October 2016 Biking Cycling Bicycling Challenge!
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No cycling yet ... but soon, I hope!Review ...
(Distances include cycling + walking)
March: 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: 230.7 km (143.35 miles) = 32 hours 45 min
Aug: 211.3 km (131.3 miles) = 28 hours 8 min
Sep: 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: 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: 709 km (440.5 miles) = 60 hours 41 minutes
August: 775.9 km (482.1 miles) = 54 hours 52 minutes
September: 371.3 km (230.7 miles) = 32 hours 20 min
All right, let's see what I can do for October. Unfortunately, I'm not off to a brilliant start ... sick again ... spent the first weekend of October sleeping. But hopefully the energy will come back quickly.
Totals:
Oct Cycling Outside: 0 km (0 min)
Oct Cycling Inside: 0 min
Oct Walking: 0 km (0 min)
Oct Stairs: 0 flights (0 min)
Oct Weightlifting: 0 min
Oct Rowing: 0 km (0 min)
Oct Time Total: 0 min = 0 hours 0 min
Oct Distance Total: 0 km = 0 miles
Oct 1 - sick
Oct 2 - sick
Oct 3 - 1.4 km walking (17 min)
Oct 4 - 4 km walking (50 min)
Oct 5 - 1.3 km walking (16 min)
Oct 6 - 1.5 km walking (18 min)
Totals:
Oct Cycling Outside: 0 km (0 min)
Oct Cycling Inside: 0 min
Oct Walking: 8.2 km (101 min)
Oct Stairs: 0 flights (0 min)
Oct Weightlifting: 0 min
Oct Rowing: 0 km (0 min)
Oct Time Total: 0 min = 1 hours 41 min
Oct Distance Total: 8.2 km = 5 miles
Oct 7 - 22.2 km (70 min) cycling
Oct 8 - 390 km (19.5 hours) cycling
That's not a typo. That was a 600 km randonnee attempt ... but being sick so much lately meant that I haven't trained enough and just didn't have the strength to do the whole 600 km. We made it to 390 km and that was that.
Oct 9 - 1 km (12 min) walking
Oct 10 - 1.5 km (18 min) walking
Oct 11 - 0.5 km (6 min) walking ... at the airport on the way home
Totals:
Oct Cycling Outside: 412.2 km (1240 min)
Oct Cycling Inside: 0 min
Oct Walking: 11.2 km (137 min)
Oct Stairs: 0 flights (0 min)
Oct Weightlifting: 0 min
Oct Rowing: 0 km (0 min)
Oct Time Total: 1377 min = 22 hours 57 min
Oct Distance Total: 423.4 km = 263 miles
Oct 15 - 33.3 km cycling (105 min) + 1.5 km walking (18 min)
Oct 16 - not much!
Totals:
Oct Cycling Outside: 445.5 km (1345 min)
Oct Cycling Inside: 0 min
Oct Walking: 25.4 km (310 min)
Oct Stairs: 5 flights (4 min)
Oct Weightlifting: 0 min
Oct Rowing: 0 km (0 min)
Oct Time Total: 1659 min = 27 hours 39 min
Oct Distance Total: 470.9 km = 292.6 miles
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Got in a mid-distance ride mid-day today as the Florida sun and heat seemed to be making a return. Didn't fuel well in the first hour, so felt it around the 30 mile mark, but after stopping to properly refuel and rehydrate, had a good return ride back. Going to get in a rest day tomorrow as I have a long run and swim planned, but will do a quick recovery ride Tuesday before doing my final pre-ironman long ride Wednesday. After then, just planning to taper with some mid-distance rides and a few tempo/interval sessions to keep me sharp.
10/1 - 80 miles
10/14 - 17 miles (team ride)
10/15 - 40 miles (slow recovery w. some threshold intervals)
10/16 - 69 miles
Total: 207 miles
Goal: 400 miles
Remaining: 193 miles
2016 Bike Race Schedule:
Ironman 70.3 Florida - Apr 10 - 5:07:51 (21mph 56 mile time trial bike split)
Ironman 70.3 Augusta - Sep 25 - 4:43:56 (22.3mph 56.5 mile time trial bike split)
Ironman Florida - Nov 5
@35dollars - Understated, but nice looking new ride. Given the pannier, is that your commuter, or everyday ride?0 -
No mileage or event goals this month - just simply to get as much riding in as possible. Short days and colder temperatures that affect my Raynaud's afflicted fingers and toes limits my opportunities.
Sunday 2nd - 56.9 miles
Tuesday 4th - 21.8 virtual miles, intervals on eSpinning bike
Saturday 8th - 57 miles
Sunday 9th - 36.4 miles
Running total = 172.1 miles.
Box Hill in Surrey has a couple of new signs which made me chuckle on the way to a new PR up Zig Zag Rd today.
About a third of the way up - "It's Only Gravity"
About half way up - "Shut Up Legs"
Tuesday - 22.4 virtual miles, "time trial" on WattBike Pro
Thursday - 21.8 virtual miles, 5 minutes interval training on WattBike Pro
Saturday - 51 miles having fun chasing some Strava PRs on long fast segments and hills.
Highlight!
Taking 33 seconds off my best time on the very nasty Combe Lane climb. 7% average but with a 19% lung busting finish.
http://www.wlondoncycling.co.uk/combe-lane
Running total = 267.3 miles.1 -
@35dollars - Understated, but nice looking new ride. Given the pannier, is that your commuter, or everyday ride?
Yep, that's going to be my winter (and possibly all-year, depending how it compares to my other bike) commuter ride. And maybe going to do some CX on it (minus rack and mudguards), if I manage to translate "nice idea" into actual action. To be honest, I would have preferred something a bit brighter in colouration, but that's this years' colour scheme, so Hobson's choice.
First ride commute on it this morning, and very nearly my first crash - filtering through traffic, the car in front closed the gap I was going through, I was basically standing still, still clipped in and had nowhere to go - managed to fend myself off against the car enough to regain balance. Car driver very irate, though I couldn't tell what he was actually saying - presumably would have preferred me to crash the bike into his wing rather than have one glove touch his window?2 -
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_nikkiwolf_ wrote: »If it doesn't rain tomorrow, I might be brave enough to try them on the way to work. Although then I'll probably forget that I'm clipped and fall over the first time I have to stop, it still takes a lot of concentration to remember to turn my foot before stopping...
A couple of falls due to forgetting your clipped in, and you'll be good to go after that. It happened to all of us way back when learning how to use them.
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_nikkiwolf_ wrote: »...it still takes a lot of concentration to remember to turn my foot before stopping...
Good Luck with the clip ins. Unclip well before a stop. Also, the fall overs I've witnessed with people new to clipping in, including myself, is talking before a stop or fiddling with garmin before a stop...distracted stopping.
10/13 - 21.2 miles, REB, 149.9 down, 250.1 to go
10/15 - 12.0 miles, REB, 161.9 down, 238.1 to go
10/16 - 12.0 miles, REB, 173.9 down, 226.1 to go
10/17 - 12.0 miles, REB, 185.9 down, 214.1 to go
Lots of indoor riding due to weather1 -
@35 Dollars, Hey, that's a nice bike.0
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3 Oct-23.5mi
5 Oct-19mi
12 Oct-23mi
14 Oct-18mi
17 Oct- 19 mi
102.5/3000 -
Mon 17 - 26.42 miles
MTD 246.64 / 400, YTD 2226.55 / 2500
First day on the new bike. Initial impressions:- The riding position is more upright, and the bars are turned up more and the brake hods set further up around the curve. Felt a bit weird (slightly top heavy) to start with, but has the effect of giving me a better view ahead, with less pressure on my neck, and with my hands naturally falling at the brake hoods - all in all, definitely positive for the winter conditions
- The gearset - oh my god, so smooth compared to my several-year-old not-terribly-well-maintained Tiagra set. Almost silent in operation, both pedalling and doing changes. Decent range of gears (11 instead of 9) without needing the 3rd chainring that I had before
- Road Handling - the wider tyres + the disc brakes gave me a lot more confidence on the road, and the bike felt much less twitchy in the rain. Definitely a win there. As well as that, I don't know if it's the tyres or the frame, but it seems to soak up more of the impact from the less-than-perfectly maintained roads, transmitting less of the bumping to my hands and saddle area.
- Which brings me to the reinforced concrete medieval torture device called the saddle. Far stiffer and smaller than my previous saddle, and by the end of the ride I was definitely feeling as though my poor petite derriere had been receiving the unwanted attentions of a rambunctious rhinoceros. Against which, it definitely provided a more stable platform, and felt like I was able to transfer more power to the pedals in certain sections, without the bouncing in the saddle that sometimes kicked in previously
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10/03 - 11.03 time: 0:41 avg speed: 15.9 mph
10/04 - 15.10 time: 1:00 avg speed: 15.0 mph
10/06 - 14.71 time: 0:57 avg speed: 15.2 mph
10/08 - 32.06 time: 2:20 avg speed: 13.7 mph
10/10 - 14.70 time: 0:52 avg speed: 16.8 mph
10/11 - 14.91 time: 1:02 avg speed: 14.3 mph
10/17 - 15.19 time: 0:58 avg speed: 15.6 mph
October total: 117.70
Goal for month: 300
Year to date: 2,810.07
Jan - 175.9
Feb - 343.3
Mar - 353.8
Apr - 363.4
May - 319.1
Jun - 316.2
July - 166.1
Aug - 167.6
Sep - 368.20 -
Tue 18 - 24.02 miles
MTD 270.66 / 400, YTD 2250.57 / 2500
No rain today, but a lot of headwind on the way home and bitterly cold in parts - not wildly enjoyable apart from the last couple of miles where pace & enthusiasm picked up.
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3 Oct-23.5mi
5 Oct-19mi
12 Oct-23mi
14 Oct-18mi
17 Oct- 19 mi
19 Oct -20 mi
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Just a short ride yesterday. Didn't have much time for a ride before it got dark. Goal for the month looks to be in danger. Already the 17th of the month, and I'm less that half way to my goal.
10/03 - 11.03 time: 0:41 avg speed: 15.9 mph
10/04 - 15.10 time: 1:00 avg speed: 15.0 mph
10/06 - 14.71 time: 0:57 avg speed: 15.2 mph
10/08 - 32.06 time: 2:20 avg speed: 13.7 mph
10/10 - 14.70 time: 0:52 avg speed: 16.8 mph
10/11 - 14.91 time: 1:02 avg speed: 14.3 mph
10/17 - 15.19 time: 0:58 avg speed: 15.6 mph
10/17 - 07.91 time: 0:32 avg speed: 14.9 mph
October total: 125.61
Goal for month: 300
Year to date: 2,817.98
Jan - 175.9
Feb - 343.3
Mar - 353.8
Apr - 363.4
May - 319.1
Jun - 316.2
July - 166.1
Aug - 167.6
Sep - 368.20 -
Marathon went well (3:04), but definitely kept me off the bike during the taper and recovery period.
Finally got in my team hurl and whirl ride yesterday, but luckily the fastest guy skipped the ride as he was recovering from the Ironman World Championships in Kona, and the other Kona racer was still in recovery, so the pace was a much more manageable 25-28mph. Got in an easy ride with a neighbor this afternoon. Planning something longer tomorrow, then will get in my last 120 mile training ride Wednesday before starting my taper for Ironman Florida.
25-28m/h is 40-45km/h that's a seriously fast AV! What distance have you lot covered? Just curious.
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little behind schedule but still have time to make it up.0 -
Got in my last long pre-ironman 115 mile training ride today and definitely looking forward to the taper. Winds were favorable (light headwind coming out, awesome tailwind home) so averaged 20mph without too much trouble for the full ride (although I to got to wheelsuck for 20 miles). Just planning a few 50 miler mid-distance rides, a few 20-30 mile tempo rides with my team, and should be good to go for November 5th. Feeling like a 21mph average will be doable, but don't want to suffer too much on the run for my first full distance IM even though I'm a much stronger runner than cyclist.
10/1 - 80 miles
10/14 - 17 miles (team ride)
10/15 - 40 miles (slow recovery w. some threshold intervals)
10/16 - 69 miles
10/19 - 115 miles
Total: 312 miles
Goal: 400 miles
Remaining: 88 miles
2016 Bike Race Schedule:
Ironman 70.3 Florida - Apr 10 - 5:07:51 (21mph 56 mile time trial bike split)
Ironman 70.3 Augusta - Sep 25 - 4:43:56 (22.3mph 56.5 mile time trial bike split)
Ironman Florida - Nov 51 -
10/13 - 21.2 miles, REB, 149.9 down, 250.1 to go
10/13 - 4.1 Miles, Mountain bike around town, 154.0 down, 246.0 to go <- Forgot about this outing
10/15 - 12.0 miles, REB, 166.0 down, 234.0 to go
10/16 - 12.0 miles, REB, 178.0 down, 222.0 to go
10/17 - 12.0 miles, REB, 190.0 down, 210.0 to go
10/18 - 13.3 miles, The Loop (Road Bike), 203.3 down, 196.7 to go
10/19 - 23.0 miles, Gyeserville Loop with oops, 226.3 down, 173.7 to go (oops means going the wrong way for a wee bit and then backtracking)
Over halfway to 400 and the weekend weather is looking good for a longer ride on Saturday, Woot!0 -
October 5th 18 Miles -- Duration 1:04
Oct 7th 10 Miles -- Duration 0:40
Oct 9th 16 Miles -- Duration 1:01
Oct 11th 18 Miles-- Duration 1:06
Oct 12th 19 Miles--Duration 1:09
Oct 13th 19 Miles--Duration 1:09
Oct 14th 19 Miles--Duration 1:10
Oct 15th 10Miles--Duration 0:35
Oct 19th 8 Miles-- Duration 0:300 -
I'm in for 200 miles in October
10/02 - 15.00 miles
10/03 - 15.00 miles
10/05 - 15.00 miles
10/09 - 15.00 miles
10/10 - 15.00 miles...75.00 miles so far
10/12 - 16.00 miles
10/13 - 14.00 miles
10/15 - 15.00 miles
10/19 - 15.00 miles
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I'm back after a summer of injury. My back gave up on me and I've had various scans, injections, physio sessions and hours upon hours of stretching, pilates and gentle walking. I'm finally back on the bike but my efforts will be pretty humble this month. So far:
01/10 - 20km
08/10 - 45km
15/10 - 85km
18/10 - 23km2 -
3.10.2016 14.3km commute
5.10.2016 10.6km commute
7.10.2016 18.1km commute (+a little detour on the way home)
10.10.2016 11.6km commute
11.10.2016 10.1km commute
14.10.2016 5km to work, 20.2km evening ride
18.10.2016 17.8km commute (+detour to supermarket)
19.10.2016 11.6km commute
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119.7km of 200km October goal done
Horrible rain on Monday, but Tue & Wed I wore the clip-in-shoes on the way to work (not on the way back - once I had some errands to run and didn't want to change shoes all the time, the second day I simply forgot). Only one near-fall when a car decided to pass on my left and then cut across directly in front of me to turn right - fortunately, panicky yanking instead of doing the proper ankle rotation also somehow worked to unclip. The rest of the trip I was so focussed on repeating "don't forget to unclip" under my breath, I kept forgetting to change gears; so the ride actually took longer and felt harder than in regular shoes...
@wobblybots Wow, an 85km ride so quickly after returning? I wouldn't call that humble, that's pretty awesome.
@gojaqs Nice group ride photo!
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A little bit late in October for me to be chiming in. I just got me a new Garmin GPS watch earlier this month so I got that new toy enthusiasm going on. I always wanted to have a GPS so I could measure or substantiate my climbing. I don't do distance like I used to because I have an increasing trepidation about being out in traffic. I think the statistics of that are kind of turning turning on me. So now my thing is to ride on a scrabbly dirt road on a big hill. I don't go very far. I go typically between 10 and 15 miles round trip. But if I do my 15 miler that is 2200 feet of climbing.
My 10 miler is like 1600 feet climbing.
And that dirt road has got some wildlife on it. I love that. Sometimes I go on that road and no motorist drives by me. Cars generally don't go there and trucks will usually only go like 15mph. Sometimes I go multiple days without seeing anyone.
Anyway, my October challenge has been motivated by that Strava challenge to climb 9000m. I got a late start on it but currently am at about halfway or 4500m or so. So since there are only 10 days left, I got to climb 450m per day. That is 1485 ft per day. But realistically I can't climb every day. Well, we will see what happens. I will keep you posted. I guess you guys are interested in this sort of thing.
Today is my recovery day. I will only do a 30min ride for 200 ft of climb.
Yesterday I did the 15 miler for 2200 feet climbing.
https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipO4qM0czRQip7j1Tm85Hb2DalE7sQSgXQK2oIhH1 -
3.10.2016 14.3km commute
5.10.2016 10.6km commute
7.10.2016 18.1km commute (+a little detour on the way home)
10.10.2016 11.6km commute
11.10.2016 10.1km commute
14.10.2016 5km to work, 20.2km evening ride
18.10.2016 17.8km commute (+detour to supermarket)
19.10.2016 11.6km commute
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"one one nine point seven" km of 200km October goal done
Horrible rain on Monday, but Tue & Wed I wore the clip-in-shoes on the way to work (not on the way back - once I had some errands to run and didn't want to change shoes all the time, the second day I simply forgot). Only one near-fall when a car decided to pass on my left and then cut across directly in front of me to turn right - fortunately, panicky yanking instead of doing the proper ankle rotation also somehow worked to unclip. The rest of the trip I was so focussed on repeating "don't forget to unclip" under my breath, I kept forgetting to change gears; so the ride actually took longer and felt harder than in regular shoes...
@wobblybots Wow, an 85km ride so quickly after returning? I wouldn't call that humble, that's pretty awesome.
@gojaqs Nice group ride photo
@bocasdelbob That's a lot of climbing! I always complain about how hilly my ride to work is, but still I've only got ~7500m elevation gain (over 1134km distance) for the entire year so far.... Maybe I'll end up with 9000m too - but for the year, not per month
(( reposting this because my original post didn't appear. Probably because I had written down the exact total distance, which started with One Hundred Nineteen . If I remember correctly from a discussion in the running challenge a few month back, posts with that number in actual digits automatically get flagged as spam... ))1 -
Two days, two rides. Both of them cut short with flat tires. Which since it is getting dark so early now, pretty much kills the ride.
10/03 - 11.03 time: 0:41 avg speed: 15.9 mph
10/04 - 15.10 time: 1:00 avg speed: 15.0 mph
10/06 - 14.71 time: 0:57 avg speed: 15.2 mph
10/08 - 32.06 time: 2:20 avg speed: 13.7 mph
10/10 - 14.70 time: 0:52 avg speed: 16.8 mph
10/11 - 14.91 time: 1:02 avg speed: 14.3 mph
10/17 - 15.19 time: 0:58 avg speed: 15.6 mph
10/17 - 07.91 time: 0:32 avg speed: 14.9 mph
10/18 - 07.91 time: 0:32 avg speed: 14.9 mph
10/19 - 05.50 time: 0:22 avg speed: 14.7 mph
October total: 131.11
Goal for month: 300
Year to date: 2,823.48
Jan - 175.9
Feb - 343.3
Mar - 353.8
Apr - 363.4
May - 319.1
Jun - 316.2
July - 166.1
Aug - 167.6
Sep - 368.20 -
_nikkiwolf_ wrote: »(( reposting this because my original post didn't appear. Probably because I had written down the exact total distance, which started with One Hundred Nineteen . If I remember correctly from a discussion in the running challenge a few month back, posts with that number in actual digits automatically get flagged as spam... ))
Unfortunately, that is correct - as a result of the spam trap for various Korean sites on (that number).com, any post with (that number) in it will get flagged as Spam, though it should reappear after moderation.2 -
Marathon went well (3:04), but definitely kept me off the bike during the taper and recovery period.
Finally got in my team hurl and whirl ride yesterday, but luckily the fastest guy skipped the ride as he was recovering from the Ironman World Championships in Kona, and the other Kona racer was still in recovery, so the pace was a much more manageable 25-28mph. Got in an easy ride with a neighbor this afternoon. Planning something longer tomorrow, then will get in my last 120 mile training ride Wednesday before starting my taper for Ironman Florida.
25-28m/h is 40-45km/h that's a seriously fast AV! What distance have you lot covered? Just curious.
That ride is just a quick 20 mile spin. We "race" for about 15 of it at those paces with a warmup/cooldown at the end. As much as I enjoy my longer rides, sometimes it takes some intense intervals to really build up your leg strength and speed.2 -
Thu 20 - 27.51 miles
MTD 298.17 / 400, YTD 2278.08 / 2500
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October 5th 18 Miles -- Duration 1:04
Oct 7th 10 Miles -- Duration 0:40
Oct 9th 16 Miles -- Duration 1:01
Oct 11th 18 Miles-- Duration 1:06
Oct 12th 19 Miles--Duration 1:09
Oct 13th 19 Miles--Duration 1:09
Oct 14th 19 Miles--Duration 1:10
Oct 15th 10Miles--Duration 0:35
Oct 19th 8 Miles-- Duration 0:30
Oct 20th 20Miles--Duration 1:02
Total 135Miles--Duration 8:370 -
Fri 21 - 23.81 miles
MTD 321.98 / 400, YTD 2301.89 / 2500
6 more days to get 79 miles - that looks nicely doable Revised year target is looking nicely in my sights as well
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