March Cycling Challenge 2014

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  • GenoPrice
    GenoPrice Posts: 477 Member
    03/03 - 20 miles spinning
    04/03 - 20 miles spinning
    06/03 - 32 miles
  • erickbrian
    erickbrian Posts: 53 Member
    I'm gonna start helping lead a Monday night ride from Fountain Valley, CA.

    Might also get a Wednesday or Thursday night ride going. We need a bigger night ride scene in OC! (Best part of living in Los Angeles, many night rides.)



    Bunch of stinky colleges kids and a few older dudes. Spicy paces, and lots of corn dogging (and beer drinking sometimes).
  • DeliriumCanBeFun
    DeliriumCanBeFun Posts: 313 Member
    Didn't ride for most of November and all of December. Managed to get 75 miles in for January, 24 road and 51 trainer. Had set a goal for 100 in February but got sick and only got 70, 20 road and 50 trainer. Determined to get at least 100 in March and make up for some of my shortages in Jan and Feb to eventually meet my 1200 mile goal for the year. So far...
    3/1 - 30.96 road miles
    3/4 - 6.36 trainer miles
    3/5 - 5 trainer miles

    Mtd - 42.32 miles

    3/7 - 5.04 trainer miles

    Mtd - 47.36 miles
  • SingingSingleTracker
    SingingSingleTracker Posts: 1,866 Member
    March 1 - rode 28.6 miles for a duration of 90 minutes
    March 4 - rode 9.8 miles for a duration of 30 minutes
    March 5 - rode 9.3 miles for a duration of 30 minutes
    March 6 - rode 19.6 miles for a duration of 60 minutes
    March 7 - rode 10.1 miles for a duration of 30 minutes


    Total for month of March: 77.4 miles/4:00 hours
  • pistilera
    pistilera Posts: 4
    I'm gonna start helping lead a Monday night ride from Fountain Valley, CA.

    Might also get a Wednesday or Thursday night ride going. We need a bigger night ride scene in OC! (Best part of living in Los Angeles, many night rides.)



    Bunch of stinky colleges kids and a few older dudes. Spicy paces, and lots of corn dogging (and beer drinking sometimes).

    Corndoggin sounds awesome!!!
  • alyrpal
    alyrpal Posts: 8 Member
    I like cycle touring. My panniers and bar bag weigh 30lb so I am aiming to loose that over 3 months by riding 10 miles a day with many small hills. This equates to 700 calories per day or 3500 calories per week which is 1lb of fat. Added to that is the 1lb a week I am losing with my diet.

    Cycling is a great way to speed up weight loss. 10 miles takes an hour.
  • dimoul
    dimoul Posts: 137 Member
    Check out strava.com. It's a free cycling app. They have monthly mileage challenges that are great to keep you motivated, as well as social networking with other cyclists and virtual racing if that's your thing. It's almost the best thing for cycling since the invention of the wheel.
  • OldDogSparky
    OldDogSparky Posts: 59
    3/5 - 20.3 miles in 62 min
    3/7 - 30.8 miles in 95 min

    using Runtastic. MTD - 102 miles.
  • Mrscanmore
    Mrscanmore Posts: 862 Member
    15 minutes done. 60 total. Hoping for a 40 minute ride on the trainer tomorrow morning.
  • Mrscanmore
    Mrscanmore Posts: 862 Member
    40 minutes done this morning. My longest indoor ride!! 100 minutes total.
  • christinak74
    christinak74 Posts: 25 Member
    I have a 5k at the end of the month so have been running more than cycling. Looking forward to the run so I can get on the bike more. :) So far for the month:

    3/2 16.4mi Road miles
    3/6 9.8mi Mountain trail

    26.2 miles so far for March. I am also on Strava! :)
  • faugsu
    faugsu Posts: 330 Member
    First hills today with my new hip -- no problems at all! Also got a new rear wheel today. Guess I don't have any more excuses........wait, weather!!

    3-1 15 miles
    3-2 15
    3-8 15
  • sajeffe
    sajeffe Posts: 850 Member
    3/1 - 1.2 miles.
    3/2 - 1.7 miles.
    3/8 - 1.9 miles.



    MTD = 4.8 miles.
  • sajeffe
    sajeffe Posts: 850 Member
    First hills today with my new hip -- no problems at all! Also got a new rear wheel today. Guess I don't have any more excuses........wait, weather!!

    3-1 15 miles
    3-2 15
    3-8 15

    Weather is always a good one. Congrats on the new hip and being able to keep riding. And, hills.
  • FaileAybara
    FaileAybara Posts: 21 Member
    I'm new to MFP, my exercise is a 40 min round trip on my Townie to the dog park with my 3 yr old in a trailer and my Aussie by my side.

    I would like to branch out to some easy trails around Santa Cruz in the next week. I think I want to have my bike serviced before I do that though.

    Any tips on wheels? I think mine are considered hybrid and I'm a little worried about how they will respond to non-paved roads.
  • HoaryMarmot
    HoaryMarmot Posts: 36 Member
    Three efforts today..

    The Time Trial warmup on a stationary trainer..

    Moving Time 44:51


    The Southern Oregon TT #1

    Distance 13.6 mi
    Moving Time 40:20
    Avg Speed 20.2 mi/h
    Avg Watts 213 W
    Elev Gain 764 ft


    And a recon of next week's TT

    Distance 8.8 mi
    Moving Time 42:05
    Avg Speed 12.5 mi/h
    Avg Watts 144 W
    Elev Gain 876 ft

    I came in 10th of 11 folks in my age group. If I'm going to race these uphill time trials, I need to drop more pounds!
    :happy:
  • ecograndma
    ecograndma Posts: 19
    3/6: 15.20
    3/8: 20.32


    Total to date: 35.52
  • Leanz
    Leanz Posts: 2,025 Member
    1 Mar 16 miles
    6 Mar 9.2 miles
    7 Mar 4.76 miles
    8 Mar 13.8 miles
    9 Mar 2.57 miles

    MTD 46.33 miles
  • gregsonevans
    gregsonevans Posts: 232 Member
    Only been back on the bike a week and have fallen in love with it all over again, set a goal of 200 miles for March and halfway there already :smile:
    Count:
    8 Activities
    Distance:
    103.95 mi
    Time:
    9:24:05 h:m:s
    Elevation Gain:
    2,324 ft
    Avg Speed:
    11.1 mph
    Avg HR:
    128 bpm
    Calories:
    7,935 C
    Max Distance:
    21.77 mi
  • blanphere
    blanphere Posts: 82 Member
    21.12 mi; 62 min spinning; avg watts 79; 289 kj
    18.50 mi; 60 min spinning; avg watts 82; 277 kj
    24.41 mi; 77 min spinning; avg watts 54; 255 kj (not my best class)
    6.87 mi; 39.54 min; no watts; 235ish kj....first ride outside! Beautiful day to be outside in Colorado. Only crashed twice!



    Yep...gonna work on getting those watts up this month!
  • faugsu
    faugsu Posts: 330 Member
    Blanphere, crashed twice?? Be careful.

    3-1 15 miles
    3-2 15
    3-8 15
    3-9 16
  • SingingSingleTracker
    SingingSingleTracker Posts: 1,866 Member
    March 1 - rode 28.6 miles for a duration of 90 minutes
    March 4 - rode 9.8 miles for a duration of 30 minutes
    March 5 - rode 9.3 miles for a duration of 30 minutes
    March 6 - rode 19.6 miles for a duration of 60 minutes
    March 7 - rode 10.1 miles for a duration of 30 minutes
    March 9 - rode 28.97 miles for a duration of 2:03:49


    Total for month of March: 106.37 miles/6:03:49 hours
  • christinak74
    christinak74 Posts: 25 Member
    3/2 16.4mi Road miles
    3/6 9.8mi Mountain trail
    3/8 26.2mi Road miles

    52.4 miles so far for March
  • sajeffe
    sajeffe Posts: 850 Member
    3/1 - 1.2 miles.
    3/2 - 1.7 miles.
    3/8 - 1.9 miles.
    3/9 - 2.8 miles in little bits between chores.



    MTD = 7.6 miles.
  • HoaryMarmot
    HoaryMarmot Posts: 36 Member
    I rode much harder than I really should have today as I had to get back in time for my granddaughters first birthday. And it must has been a hard ride because my PowerTap hub started flaking out on my half way through the ride. I'm thinking I need to replace the batteries.


    Distance 41.4 mi
    Moving Time 2:33:43
    Avg Speed 16.1 mi/h
    Elev Gain 1,257 ft

    Tomorrow is a welcomed rest day.

    March total now stands at 201.5
  • Bocch
    Bocch Posts: 191 Member
    March 2: 11.7 mi spinning
    March 3: 11.7 mi spinning
    March 9: 11.9 mi spinning
  • tat20
    tat20 Posts: 53 Member
    I did a challenge similar to this and was so far off my goal it was ridiculous. I'm going for a measly 30 miles this month. I can get that easily. =)
  • faugsu
    faugsu Posts: 330 Member
    3-1 15 miles
    3-2 15
    3-8 15
    3-9 16
    3-10 16
  • erickbrian
    erickbrian Posts: 53 Member
    I'm gonna start helping lead a Monday night ride from Fountain Valley, CA.

    Might also get a Wednesday or Thursday night ride going. We need a bigger night ride scene in OC! (Best part of living in Los Angeles, many night rides.)



    Bunch of stinky colleges kids and a few older dudes. Spicy paces, and lots of corn dogging (and beer drinking sometimes).

    Corndoggin sounds awesome!!!


    Night rides are corndogging at it's best! Nothing like sneaking a beer in mid ride, by walking into a bar in lycra with a buncha stinky dudes. Chicks dig our bike shorts.
  • SingingSingleTracker
    SingingSingleTracker Posts: 1,866 Member
    March 1 - rode 28.6 miles for a duration of 90 minutes
    March 4 - rode 9.8 miles for a duration of 30 minutes
    March 5 - rode 9.3 miles for a duration of 30 minutes
    March 6 - rode 19.6 miles for a duration of 60 minutes
    March 7 - rode 10.1 miles for a duration of 30 minutes
    March 9 - rode 28.97 miles for a duration of 2:03:49
    March 10 - rode 31.61 miles for a duration of 2:06:11


    Total for month of March: 137.98 miles/8:10 hours

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