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

[Nigelnaturist]

I think I just found another p.b I got yesterday

http://app.strava.com/activities/35151841?segment_created=true#575959308

 

[BrianEvesham]

Thanks Typhon but Afraid not, still haven't stepped outside yet. I had to watch my wife go off on her first ride of the year. Getting a bit frustrated now )-:

Gave up and went to the Dr's today, penicillin should sort this soon enough.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

I think I just found another p.b I got yesterday

http://app.strava.com/activities/35151841?segment_created=true#575959308

I moved up 50 places this morning on one (from 64th to 14th.) best I have is a 6th at the minute, but that is only because 7 riders have set a time.

 

[MattHB]

I moved up 50 places this morning on one (from 64th to 14th.) best I have is a 6th at the minute, but that is only because 7 riders have set a time.

I think last year I was 2nd for about 2 and a half minutes

 

[Nigelnaturist]

I moved up 50 places this morning on one (from 64th to 14th.) best I have is a 6th at the minute, but that is only because 7 riders have set a time.

Great improvement, hope you stay up there.
Got a few of them and one or two KOM's where it's only me and maybe 2 or 3 others, a bit like this.
http://app.strava.com/activities/35370475#577162766
but I did get this today
http://app.strava.com/activities/35370475#577162765
and improved on this
http://app.strava.com/activities/35370475#577162761
and a p.b. on this
http://app.strava.com/activities/35370475#577162761

Edit and a p.b. on this one http://app.strava.com/rides/26773819#577174186

 

[Kins]

Cough Cough Cough, and yes its catching so don't stand to close!

Weather was awful and visibility atrocious on the way to the Quack. Only nutters and me were out but be buggered if I was walking.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

I think last year I was 2nd for about 2 and a half minutes

Looking at the some of times I reckon Bradley Wiggins has been in Leicester recently

 

[MattHB]

Looking at the some of times I reckon Bradley Wiggins has been in Leicester recently

We have some semi pro and pro athletes around here so KOM slots are almost impossible to get

 

[Supersuperleeds]

We have some semi pro and pro athletes around here so KOM slots are almost impossible to get

I don't chase them, but when I have been for a ride it is good to see some new ones pop up and realise there are slower riders out there than me. There are a couple on my commute but I would rather keep a good pace all the way than burn up over a small stretch, that's my excuse and I am sticking to it.

 

[Reece]

I don't chase them, but when I have been for a ride it is good to see some new ones pop up and realise there are slower riders out there than me. There are a couple on my commute but I would rather keep a good pace all the way than burn up over a small stretch, that's my excuse and I am sticking to it.

I try not chase them. I do like how I'm slowly moving up the leader boards so must be be improving. There is one I'm chasing though. The hill going into bosworth battlefield centre. Currently second and 2seconds behind the kom

 

[Supersuperleeds]

I try not chase them. I do like how I'm slowly moving up the leader boards so must be be improving. There is one I'm chasing though. The hill going into bosworth battlefield centre. Currently second and 2seconds behind the kom

You need to get another rider to give you a tow, or better still a car to slip stream. Or is that cheating?

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Looking at the some of times I reckon Bradley Wiggins has been in Leicester recently

We got a guy like that round this way, I did beat him on one section today though, though I suck on the hills hes done around here.
Nipped to the shop.
http://app.strava.com/activities/35417389

 

[Supersuperleeds]

We got a guy like that round this way, I did beat him on one section today though, though I suck on the hills hes done around here.
Nipped to the shop.
http://app.strava.com/activities/35417389

I like the ride right around that circle. Wrong way or bumping the miles up?

 

[Nigelnaturist]

I try not chase them. I do like how I'm slowly moving up the leader boards so must be be improving. There is one I'm chasing though. The hill going into bosworth battlefield centre. Currently second and 2seconds behind the kom

It didn't and doesn't bother me, it's nice when I do get a p.b. had a lot of late, but simple because I have a lot around here, and I am doing some short more intense rides, because I just wasn't improving plodding out 30 mile rides at 12-14mph, I could do that almost everyday.
The other thing about them is you know you are improving, what I do like is if I get a p.b thats close to home after I have done some distance then I know there's an improvement.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

I like the ride right around that circle. Wrong way or bumping the miles up?

No I went the right way round, missed the junction I wanted, so went the long way, not that anything was far on it.