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

[SWSteve]

Crikey Nigel - water of Skye is v.cold! Hope you had wetsuit on

I'm guessing he didn't

 

[SWSteve]

Another 'longest ride yet' post... 17 miles, previous best 13. Split 40/60 through woodland parks/roads. I was beginning to regret buying a hybrid but it was amazing riding through Wynyard Woodland park... I still want a road bike though!

http://app.strava.com/activities/69525341#

That looks like a lovely ride. I've recently been looking for more scenic routes, and have found a couple of places it's nice to pass through

 

[araapatlio]

If your on about the stretch you went along try either the B186 (which you had turned off) crosses the A127 with a bridge or pickup the A128 and it also crosses the A127 as a bridge (roundabout)

Ah, yes, I saw that Thanks.

The B186 is very busy and on a bus route so I wouldn't want to ride that with my step-daughter - but I've realised that we can go via Chafford, Stifford and skirt Laindon mostly via cycle paths with a couple of quieter roads. It'll take longer, but we can get there

 

[SWSteve]

Went out this evening with an old school friend, we set off at a reasonable pace to have a chat and get a decent ride in.

http://app.strava.com/activities/69536328

I've suggested we try and get it done in an hour, which might be possible as most of it is kate moss flat.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

I'm guessing he didn't

Have a few pics somewhere.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Another 'longest ride yet' post... 17 miles, previous best 13. Split 40/60 through woodland parks/roads. I was beginning to regret buying a hybrid but it was amazing riding through Wynyard Woodland park... I still want a road bike though!

http://app.strava.com/activities/69525341#

Lovely route there!

 

[Smotyn]

It only deducts headegments well tcx and fit files, it might upload as gpx in which cases yes it does, but in any event it doesn't matter whether you pause it or stop it has the same effect on a gpx, tcx and fit files have a pause flag in which is used to take that time away from the overall time.

Well I have to admit what you have just said has gone right over my head lol but I mainly use map my ride that auto stops when you do and if I run strava I do them both together. Once strava has sinced there is not a lot of difference in time taken between them?

Hope you feel better soon and it is not too serious x

 

[Smotyn]

Ok posting to see if I have been smart enough to finally get my cycling log tracker up and running! I still have a bucket load of entries to post on it as having to do it on my phone flipping between screens and with my shot memory it is taking some time lol

Here goes.....

 

[Smotyn]

Woohoo it worked!

Just uploaded total miles so far as had at least another 50 entries to make lol

 

[Hill Wimp]

Every time I try to pause Strava (that is to say twice...), it crashes and then I have to save that ride and start another one. It is also a bugger to upload, great App, I just wish it worked smoother. So again, my ride is broken into two segments... The first half was a little farcical - I wanted to ride to a local campsite to determine the feasibility of cycling there, but it is beyond the A127 and there is seemingly no way across it whatsoever in either direction, which is more than a bit of a pain in the arse. The entire road is not at all cycle-friendly, the cycle-path is broken up and strewn with litter and glass (glad I was on the MTB, I won't be going that way on my road bike!). When I got off of it, I took a turn up a lovely country road, which turned out to be a dead-end leading to a nature reserve (glad I was on the MTB) and the gravel path gave way to dirt, which gave way to grass! Took me a while to get out All part of the fun Not sure how I managed 13.6mph average though. Second half was less eventful - until a HGV tried to overtake me at the top of a hill - but 5/6 other HGVs and buses over-took perfectly, gave me a load of room.

http://app.strava.com/activities/69471271
http://app.strava.com/activities/69488984

Most important things are a) I enjoyed the ride b) my road bike is delivered tomorrow - hopefully.

Use Map My Ride its much better and very reliable.

 

[Phoenix Lincs]

@SpokeyDokey
No wet suit, it was actually mild compared to fishing in the winter with a thin layer of ice on the sea loch, though I wouldn't have been in long due to loss of body heat.
I am sure this is a repeat of hepatitis, though the pain could indicate kidney instead, though the symptoms where almost indentical to those I had when i was 22 just not as severe.
The bike not sure, just didn't feel right at the front, maybe because I have been off it for two days

@RWright Yes SIR.

Hope you soon get your results and then treatment Nigel x

 

[Phoenix Lincs]

Use Map My Ride its much better and very reliable.

I do find it drains the battery quickly though so I stopped using it for long rides

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Well I have to admit what you have just said has gone right over my head lol but I mainly use map my ride that auto stops when you do and if I run strava I do them both together. Once strava has sinced there is not a lot of difference in time taken between them?

Hope you feel better soon and it is not too serious x

Sorry as I mentioned I haven't been well,
I think the best app for a phone is endomondo as this has export functions, in both gpx and tcx formats, these can be imported to any other online site, I can not see an export on mapmyride, the basic information on endomondo is easy to read

It will also display mile lap times.

and no it didn't take me 2hrs to do that mile.
The other thing is you can import from other devices like garmin or the above said file formats tcx, gpx, and fit.
It will only show info like H.R. and cad if it's recorded.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Use Map My Ride its much better and very reliable.

Except export as far as I can see.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Thank you everyone for your kind thoughts.
Not sure when I will get out again though. even though I got 2 p.b's yesterday I really shouldn't have ridden, thats probably why the bike felt a little weird.
I just read the side effects of the drug a bit scary really.