Location
London
Just my usual ride into work first one this week, time was around the same so was hr cadence and speed :smile: all in all 2nd fastest time into work, even though i was trying to take it easy! was drafted half way along the mile end road, was undertaken on the inside of a single lane going down burdett road, which was nice and a couple of red busses got a tad close, all in all I didn't get wet and avoided the rain..
 
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