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

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Supersuperleeds

Legendary Member
Location
Leicester
No progress this morning as the roads were very icy and tomorrow is forecast gales and then back to ice the day after that. I think the week is going to have very little cycling.

Just took the dog a walk and attempted a bit of my other sadly neglected hobby of photography. Quite liked this one.

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Nice
 
Booked up with work for the rest of this year from today and family Christmas visits for Christmas starting this weekend (Exeter) I'm not going to get much riding in for a bit :rolleyes:.

http://www.strava.com/activities/98608655
 

BrynCP

Über Member
Location
Hull
Well I am still going at it! I now do 12 miles per day with one weekly 22 mile ride on less flat land. I've had 2 days off in 3.5 weeks. On the weight front I have lost almost 1.5 stone in that time.

And more importantly much less pain and aches especially from the saddle - it's true you get used to it! One thing I did do with the saddle was follow some advice on here and tip it slightly nose up, which sounds counter intuitive for the pain I was having, but it does work!
 
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RWright

Guru
Location
North Carolina
I have been lazy still but got out today. I was planning to do a quick hour ride so I could get back in time to watch the Manchester United match. Weather warmed back up some and it was a nice ride, then I had a puncture. Go it fixed easily enough and was on my way again. I had noticed that I had forgot to replace a tube I had used on another ride a few rides before. Well if you didn't guess it, I had another puncture about 6 miles from home. :rolleyes: So my quick hour bike ride turned into about 2 hours of cycling, hiking, hill climbing and fence climbing. Climbing a fence with barbed wire at the top while wearing SPD SL shoes should be a new Olympic extreme sport. I didn't see any of the Manchester United game but did see the score. Just one of those days. :blink:
 

SWSteve

Guru
Location
Bristol...ish
I have been lazy still but got out today. I was planning to do a quick hour ride so I could get back in time to watch the Manchester United match. Weather warmed back up some and it was a nice ride, then I had a puncture. Go it fixed easily enough and was on my way again. I had noticed that I had forgot to replace a tube I had used on another ride a few rides before. Well if you didn't guess it, I had another puncture about 6 miles from home. :rolleyes: So my quick hour bike ride turned into about 2 hours of cycling, hiking, hill climbing and fence climbing. Climbing a fence with barbed wire at the top while wearing SPD SL shoes on should be a new Olympic extreme sport. I didn't see any of the Manchester United game but did see the score. Just one of those days. :blink:

Who does your soccer coverage? Former USA midfielder Kyle Martino?
 

Mo1959

Legendary Member
Definitely no cycling this morning. Travel news has nothing but flooding, fallen trees everywhere, accidents and lorries overturned and bridges either closed completely or to high sided vehicles :ohmy:
 

MattMM

Senior Member
Greetings from a Southern Glasgow newbie. Having now owned my new bike for a week after a 30 year gap to help with back injury rehab, have now completed my first three short rides this week and discovered Strava, am really enjoying it.

This was one my my first gentle rides, a wee nearly 6 miler
http://www.strava.com/activities/98247013

And this was probably a bit over ambitious elevation-wise yesterday, hit my first 7.7%, oooffftt...
http://www.strava.com/activities/98617218

Think it's going to be a lot of fun. Now what not to buy....? ;)
 
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