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

[Mo1959]

@Nigelnaturist Nice ride. Glad you didn't really fall down a 331ft drop

Well done on doing these distances. Can't seem to motivate myself to go any further than 30 odds at the moment. No worries, it's plenty for fitness.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

It were a bit breezy 70% of my ride today seemed to be into some head wind or other.
Someone has called this a hill
halfords hill
0.2miles, 9ft gain 0.6%
got to include this cat4 climb
http://www.strava.com/activities/76174563#1521972623
opps Edit

63.2miles according to my unit and G.T.C. 3:59:20.01, strava does use different times, as my avg was 15.8 (well 15.76) strava 15.6, stopped twice once for a bite to eat and cig (cant do this on the bike yet), and once to adjust the saddle a little more, after which things seemed better.
http://www.strava.com/activities/76174563

Though when I set off I ended up going down a 331ft sheer drop that wasn't there yesterday, and then the unit turned it self off, great start I thought, so I went back home, reset the ride and elevation, and off I went.
2 p.b's but a lot of new segments, that probably wont get done again, as I really didn't like the route too much

Keep this up and you will batter the challenge

 

[Nigelnaturist]

@Nigelnaturist Nice ride. Glad you didn't really fall down a 331ft drop

Well done on doing these distances. Can't seem to motivate myself to go any further than 30 odds at the moment. No worries, it's plenty for fitness.

Thanks Mo.
Must admit i prefer a couple of shorter sessions per day than one long one feel overwhelmed being away so long. This is only about the same time I am away at the photogroup, but at least I am with people that understand my problems.
I try and do 31+miles (50Km) when I am out locally, but I work harder at them, the overall speed for both yesterdays hillier 100Km (two rides) and todays almost flat ride, were only 0.04 mph difference with todays being the slower of the two over all.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Keep this up and you will batter the challenge

Not sure I really like long rides on my bike, it is a Viking after all. I think I will need another seat post sometime as the saddle is at the front of the rails making it a little uncomfortable really, though I have got it a little better toward the end of the ride.

 

[madferret]

@madferret
That on garmin is really odd as well, trying to figure it out, because your charts only show 3hr's42 yet distance it shows at 60+ but nothing recorded drom 38 to about 56 miles, what happened about the 3 hr mark

I stopped for about 30 mins and had a pint of coke and refilled my bottle at 38 miles. The only other thing that happened was that the garmin froze, but that was well into the 50's and I restarted the device. Its odd, the ride looks fine on screen.

Sorry for picture quality is a bit blurry. I did download a TPX file and tried to upload but Strava still said 50.6 miles.

Won't be doing it again tomorrow, thats for sure!

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Not sure I really like long rides on my bike, it is a Viking after all. I think I will need another seat post sometime as the saddle is at the front of the rails making it a little uncomfortable really, though I have got it a little better toward the end of the ride.

A few more big rides and the daily requirement will be less than 30 miles. The way I tackle these challenges is to work out what the daily average I require if I ride every day and if I only ride on work days. (41 miles and 64 miles at the start of this challenge)

If the work day requirement is less than 45 miles, I try and ride that on the way into work and then whatever I ride home reduces the daily requirement going forward, this way the daily requirement drops very quickly to a manageable level.

In two days I have knocked the every day requirement down to 38 miles and the commute to 62 miles. If I keep my daily mileage the same until Friday then the daily requirement will drop to 26 miles and the work day requirement to 58. With 50 miles over the bank holiday weekend my work day requirement drops to 45 miles, then I know, barring an accident I will complete it.

Therefore to me I only have to do three more hard days of riding to get the challenge to a comfortable level.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

I stopped for about 30 mins and had a pint of coke and refilled my bottle at 38 miles. The only other thing that happened was that the garmin froze, but that was well into the 50's and I restarted the device. Its odd, the ride looks fine on screen.

Sorry for picture quality is a bit blurry. I did download a TPX file and tried to upload but Strava still said 50.6 miles.

Won't be doing it again tomorrow, thats for sure! View attachment 28102

From what I can see, it's recorded the actual miles from the sensor
This is really odd.
Time 5:21:22
Moving Time 3:38:03
Elapsed time 7:51:52
So if you ad the 30mins to the moving time of 3:38:03 it gives you a time of 4:08:03 a difference of 1:13:19 so for that time it didn't record the gps track but it did the miles, but it didn't record speed or cadence. Something happened just before East Didsbury station and picked up on the Peak Forest track.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

From what I can see, it's recorded the actual miles from the sensor
This is really odd.
Time 5:21:22
Moving Time 3:38:03
Elapsed time 7:51:52
So if you ad the 30mins to the moving time of 3:38:03 it gives you a time of 4:08:03 a difference of 1:13:19 so for that time it didn't record the gps track but it did the miles, but it didn't record speed or cadence. Something happened just before East Didsbury station and picked up on the Peak Forest track.

Aliens

 

[Nigelnaturist]

A few more big rides and the daily requirement will be less than 30 miles. The way I tackle these challenges is to work out what the daily average I require if I ride every day and if I only ride on work days. (41 miles and 64 miles at the start of this challenge)

If the work day requirement is less than 45 miles, I try and ride that on the way into work and then whatever I ride home reduces the daily requirement going forward, this way the daily requirement drops very quickly to a manageable level.

In two days I have knocked the every day requirement down to 38 miles and the commute to 62 miles. If I keep my daily mileage the same until Friday then the daily requirement will drop to 26 miles and the work day requirement to 58. With 50 miles over the bank holiday weekend my work day requirement drops to 45 miles, then I know, barring an accident I will complete it.

Therefore to me I only have to do three more hard days of riding to get the challenge to a comfortable level.

Ditto, I have it down below 35 a day I might do a couple of 50's should bring it down some, and 30's what I do best really.

 

[madferret]

From what I can see, it's recorded the actual miles from the sensor
This is really odd.
Time 5:21:22
Moving Time 3:38:03
Elapsed time 7:51:52
So if you ad the 30mins to the moving time of 3:38:03 it gives you a time of 4:08:03 a difference of 1:13:19 so for that time it didn't record the gps track but it did the miles, but it didn't record speed or cadence. Something happened just before East Didsbury station and picked up on the Peak Forest track.

I don't understand it either its not logged a whole chunk, so from Didsbury, I did the fallowfield loop (the way I had come originally, got back onto the canal and went to Portland Basin and had cake.) at that point, I decided to go for 100km as I was at 51/52 miles. I then went on Peak forest canal to near Marple and back home. It seems that when I rebooted it (on Peak forest canal, it had froze) its started to record again.

The device gave me no indication anything was wrong, it was displaying the correct mileage/cadence/speed until it froze, but I was well into mid 50's by then.

Just a bit annoyed to be robbed of the extra miles in Strava, a load of segments and longest ride to date. Ah well, first world problems!

Well done on your ride, odd we both did the 100km today!

 

[Nigelnaturist]

I don't understand it either its not logged a whole chunk, so from Didsbury, I did the fallowfield loop (the way I had come originally, got back onto the canal and went to Portland Basin and had cake.) at that point, I decided to go for 100km as I was at 51/52 miles. I then went on Peak forest canal to near Marple and back home. It seems that when I rebooted it (on Peak forest canal, it had froze) its started to record again.

The device gave me no indication anything was wrong, it was displaying the correct mileage/cadence/speed until it froze, but I was well into mid 50's by then.

Just a bit annoyed to be robbed of the extra miles in Strava, a load of segments and longest ride to date. Ah well, first world problems!

Well done on your ride, odd we both did the 100km today!

Like when Mo and I passed 5,000 miles this year on the same day.
The main thing is you did it, I can correct the track but not timings.

 

[madferret]

Like when Mo and I passed 5,000 miles this year on the same day.
The main thing is you did it, I can correct the track but not timings.

Be nice to just have the distance showing in Strava really. Still, your'e right, I know I did it and for me its quite an achievement I also climbed one of the biggest hills I have done to date and that's still on there.

Also broke 500 miles since I started on June 17th.

 

[electric eel]

20 k tonight . took 1 hour 5 mins !

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Be nice to just have the distance showing in Strava really. Still, your'e right, I know I did it and for me its quite an achievement I also climbed one of the biggest hills I have done to date and that's still on there.

Also broke 500 miles since I started on June 17th.

It's a great achievement enjoy it, and on reaching 500 miles, I know how hard it is.

20 k tonight . took 1 hour 5 mins !

Well done, how are you feeling.

 

[AndyPeace]

My new best mileage, 155 miles in two days (overall 14-15mph avg speed I think) and too think this time last year I believed I needed an electric bike to make the 12 mile round commute to work.