briantrumpet
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- Location
- Devon & Die
Have you taken something for that?
On a huge high having smashed my PB this am!!
- Thread starter Jdratcliffe
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Fubar
Legendary Member
Yes, that's the same route HLaB recommended - I'll give it a bash one day, don't much like the narrow cycle path from outside Dalmeny to Cramond.
Fubar
Legendary Member
BTW OP oppolgies for hijacking thread
Was thinking same, show shorry!!
Nearly there
Veteran
- Location
- Cumbria
Good feeling beating your pb
briantrumpet
Legendary Member
- Location
- Devon & Die
... though two "but seriously"s:
I never look at records for my urban commute, with traffic lights & cars & people. I don't want any incentive to improve on times when there are so many unconscious split-second decisions to be made. The same sort of unconscious image-processing that the brain does that blinds (some) drivers to cyclists can do similar to cyclists who have priorities of speed jostling with the priorities of safety. (I include myself in that assessment - but knowing that the brain can play funny tricks can be a key part of keeping the balance of speed v. safety on the correct side.)
And I discount my own 'records' unless they are round trips returning to the starting point, to negate as much as possible the 'wind assisted' or 'downhill assisted'. Apart from the time I did 5 miles at 26.4mph, of course. (I'm sure that had nothing to do with a 160ft drop in elevation and a tailwind all the way.)
Having said that, it's still nice when you break a record/target of your own.
I never look at records for my urban commute, with traffic lights & cars & people. I don't want any incentive to improve on times when there are so many unconscious split-second decisions to be made. The same sort of unconscious image-processing that the brain does that blinds (some) drivers to cyclists can do similar to cyclists who have priorities of speed jostling with the priorities of safety. (I include myself in that assessment - but knowing that the brain can play funny tricks can be a key part of keeping the balance of speed v. safety on the correct side.)
And I discount my own 'records' unless they are round trips returning to the starting point, to negate as much as possible the 'wind assisted' or 'downhill assisted'. Apart from the time I did 5 miles at 26.4mph, of course. (I'm sure that had nothing to do with a 160ft drop in elevation and a tailwind all the way.)
Having said that, it's still nice when you break a record/target of your own.
BrumJim
Forum Stalwart (won't take the hint and leave...)
- Location
- Selly Oak, Birmingham
Know the feeling. Smashed my PB this time last week.4s quicker, and I'd have been under the 22min target.
http://www.endomondo.com/workouts/49519240 was on fire today however my neighbour who is a natural whippet helped out today! Had no leg speed at the end of this commute home today though! Easy one tomorrow must resist, must resist 
