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Monthly summary for March
376.7 miles done
of these 320 are real miles and the rest on the trainer
Ave speed 15 mph
Feet climbed 13591

Highlight has been the buying of a turbo trainer
It has proved quite a learning curve
Sessions are typically short and harder.

Trying to keep in future to a specific aim for each turbo session (e.g. high cadence, or conversly a hard session at low cadence to build leg strength)
I am pleased I have managed to keep to a minimum of riding despite circumstances limiting my time.
 

SpokeyDokey

67, & my GP says I will officially be old at 70!
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Giant cyclocross bike is here \o/ needed to swap the stem so it would fit my long legged self but my first impressions are "my god it's light!", second thought was "my god, just how bad were the brakes on the audux!" (it's in for repair). Hoping to go take it for a trial run tomorrow if I can get the other half to babysit.

@Learnincurve

What brakes does it have?
 
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Learnincurve

Senior Member
Location
Chesterfield

SpokeyDokey

67, & my GP says I will officially be old at 70!
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Nigelnaturist
Location
Pontefract
Where have you been for so long? :smile:

I finally got back out today. It had been a while and I will be paying for it the next couple of weeks. I was checking out the new traffic patterns in one of my areas. I was very sluggish....oh and I will have to go thru saddle torture again I am afraid. :blink:
Nice to see you back out.
 

Learnincurve

Senior Member
Location
Chesterfield
I did it! I made the hills :biggrin: Not the quickest ride I've ever done, partly because the canal part of the ride was packed and partly because for the first half of the ride I was more skittish than bambi, then I realised that my seat was slightly too far forward, adjusted it and everything fell into place. Still braking on the suicide levers but I'm using the tops most of the time.
Going to completely change my normal daily route to make it about 8 miles longer, less pretty but also way less people.
 
Did a quick (for me!) ride
Made it up as I went along

Down to Chertsey over St Ann's Hill through to Prune Hill up to Windsor, down the other side of the park and back

32.21 miles @ 16.4 mph - unheard of speed for me - I was trying to push on a bit.
(THis as usual for me is average moving speed as given by Garmin)

1053 feet climbed
Few PR's including St Ann 's Hill and most of the segments on PPrune Hill
Turbo working on me already?? I notice leg muscles are bigger than they used to be!

https://www.strava.com/activities/277871848
 
Sure you will get there and find once you have got going the form will return

After some period with little riding, and doing less than before , today's was my third fastest ever ride over 30 miles
 
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