I have been cycling quite a lot since May last year, I have done 30 miles every single week minimum since then and more recently I have been doing 50 plus miles a week and over 100 for a couple of those weeks.
I don’t seem to be getting any better though could it be that cycling just isn’t for me? I put in a lot of effort and I’m always out there doing it and I just don’t get much faster and can’t really go much further.
I ride my MTB mostly on road for 98% of my training and I do have a drop bar bike I intend to start using soon it’s a Zwift machine at the moment.
When I started again in May I was doing 10-11mph averages and I managed to get up to high 13’s by October but since then I’ve struggled to get to 12mph averages. No matter what I do I can’t seem to be able to do more than around 30 miles in one ride.
There’s people I know who cycle and they don’t put in half the effort week by week as I do but they are quite a lot faster than me and can knock out 50/60 mile rides without much issue.
Its frustrating I want to get good at cycling and I’m putting about all the hours in I possibly can but it isn’t happening.
I do suffer from an illness which effects my ability to absorb nutrients but with all the effort I put in surly I should be getting better at cycling?
On the plus side I have gone from about 87kg down to 75kg so it hasn’t all been in vain.
Should I give up?
My Strava https://www.strava.com/athletes/9164675
I don’t seem to be getting any better though could it be that cycling just isn’t for me? I put in a lot of effort and I’m always out there doing it and I just don’t get much faster and can’t really go much further.
I ride my MTB mostly on road for 98% of my training and I do have a drop bar bike I intend to start using soon it’s a Zwift machine at the moment.
When I started again in May I was doing 10-11mph averages and I managed to get up to high 13’s by October but since then I’ve struggled to get to 12mph averages. No matter what I do I can’t seem to be able to do more than around 30 miles in one ride.
There’s people I know who cycle and they don’t put in half the effort week by week as I do but they are quite a lot faster than me and can knock out 50/60 mile rides without much issue.
Its frustrating I want to get good at cycling and I’m putting about all the hours in I possibly can but it isn’t happening.
I do suffer from an illness which effects my ability to absorb nutrients but with all the effort I put in surly I should be getting better at cycling?
On the plus side I have gone from about 87kg down to 75kg so it hasn’t all been in vain.
Should I give up?
My Strava https://www.strava.com/athletes/9164675