Cyclopathic
Veteran
- Location
- Leicester.
What rules?6 pages and no mention of The Rules?
See #10 & #90.
What rules?6 pages and no mention of The Rules?
See #10 & #90.
Problem is when people hammer it they tend not to warm up properly. This means they take way too much out of their legs early in the ride & then don't gain much time. This is why I take the first 5 miles nice n' easy, like a recovery ride & then put the hammer down.
I get scalped at traffic lights. I hate that.
The OP has a point. On days when my legs are fatigued and I take it easy, my commute time is not much different to when I hammer it. I still can't resist hammering it, especially if there is a cyclists ahead or worse, I get overtaken by one (which is happening far too frequently nowadays).
Richard Ballantine wrote about this phenomenon in "City Cycling". It's not about speed, its all about timing of effort and understanding traffic flow. I don't know how many times I have stood on my pedals only to be stopped at the next set of lights, it's a fairly dumb way to cycle. I suspect that the perversity of losing that investment in effort is a prime reason why many cyclists jump lights.Its something I noticed a couple of years ago, I was loosing some weight and riding in zone 2 using a heart monitor all the time, my commute times were very similar to my normal commute times, in fact by the time I had finished the times were almost the same.
Its something I noticed a couple of years ago, I was loosing some weight and riding in zone 2 using a heart monitor all the time, my commute times were very similar to my normal commute times, in fact by the time I had finished the times were almost the same.
Depends what your zone 2 means. On the usual 6 zone system, zone 2 is recovery...
I always understood that zone 2 was either for recovery or for building a base.
I've re-read your post and now understand what you meant. Sorry for the confusion.