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

[Nigelnaturist]

I went out with the tinted one's but as luck would have it the cloud broke and the sun shone

Like I say its never bothered me, even when driving for a living, I personally ( and this is only a personal opinion ) find shades more dangerous than non due to the fact when you enter dark areas with them on.

 

[Stonechat]

As today's outing by car was postponed, did a ride
29 miles at 14.3 mph

Best average for distances this length
Had a good last few days

http://www.strava.com/activities/98067291

Reallly please with this late season progress after October had little cycling due to circumstances

A few cyclists seen on may way past
Also saw a few foul mouth abusive motorists

 

[RWright]

First ride for me in a few days. I felt like a cold might be coming on and the weather was cool so I took a few days off. It was also the Thanksgiving holiday, meaning I sat around watching a lot of football and eating a lot of not so healthy food.
I gained several pounds of weight too.

The weather today was nice except it was very breezy on the route I was riding, one of those headwinds in both directions days.
I also had a problem with my chain coming off on the front. It was a slow and a little frustrating ride but it felt good to get back out. I have to pedal off some of these holiday pounds before the next holiday gets here.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Reallly please with this late season progress after October had little cycling due to circumstances

A few cyclists seen on may way past
Also saw a few foul mouth abusive motorists

They better not cross me in the next few days, more than likely to fill their mouths, I am still fuming about my garmin, more so now I realise just how much data I am actually losing re. my database, things like weather not a major problem, but fields that require H.R. calories to show effort, time riden as opposed to total time out (haven't done anything with these field yet but you never know) not to mention the p.b.'s I set today, I will try not to go on about it, I will see if I can get a cheap Bryton 20 for the time being, I was pointed in the direction of one for about £60, but I have noticed Cateye doing some now.

 

[spooks]

Can't decide whether to get a garmin 800 or 810. I was all set to get the 800 but now I've had a girl who's staying with me try to sway me to the 810. I can't see the live tracking or other new features being worth an extra £100-150 to me but she was really insistent. Or maybe I just stick with using my phone for now.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Can't decide whether to get a garmin 800 or 810. I was all set to get the 800 but now I've had a girl who's staying with me try to sway me to the 810. I can't see the live tracking or other new features being worth an extra £100-150 to me but she was really insistent. Or maybe I just stick with using my phone for now.

Your making me sick at the minute. seriously, I cant see much point in live tracking for me, unless the o.h. wants to know where I am.
Just ordered a Bryton 20 for £45. at least it will record data, if not show it as i had on the 500. I really feel like throttling the little scrote, and whats more the f***** is still living here.

 

[50000tears]

Well got a solid hour in and was 0.4mph quicker over the route (laps close to home) than I have done before. Guess I am getting fitter even if it is painfully slow progress.

Same ride again today, wind speed/direction about the same but did have the bonus that temporary traffic lights that were on the fastest part last week were gone this. Felt pretty strong throughout so knew it would be decent but didn't expect the 17.4mph average for the 1 hour 7 min ride!! Last weeks was 16.4mph.

Really chuffed given that I have trained 7 of the last 9 days and yesterdays ride felt tough even though it was supposed to be an easy session!

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Same ride again today, wind speed/direction about the same but did have the bonus that temporary traffic lights that were on the fastest part last week were gone this. Felt pretty strong throughout so knew it would be decent but didn't expect the 17.4mph average for the 1 hour 7 min ride!! Last weeks was 16.4mph.

Really chuffed given that I have trained 7 of the last 9 days and yesterdays ride felt tough even though it was supposed to be an easy session!

Wait till you've done 80 out of 90 days well done on the improvement

 

[50000tears]

Wait till you've done 80 out of 90 days

*shudder* But thanks!

 

[Nigelnaturist]

*shudder* But thanks!

Sometimes fatigue plays apart, i have had easy rides that I struggled with, sometimes if you a target you just have to grind out the miles, like I have to over the next 4 Mondays I still need 120 miles to ensure I have completed 1,000 miles for each weekday this year, part of the reason I have to is I usually took Mondays off even back in October i had only done about 650 miles on Mondays, and taking last Monday off for recovery after the weekend (other recover reasons not cycling) didn't help, so what ever weather is thrown at me over the next 4 weeks I have to be out, unless I get a long run a week Monday, I haven't time tomorrow other than a couple of hours and even then it will have to be a pretty flat ride for speed ( not that I am fast at between 15-16mph avg)

 

[50000tears]

A great target you have there Nigel. Monday's is always a rest day for me too as have to take my daughter swimming so my mile total would be a round fat zero! Chapeau on your efforts so far, I have no doubt you will reach your goal.

 

[Stonechat]

Sometimes fatigue plays apart, i have had easy rides that I struggled with, sometimes if you a target you just have to grind out the miles, like I have to over the next 4 Mondays I still need 120 miles to ensure I have completed 1,000 miles for each weekday this year, part of the reason I have to is I usually took Mondays off even back in October i had only done about 650 miles on Mondays, and taking last Monday off for recovery after the weekend (other recover reasons not cycling) didn't help, so what ever weather is thrown at me over the next 4 weeks I have to be out, unless I get a long run a week Monday, I haven't time tomorrow other than a couple of hours and even then it will have to be a pretty flat ride for speed ( not that I am fast at between 15-16mph avg)

Makes my effort look puny, though I have some excuse with the time parents have taken.
Chapeau @Nigelnaturist

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Makes my effort look puny, though I have some excuse with the time parents have taken.
Chapeau @Nigelnaturist

Nothing is puny, as you say its down to spare time, I dont work (and last weekend showed why) cycling helps keep my mind from self harming, I suppose its why I cycle so much, so I can put the miles in, and design databases and find out how gps files work ect...

 

[Mo1959]

@Nigelnaturist Good luck with meeting all your targets. Whatever keeps you going

Well, after the last couple of days reasonable efforts I can't be bothered today so I'm quite glad I don't have any targets Just going for a walk instead this morning.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

@Nigelnaturist Good luck with meeting all your targets. Whatever keeps you going

Well, after the last couple of days reasonable efforts I can't be bothered today so I'm quite glad I don't have any targets Just going for a walk instead this morning.

You'll never catch me chasing targets