September 2017 Biking Cycling Bicycling Challenge!
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A big week for me, but not in regard to cycling - it was my last day at work on Friday so I'm now retired and able to spend more time doing things I want to do.
I'm currently doing a little experiment to try and improve my pace.... I've got a natural feeling pace and intensity which tends to make most of my "normal" rides just over 16 mph. So for a while I'm consistently pushing a bit harder chasing average speed to try and make 17+ mph my new normal pace.
Just because I'm retired doesn't mean I intend slowing down.
MTD
10 Hours - 168 miles - 25 Personal Records - 5 Activities
YTD
206 Hours - 3,401 miles - 403 Personal Records - 175 Activities2 -
Finally got a good climb in. 13 mile bike ride ain't nothing to brag about but 2,000 feet of climbing ain't couch potato. I think my climbing heart rate might have been 71% HRmax or so. Not too ambitious but kind of alright.
Yard work over the past few days wasn't too slouchy. 650 squares of sod. 90 rolls I think 40 pounds. That is a couple of tons. You do the math. I am worn out. I think I will water it. That part is easy.
Planting sod is a personal record for me.
Congrats to @sijomial. I think I heard you say retired. Welcome to the club. Now our work is cut out for us. Heh!
9/4 - 1.3 hours - 10.4 miles - 1037 feet climbing
9/6 - 1.2 hours - 10.3 miles - 1260 feet climbing
9/10 2.5 hours - 13.4 miles - 2032 feet climbing
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......... 5.0 hours - 34.1 miles - 4332 feet climbing MTD2 -
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I'll be in the same boat (looking to increase pace- and envying the retirement aspect- Congratulations). My plan is to head back to a space that's worked for me before, ZWIFT. For those of us non-retirees ride time is shortening along with daylight hours. Finding ways to fit riding into schedule.. I've found cat-and-mouse of Zwift riders who ride during similar times, is a wonderful way to pick up the pace, either because you're chasing someone, or, pedaling faster in order not to get caught :-)... Perhaps we'll see you, and get a chance to ride together, albeit virtually..A big week for me, but not in regard to cycling - it was my last day at work on Friday so I'm now retired and able to spend more time doing things I want to do.
I'm currently doing a little experiment to try and improve my pace.... I've got a natural feeling pace and intensity which tends to make most of my "normal" rides just over 16 mph. So for a while I'm consistently pushing a bit harder chasing average speed to try and make 17+ mph my new normal pace.
Just because I'm retired doesn't mean I intend slowing down.
MTD
10 Hours - 168 miles - 25 Personal Records - 5 Activities
YTD
206 Hours - 3,401 miles - 403 Personal Records - 175 Activities
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Just now joining Sept thread. Down with some flu bug and first day of feeling human and looking forward to jumping on trainer tomorrow to spin out legs and hopefully sweat out the last of demon flu bug.
Weekly goal for Sept starting out low with 75 miles or/ 6 hours. If I can squeak out 1k-1.5K climbing it's a double bonus.. Since daylight is waning, will start relying on the all autumn/winter fall back ( the trainer, aka, turbo trainer).. Use to be boring as all get out, now with super neat virtual simulation apps its actually rather fun. Anyone else out there on Zwift? Plan a meet-up ride?
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@crumpin0828 - I been a little bit curious about that zwift. I should surf out to that page before I sit here and speculate. I think you have to by a special spin bike to do it. Seems like a bike like that would have to somehow be calibrated to energy or something. Otherwise how would pace or hill be valid. Then again maybe it has a knob on it somewhere that would allow an old guy to handicap his game somehow. That'd be alright.
Oh yeah! I see they got a heart rate power meter on their page. If it is like the HRmax = 220 - (your age) and you could race against scaled heart rates that might work for me. I been known to go crazy that way. Orange Theory fitness is kind of that theme.0 -
Power is calibrated by hr monitor combined w speed cadence sensor. Zwift home page explains how it works and what's needed to get started. Bike ( road, mtb. Cross bike? Hybrid, bike), Trainer (traditional or smart traine, which calibrates power), zwift application subscription- there's usually a 7 or 30 day trial), computer, smart devise (tablet or iPhone) to control which direction you turn on the interactive course. Yes it does sound like a lot and a bit convoluted- but once you get it down you realize it's pretty simple and straight forward.bocasdelbadbob wrote: »@crumpin0828 - I been a little bit curious about that zwift. I should surf out to that page before I sit here and speculate. I think you have to by a special spin bike to do it. Seems like a bike like that would have to somehow be calibrated to energy or something. Otherwise how would pace or hill be valid. Then again maybe it has a knob on it somewhere that would allow an old guy to handicap his game somehow. That'd be alright.
Oh yeah! I see they got a heart rate power meter on their page. If it is like the 220 - (your age) and you could race against heart rates that might work for me.
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Power is calibrated by hr monitor combined w speed cadence sensor. Zwift home page explains how it works and what's needed to get started. Bike ( road, mtb. Cross bike? Hybrid, bike), Trainer (traditional or smart traine, which calibrates power), zwift application subscription- there's usually a 7 or 30 day trial), computer, smart devise (tablet or iPhone) to control which direction you turn on the interactive course. Yes it does sound like a lot and a bit convoluted- but once you get it down you realize it's pretty simple and straight forward.bocasdelbadbob wrote: »@crumpin0828 - I been a little bit curious about that zwift. I should surf out to that page before I sit here and speculate. I think you have to by a special spin bike to do it. Seems like a bike like that would have to somehow be calibrated to energy or something. Otherwise how would pace or hill be valid. Then again maybe it has a knob on it somewhere that would allow an old guy to handicap his game somehow. That'd be alright.
Oh yeah! I see they got a heart rate power meter on their page. If it is like the 220 - (your age) and you could race against heart rates that might work for me.0 -
Getting started on Zwift-
https://support.zwift.com/hc/en-us/articles/205625165-What-do-I-need-to-start-using-Zwift-?mobile_site=true1 -
MTD
Duration: 11:23:48
Time Moving: 10:50:06
Distance (miles): 189
Activities: 6
Elevation Gain (feet): 4,852
YTD
Duration: 162:20:07
Time Moving: 158:28:12
Distance (miles): 2468
Activities: 124
Elevation Gain (feet): 142,734
Power is the only variable that matters in Zwift. Your speed in the game is derived from power output. Cadence determines how you sit on the bike, Cd. You only need HRM for racing in Zwift. It's way to disqualify cheats. For best game play, get a smart trainer. HR to power relationship is as par with HR to calories. You're better off using virtual power based off speed, cadence, and trainer resistance relationship. It's far more accurate and consistent.2 -
Def agree on smart trainer! They're also becoming more mainstream because of more brands introducing models across various price points.
Trainer for me tomorrow to shake out 49 flights climbed/descended.1 -
Late to the party this month. It's been pretty hectic. With the riding opportunities starting to shorten up and with work/ family life ramping up with school back in session, it's just not practical to set a goal that will push me this month.
So I will set a goal to just ride! As many times and as many miles as I can and just enjoy before Mother Nature makes me move indoors.
So far I have had 3 rides this month
9/3 8.2 road miles
9/9 8.2 road miles
9/11 11.5 trail miles
From what I can see, everyone is doing great so far this month! Keep turning those cranks!1 -
Review ... (Distances include cycling + walking)
March 15: 489.8 km (304.3 miles) = 38 hours 4 min
April: 491.94 km (305.6 miles) = 43 hours 6 min
May: 361.81 km (224.8 miles) = 35 hours 50 min
June: 569.53 km (353.9 miles) = 41 hours 53 min
July 2015: 230.7 km (143.35 miles) = 32 hours 45 min
Aug: 211.3 km (131.3 miles) = 28 hours 8 min
Sep 2015: 306.7 km (190.6 miles) = 35 hour 2 min
Oct: 441.82 km (274.5 miles) = 47 hours 43 min
Nov: 660.21 km (410.23 miles) = 60 hours 41 min
Dec: 499.91 km (282.8 miles) = 54 hours 56 min
Jan: 864.79 km (537.35 miles) = 65 hours 36 min
Feb: 470.53 km (292.4 miles) = 40 hours 39 min
March 16: 917.73 km (570.2 miles) = 66 hours 13 min
April: 417.83 km (259.6 miles) = 40 hours 23 min
May: 267.09 km (165.9 miles) = 36 hours 10 min
June: 552.1 km (343 miles) = 54 hours 48 min
July 2016: 709 km (440.5 miles) = 60 hours 41 minutes
Aug: 775.9 km (482.1 miles) = 54 hours 52 minutes
Sep 2016: 371.3 km (230.7 miles) = 32 hours 20 min
Oct: 649 km (403.3 miles) = 49 hours 46 min
Nov: 403 km (250.4 miles) = 52 hours 16 min
Dec: 511.05 km (317.55 miles) = 52 hours 2 min
Jan: 741.9 km (461.0 miles) = 70 hours 3 min
Feb: 600.5 km (373.1 miles) = 57 hours 30 min
Mar: 1113.2 km (691.7 miles) = 78 hours 25 min
Apr: 1181.9 km (734.4 miles) = 76 hours 45 min
May: 426.6 km (265.1 miles) = 39 hours 21 min
June: 575.7 km (357.7 miles) = 41 hours 53 min
July: 714 km (443.7 miles) = 52 hours 23 min
August: 475.8 km (295.6 miles) = 38 hours 41 min
In August, I ended up within the range I wanted to end up ... between my 2015 August and my 2016 August. I would have liked to get closer to my 2016 August, but a cold/flu/sinus infection kind of took me out of the game.
I see September has been a relatively low-exercise month the last two years ... ideally I'd like to improve on that and do slightly more this year.
Sept 1 - 1.4 km walking (15 min)
Sept 2 - 161.9 km cycling (510 min)
Sept 3 - 0
Sept 4 - 0
Sept 5 - 4 km walking (50 min)
Sept 6 - 5.4 km walking (65 min) + 13 flights of stairs (10 min)
And then winter came back and the weather has not been nice ...
Sept 7 - 2.2 km walking (25 min) + 16 flights of stairs (12 min) + weights
Sept 8 - 1.7 km walking (20 min) + 20 flights of stairs (16 min)
Sept 9 - 35.6 km cycling (110 min)
Sept 10 - 27.2 km cycling (85 min) + 2.4 km walking (24 min)
Sept 11 - 29.1 km cycling (45 min) indoors in a very energetic spin class! + 3.1 km walking (35 min)
Sept 12 - 1.9 km walking (20 min) + 10 flights of stairs (8 min)
2017 Monthly September
Walking Distance (km): 22.1
Walking Time (min): 276.3
Cycling Distance (km): 253.8
Cycling Time (min): 754.6
Stairs Climbed Number: 59.0
Stairs Climbed Time (min): 47.2
Totals
Total Distance (km): 275.9
Total Distance (miles): 171.4
Total Time (min): 1078.0
Total Time (hr): 17:58:021 -
Did my usual climb again. Was a bit more energetic. Got a climb segment PR.
I put my HR plot on there. I like how it slowly edges up as I climb.
Wildlife - I got buzzed by a redtail hawk.
I was in this section of road that was bounded by deciduous foliage. Hawk went sweeping by me about chest high maybe 2 or three feet to my left. I think it passed me like that because of being unable to climb out of the foliage. It was stuck in the deciduous tunnel with me. I liked it once I was over being startled.
9/4 - 1.3 hours - 10.4 miles - 1037 feet climbing
9/6 - 1.2 hours - 10.3 miles - 1260 feet climbing
9/10 2.5 hours - 13.4 miles - 2032 feet climbing
9/12 2,2 hours - 13.4 miles - 2032 feet climbing
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......... 7.2 hours - 47.5 miles - 6364 feet climbing MTD
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Don't know that I am up for buying any smart trainer stuff real soon. I just spent bucks on my car.
I would like to try that though.
Went for a spin this morning though.
Only 500 of climbing ...
9/4 - 1.3 hours - 10.4 miles - 1037 feet climbing
9/6 - 1.2 hours - 10.3 miles - 1260 feet climbing
9/10 2.5 hours - 13.4 miles - 2032 feet climbing
9/12 2,2 hours - 13.4 miles - 2032 feet climbing
9/13 1:3 hours - 16.5 miles - 525 feet climbing
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......... 7.2 hours - 64.0 miles - 6889 feet climbing MTD
Nothing to brag about other than I am having fun. That counts I guess.1 -
@bocasdelbadbob that you are having fun is all that counts! Otherwise it is work and nobody likes that0
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MTD: 528.70 miles, 34,633' elevation.
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Rode 450 miles across Iowa in July participating in Ragbrai. Leaving Tuesday and riding from Goleta, CA to San Diego, 240 miles...4 days on our Touring Bikes...can't wait1
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4 mile quick spin around the block on Tuesday to keep the legs loose after Monday nights trail ride.
7 miles on Wednesday
9 miles of singletrack today. What a gorgeous day in the woods. Had the trails all to my self.
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First week not working and it's reflected in my cycling - cycled every day, used all four of my bikes for different roles from local errands to fun rides in the countryside.
Weather wasn't helpful being very windy and showery most days.
So windy one day I set a Strava PR on my hybrid at 22.5 mph on a segment I've done 177 times before mostly on faster road bikes.
Only one long ride this week, did a 51 mile ride today to test out my new saddle - a little retirement present to myself.
MTD
19 Hours - 317 miles - 58 Personal Records - 16 Activities
YTD
216 Hours - 3,549.7 miles - 436 Personal Records - 186 Activities
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