Show us your.......newbie progress! [4 Sep 2012 - 4 Oct 2014]

[Mo1959]

So the sun was shining when I left home but within 10 mins it was raining! Typical

On one of my segments (past the prison) I can normally get up to 30mph, today I struggled to maintain 17 into the B'Head wind.

http://www.strava.com/activities/128058431

Better than me.....I was struggling to maintain 10mph! Lol It's amazing the difference it makes. There are segments on the roads I did this morning running both ways on the same stretch of road and I was 17.3mph on the way out and only 12.1 on the way back.

 

[BrianEvesham]

Yes it was painful. It took me over a minute longer to do that prison segment

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Nice and breezy in Leicester as well now, though no rain so far today.

@SatNavSaysStraightOn and @Mo1959, last time I looked you two were both in the top ten ladies of the Veloviewer challenge

 

[Stonechat]

Did 33 miles at about 14 mph to Ashtead Common
Quite windy and also a bit cool at first (No PR's today!!)

Main part of the ride is here
http://app.strava.com/activities/128068085

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Bugger! Sun shining but a bit blowy so off for a ride, no you are not the fairy has visited over night. First punct@re for over a year. So out with the wheel, out with the tube, patch the hole, search but don't find the cause, all back together and off we go. 10 miles later tyre is flat again so changed tube at side of road and short cut home. Guess I didn't fix the original p@ncture properly . Ah well all good practice as I guess I'm not allowed Marathons on my Defy 2.

of course you can have Marathons on a defy 2 - I have Marathon plus on all my bikes

 

[L14M]

23.8 miles in on a commute to the gliding club.

Want to go faster?
Go to the countryside!

fastest average speed EVER
http://www.strava.com/activities/128166689

the rest:
http://www.strava.com/activities/128166692
http://www.strava.com/activities/128166682
http://www.strava.com/activities/128166679

 

[L14M]

Need to work more on hills though!

Liam

 

[Deleted member 18052]

Evening blast after work, only 9 miles (fat and unfit)

http://www.strava.com/activities/128174004

Londesborough hill killed me off, had to stop a couple of times, and then couldnt get clipped in on the hill so had to walk to the top

 

[welsh dragon]

Evening blast after work, only 9 miles (fat and unfit)

http://www.strava.com/activities/128174004

Londesborough hill killed me off, had to stop a couple of times, and then couldnt get clipped in on the hill so had to walk to the top

We have all done it, do it.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Need to work more on hills though!

Liam

Use my tried and tested method, and it works every time - Avoid them

 

[welsh dragon]

Use my tried and tested method, and it works every time - Avoid them

Heck. That works for me

 

[L14M]

Use my tried and tested method, and it works every time - Avoid them

I would - i usually do lol!

Problem is the gliding club is located in the Chilterns...

 

[welsh dragon]

I live in the foothills of the cambrian mountains. There are no flat bits. I wish I lived in norfolk or lincolnshire

 

[morrisman]

23.8 miles in on a commute to the gliding club.

Want to go faster?
Go to the countryside!

fastest average speed EVER
http://www.strava.com/activities/128166689

Shame I didn't know, just over the hill from me

 

[Mr_K_Dilkington]

Didn't feel like a long ride today as I'm doing a long, hilly ride in the Chilterns tomorrow. Decided to head down to Richmond Park to track my progress over the past month or so (laps are a good way to measure this - I test myself on single lap PRs and 3 lap PRs). It was pretty windy going down the Queens Road and there was a lot of traffic, but I still managed to beat my single lap PR by nearly 2 minutes 30. I can now do a single lap in 21:47 (18.4 mph average according to the most reliable segment length) and I think the way I'm progressing I should be able to get it sub 20 minutes for a single lap and sub 60 minutes for 3 laps within a reasonable amount of time. Really psyched with how quickly I'm progressing having only been doing this cycling lark for less than a couple of months!

Strava info here: http://www.strava.com/activities/124932137

A week and a half on and I've knocked another minute off my Richmond Park one lap time (21:47 down to 20:42 with an average speed of 19.4mph): http://www.strava.com/activities/128211064

I think I could have done a sub-20 minute lap if it wasn't so windy on the flat after the Dark Hill descent and then up Sawyers Hill - really sapped my speed for the steady climb there. A calm day should give me the result I want pretty soon I think!

Goals for the next couple of months are the sub 20 minute Richmond Park lap, a sub 60 minute time on 3 laps (this is a slightly longer term goal) and a 20 miles in an hour ride on the flat (this would be achievable before the 3 laps of Richmond Park obviously, but I'm not sure where to do it since I live in West London where traffic destroys any attempt at doing this outside of RP).