testing ones self

[JasonHolder]

What does everyone do to measure their improvements if they aren't riding power metres?
I've got a 5 mile straight I use.
I ride flat out for the 5 miles. Biting the stem and all sorts squeezing every last drop of will I have. Im considering changing to the full 10mile stretch though.

Best things I found gave me improvement apart from riding

1) drafting trucks hands down
2) D-ribose supplementation.
3) dura ace wheel set with continental GP4000 chilli-so unbelievably fast and best tire I've ridden. Don't last long though.

 

[ColinJ]

I time myself up this ...

As discussed in this thread!

I also tackle a collection of shorter climbs of varying length (say from 50 metres to 500 metres) and steepness (10% to 20%) and I test myself to see how far I can sprint up them out of the saddle before I have to sit down and change to a lower gear. I have almost cracked one or two of the easier slopes now, but it will probably take me the rest of the year to get fit enough to handle the worst ones.

 

[Hacienda71]

Ride a ten mile TT every week or two in the summer months.

 

[400bhp]

Scratch my balls

 

[StuAff]

Go for a bike ride.

 

[Rob3rt]

Scratch my balls

You are doing it wrong, you are supposed to do it like this: http://tcrc.acor.org/tcexam.html

 

[montage]

Scratch my balls

When you are going well, does that mean you have somebody else to scratch your balls for you?

 

[Joshua Plumtree]

I get up in the morning.

 

[ayceejay]

I just got back from planting a hundred mile avenue of banana trees - and now I have to do a test? Give a break.

 

[Joshua Plumtree]

Must be a bank holiday. Any rain where you are?

 

[ayceejay]

Easter Monday here, a good day for testing ones self (or for ball scratching if you have them)
Note to self*
*The self is the subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts. In phenomenology, it is conceived as what experiences, and there isn't any experiencing without an experiencer, the self. The self is therefore an "immediate given", an intrinsic dimension of the fact of experiencing phenomena. In some other trends of philosophy, the self is instead seen as requiring a reflexive perception of oneself, the individual person, meaning the self in such a view is an object of consciousness.

 

[Joshua Plumtree]

I cycle, therefore I am.

 

[TheJDog]

LOUD NOISES

 

[michaelcycle]

LOUD NOISES

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

strava. it tells me with little cups signs how well I have been doing...