Wish me luck!

[JamesM]

I'm going to embark on my first commute by bike this evening. Brought the new bike in on the train this morning.

My route is about 14 miles, 90% of it along the canal and then a big hill to my house!

When I get the train and walk between there and home it takes about 40 minutes. Hopefully, when I get a bit fitter, I'll be able to get somewhere close to matching that time.

Wish me luck!

 

[magnatom]

Good luck, and enjoy!

 

[HLaB]

Good luck JamesM and as magnatom says enjoy!

OT My work joined the cyclescheme recently and a couple of people have bought bikes through that so they are starting out commuting too but a shorter distance.

 

[Lazy-Commuter]

Have fun. That's just over double my commute so respect to you.

 

[J4CKO]

I started six months ago, have not looked back, enjoy it, take it easy.

If you aren't sure about something, stop, think about it. It will knacker you at first but you feel it getting easier and faster (depends how fit you are already I suppose), you will realise you need things that you didn't even now existed before.

 

[JamesM]

I'm looking forward to tonight. I tried to put my route map on bikely but it wouldn't save. I kept trying and when I managed to get onto the site it was showing my route saved loads of times!

I've deleted most of them and there's a version of it with none of my comments here but the site is still not loading pages sometimes.

It's reporting my route as just under 23 km, 14.3 miles with total climb: 416m and total descent: 334m (The altitude profile looked way too up and down though)

 

[Lazy-Commuter]

Have you done the Cyclogs thing? Says he that joined it two weeks ago.

There's a Cycle Chat team on there to join ..

Edit: I suppose I could have gone and looked for you there, but think about the "L" in my user name.

 

[JamesM]

I'd not seen Cyclogs. Thanks for the tip

 

[Lazy-Commuter]

I'd not seen Cyclogs. Thanks for the tip

No worries. Aargh, just realised: your trip is longer than mine and you'll be ahead of me in the standings !!!

 

[alecstilleyedye]

good man. enjoy.

 

[JamesM]

No worries. Aargh, just realised: your trip is longer than mine and you'll be ahead of me in the standings !!!

And I've already logged the 1.4 miles I've done this morning (obviously not including the bits where I was stood on a train...

 

[Lazy-Commuter]

And I've already logged the 1.4 miles I've done this morning (obviously not including the bits where I was stood on a train...

That'd push your average speed up!!

Makes note for self: must remember to take bike on next trip to Brussels on the Eurostar.

 

[DJ]

Good Luck with your commute, as a London cyclist I am very jealous of the sound of your commute along the tow path of the canal. Also it's good to have a hill at hand for the extra conditioning your legs will get fromit.

 

[JamesM]

I went a slightly different route which came off the canal earlier and gave me a more gradual ascent. It took an hour and a quarter compared to about three quarters of an hour door to door using the train. Looking forward to shaving some time off that! I think I'm going to start off just doing two or three days a week until I get used to it and depending on the weather.

 

[Sittingduck]

Nice one James - good luck with it! The Cyclogs site is pretty addictive and a good way to see improvements etc