September 2018 Biking Cycling Bicycling Bike/ Bicycle/Unicycle/Tricycle Challenge!
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My Garmin Edge is quirky. I will charge it and then when I disconnect it will turn itself on. Most of the time I notice it and turn it off, but apparently not last night. I guess it was on all night. Got on the bike at 6:45 AM. 5 minutes later the Garmin shuts down. Battery dead. Ride was my stock 22.5 miles, so I marked the time I ended and subtracted form the 6:45 start.
09/06/2018 On the bike: 22.50 miles 1:25:00.
09/05/2018 Gym: 45 minutes +/- of bicep exercises, and 30 minutes on the Precor AMT (Adaptive Motion Trainer). Started at level 7 and ended up the last 5 minutes at level 0, the max for this elliptical.0 -
9/1:
Walking Exergame 0.78 miles / 0:11 mins
(then went to BIL's cottage for the day)
9/2:
Walking Exergame : 4.4 miles / 1h:35
Walking Outdoors 1.6 km / 0:20 mins
9/3:
Stationary bike: 8.79 miles / 0:35 mins
Walking Exergame: 2.5 miles / 0:52 mins
9/4
Stationary bike: 9.79 miles / 0:35 mins
9/5
Stationary bike: 10.09 miles / 0:35 mins
9/6
Stationary bike: 10.21 miles / 0:35 mins
September totals:
Miles: 46.53
Km: 1.6
Total time (5:37)0 -
4 Sept - 21 mins/ 8.7kms
5 Sept - 35 mins / 15.2kms
6 Sept - 32 mins / 14.6kms
7 Sept - 33 mins / 15.6kms -harder this morning, hip flexors fatigued (and I'm not new to cycling btw)
Total for Sept so far .... 53.9 kms
Have a great day everyone
Ruth0 -
Review ... (Distances include cycling + walking + a bit of running)
Mar-15 … 489.8 km (304.3 miles) = 38 hours 4 min
Apr-15 … 491.94 km (305.6 miles) = 43 hours 6 min
May-15 … 361.81 km (224.8 miles) = 35 hours 50 min
Jun-15 … 569.53 km (353.9 miles) = 41 hours 53 min
Jul-15 … 230.7 km (143.35 miles) = 32 hours 45 min
Aug-15 … 211.3 km (131.3 miles) = 28 hours 8 min
Sep-15 … 306.7 km (190.6 miles) = 35 hour 2 min
Oct-15 … 441.82 km (274.5 miles) = 47 hours 43 min
Nov-15 … 660.21 km (410.23 miles) = 60 hours 41 min
Dec-15 … 499.91 km (282.8 miles) = 54 hours 56 min
Jan-16 … 864.79 km (537.35 miles) = 65 hours 36 min
Feb-16 … 470.53 km (292.4 miles) = 40 hours 39 min
Mar-16 … 917.73 km (570.2 miles) = 66 hours 13 min
Apr-16 … 417.83 km (259.6 miles) = 40 hours 23 min
May-16 … 267.09 km (165.9 miles) = 36 hours 10 min
Jun-16 … 552.1 km (343 miles) = 54 hours 48 min
Jul-16 … 709 km (440.5 miles) = 60 hours 41 minutes
Aug-16 … 775.9 km (482.1 miles) = 54 hours 52 minutes
Sep-16 … 371.3 km (230.7 miles) = 32 hours 20 min
Oct-16 … 649 km (403.3 miles) = 49 hours 46 min
Nov-16 … 403 km (250.4 miles) = 52 hours 16 min
Dec-16 … 511.05 km (317.55 miles) = 52 hours 2 min
Jan-17 … 741.9 km (461.0 miles) = 70 hours 3 min
Feb-17 … 600.5 km (373.1 miles) = 57 hours 30 min
Mar-17 … 1113.2 km (691.7 miles) = 78 hours 25 min
Apr-17 … 1181.9 km (734.4 miles) = 76 hours 45 min
May-17 … 426.6 km (265.1 miles) = 39 hours 21 min
Jun-17 … 575.7 km (357.7 miles) = 41 hours 53 min
Jul-17 … 714 km (443.7 miles) = 52 hours 23 min
Aug-17 … 475.8 km (295.6 miles) = 38 hours 41 min
Sep-17 … 455.5 km (283 miles) = 41 hours 25 min
Oct-17 … 647.1 km (402.1 miles) = 57 hours 19 min
Nov-17 … 427.0 km (265.3 miles) = 50 hours 4 min
Dec-17 … 553.5 km (343.9 miles) = 52 hours 12 min
Jan-18 … 590.2 km (366.7 miles) = 57 hours 49 min
Feb-18 … 826.9 km (513.8 miles) = 57 hours 35 min
Mar-18 … 582.01 km (361.6 miles) = 50 hours 11 min
Apr-18 … 176.23 km (109.5 miles) = 29 hours 47 min
May -18 … 167.6 km (104.1 miles) = 29 hours 08 min
June-18 … 349.9 km (217.4 miles) = 36 hours 58 minutes
July-18 ... 324.2 km (201.5 miles) = 24 hours 26 minutes
Aug-18 ... 210.1 km (130.6 miles) = 25 hours 59 minutes
There was more walking and running in August ... hoping for a bit more cycling in September!!
Sep-15 … 306.7 km (190.6 miles) = 35 hour 2 min
Sep-16 … 371.3 km (230.7 miles) = 32 hours 20 min
Sep-17 … 455.5 km (283 miles) = 41 hours 25 min
Saturday, 1 September 2018 ... 21 km cycling inside with Zwift
Sunday, 2 September 2018 ... 2 km running + 12 km cycling outside!!
Monday, 3 September 2018 ... 1.4 km walking + 14 flights of 20 stairs
Tuesday, 4 September 2018 ... 1.9 km walking + 5.3 km running + 4 flights of 20 stairs
Wednesday, 5 September 2018 ... 1.8 km walking + 10.18 km cycling inside with Zwift + 10 flights of 20 stairs
Thursday, 6 September 2018 ... 7 km walking + 8 flights of 20 stairs
Friday, 7 September 2018 ... 2 km walking + 1.1 km running + 8 km cycling outside!!
2018 Monthly September
Walking Distance (km): 21.4
Walking Time (min): 218.0
Cycling Distance (km): 51.2
Cycling Time (min): 150.0
Stairs Climbed Number: 36.0
Stairs Climbed Time (min): 28.8
Totals
Total Distance (km): 72.6
Total Distance (miles): 45.1
Total Time (min): 396.8
Total Time (hr): 6:36:481 -
2018.09.07 Friday. My lucky day. 20.7 miles. 1:12:28. 17.1 MPH average. 1467 calories per Garmin (Yeah, sure~ I don't trust it).
Getting my legs back. Still off my previous cruising speed, but much better than when I got back on the bike 2 weeks ago.
My Garmin edge 520 yet again failed to work. Today it is just showed zig zag lines across the screen. So it wasn't the battery. I keep my old G-E 500 with my bike gear as a back up so I used it instead. But I hate it when I buy stuff and it doesn't work. I've had it for more than 6 or 7 years. Maybe it is time to put it to sleep.
Why my lucky day: Now I get to go out and buy a new one. I love buying bike stuff. Any one here uses or knows anything about the Garmin Edge Explorer? Its only $249.00 US Dollars everywhere, including my local bike shop. I think I will just drive by and pick one up before my next ride on Sunday.1 -
Lets see how September pans out, after a dreadful August, I need to get my backside in gear and get on with riding more...
1.9 - https://www.strava.com/activities/1811713406 - 36.46km and 340m of ascent.
2.9 - https://www.strava.com/activities/1814097936 - 42.31km and 340m of ascent.
3.9 - dnr
4.9 - https://www.strava.com/activities/1819318931 - 19.63km and 133m of ascent.
5.9 - https://www.strava.com/activities/1821617379 - 19.61km and 140m of ascent.
6.9 - dnr
7.9 - dnr
8.9 - https://www.strava.com/activities/1827538623 - 50.37km and 201m of ascent. (v)
9.9 - https://www.strava.com/activities/1829830444 - 48.63km and 352m of ascent. (v)
total 217.01km and 1506m of vert.
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2018.09.08 Saturday: At the gym. 45 +/- minutes of triceps exercises and 35 minutes on the elliptical. Top resistance level on the Precor AMT is 20. Got there after 20 minutes and sustained level 20 for the last 15 minutes. Felt really good afterward.
2018.09.09 Sunday: On the bike. Only two weeks into my program, right back to where I left off 2.5 months ago. 37.2 miles this morning. 2:14:50, 16.5 MPH.
5 bike workouts, 2 gym sessions this week. Garmin says 123.61 miles, 7:35:28 hours, 7,132 calories for the week, not counting the gym sessions.
Got 9 more weeks before the century I registered for. Great if i could drop the extra 10 lbs I went up this summer.2 -
Had the hardest, most stressful (and slowest!) 100km ride I've ever done. Decided to explore a completely new area for me so plotted a route and took the bike on the car to Ashdown Forrest in Kent (southern England)
Managed to leave my phone/wallet at home so had to commit to riding a long route in countryside I didn't know at all with no backup navigation, credit cards or way to call for help in case of something going wrong.
My Garmin of course decided this was the day to go bonkers and try to send me back to the start after 15 miles and then try to send me off course, turn left when I needed right and even invented road junctions that didn't exist. The whole ride was a series of beeps and instructions to U turn. Did manage to trace the thin blue line all the way with a few little mistakes.
Really challenging ride with tiny narrow roads, very short sight lines giving little warning of approaching traffic, poor road surfaces, constant changes of elevation with no periods of easy flat rides to relax and some serious climbs. Beautiful countryside though - when I could take my eyes off the road and the Garmin screen!
5371 ft of elevation in 64 miles.
!97 miles so far for the month including 152 for the week.
One more hard training week and then I taper for a hilly closed roads Century (Velo South).2 -
Ok, rarely post on here but cycling is my only form of exercise and love it, so might as well try and keep up on this.
Was planning to go out today but I wont go out in winds of over 18mph, which they were here (N E England) and tbh I'm gutted. Sitting here on the computer and I feel fat and lazy and wished I had just done it. I am on another cycling forum that has peoples pictures of all their rides in the wind today and really just need to get out, which I really enjoy when I do.
So, so far in September I have done 57 miles (1 commute to work and 1 weekend ride) but hope to get up to 200-250 miles for the month which seems to be my average...1 -
Had the hardest, most stressful (and slowest!) 100km ride I've ever done. Decided to explore a completely new area for me so plotted a route and took the bike on the car to Ashdown Forrest in Kent (southern England)
Managed to leave my phone/wallet at home so had to commit to riding a long route in countryside I didn't know at all with no backup navigation, credit cards or way to call for help in case of something going wrong.
My Garmin of course decided this was the day to go bonkers and try to send me back to the start after 15 miles and then try to send me off course, turn left when I needed right and even invented road junctions that didn't exist. The whole ride was a series of beeps and instructions to U turn. Did manage to trace the thin blue line all the way with a few little mistakes.
Really challenging ride with tiny narrow roads, very short sight lines giving little warning of approaching traffic, poor road surfaces, constant changes of elevation with no periods of easy flat rides to relax and some serious climbs. Beautiful countryside though - when I could take my eyes off the road and the Garmin screen!
5371 ft of elevation in 64 miles.
!97 miles so far for the month including 152 for the week.
One more hard training week and then I taper for a hilly closed roads Century (Velo South).
Nice going sijomial. I appreciate people like you who can climb. I can go 60 miles easy, but when I was riding with a group years ago, all the 35 year old would always leave me behind on the climbs. It was all good, I would always catch up and leave them in my dust in the flats. Bad knees from my running days... I need to take it easy on the ascents.
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9/1: Walking Exergame 0.78 miles / 0:11 mins (then went to BIL's cottage for the day)
9/2: Walking Exergame : 4.4 miles / 1h:35 + Walking Outdoors 1.6 km / 0:20 mins
9/3: Stationary bike: 8.79 miles / 0:35 mins + Walking Exergame: 2.5 miles / 0:52 mins
9/4 : Stationary bike: 9.79 miles / 0:35 mins
9/5 : Stationary bike: 10.09 miles / 0:35 mins
9/6 : Stationary bike: 10.21 miles / 0:35 mins
9/7 : total rest day
two days "active rest" walking exergame on the weekend; back to the stationary bike Monday ...
9/8: Walking exergame: 1.4 miles / 0:31 mins
9/9: Walking exergame: 4.1 miles / 1h:45 + Walking Outdoors 2 km / 24 mins
September totals:
Miles: 51.53
Km: 3.6
Total time (7:53)
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BMcC9
What exactly is an exergame?0 -
Had the hardest, most stressful (and slowest!) 100km ride I've ever done. Decided to explore a completely new area for me so plotted a route and took the bike on the car to Ashdown Forrest in Kent (southern England)
Managed to leave my phone/wallet at home so had to commit to riding a long route in countryside I didn't know at all with no backup navigation, credit cards or way to call for help in case of something going wrong.
My Garmin of course decided this was the day to go bonkers and try to send me back to the start after 15 miles and then try to send me off course, turn left when I needed right and even invented road junctions that didn't exist. The whole ride was a series of beeps and instructions to U turn. Did manage to trace the thin blue line all the way with a few little mistakes.
Really challenging ride with tiny narrow roads, very short sight lines giving little warning of approaching traffic, poor road surfaces, constant changes of elevation with no periods of easy flat rides to relax and some serious climbs. Beautiful countryside though - when I could take my eyes off the road and the Garmin screen!
5371 ft of elevation in 64 miles.
!97 miles so far for the month including 152 for the week.
One more hard training week and then I taper for a hilly closed roads Century (Velo South).
Nice going sijomial. I appreciate people like you who can climb. I can go 60 miles easy, but when I was riding with a group years ago, all the 35 year old would always leave me behind on the climbs. It was all good, I would always catch up and leave them in my dust in the flats. Bad knees from my running days... I need to take it easy on the ascents.
@tdecel
Thank you.
I can climb - but not very well or very fast!
Which is why I'm doing a lot of hills as part of my training as it's my weakest area I need to improve on.
The two people I know who I regard as good climbers gave me the same advice - "to get better on hills, do lots of hills and push really hard".
My knees are a mess and I have to severely limit the amount of standing climbing I do. Having a nice low bottom gear also helps my knees a lot as my "souplesse" goes to pot when cadence drops too much.
I use an 11-speed cassette with 11-32 gears which really suits my typical cycling terrain.1 -
4 Sept - 21 mins/ 8.7kms
5 Sept - 35 mins / 15.2kms
6 Sept - 32 mins / 14.6kms
7 Sept - 33 mins / 15.6kms -harder this morning, hip flexors fatigued (and I'm not new to cycling btw)
10 Sept - 28 mins/ 13.68kms - back to being on top form after a few (sort of) rest days (I don't DO sedentary in general)
Total for Sept so far .... 67.58 kms
Got my strength training in this morning too - I workout at home and hubby tells me this morning I'm vain because I lift weights!! hmmm!! I've told him I am preserving muscle and bone mass so my body ages healthily...of course there is a little bit of vanity because I do like having good muscle tone
(you'd think after 5 years of seeing me workout almost daily he would be used to it!)
Everyone else is doing fab! keep up the great work - that's 1/3 of September gone already...I need to keep pedalling if I'm going to make my goal of 250!
Ruth
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BMcC9
What exactly is an exergame?
An "exergame" is exercise done via a game system of some kind. For example, Wii Fit Plus or Wii EA Sports.
Fitness Apps like Zwift or "Zombies, RUN!" et cet could be considered the newer generation equivalent.
I use my old original Wii, and a walking game called "Walk It Out" (WIO for short; called Step to the Beat in UK). Not owning a smart phone, fitbit or any other up-to-date techno doodad, it is the only way for me to count steps that can't be looked up as "Point A to Point B" on Google Maps.0 -
9/1: Walking Exergame 0.78 miles / 0:11 mins (then went to BIL's cottage for the day)
9/2: Walking Exergame : 4.4 miles / 1h:35 + Walking Outdoors 1.6 km / 0:20 mins
9/3: Stationary bike: 8.79 miles / 0:35 mins + Walking Exergame: 2.5 miles / 0:52 mins
9/4 : Stationary bike: 9.79 miles / 0:35 mins
9/5 : Stationary bike: 10.09 miles / 0:35 mins
9/6 : Stationary bike: 10.21 miles / 0:35 mins
9/7 : total rest day
two days "active rest" walking exergame on the weekend; back to the stationary bike Monday ...
9/8: Walking exergame: 1.4 miles / 0:31 mins
9/9: Walking exergame: 4.1 miles / 1h:45 + Walking Outdoors 2 km / 24 mins
9/10: Walking exergame: 1.6 miles / 0:40
September totals:
Miles: 53.13
Km: 3.6
Total time (8:33)1 -
4 Sept - 21 mins/ 8.7kms
5 Sept - 35 mins / 15.2kms
6 Sept - 32 mins / 14.6kms
7 Sept - 33 mins / 15.6kms
10 Sept - 28 mins/ 13.68kms
11Sept - 31 mins / 13.58kms - slower pace/higher resistance
Total for Sept so far .... 81.36 kms1 -
9/1: Walking Exergame 0.78 miles / 0:11 mins (then went to BIL's cottage for the day)
9/2: Walking Exergame : 4.4 miles / 1h:35 + Walking Outdoors 1.6 km / 0:20 mins
9/3: Stationary bike: 8.79 miles / 0:35 mins + Walking Exergame: 2.5 miles / 0:52 mins
9/4 : Stationary bike: 9.79 miles / 0:35 mins
9/5 : Stationary bike: 10.09 miles / 0:35 mins
9/6 : Stationary bike: 10.21 miles / 0:35 mins
9/7 : total rest day
two days "active rest" walking exergame on the weekend; back to the stationary bike Monday ...
9/8: Walking exergame: 1.4 miles / 0:31 mins
9/9: Walking exergame: 4.1 miles / 1h:45 + Walking Outdoors 2 km / 24 mins
9/10: Walking exergame: 1.6 miles / 0:40
9/11: Stationary bike: 10.35 miles / 0:35 mins (another new personal biking best!)
September totals:
Miles: 63.48
Km: 3.6
Total time (9:08)1 -
4 Sept - 21 mins/ 8.7kms
5 Sept - 35 mins / 15.2kms
6 Sept - 32 mins / 14.6kms
7 Sept - 33 mins / 15.6kms
10 Sept - 28 mins/ 13.68kms
11Sept - 31 mins / 13.58kms
12 Sept - 23 mins / 9.86kms - less time on bike because its strength training day
Total for Sept so far .... 91.22 kms
Happy Hump day all 0
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