January 2017 Biking Cycling Bicycling Challenge!

rileysowner

January basically turned into a write off for me due to illness and other factors. Looking forward to doing better in February.

_nikkiwolf_

cathyge6983 wrote: »

@nikkiwolf glad to hear you finally received your delivery. Wishing you the best as you get used to the rollers. My husband rides on them so I know how they can be a challenge in the beginning.

Thanks! I'm more or less optimistic now that I'll figure it out with a bit more practice. I did another 40min on them yesterday - 5min before breakfast, 15min after work, 20min before going to sleep. I'm still bumping against the doorway with my shoulder or elbows every couple of minutes, but I only rode completely off the rollers once. And that was stupidity - I was watching a video of a bike ride on youtube, and when the cyclist filming it suddenly had to evade somebody stopping into his path, I instinctively jerked my bike to the side as well

SteveCro

I'm in this month. I missed being in it last month. I will set my goal at 200 miles combination of indoors and outdoors. Depends on the weather and snow for outside.

1/4 - 8.27 miles - outside 18*F with 18 mph winds weather bug says feels like 3*F
1/5 - 8.0 miles - outside 12* F
1/6 - 7.91 miles - outside 8*F
1/7 - 10.39 miles - outside 12*F
1/9 - 8.53 miles - outside 27*F
1/10 - 6.5 miles - indoors on trainer - 30 to 40 mph winds with rain
1/11 - 12.18 miles - outside 50*
1/13 - 11.50 miles - outside 29*
1/14 - 15.74 miles - outside 28*
1/15 - 9.99 miles - outside 28*
1/17 - 10.65 miles indoors on trainer rainy os
1/22 - 8.19 miles outside 52*
1/24 - 17.27 miles outside 38*
1/26 - 12.30 miles 32*
1/27 - 7.71 miles 26*F
1/28 - 12.60 miles 30*f
1/29 - 9.89 miles 26*F
1/31 - 11.69 miles 38*F

YTD - 172.15 outside
17.15 inside on trainer
Total - 189.30 miles

dtcjem

dtcjem wrote: »

Great to see this again! Starting off the year strong, for me anyway, I have made a transition from TrainerRoad to Zwift...At least for now. Tomorrow is a new FTP test!

1/2 6.3 Miles - TrainerRoad
1/3 6.3 Miles - Zwift Ride
1/4 7.1 Miles - Zwift Ride
1/5 12.9 Miles - Zwift Ride
1/6 6.9 Miles - Zwift Ride

January Total: 39.5 Miles
2017 Total to Date: 39.5 Miles

Just back from Pneumonia so the month was a little week...

1/7 10.15 Miles - Zwift
1/9 7.58 Miles - Zwift
1/10 13.62 Miles - Zwift
1/13 6.42 Miles - Zwift

1/25 6.4 Miles - Zwift
1/26 13.1 Miles - Zwift
1/31 5.6 Miles - Zwift

January Total 102.4
2017 Total 102.4

ending_start

Final tally for January; 509.8km. So 9.8km over my goal.


Jan 30 – 31 – 38.7km
Jan 23 – 29 – 240.8km
Jan 16 – 22 – 138.1km
Jan 9 – 15 – 81.3km
Jan 2 – 8 – 10.9km

Rebsrockem

Jan 5: 11.1 mi. / 35 min. watching Extreme Calorie Burn (Road To Victory, Colorado) & listening to Pearl Jam
Jan 7: 11.1 mi. / 35 min. watching Extreme Calorie Burn (Road To Victory, Colorado) & listening to Buffalo Tom
Jan 10: 11.1 mi. / 35 min. watching Extreme Calorie Burn (Road To Victory, Colorado) & listening to Van Halen
Jan 11: 11.1 mi. / 35 min. watching Extreme Calorie Burn (Road To Victory, Colorado) & listening to Queen
Jan 12: 11.1 mi. / 35 min. watching Extreme Calorie Burn (Road To Victory, Colorado) & listening to The Connells
Jan 14: 19.8 mi. / 69 min. watching Extreme Calorie Burn (Road To Victory, Colorado) & listening to Toad the Wet Sprocket
**sore left calf muscle** (rested it 4 days)
Jan 19: 11.1 mi. / 35 min. watching Extreme Calorie Burn (Road To Victory, Colorado) & listening to Blues Traveler
Jan 22: 11.1 mi. / 35 min. watching Extreme Calorie Burn (Road To Victory, Colorado) & listening to John Cougar Mellencamp
Jan 24: 11.1 mi. / 35 min. watching Extreme Calorie Burn (Road To Victory, Colorado) & listening to The Outfield
**Business Travel this week, but did do 30 min's each day on hotel elliptical **
Jan 29: 11.1 mi. / 35 min. watching Extreme Calorie Burn (Road To Victory, Colorado) & listening to Foreigner

Jan. Totals: 119.70 Miles / 6.40 hours

Well, I am _floored_ at some of you. Ho Lee Beandip! Do you have jobs? LOL. Some serious miles / time y'all logged. Give yourselves a hand!!! Well done!!!

SO GLAD I JOINED THIS CHALLENGE. I've never done anything like this and my indoor trainer would've barely been used like last year, and the year before. Hope to tack on another 10% in FEB!!!

Thanks to all of you! See you in the FEB CHALLENGE!!!!

jhowells42

I failed miserably this month, I didn't do as well as I thought in January, only did 56miles. 3 outdoor mountain bike rides and 2 indoor. Just got myself connected to zwift so hopefully February I will do a lot better, need to step up, I have won a place to do the Fred Whitton challenge up in the Lake District this may.

rileysowner

jhowells42 wrote: »

I failed miserably this month, I didn't do as well as I thought in January, only did 56miles. 3 outdoor mountain bike rides and 2 indoor. Just got myself connected to zwift so hopefully February I will do a lot better, need to step up, I have won a place to do the Fred Whitton challenge up in the Lake District this may.

Hopefully we will both do better in February.

Jthanmyfitnesspal

Weather in MA is not conducive to outdoor cycling at the moment. Considering buying an indoor trainer. Cycleops Fluid2, perhaps. Anyone tried it?

pedermj2002

Jthanmyfitnesspal wrote: »

Weather in MA is not conducive to outdoor cycling at the moment. Considering buying an indoor trainer. Cycleops Fluid2, perhaps. Anyone tried it?

I have the Kurt Kinetic Road, not the smart version. I like the one I have for the most part. It works well with Trainer Road, and I've seen real progress since I began using TrainerRoad back in November. The one thing I'm not too thrilled by is that the trainer isn't controlled by my phone. This means it's up to me to manage gearing to get the power and cadence on target. Despite that, it does the job very well. From what I've read elsewhere, I'd avoid the smart version of this trainer. It uses a proprietary connection type, which means that any of the bike tools out there that speak ANT+/BLUE won't connect to it.

I know it's not the Cycleops Fluid2, but hopefully it can give you another comparison point for what you do buy.

coreyj1

I'm new to the conversation, but an avid rider (2-3K mi/year). Lost January to Pneumonia, but am getting back in the saddle again this week:

Mon, Feb 13, 2017 10:12 AM
Morning ride

Distance 40.3 mi
Moving Time 2:39:58
Avg Speed 15.1 mi/h
Avg Watts 153 W
Elev Gain 2,300 ft

Wed, Feb 15, 2017 1:35 PM
Afternoon ride

Distance 21.8 mi
Moving Time 1:27:26
Avg Speed 15.0 mi/h
Avg Watts 165 W
Elev Gain 1,699 ft
Ride

35dollars

@coreyj1 - we've all moved over to the February thread, http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10510343/february-2017-biking-cycling-bicycling-challenge/p1?new=1