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

[Nigelnaturist]

My Veloviewer wont update tonight any of the rides I did at the weekend.

Anyone else been having an issue?

I think it has something to do with the change over to V3, but then V3 isn't showing segments and rides.

 

[RWright]

You get some pretty extremes of weather there dont you @RWright? Really hot temps, incredible showers, tornados?

We get it all it seems like. Hurricanes are very common here because of the shape of the US eastern coast line. A tornado came thru about five miles from my house year before last, did major damage and killed a couple of people. I also just figured out I have a family of foxes living in the woods in front of my house. That is what has been making demonic noises at night. To top this off, I just read this past week that there was a black bear sighting in the city about 35 miles north of me. I may start using my video recorder on my cell phone and start my own wildlife, extreme weather, action adventure series. That is if I don't get bitten by a snake, fox, bobcat or some big bird of prey. Or struck by lightning, freeze to death in an ice storm or get blown away in a tornado or hurricane first. I don't remember any of this stuff happening when I was a kid but there was a lot more undeveloped land back then.

 

[RWright]

My Veloviewer wont update tonight any of the rides I did at the weekend.

Anyone else been having an issue?

Mine isn't updating either, what Nigel said. I think Strava and Veloviewer are both making some major changes now. I have all my stuff backed up to the Garmin or computer...just in case.

 

[Ciar]

Route: Turbo 18/06/13
Activity: Cycle
Started: 18 Jun 2013 19:03:09
Ride Time: 50:27
Distance: 9.77 miles
Average Speed: 11.62 mph
Fastest Speed: 21.18 mph
Ascent: 0 feet
Descent: 0 feet
Calories: 798 (discount as i sweat loads but doubt this is ever correct )
Average Cadence: 77 rpm
Maximum Cadence: 106 rpm

Bike: Cannondale Hybrid

my usual turbo on a tuesday night, trainer friend reckons my best power output so far as well as sustained speed, riding through treacle as usual, have to admit i had my hand on my right leg helping it move the pedals last night

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Well done Heather. My first 20Km+ ride took 1:51 (well it was 29.28KM), and today I did 45 in 6 mins less, and I probably stopped 5 or 6 times back then today I dont. Your speed will increase gradually, but seems to catch you by surprise, when you think your going slow and realise your are actually going faster than when you thought you used to be going fast.
Or when riding into the wind and you find it's not tiring you out and your speed doesn't get slowed as much as it used.
There are plenty of people in this thread that will give you encouragement, if you ever feel down about progress, as we all feel that sometimes, I know I did back in Jan-Mar I just seemed to be getting slower, but persevered thanks to some some friendly badgering in here.

This is so true - on my ride last night I felt really sluggish and sort of disjointed - hard to describe the latter but just a bit out of sorts. This was due to nearly a week off the bike and tiredness from heavy socialising!

Nonetheless, it was my second fastest average speed since getting my bike. I was really surprised when I skittered through the computer readouts at the end of the ride.

 

[Mo1959]

We get it all it seems like. Hurricanes are very common here because of the shape of the US eastern coast line. A tornado came thru about five miles from my house year before last, did major damage and killed a couple of people. I also just figured out I have a family of foxes living in the woods in front of my house. That is what has been making demonic noises at night. To top this off, I just read this past week that there was a black bear sighting in the city about 35 miles north of me. I may start using my video recorder on my cell phone and start my own wildlife, extreme weather, action adventure series. That is if I don't get bitten by a snake, fox, bobcat or some big bird of prey. Or struck by lightning, freeze to death in an ice storm or get blown away in a tornado or hurricane first. I don't remember any of this stuff happening when I was a kid but there was a lot more undeveloped land back then.

............and to think we complain about a bit of wind and rain

Quite nice here this morning. Dull at first but the sun is out now. Got the 1000kms done on the Junedoggle but the breeze was picking up slightly and my back was getting slightly sore so I will leave the last 50 minutes of the other challenge for tomorrow. These challenges are only a bit of fun but I do find they at least give me a bit of motivation.

 

[RWright]

............and to think we complain about a bit of wind and rain

Quite nice here this morning. Dull at first but the sun is out now. Got the 1000kms done on the Junedoggle but the breeze was picking up slightly and my back was getting slightly sore so I will leave the last 50 minutes of the other challenge for tomorrow. These challenges are only a bit of fun but I do find they at least give me a bit of motivation.

The lightning here can be brutal. When I saw the Tom Cruise movie War of the Worlds I thought wow,that must have been filmed in North Carolina. That is one reason I like my highway bypass track, it has a few underpasses I can take shelter under if I need to.

I like the challenges too, they keep me a little more motivated, even though I am falling behind on the hours challenge. I just wish they had some banner at the top of our dashboard page to show them all the time. So I could bask in my glory every time I went to it. .

 

[Nigelnaturist]

This is so true - on my ride last night I felt really sluggish and sort of disjointed - hard to describe the latter but just a bit out of sorts. This was due to nearly a week off the bike and tiredness from heavy socialising!

Nonetheless, it was my second fastest average speed since getting my bike. I was really surprised when I skittered through the computer readouts at the end of the ride.

This helps, but don't leave it too long.

 

[Mo1959]

This helps, but don't leave it too long.

I see my upcoming weather forecast is very wet for the weekend so hopefully finish the 30 hour challenge tomorrow and then it may be a good time for a couple of days off too.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

I see my upcoming weather forecast is very wet for the weekend so hopefully finish the 30 hour challenge tomorrow and then it may be a good time for a couple of days off too.

I am off to York on Friday, forecast rain in the morning, but dryer in the aft and evening, not what you want for a naked bike ride, but there you go.
Speaking of which is anyone else going or know of someone.
This will be a big challenge for me, as I will be away from home from about 2-2.30pm till (well the ride is at 6.30, 6 1/2 miles say an hr), 2-2 1/2 hrs back depending. So possible between 9 and 10pm, I am sometimes out for 4-6 hours but usually with someone or it's broken up by groups ect....

 

[BrianEvesham]

I've just got up! So Tired and very hungry. These nights are messing with me, only one more tonight and a long weekend to look forward to. Just raiding the freezer for some unhealthy nosh.

We have a long family ride with picnic planned (hopefully Sunday), fingers crossed for good weather!

Finally ordered a new back wheel for my trusty hybrid (amazon) so it can take the place of chief tag puller.

 

[BrianEvesham]

Friendly badgering is this threads forte!

Good, I need badgering.
Just sat in the back garden in an old rocking chair enjoying the sun waiting for my stodge to cook.
I may well fall asleep agian.

 

[stevey]

My new bike










And a set of race blades thrown in

Also these airflow shades thrown in

Just gonna have some food then go out....

 

[SWSteve]

@stevey beautiful bike.

 

[BrianEvesham]

Very nice @stevey enjoy the ride.