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starthms

starthms

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Hi all,

Not been on here in a bit, cool to see how people are doing so well. I thought id give an up date to how things are going for me. well on the weight front gone from 100kg to 86 kg so very much happy with that and yesterday did a 71km ride at 25.1 km ave speed again very happy with that.

i am doing the Velothon Wales in June is anyone on here doing it too?

Question to peeps, with a new baby long ride are not easy to pull off so say if i only have an hour to ride which is best? A ride with a lot of hill climbing or a ride with sprint intervals in it.
Anyway keep up all the good work people hope to hit 100km this month:eek:
 
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Nigelnaturist

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starthms said:
Question to peeps, with a new baby long ride are not easy to pull off so say if i only have an hour to ride which is best? A ride with a lot of hill climbing or a ride with sprint intervals in it.
Anyway keep up all the good work people hope to hit 100km this month:eek:
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Are these not much the same, but both will help, any riding will help keep the body for becoming to unfit. I can't ride much at them moment, just can't afford the maintenance on the bike, but I try and do 50-150 miles of different riding, I am not fast, my average this winter being (it being the slowest in 2 years) at 14.56mph however the riding is much more difficult than that I was doing in the summer, its difficult to compare 2013 as I used a Garmin 500, and it gave a slightly higher corrected height on rwgps, one day I will go through my database and compare unit elevation and see what difference that has
 
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iggibizzle

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Anything that hurts is good training I say. Not many hills at all round my way, but plenty of wind. A winter of dealing with 50mph headwinds some days (including last few mornings!) is a great workout. So good infact that I'm quicker up killer hills than people who practice them all the time! If there is no wind I just make surs I'm pushing it a bit for longish periods on the flat.
 
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Just been creating a new table, this compares the unit elevation where I have the data, or in the case of the Bryton R20 from RWGPS, I think I have full unit data from Sept 2013 onwards (which just happens to be my quickest avg sp month), from Dec 13 to about Moy 2014 data is from the R20, from then onwards if I have it its from the edge 705, or the R20 if thats failed. i had been wondering why I am so slow in recent months, I think this explains it, though I suspect some of the data from Dec 2013-May 2014 may be from the R20

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Edit, though I am still not convinced how accurate any of it is.
 
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Nigelnaturist said:
Just been creating a new table, this compares the unit elevation where I have the data, or in the case of the Bryton R20 from RWGPS, I think I have full unit data from Sept 2013 onwards (which just happens to be my quickest avg sp month), from Dec 13 to about Moy 2014 data is from the R20, from then onwards if I have it its from the edge 705, or the R20 if thats failed. i had been wondering why I am so slow in recent months, I think this explains it

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Yes I was slower while doing the Strava climbing chalenge, though doing it has probably strenthened myand my climbing.
Felt so much better in shorts the other day though, sure I go faster when not clobbered by winter clothing
 
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@Stonechat we all do Bob, many other factors too, like less weight both in clothing and kit you carry lights and batteries ( I usually carry two battery packs for my cree light, three rear lights), air density ect....
If you take the two Aug figures

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There is little difference in speed, 2014 I was on better wheels and had a years riding, but if you look after Aug 2014, this I know is from the same unit so is like for like comparison

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I have been trying to include more climbing, which is quite difficult here, I have kept on trying to better it.
If I take the rwgps corrected data it shows 2013 as being much more difficult. You can also see that rwgps rounds the Edge 705 data down

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but the 500 data up

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That Aug 2013 should be 44,168ft, but even so the rwgps corrected is still much higher.
 

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Nigelnaturist

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ordered some R501's from Ribble £65 hopefully with these being a more standard J spoke, I may have better luck sourcing them if they brake, chain and cassette will have to do for now, as I will be changing to a 12-23 it doesn't really matter if they are worn a little, also the old wheels will be something to put the carlton frame should I have be in position to put it all together.
 
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I think this shows that the difficulty of a ride is a combination of both distance and elevation

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Todays ride being pretty much my standard 50km loop (with slight variations depending how I am feeling)
Rather pleased with this even with the tail wind cutting 25's of my previous best A638 Roundabout to Barnsdale Bar
There were a few others all wind assisted this was the up hill bit 1.1 miles and 99ft (strava) @ avg sp 18.2mph
 
Stonechat

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starthms said:
Hi all,
Question to peeps, with a new baby long ride are not easy to pull off so say if i only have an hour to ride which is best? A ride with a lot of hill climbing or a ride with sprint intervals in it.
Anyway keep up all the good work people hope to hit 100km this month:eek:
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I too am having limited time.

Not sure exaclty the same
If/when I get a trainer then it would be easier to keep to intervals
I have done intervals from 30 s up to several minutes. Itaffects how hard you can go
Also recovery time in between


I do think intervals are supposed to extend your capacity for using energy

However the hill climbin definitely increased my ability to grind out hills
 
starthms

starthms

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@Stonechat i guess the best thing would be to alternate between them. so increasing use of energy to apply to hill climbing, but nothing going to be better than just a nice long hard ride just have to make sure i enjoy and understand they are a treat.:thumbsup:
 
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