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

[morrisman]

Attempting my first 100 miles tonight on the St Crispins Day Night Ride weather not looking so bright and starting to feel nervous about the whole thing. Done 70 miles previously and have been doing reasonable miles for a few weeks now so should be OK. Wish me luck and not too much rain!

 

[GreigM]

Good luck, I am hoping to do 30 miles today (which will feel like 100)

 

[Goonerobes]

Good luck @morrisman I'm sure you'll be fine. As per @Nigelnaturist s earlier post, be careful of your attire as I've fallen into the trap of overdressing on my last two rides & also ended up feeling uncomfortably warm.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

@morrisman Good luck with it.

 

[Mo1959]

@morrisman All the best for your ride and hope the weather is kind to you.

 

[Mo1959]

Good luck, I am hoping to do 30 miles today (which will feel like 100)

Hope you manage it. Don't leave it too long as I think the wind might pick up. Just back myself and it wasn't too bad at the moment. Slight breeze at times.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Been working on the new data base, finaly found a way of grouping weekly, though not a rolling 7 day yet.

Also it easy to compare weeks from previous years
As you can see from this for last week, I rode further climb more last year but only 1ft/mile difference, but 1.72mph quicker this year, temps very similar but winds were stronger last year.

And a monthly summary for oct from last year and this

Last Oct was the first ever month I did 1,000Km in a month, I didn't do it again till April this year, but I have since done it every month since.
I remember being 16 miles or so short on the last day of the month and mentioned it on here and was badgered to go out and do it, so I did in the dark with a pretty naff front light, but I stayed to lit streets, I was well chuffed.

Avg wind speeds are taken from sportracks weather plug in, if wind speeds are checked on garmin they tend to be much higher, so I can only conclude it averages the wind for the ride.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Hope you manage it. Don't leave it too long as I think the wind might pick up. Just back myself and it wasn't too bad at the moment. Slight breeze at times.

Whats new about the wind @Mo1959, its usually windy or wet when I get to go out and the roads round here at the moment are just covered in mud, which has made the night rides of recent days a little more tricky.

 

[stevey]

@morrisman Good luck with your ride

 

[morrisman]

Been working on the new data base, finally found a way of grouping weekly, though not a rolling 7 day yet.
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And I thought I was a data geek

 

[Mo1959]

And I thought I was a data geek

You'll need to go some to top Nigel and his geek data!

 

[Mo1959]

Whats new about the wind @Mo1959, its usually windy or wet when I get to go out and the roads round here at the moment are just covered in mud, which has made the night rides of recent days a little more tricky.

Yep......bike is looking pretty grubby but couldn't be bothered cleaning it if it is just going to end up the same if I go out tomorrow.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

And I thought I was a data geek

Thats only a small amount of available data, most is never used for anything though, its just the spreadsheet is a little unwieldy these days, its a long time since I did any serious work in Access and i have forgotten a load of stuff, now had I been using dbase no problem

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Yep......bike is looking pretty grubby but couldn't be bothered cleaning it if it is just going to end up the same if I go out tomorrow.

Mines on the stand at the minute, I need to adjust the front mech a tad, locks on the shed to do, and try and get out, this months averages are going to be the pits really.

 

[GreigM]

Well I broke my 30 mile duck - http://www.strava.com/activities/91368096

Was enjoyable even if I did get a bit lost, and had to ask the young lady overtaking me on a MTB if I was going the right way