Show us your.......newbie progress!

[Nigelnaturist]

I guess its find the Chrome Strava add on day
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/strava-rank/mfihgfbbiipnjipajiaojofohmbnedhk
This add's % rank on segments.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

me too didn't half make me giggle

You get an image in your head of a little person counting the revolutions.

 

[Big_Dave]

You get an image in your head of a little person counting the revolutions.

I didn't but I do now , you can now add it to your database How about how many heartbeats per crank rpm average

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I didn't but I do now , you can now add it to your database How about how many heartbeats per crank rpm average

come on, surely you can come up with something more obscure than that.... how about seeing if crank revolutions vary according to daytime temperature
anyone any other ideas for @Nigelnaturist to measure?

 

[Nigelnaturist]

I can work out a rough number of rpm from time riding, but it won't factor in idle time ( and I am not going through two years of data just to add that )
However from what I can see from my records this is the toughest single ride I have done.

http://www.strava.com/activities/76702791

Well I just added a total crank rotation field and for the above ride its 12368

 

[Torvi]

just came back from a hilly ride with mate from club, we did 29 miles in 2:12 hour it was supposed to make me thrashed because i hate uphills, came to finish point first. :P

 

[Learnincurve]

Did my first deliberate ride in the rain today, was fine rain that was being thrown around by the wind in sheets and it was awesome. The full waterproofs helped.

 

[Studley]

@Studley I don't, I remember to well, I remember screaming at the f'*** wind one Aug. I never said it was easy I was just saying over time it doesn't make much difference to you overall avg sp.
I have been out where the wind has knocked off over 6mph on a particle stretch of road and that was on a flat road, in fact of most things I remember about riding, is some of the rides in the wind. not so much the rain, but wind it gives you an achievement when you have completed it knowing you did it, rain well you just get wet.
This last Aug was bad weather wise (mind you from my records it always seems to be), so of the strongest winds I have been out in for a while.
Tips for riding in the wind, don't fight it, use a couple of gears lower than you think and just spin, to some extent your speed is not the important thing the ability to keep going is, so having chosen a lower gear just spin and work your way steadily through, try and keep low out of the wind, use hedgerows and buildings for some shelter, ignore all that if I am teaching you to suck eggs so to speak.

My average speed was 8.6mph so knocking off 6mph with a headwind leaves me travelling at 2.6mph. how do I spin my way out of that then ? And where do I get my sense of achievement from doing this ?
My point being that all this spreadsheet twaddle justs de-motivates me and leads me to think I'll never be as good at cycling as you are. I thought the point of this thread was, and I quote the OP.... for us complete noobs to have a thread where we can be brutally honest about our pitiful distances and average speeds and support each other to get fitter.

I'm not gonna read this thread any more, tried to read it for the past few weeks but it just seems to have lost it's point totally. More like studying for a BSc in accountancy than reading about newbies progress. Oh, and spreadsheets are reeeeeeeeeeeally boring.

 

[Big_Dave]

Did my first deliberate ride in the rain today, was fine rain that was being thrown around by the wind in sheets and it was awesome. The full waterproofs helped.

Well done H!!

 

[Torvi]

My average speed was 8.6mph so knocking off 6mph with a headwind leaves me travelling at 2.6mph. how do I spin my way out of that then ? And where do I get my sense of achievement from doing this ?
My point being that all this spreadsheet twaddle justs de-motivates me and leads me to think I'll never be as good at cycling as you are. I thought the point of this thread was, and I quote the OP.... for us complete noobs to have a thread where we can be brutally honest about our pitiful distances and average speeds and support each other to get fitter.

I'm not gonna read this thread any more, tried to read it for the past few weeks but it just seems to have lost it's point totally. More like studying for a BSc in accountancy than reading about newbies progress. Oh, and spreadsheets are reeeeeeeeeeeally boring.

Honestly I dont see a point why are you raging, guy get a nice achievements on his way done and good job to him this thread surely gone abit offtopic but there are still newbies (like me) that contribute here, i also dont like those spreads but instead of pointing them out "hey you are not a newbie anymore fuk off from this thread" i will rather say congratulations and keep working on myself. (Mod Edit: content deleted)

Back to topic, as im getting closer to do my first century ride (in 2 weeks gonna go 52 miles) i have to ask you guys, any tips for me? the route gonna be very hilly, all in all 2742 ft gain and im quite afraid of doing hills, my mates says im very good at climbing i do climb at around 10-12mph i can sprint some uphills at 14mph~ did it today on short high gradient one but im rly afraid that i might fail the 52 mile route. This week intensive training, today did 29 miles, friday 12 miles and saturday 35 probably. Next tuesday im going to do 40 mile route friday 12 and saturday is 52...

 

[Big_Dave]

My average speed was 8.6mph so knocking off 6mph with a headwind leaves me travelling at 2.6mph. how do I spin my way out of that then ? And where do I get my sense of achievement from doing this ?
My point being that all this spreadsheet twaddle justs de-motivates me and leads me to think I'll never be as good at cycling as you are. I thought the point of this thread was, and I quote the OP.... for us complete noobs to have a thread where we can be brutally honest about our pitiful distances and average speeds and support each other to get fitter.

I'm not gonna read this thread any more, tried to read it for the past few weeks but it just seems to have lost it's point totally. More like studying for a BSc in accountancy than reading about newbies progress. Oh, and spreadsheets are reeeeeeeeeeeally boring.

I'm a long time mtb'er my bike is the higher end spec which took me a lot of years worth of upgrades to get it like that, however, I am slow on it 8mph just over, newbies fly past me and I see them snigger as they go past, I don't let it bother me, I enjoy the scenery, this year I started road cycling my av speed is 12.5 mph and I get old guys in their 70's coming past me, I can say I am probably the slowest serious cyclist I have ever know, I very rarely ever get the chance to over take a cyclist unless they have a puncture, so what, I'm out there doing what I love doing, I keep achieving personal records on strava and that boosts me.

 

[Big_Dave]

Honestly I dont see a point why are you raging, guy get a nice achievements on his way done and good job to him this thread surely gone abit offtopic but there are still newbies (like me) that contribute here, i also dont like those spreads but instead of pointing them out "hey you are not a newbie anymore *** off from this thread" i will rather say congratulations and keep working on myself. Instead of begin a dick maybe you should work harder, no work no results no pain no gain.

Back to topic, as im getting closer to do my first century ride (in 2 weeks gonna go 52 miles) i have to ask you guys, any tips for me? the route gonna be very hilly, all in all 2742 ft gain and im quite afraid of doing hills, my mates says im very good at climbing i do climb at around 10-12mph i can sprint some uphills at 14mph~ did it today on short high gradient one but im rly afraid that i might fail the 52 mile route. This week intensive training, today did 29 miles, friday 12 miles and saturday 35 probably. Next tuesday im going to do 40 mile route friday 12 and saturday is 52...

My tip is just go at your bodies natural pace, don't over do it too much, 50 miles and 2750ft climbs is my usual 50 miler, I stop half way for a cob, takes me about 4 hrs, take it easy and you will easily do it

 

[stevey]

Around here we have super duper speed merchants with super duper carbon race machines who fly past me when i am out and about with the latest colour coordinated kit namely rapha.

Do i give 2 hoots not one bit i go at my pace, yes i like to try and keep up a decent pace sometimes & push uphills to get the heart pumping but overall i am out enjoing it and loving the fresh air.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

@Mo1959 I don't get moving till I have had at least 4 cups of coffee, mind you as you know thats as much my meds as anything, or is it old age creeping in.

If it's any consolation I have to get up about an hour earlier these days if I am due to do anything that involves more than sitting on a sofa watching the world go by.

 

[Torvi]

thing is my buddies are slower than me and if i go at their pace it makes it much harder for me, ive tried to climb with my mate on my back and it was so much harder to climb slower than to climb at my own pace