2023 Cycling Challenge

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  • RMUNTZ2
    RMUNTZ2 Posts: 116 Member
    edited April 2023
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    I'm in for this! Thank you for having this challenge.
    I had a great fat burn leisurely ride yesterday.

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    Time in Heart Rate Zones
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    ZWIFT & Wahoo Kickr Core
    April 6 Distance 14.99 mi Speed 14.5 mi/hr Elapsed Time 1:02:14 Elevation 125 ft

    Jan 2 – 8
    Total Distance
    15.79 mi
    Feb 27 – Mar 5
    Total Distance
    27.73 mi
    Mar 20 – 26
    Total Distance
    33.30 mi
    Mar 27 – Apr 2
    Total Distance
    62.60 mi
    Apr 3 – 6
    Total Distance
    57.05 mi
    2023 YTD Total Distance
    196.47 mi
  • Rich_SC
    Rich_SC Posts: 64 Member
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    34 Road (gravel wheels)
    1049 Ytd

    https://www.strava.com/activities/8848659845

    Was going to Brevard, NC to ride MTB this weekend but it's gonna be pouring rain on Saturday. So I've switched gears and have a really big gravel ride planned for Sunday.
  • billbiggers06
    billbiggers06 Posts: 51 Member
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    Good work, @SavageMrsMoose, even if you missed your goal. Weather and work have grounded me the past 2 days, but I needed the recovery and plan to ride tomorrow with a friend. Enjoy Lisbon! I was just in Spain 2 weeks ago but haven’t been to Portugal.
  • Rich_SC
    Rich_SC Posts: 64 Member
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    Just wanted to say how grateful I am to have found MFP. I've spent years trying to "ride the weight off" unsuccessfully. Just flogging myself with no results. I raced bikes in my 30's and 40's and when I stopped I lost that structure and the weight crept up. I was just unable to physically do the rides I wanted to do carrying an extra 30lb.

    Now with MFP I have been able to decouple weight loss from cycling and it's been a huge mental change for me. I am losing weight by diet and now ride bikes for fun. I'm down about 18lb in 3 months and am able to now do the rides I love doing. Just did a ride with a guy 16 years younger than me and we were trading pulls and killing it. He would have dropped me on every climb 6 months ago. I'm 10lb away from my old "off season" weight and will get there in the next 6 weeks or so. Very excited about this...

    Using MFP has made this whole process very easy and manageable. I work in health care and have trained racing bikes at a high level, I know a lot about this stuff... but was on such a wrong path for so long. Happy to be here.
  • RMUNTZ2
    RMUNTZ2 Posts: 116 Member
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    Thank you for having this challenge.

    I rode and walked today combined for 2.5 hours.

    ZWIFT & Wahoo Kickr Core
    Leisurely Ride.
    April 7 Zwift - Flat Route in Watopia Distance 12.57 mi Speed 11.1 mi/hr Elapsed Time 1:07:52 Elevation 400 ft

    Previous YTD Total Distance
    196.47 mi

    2023 YTD Total Distance
    209.04 mi
  • Mari33a
    Mari33a Posts: 1,087 Member
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    Happy Easter
    Previous 680.64
    06/04 20.24 miles
    08/04 20.26 miles

    YTD 721.14/2023

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  • billbiggers06
    billbiggers06 Posts: 51 Member
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    I agree with @Rich_SC that this app has the right mix of calorie tracking and activity encouragement. This challenge and community has really helped me.
    22.5 miles today with my riding buddy after a month or so of not being able to ride together.
    https://strava.app.link/5mWUw0HRPyb

    YTD 485
  • sunshineekg
    sunshineekg Posts: 24 Member
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    First ever out door road ride! I wish I lives somewhere flat... dragging my fat *kitten* up the mountain side near killed me. I think my pulse went up to 186. On a pluse side it didn't start to rain until 5 minutes after I got home. 9 miles done today.

    34 miles total this year.
  • wendsg
    wendsg Posts: 664 Member
    edited April 2023
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    @RMUNTZ2 Welcome to the challenge! Very happy to have you!!

    Looks like everyone's doing a grand job so far. Loving these pictures that are rolling in!! (I only load mine to Strava, because muuuuuuh, am a 'tard with tech at times lol)

    Forgot yesterday's ride. Logging today's ride. So two rides to upload because my brain apparently turned off yesterday beyond driving the diaphragm to move and fill my lungs with air.

    Ride - 10.03 miles
    Previous - 1659.14 miles

    Total - 1669.17 miles / 2023 miles

    Link - https://www.strava.com/activities/8856462043
    (Forgot about this one: https://www.strava.com/activities/8850101848

10.28 miles
    Added to 1669.17

    Actual total 1679.45)
  • sarabushby
    sarabushby Posts: 784 Member
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    Equally brain-farted yesterday so I have two days to catch up on. Yesterday was pure zone 2 on Zwift distracted by reading one of the epic threads in the debate forum.

    Today was a 1hour workout called Twelve Spikes. It was good, felt achievable and I pushed hard on the effort spikes.

    Adding 43mi for a new YTD 1470mi
  • RMUNTZ2
    RMUNTZ2 Posts: 116 Member
    edited April 2023
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    Happy Easter!
    I leveled up in ZWIFT to level 22. I had a great 2 hour ride today..picking up the pace.
    ZWIFT & Wahoo Kickr Core
    April 9, Distance 27.98 mi Speed 13.8 mi/hr Elapsed Time 2:01:56 Elev 220 ft.
    2023 YTD Total Distance 236.94 mi
  • wendsg
    wendsg Posts: 664 Member
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    Woo, congratulations on the leveling up!! (am pouting because it's gonna take forever here unless I step up my game in Zwift... but the weather outside is finally starting to get nice! Oh, conundrums!)

    Daily 10 done in Zwift, because today the weather, while clear and cool, is windy as bejeezus.

    Ride - 10.01 miles
    Previous - 1679.45 miles

    Total - 1689.46 miles / 2023 miles

    Link - https://www.strava.com/activities/8862226438
  • Rich_SC
    Rich_SC Posts: 64 Member
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    80.7mi Gravel, 6109' of climbing. Strava says I burned 5000 cal, haha. What a day... Legs, head, bike were perfect. Had a 12mph headwind for the last 30mi which sucked but luckily it was a lot of descending at that point. I need a beer...

    1130 Ytd

    https://www.strava.com/activities/8862399462
  • sarabushby
    sarabushby Posts: 784 Member
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    Oh 5000 calorie burn… I wish!

    Just crunching those calories here with another round of Dust in the Wind, stage 4 A route from Tour of Watopia catch up week. The double xp helps with the levelling up.

    33mi brings todays YTD to 1503mi
  • wendsg
    wendsg Posts: 664 Member
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    Daily 10, done super easy to minimize any sweat (am traveling this evening and don't want to bother changing lol).

    Ride - 10.02 miles
    Previous - 1689.46 miles

    Total - 1699.48 miles / 2023 miles

    Link - https://www.strava.com/activities/8868255734
  • Mari33a
    Mari33a Posts: 1,087 Member
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    Previous 680.64
    10/04 21.12 miles
    YTD 742.26/2023

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  • RMUNTZ2
    RMUNTZ2 Posts: 116 Member
    edited April 2023
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    I had a great slow pace fat burn zone ride yesterday April 10!
    Riding must always be fun to do. (except training days)
    ZWIFT, Gravel Bike & Wahoo Kickr Core.
    April 10 Distance 14.32 mi Speed 13.6 mi/hr Elapsed Time 1:03:01 Elev 213 ft.
    2023 YTD Total Distance 251.26 mi
  • wendsg
    wendsg Posts: 664 Member
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    At hotel, recumbent stationary, still riding :lol:

    Ride - 10.01 miles
    Previous - 1699.48 miles

    Total - 1709.49 miles / 2023 miles

    Link - https://www.strava.com/activities/8873830451
  • sarabushby
    sarabushby Posts: 784 Member
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    24 miles on Zwift just to burn calories, steady zone 2 as the legs are getting tired. Did the ToW catch up Watopias Waistband for the double xp

    New total 1527mi YTD

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