Your ride today.... (part 1)
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derrick
The Glue that binds us together.
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- On the edge of London
A nice 41 miles this morning in the sun, still a bit nippy but we are getting there. then another 10 miles with the other half to check out the new bike, she likes it.
Black Country Ste
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- Location
- West Midlands
Had a ride into town. Accidentally triggered the AirZound while locking the bike up. The bloke locking his up next to me near enough jumped out of his skin.
Glorious sunshine for a 34 mile ride this morning, searched out some hills to see if my hill fitness has improved, glad to say it has and I really enjoyed beating all the hills on the route. Felt that I could've got to 50 miles but had to get to the local athletics track to see my son run his first 100m hurdles.
RiflemanSmith
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- London UK
Met loads of idiots who don't know how to use a shared path, peds, peds with dogs and plonkers on bikes, caught the sun and my face and saved a duck from being killed!
Rob3rt
Man or Moose!
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- Manchester
25 mile TT in lovely sunny weather, enjoyed the ride but disappointing result. 1:03:05 (23.9 mph). Disappointing in the sense that I know I could have gone a fair chunk faster but I paced too conservatively and finished with plenty left in the tank rather than arriving at the finish in a state of complete and utter exhaustion.
I had tried to predict my pacing based on recent 10TT performances, held effort at 95% FTP for 1st couple of mile then up to 100% FTP for the remainder. Turns out I predicted wrong and reduced the effort too much, by the time I had realised it was too late, cue a futile charge for the last 2 or 3 miles blatting in toward the finish at 28mph. Oh well, next time! On the plus side it is early days and I should go under the hour this season!
Maybe next week I will ride my nice wheels too
I had tried to predict my pacing based on recent 10TT performances, held effort at 95% FTP for 1st couple of mile then up to 100% FTP for the remainder. Turns out I predicted wrong and reduced the effort too much, by the time I had realised it was too late, cue a futile charge for the last 2 or 3 miles blatting in toward the finish at 28mph. Oh well, next time! On the plus side it is early days and I should go under the hour this season!
Maybe next week I will ride my nice wheels too
Spartak
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- Bristolian
Good to ride under clear blue skies this morning & very little WIND !!!
Rode out from NE Bristol passing thru' Coalpit Heath, Chipping Sodbury, Pucklechurch & Siston.
http://app.strava.com/activities/47448989
Rode out from NE Bristol passing thru' Coalpit Heath, Chipping Sodbury, Pucklechurch & Siston.
http://app.strava.com/activities/47448989
Spartak
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25 mile TT in lovely sunny weather, enjoyed the ride but disappointing result. 1:03:05 (23.9 mph). Disappointing in the sense that I know I could have gone a fair chunk faster but I paced too conservatively and finished with plenty left in the tank rather than arriving at the finish in a state of complete and utter exhaustion.
I had tried to predict my pacing based on recent 10TT performances, held effort at 95% FTP for 1st couple of mile then up to 100% FTP for the remainder. Turns out I predicted wrong and reduced the effort too much, by the time I had realised it was too late, cue a futile charge for the last 2 or 3 miles blatting in toward the finish at 28mph. Oh well, next time! On the plus side it is early days and I should go under the hour this season!
Maybe next week I will ride my nice wheels too
Good luck on breaking the hour, still a respectable time for this early in season
Rob3rt
Man or Moose!
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- Manchester
Good luck on breaking the hour, still a respectable time for this early in season
It is not a bad time on the face of it I guess, should put me in the top half of the results and I took a small consolation prize finishing 5th in my category, but frustrating to know I didn't ride to my max. If I finished with this time and was in pieces at the end, knowing I did my best, I would be reasonably happy. I guess it takes a few to get into the swing of things and sort your pacing out.
My disc wheel and trispoke must be worth a minute over 25 miles (vs my standard road wheels), so riding hard enough to finish with an empty tank riding my good wheels should put me at least 2 minutes up and within touching distance of an hour I hope!
coffeejo
Ælfrēd
- Location
- West Somerset
Went the hilly way to Chard under a blue sky and a wonderfully warm sun. Over 3,000 feet of climbing, rewarded with a large plate of lasagne at the lunch stop. Haven't yet broken it to my legs that they're doing it again in May or June to see what the view over the River Yarty is like when the trees have woken up and the grass is green:
Spartak
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Rode my first Evening 10 last Tuesday, freezing cold & strong E wind on a sporting course
Hopefully next weeks weather will improve .......... rain ???
BTW ....... do we have a TT thread anywhere ?
Today I went to the opening of the Bath Two Tunnels cycle route and rode the new route. It's a great level track through two old railway tunnels, giving a way to avoid some really unpleasant roads and massive hills. The opening was a great event with load of people turning up, and the ride through the tunnels very exciting. Get yourselves to Bath and give it a try!
Breedon
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- Location
- Long Eaton, Nottingham
Been on a 60 mile ride was looking forward to it all week, going to do a short run tomorrow while the wind has dropped and it's nice
thegravestoneman
three wheels on my wagon
- Location
- Castleford, Yorkshire
after completing my first 200 miles in a week for the first time in twenty five years yesterday (it's amazing what you do on a week off) I started this week on a glorious evening (relatively speaking) with 31 miles @ a tad over 17mph through Sherburn ,Towton, Garforth and Methley. Now I know my knees are usually painful for the first five or so miles but today my left knee gave me a sharp pain that I remember quite well it is the one that caused me to pack in first time round dang! dang! dang! I have been trying to increase my speed as of late and think I might of pushed it a bit far so back to the distance stuff at the more leisurely 16/17 mph pace for a while to build up a bit more fitness and strength. I hope this sorts it out and will be contacting my friendly local physio too. In the continuing saga of my enforced modernisation I now have dumdumdum!! strava on my new phone, no more pay and go for me!
Anyways back to the ride, because I got out a bit late not many (one) cyclists on the road and I think? he blanked me when I bid a friendly How Do! as I was taking a photo of the Towton war memorial first time I had been up that way in years I was going to post it but it is stuck on this new fangled telling phone. Sun stayed with me til about twenty minutes from home when it all got a bit chilly. The bike seems to be performing quite well too but I ain't so sure about the new saddle.
cheers Gaz
Anyways back to the ride, because I got out a bit late not many (one) cyclists on the road and I think? he blanked me when I bid a friendly How Do! as I was taking a photo of the Towton war memorial first time I had been up that way in years I was going to post it but it is stuck on this new fangled telling phone. Sun stayed with me til about twenty minutes from home when it all got a bit chilly. The bike seems to be performing quite well too but I ain't so sure about the new saddle.
cheers Gaz
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