Good grief, & there's me complaining about my hills!Decided not to go against my usual grain, so hills, hills and a few more hills thrown in for good measure was the order for the day. Don't mind admitting it was a bloody tough day in the saddle across some pretty harsh climbs but the views made up for it
http://www.strava.com/activities/156294644
Very well done.
Must admit I have always pleaded to being a bad climberIts only a fitness thing to a point. Some people are just hill climbing people, others are distance people. I am married to a hill climber who takes great delight in spotting a lycra clad road on a carbon bike going uphill and setting off on the chase. He can catch them, overtake at speed and maintain that all the way to the top on any bike including a fully laden touring bike! He looks at me with the pleading eyes that say "can I" before he sets off, I just consent and tell him to wait for me after the top (hate stopping at the very summit - need to get passed it to recover, then stop). He just likes putting them to shameMe, I am a plodder uphill. When I run out of gears, I just plod and will eventually get their without having to stop (assuming I haven't been in hospital the day before
). On tour, I average 8-9mph (if that) but I don't care. I am not after speed, I am not after distance, I am after just getting there! My commuting is also the same - just faster, always with panniers and I think leisure riding has become the same simply because I spent so long touring, not to mention the various medical issues which mean just getting up some days is difficult! (In fact I am about to give in on that front and try for some sleep and leave my OH to our guest when he arrives!)
Extraordinary amount of climbingDecided not to go against my usual grain, so hills, hills and a few more hills thrown in for good measure was the order for the day. Don't mind admitting it was a bloody tough day in the saddle across some pretty harsh climbs but the views made up for it
http://www.strava.com/activities/156294644
If not there should be ...
Done that Nigel, thanks for the offer.
Ok can ask how you did it because stitching mine together yesterday was a right pain
Exported the rides as .tcx files from garmin connect. Then used combineactivities.jar from the third post in this thread. Cut and paste the resulting text into notepad and save as a new .tcx file which I imported into strava.
I will look at the thread, I have always done mine manually but a similar process I guess.
