October Cycling Thread 2014

sajeffe

10/2 - 4.0 miles at 10.1mph listening to Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack on my Walkman (which has external speakers).
10/5 - 1.8 miles. The wind was fun. Not.
10/7 - 3.8 miles at 9.4mph listening to Cheap Trick, Live at Budokan.
10/8 - 3.6 miles at 10.2mph listening to Joe Bonamassa's new album. Adjusted route mid-ride due to unexpected dog. Had to ride on busy highway for a short time. Ugh.
10/9 - 3.9 miles at 9.6mph listening to Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack.
10/12 - 1.8 miles at a slow pace. Listened to Joe Bonamassa again.
10/14 - 2.2 miles at 9.9mph listening to GoG soundtrack again.
10/19 - 3.0 miles at 10.7mph listening to Journey.
10/27 - 3.5 miles at 10.5mph. Came across a rider who was hit by a car. He was generally okay, thank goodness, but quite banged up. Be careful out there guys and gals.
10/28 - 4.5 miles at 10.1mph. Absolutely PERFECT weather. I'm thinking I'll likely fall short of my 40-mile goal, but I'm okay with that. I've been working out otherly.
10/29 - 3.3 miles at 8.6mph listening to One Republic among others.
10/30 - 2.1 miles at 8.9mph.
10/30 later - 2.0 miles at 9.6mph.
10/31 - 1.3 miles, slowly.


Goal for October = 40 miles.
MTD = 40.8 miles. Yay.
Still want to accomplish = 0

UmmSqueaky

Month's goal: 400 miles

10/2: 22.3 miles
10/5: 28.5 miles
10/6: 24.1 miles
10/7: 29.6 miles
10/8: 29.6 miles
10/9: 24.0 miles
10:10: 23.3 miles
10/13: 16.8 miles
10/14: 30.3 miles
10/15: 39.9 miles
10/16: 36.7 miles
10/17: 29.6 miles
10/21: 22.0 miles
10/22: 22.1 miles
10/23: 30.0 miles
10/24: 21.9 miles
10/27: 29.4 miles
10/29: 34.5 miles
10/30: 24.5 miles
10/31: 29.5 miles

Month's total: 548.6


Overall beautiful weather for October biking. Sadly November is going to see a steep drop off. With the timeshift, the last 5 miles of my long route morning commute is no longer doable - no lights, path through the woods, not safe in the dark. So, if there's no snow, I'll bike my shorter route in the morning at least. I anticipate snow in the next few weeks and then I'll stop biking.

I need to start wearing my boots and find warmer gloves. I have warm thick woolly socks that just aren't cutting it anymore and apparently my gloves are also subpar. 19 degrees this morning with the windchill, and my toes and fingers were frozen by the time I got to work.

Colt_Luger

great commute home - 60 degrees, no wind. This makes 22 days for the month, approximately 15 miles per day.

SingingSingleTracker

Well, that's a wrap for October...

October 2 - rode 6.5 miles for a duration of 00:35.48
October 6 - rode 12.9 miles for a duration of 1:04:35
October 7 - rode 26.7 miles for a duration of 1:35:27
October 9 - rode 11.3 miles for a duration of 00:45:02
October 11 - rode 17.4 miles for a duration of 1:25:36
October 12 - rode 19.3 miles for a duration of 1:04:51
October 14 - rode 14.8 miles for a duration of 1:00:42
October 16 - rode 14.4 miles for a duration of 1:00:01
October 17 - rode 9.85 miles for a duration of 00:45:47
October 18 - rode 6.65 miles for a duration of 00:44:55
October 19 - rode 15.4 miles for a duration of 1:28:43 (XC Race - 4th place)
October 21 - rode 18.6 miles for a duration of 1:24:15
October 23 - rode 7.49 miles for a duration of 00:45:07
October 24 - rode 5.53 miles for a duration of 00:37:16
Octboer 25 - rode 13.19 miles for a duration of 1:22:59 (XC Race - 3rd place)
October 26 - rode 28.7 miles for a duration of 1:40:14
October 28 - rode 19.3 miles for a duration of 1:28:41
October 29 - rode 6.37 miles for a duration of 00:51:00
October 30 - rode 20 miles for a duration of 2:02:55
October 31 - rode 12.3 miles for a duration of 1:16:14

October Total = 286.77 miles/23:00:08 hours

bikerbill74

Okay, it's November 1st in Minnesota. Hope to get 500 miles before I have to switch to cross country skiing.

Ohhim

To avoid leaving folks hanging, made it the 125 miles to DC Wednesday, and crossed the beltway by the time it got dark. Sit bones are shot/blistered as it rained most of the last day's ride, and the trail continued to be pretty rough. Going light for at least another few days.

10/2 - 27 miles (17.4 mph)
10/6 - 52 miles (16.1 mph)
10/7 - 38 miles (16.1 mph)
10/8 - 52 miles (16.2 mph)
10/9 - 7 miles (14 mph)
10/10 - 19 miles (15.5 mph)
10/11 - 32 miles (16.1 mph)
10/12 - 18 miles (12 mph w. slow friend)
10/15 - 46 miles (15.7 mph)
10/17 - 33 miles (16.5 mph)
10/19 - 26 miles (no speed computer)
10/20 - 48 miles (no speed computer)
10/23 - 42 miles (no speed computer)
10/24 - 18 miles (no speed computer)
10/25 - 2.5 miles (no speed computer)
10/26 - 12 miles (no speed computer)
10/27 - 101 miles (8 hours w. rest breaks)
10/28 - 105 miles (9.5 hours w. lots of rest breaks)
10/29 - 125 miles (11 hours, pretty much nonstop)
10/30 - 10 miles (finding the mile 0 marker hidden behind the Thompson Boat Center)






Total: 813 miles
Goal: 300 miles (10/day)

faugsu

Oct 1 81 miles
10-2 53
10-3 69
10-4 46
10-5 29
10-8 15
10-10 15
10-11 15
10-16 15
10-17 15
10-18 16
10-20 20
10-21 16
10-22 21
10-23 15
10-24 22
10-25 35
10-26 33
10-29 12
10-30 12
10-31 54 MTD 609 YEAH ME!! YEAH ALL OF US!!!

kcjchang

10/01 - 24.76 mi in 1h:31m:03s
10/02 - 24.53 mi in 1h:27m:01s
10/05 - 29.49 mi in 1h:42m:04s
10/06 - 23.92 mi in 1h:19m:12s
10/08 - 25.10 mi in 1h:25m:48s
10/10 - 39.44 mi in 2h:20m:34s
10/12 - 50.01 mi in 3h:24m:14s
10/14 - 17.57 mi in 1h:00m:01s
10/15 - 17.51 mi in 1h:00m:31s
10/16 - 25.26 mi in 1h:23m:47s
10/17 - 15.41 mi in 52m:26s
10/19 - 12.45 mi in 45m:00s
10/21 - 22.27 mi in 1h:15m:00s
10/23 - 49.04 mi in 3h:05m:16s
10/25 - 24.65 mi in 1h:36m:41s
10/26 - 16.51 mi in 1h:00m:02s
10/28 - 25.92 mi in 1h:30m:10s
10/29 - 8.39 mi in 30m:48s
Total: 452 miles

OldDogSparky

Congrats sajeffe and UmmSqueaky! faugsu, you were in beast mode this past month. Congrats to you sir!

Ohhim, some nice scenery there. Congrats on completing a great month of riding and running. Outstanding job there!

Well done kcjchang!

kcjchang

OldDogSparky wrote: »

Well done kcjchang!

Thank you