jonny jeez
Legendary Member
- Location
- Chislehurst, Kent, UK
It gets easier.
New commute - tell me it gets easier?
- Thread starter hotfuzzrj
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Andrew_P
In between here and there
Sorry missed this, CAT rated hills are long and hard start a cat 4 to HC the bigclimbs in the TdF are HC.
N+1 is rule 12 of cycling
G2EWS
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Devizes, Wiltshire
Oops!
The downside to not using our names, nor a photo of yourself!
I will feminize you now!
Best regards
Chris
Andrew_P
In between here and there
Pretty hilly then, I am quite lucky I cross the north downs at their lowest point using the A23
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
I did my 20 + miles today and for the first time it felt slightly easier, and I think a minute or two faster, despite the traffic being much worst than I've had it up till now. Felt good but then it's the first time I've attempted it this week, I suspect by the end of the week I'll be really tired again. (But then I did notice it was quite windy before I set off, and didn't notice it whilst cycling so I could have had that elusive creature - the tail wind, giving me a helping hand
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
No - the full commute each way (plus some extra bits) would be about 30 I think, getting a lift part of the way with Mr Summerdays and not doing it at all on some days at the moment.
Cyclist33
Guest
- Location
- Warrington
Get some porridge down you an hour before the home leg!
IanSmithCSE
Guru
- Location
- Worcester, Worcestershire
Good morning,
It sounds a bit nutty but after doing this for a couple of weeks, you may find a lot of benefit from doing a training ride on Saturday.
A short ride, the first 2 or 3 miles as a warm up and another 5-10 miles as fast as you can go.
The thinking is that the normal commute will quickly build up a level of fitness that makes the ride comfortable, and the weekend rides will add the extra strength to make it easy.
After doing the weekend ride for a couple of months you could easily drop it off and integrate it with your commute home.
I found this out by accident and all bar one hill on my commute "disappeared".
Bye
Ian
It sounds a bit nutty but after doing this for a couple of weeks, you may find a lot of benefit from doing a training ride on Saturday.
A short ride, the first 2 or 3 miles as a warm up and another 5-10 miles as fast as you can go.
The thinking is that the normal commute will quickly build up a level of fitness that makes the ride comfortable, and the weekend rides will add the extra strength to make it easy.
After doing the weekend ride for a couple of months you could easily drop it off and integrate it with your commute home.
I found this out by accident and all bar one hill on my commute "disappeared".
Bye
Ian
John the Monkey
Frivolous Cyclist
- Location
- Crewe
I'm doing 13 ish each way at the moment.
Just split it up through the week if you're feeling knackered (Mon, Wed, Fri, maybe?) Then build up to four days, then five.
Remember that you don't have to go flat out all the time - I sometimes treat Monday as a "recovery day" if I've ridden a long ride on Sunday, and ride to a slower average speed that day.
Just split it up through the week if you're feeling knackered (Mon, Wed, Fri, maybe?) Then build up to four days, then five.
Remember that you don't have to go flat out all the time - I sometimes treat Monday as a "recovery day" if I've ridden a long ride on Sunday, and ride to a slower average speed that day.
I guess it depends on what you want from your commute, if, like I was until I met Strava, you just want to ride to work, it will get easier, to the point of being boring. But after Strava, it got a lot harder, and faster. Now I ride to work with a purpose, and it take 40% less time, but I hurt 50% more, I also say no to a road bike, only because if you do your miles on a heavy hybrid, when you are race fit on, the move to a road bike will be that much more sweeter, and faster.
Near me: I'm in Epsom
I started commuting April last year, on a poorly set up MTB (it's a 9 mile commute for me), and i have to admit the first 2 months were tough. I stuck with it, doing 4 days a week and after the inital 2 months ramped it up to a full 5 days.
I switched to a road bike in Feb and really loving the ride in now, the odo is well over the 2000 mile mark
So stick with it, and if you feel really tired, there is no shame in throwing the odd rest day!
I switched to a road bike in Feb and really loving the ride in now, the odo is well over the 2000 mile mark
So stick with it, and if you feel really tired, there is no shame in throwing the odd rest day!
