Cruising or attacking?

[som3blok3]

Just off the back of pshore's SCR post, which I've found quite interesting.


What's your pace into work like? (Paperwork and meetings waiting for you)

How does it compare to your pace home? (Food, shower, beer etc, calling your name....)



Are you a steady 'A-B rider', enjoying the view.

Are you an 'attack every hill' and 'I eat traffic for breakfast' rider???



Just curious.

 

[Hacienda71]

Attack to and from work. The distance is no challenge so the challenge is keeping a good pace up. I commute because I like cycling not out of necessity so my motivation may differ to others though

 

[gbb]

90% of my commutings done at 90% (if that makes sense)
My commutes only short, but i always attack it (for all the good it does, i plateau'd long ago)...even if i extend it to 10 miles or so, i always ride the same way.
The only time i ease off is on long rides of 50 miles plus. Then i'll ride at 60/80%

Then i think about it, i'm not really attacking...i did that 3 years ago on all my rides, wth the aim of getting my average speed up. Its a lot of effort and it did work, but i couldn't be bothered to sustain it.

So i'm not really attacking, just riding consistently fast (in my own humble way )

 

[Holdsworth]

I'd say I am somewhere in the middle.

I like to keep a steady pace no as not to knacker myself out in a sprint, asthma and all that, but I want to get to work in a good time so I push when I need to when the road is reasonably flat. The hills I take as they come, there is one uphill stretch each way on my ride, the way back is shorter but steeper and it usually takes a lot out of me but I try and spin as much in a lower gear and change gear appropriately. I don't mash up hills yet, I need more leg and cardio training for that

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Back in the late 80s a work colleague asked me how I managed to always arrive at work at exactly the same time. The only answer I had was: ''If I'm late I cycle faster - if I'm early I take the riverbank route.'' It's only just now that it's started sinking in that getting up later may be good for your health. Or your fitness, whatever...

 

[brokenbetty]

A - B rider both ways. Never rlj, take my place in the queue for the lights. My waving thank you hand gets a workout every day but I don't remember when I last used my bell.

Life is full of happy

 

[som3blok3]

Back in the late 80s a work colleague asked me how I managed to always arrive at work at exactly the same time. The only answer I had was: ''If I'm late I cycle faster - if I'm early I take the riverbank route.'' It's only just now that it's started sinking in that getting up later may be good for your health. Or your fitness, whatever...

+1 for that.

An extra 10 mins in bed = extra morning leg burn.

 

[som3blok3]

Attack to and from work. The distance is no challenge so the challenge is keeping a good pace up. I commute because I like cycling not out of necessity so my motivation may differ to others though

Spot on!

 

[mgarl10024]

I ride at about 80-90%, and being a larger bloke can sweat through a t-shirt in the 30min commute.

At the weekends, I would be riding with my girlfriend who is slower, and so perhaps 60%. At this speed, I find that I can go for much longer and take more time to enjoy the scenery etc. When on your own, there's a tendency to speed off and burn out too early.

 

[gbb]

I ride at about 80-90%, and being a larger bloke can sweat through a t-shirt in the 30min commute.

At the weekends, I would be riding with my girlfriend who is slower, and so perhaps 60%. At this speed, I find that I can go for much longer and take more time to enjoy the scenery etc. When on your own, there's a tendency to speed off and burn out too early.

Well worth remembering...
I used to set off at full tilt (not commuting but maybe 25 mile rides). For some reason i started taking the first 5 miles or so easy, not slow, but at a nice pace. By setting off easy, i could do my circuit in almost exactly the same time...nothing gained really in setting off fast, you get the time back later.

 

[Chrismawa]

I try to keep the pace up both ways, but as return journey is downhill and its hometime the pace is certainly a bit quicker lol.

 

[moralcrusader]

I tend not to concentrate on speed - rather prefer to make sure that get to work in one piece! I always attack the steep hills that I have on the way in and on the way home, more out of the desire to get them out of the way than anything else. Otherwise, cruising and trying to avoid getting stuck behind the road painting wagon that always seems to be going over Tower Bridge at the same time as me...

 

[BSRU]

Abit of both, steady eddie in traffic and near pedestrian area's, then few sprints to blow away some cobwebs.
100% steady during my lunchtime ride home and back, do not want to see my lunch again.

 

[david1701]

generally as its 4 miles I attack but sometimes I'm tired from everything else so kinda cruise

 

[Mike!]

I cruise on the way in (apart from one steep hill ) but tend to attack more going home, manily as we have no showers at work......