Warm up times..

[Bryony]

Yes can take a good 15/20 mins to get my legs feeling nice and loose.

 

[GreigM]

About 4-5 miles for me before I settle down and stop thinking about heading home

 

[cosmicbike]

I used to get the same feeling, then realised going straight to normal pace 'out of the box' as it were did no favours. Now I spend the first 10 mins at higher cadence, low speed just to get the legs working. Or at least that's what I did until they stopped working

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

It can take me around 30 mins to warm up if I go our first thing in the morning (mornings are worse for my asthma) and I too start on an uphill start - one of those short sharp ascents that has me in my grannie gear each and everytime!

 

[LarryDuff]

I live at the top of a hill so I get a nice first couple of miles to warm up no matter what way I go. It's a bugger on the way home after a hard ride mind you.

 

[ColinJ]

I launched straight into a 15-20% hill yesterday without a warm-up and regretted it. It is 24 hours later and my heart rhythm has not yet fully recovered so I will not be doing that again. I have a gym bike and will do a 10-15 minute warm-up on that before tackling that hill again.

Even on flat rides, it takes 15-30 minutes before I start to feel okay (more quickly on warm days, more slowly on cold days).

I used to hit this hill less than 5 minutes after setting off to ride back from work, so I always suffered riding up it.

 

[Gravity Aided]

I do about 30 minutes on the indoor trainer, and find it helpful on longer rides.

 

[Jack Edwards]

For my 5am, 11.5 mile commute into work. I have a black coffee and a steady incline for approx 2miles at an easy pace. Im good to go.