Today's Ride
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Cycling: 10.1 miles
Time: 0058:20
Pace Avg: 10.4 mph
Pace Max: 19.5 mph
Avg HR: 136 bpm
Max HR: 158 bpm
Elevation: 280 ft
Est. Avg. Power: 73 Watts
Energy Output: 255 KJ
Suffer Score: 63
Cycling: 10.1 miles
Time: 0058:20
Pace Avg: 10.4 mph
Pace Max: 19.5 mph
Avg HR: 136 bpm
Max HR: 158 bpm
Elevation: 280 ft
Est. Avg. Power: 73 Watts
Energy Output: 255 KJ
Suffer Score: 63
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42.1mi
Distance
2:48:51
Moving Time
1,113ft
Elevation
SCT: HIRAM - VAN WERT & BACK1 -
Cycling: 37.12 miles
Time: 2:25:02
Pace Avg: 15.4 mph
Avg HR: 128 bpm
Est Calories: 1859
Elev Gain: 210 Ft
Course: Flats farmland LSD (Long Slow Distance)2 -
43.6mi
Distance
3:09:09
Moving Time
912ft
Elevation
92W
Estimated Avg Power
1,045kJ
Energy Output
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Avg
Max
Speed
13.8mi/h
28.6mi/h
Calories
1,165
Elapsed Time
3:18:591 -
44.6mi
Distance
3:54:28
Moving Time
1,098ft
Elevation
70W
Estimated Avg Power
983kJ
Energy Output
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Avg
Max
Speed
11.4mi/h
27.1mi/h
Calories
1,096
Elapsed Time
4:05:301 -
25.8mi
Distance
2:04:22
Moving Time
1,438ft
Elevation
119W
Estimated Avg Power
887kJ
Energy Output
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Avg
Max
Speed
12.5mi/h
31.3mi/h
Calories
989
Elapsed Time
2:29:17
Garmin Forerunner 10
Bike: BLUE1 -
ok here's mine... well - actually it's YESTERDAY's ride, but by the end of it I just wanted to chill for a while and spend the rest of the day eating/drinking and avoiding getting cramp in my left leg...
Went out yesterday to ride a "route" that the local authority have setup called the "Wakefield Wheel"...
It's a loop around the city of Wakefield, which is around 60km in length, approximately 35km of which is either off-road on gravel/dirt tracks or on tarmac'ed trails that cars aren't allowed on - it's definitely a little tough to ride on a traditional roadbike, but a 'cross bike, gravel bike or even a hybrid with tougher tyres is fine - certainly no NEED for suspension or full on MTB - though there's at least TWO descents where having something with meatier tyres than the 35mm file-tread 'cross tyres I was running would have meant the speed would have been much higher.
I actually decided to do the ride slightly differently to it's planned routing - the recommendation is to start either from Pugneys Watersports Centre or the Visitors Centre at Haw Park Lane, primarily because they both have car parking facilities for people driving to the ride. However, as the route actually passes within 50 yards of my door, I pretty much just started the loop from home completed the route and rode the 50m back home - or, at least that was the plan. I'll get to that in a while...
Loaded the map (or the best I could find - can't believe there was no .TCX file available, so I pretty much had to plot my own - and some of the routing wasn't even on the map, route maps available went via the nearest road in some cases - I think that one or two bits of the route were designated as footpaths originally, and have needed legislation changes to allow "shared use", so as this has kicked in, the original maps have changed, however the published routes haven't. I wasn't worried, as the route is marked with a series of route-arrows, similar to this...
By and large, I managed to find my way, only got slightly lost a couple of times.
Here's the Strava route - it's in two bits
first, the initial 5km, where I'd forgotten to start the "route navigation" on the garmin...
https://www.strava.com/activities/1118016957
and second, more important bit, where I was following the mapping right up to the last few km's...
https://www.strava.com/activities/1118349775
All in all, i was a great route - there's a few stretches of road-bashing, one or two of which are pretty much unavoidable, but, if you were to ride the route on a Sunday Morning, the roads would be completely quiet (one bit goes through the centre of a small town (Horbury) and I know for a fact that it's pretty much empty most Sundays...)
Oh yes, that comment earlier about not following the last 5km or so of the route. Well, after bashing around all the uneven surfaces for 50km or more without a single problem, I started the last main climb of the route, and while "sprinting" across a section of Tarmac to get to the next offroad bit (the final climb) I manage to ping a spoke in the back wheel. I'd dived down dirt-paths with hub deep water-wash ruts in them at 50+kph, bounced over kerbs and and bunny hopped water-bars on descents and NOTHING, then just cranking it up to get across a 100m long stretch of flat tarmac, and one of the damned spokes goes. Wheel was straight enough not to rub, but I decided that it was probably sensible to take a less rocky route home than the one in the map - and, it being so near to home, I knew the "path of least resistance" like the back of my hand.
All in all though, a good morning/early afternoon out.
59.6km, 3h40m, 514m of ascent (max gradient in excess of 34% for a short spell - lots of short sharp inclines, no real "mountains"), 1637kCals per strava, or more meaningfully, 1468kJ measured "at the cranks"...
Quick Relive Video of the Route
https://www.relive.cc/view/1118349775
and, just for fun, air speed analysis from MyWindsock...
https://mywindsock.com/activity/1118349775
(was pretty much the perfect route for yesterdays wind conditions, headwind out, tail back when I was fading a bit...)
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Headed out on my usual Tuesday afternoon ride with the girls yesterday. About 5 miles in, we encountered fresh chip and seal, so went a different route, known for hills. One of the girls said, "It's not that bad." It was bad, over 1300 feet of elevation gain in the 17.3 mile ride. But I did it.3
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My first Metric Century
60.9mi
Distance
4:50:53
Moving Time
1,639ft
Elevation
82W
Estimated Avg Power
1,432kJ
Energy Output
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Max
Speed
12.6mi/h
34.2mi/h
Calories
1,597
Elapsed Time
5:24:49
Garmin Forerunner 15
Bike: BLACK
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Went exploring a new area (Hampshire and West Sussex) and it was a real contrast. Where I usually ride is generally rolling countryside mixed with short but sharp climbs. This ride was just a constant change of elevation that stopped me getting any rhythm. Scenery was beautiful though. Also seemed to be a GPS blackspot - when you end up trying all three exits from a roundabout and they all come up as "off course" it's a bit challenging to navigate.
Featured a hill unlike anything I've done before, not particularly steep but seemed to go on forever - 2 miles of constant climbing. Yuk!
https://www.strava.com/segments/1571710
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6:45 AM on Saturday, August 19, 2017
RIDE SCT MARTIN to PIEDMONT & back
45 miles total as GPS would not crank
35.0mi
Distance
2:15:33
Moving Time
419ft
Elevation
96W
Estimated Avg Power
781kJ
Energy Output
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Max
Speed
15.5mi/h
23.7mi/h
Calories
871
Elapsed Time
2:45:19
Garmin Forerunner 15
Bike: BLACK1 -
Tour deCure 2017
https://www.relive.cc/view/1141703212
64.85 mi Distance
4:59:09 Time
13.0 Speed (mph)
1,775 Calories
2,618 ft Elev Gain2 -
Big Dam Bridge 100
https://www.relive.cc/view/1198263043
100.0mi Distance
7:42:20 Time
13.0 mph Speed
4,583ft Elev Gain (MapMyRide said 5,206)
My first century ride. It was brutally hot and the 2 mile climb at mile 63 about did me in. I stopped about 2/3 up because my heart rate was out of control. A few minutes of resting and pouring water over my head and I was able to complete the climb. The last 15 - 20 flat miles were pretty difficult too.
Checked that sucker off my bucket list!
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10.8mi
Distance
1:03:52
Moving Time
772ft
Elevation
109W
Estimated Avg Power
419kJ
Energy Output
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Avg
Max
Speed
10.2mi/h
32.9mi/h
Calories
467
Elapsed Time
1:07:12
Garmin Forerunner 15
Bike: BLUE
COLD & WINDY0 -
First Century Ride. Completed 2 weeks before my 57th birthday, too. Boom!
101.8mI
2242 elevation
13.3mph
7hr 40min3
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