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

[Supersuperleeds]

Bike all nice and clean now, ready to get filthy again on Monday

 

[BrianEvesham]

Blinkin work getting in the way of my cycling!
Busy all next week

Still, made it out this afternoon but called it shorter than planned due the high wind, got fed up going sideways.

http://www.strava.com/activities/100130357

 

[50000tears]

End of my easy week so just a 20 mile ride today. Nothing easy about that fierce wind on the way home though.

 

[stevey]

Blinkin work getting the way of my cycling!
Busy all next week

Still, made it out this afternoon but called it shorter than planned due the high wind, got fed up going sideways.

http://www.strava.com/activities/100130357

You got out that what matters. Looking to get out tomorrow first time in ages...

 

[Phoenix Lincs]

Only four sessions this week, two short ones on the road and two in the garage. Roll on the spring

 

[Mo1959]

Only four sessions this week, two short ones on the road and two in the garage. Roll on the spring

Ditto. Tomorrow morning might be reasonable but after that it looks like ten days of constant wind with showers/rain. I can do rain within reason but detest the wind.

 

[RWright]

Another grey, cool, rainy day here. I may not even walk today. Next weeks forecast is not looking too bad. Winter is getting old already and it isn't even here yet.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

I had a spin out, didn't think the wind was that bad till I got home and had a look at the weather on Garmin 26mph, this is the strongest wind I have been out in since April (haven't got round to entering the data prior to that) but it must have been good as i set this p.b

Though on one local loop at the end a gust nearly had me at a stand still.

Kudos to all of you that got out in it.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Blinkin work getting the way of my cycling!
Busy all next week

Still, made it out this afternoon but called it shorter than planned due the high wind, got fed up going sideways.

http://www.strava.com/activities/100130357

Good avg Brian I only manage 14.9mph.

 

[SWSteve]

Nigel, how do you track the windspeed for your journey? I've seen other uploads of yours where you have points on your ride with speed/direction taken from there.

 

[BrianEvesham]

Good avg Brian I only manage 14.9mph.

Cheers Nigel, it was only over nine miles though !
When the wind was head on it made me want to dig in and get down on the drops and go for it. I did have a good workout though.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Nigel, how do you track the windspeed for your journey? I've seen other uploads of yours where you have points on your ride with speed/direction taken from there.

The easiest way is to upload a tcx file to garmin (never tried a gpx file) this will give you an overall summary of the weather for the ride (which is why i was surprised at the wind speed, it didn't feel that bad).
The other way is with sporttracks you will need to get the weather pluging, but this way you have costs sporttracks not sure but about £20 the plugins £5-10, you can use sporttracks without paying but only 2 plugins, most plugins can be used for about a month.
The software is a little clunky, but it does offer useful features, but in all honesty I dont think its worth the money, a nice feature is the ability to mass export to google earth, so you can see where you have been, a little like what stava does now, but this way you can save in google earth, and just export each ride.
Like this

I need to update it but there only a few new roads. You can colour code the rides and group however you want, I do months, as you can see I dont really go far from home (re. the mental health thing) but I do have the odd foray further a field

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Cheers Nigel, it was only over nine miles though !
When the wind was head on it made me want to dig in and get down on the drops and go for it. I did have a good workout though.

Yea but I had a really nice down hill section (mind you I did need to go slower on it due to the wind) and a blazing flat section with the wind behind me for about 4.4 miles @ 20.7mph

http://www.strava.com/activities/100163977/segments/2143876815

 

[SpokeyDokey]

The easiest way is to upload a tcx file to garmin (never tried a gpx file) this will give you an overall summary of the weather for the ride (which is why i was surprised at the wind speed, it didn't feel that bad).
The other way is with sporttracks you will need to get the weather pluging, but this way you have costs sporttracks not sure but about £20 the plugins £5-10, you can use sporttracks without paying but only 2 plugins, most plugins can be used for about a month.
The software is a little clunky, but it does offer useful features, but in all honesty I dont think its worth the money, a nice feature is the ability to mass export to google earth, so you can see where you have been, a little like what stava does now, but this way you can save in google earth, and just export each ride.
Like this
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I need to update it but there only a few new roads. You can colour code the rides and group however you want, I do months, as you can see I dont really go far from home (re. the mental health thing) but I do have the odd foray further a field

Nigel - I am honestly not knocking you but what on earth do you do with all this data?

I mean there's lots of yellow on the map but....so what?

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Nigel - I am honestly not knocking you but what on earth do you do with all this data?

I mean there's lots of yellow on the map but....so what?

Would you rather me end up in hospital like the other week.
The Yellow if I remember are this years rides, red last year and purple and pink last two months,
I was asked a question about weather and digressed about what sporttracks can do.
It also shows all the roads I have ridden, and sometimes if I go further a field roads to explore.