August Cycling Challenge

I'm such an idiot.
put the bike on the trainer, get all geared up, put a dvd in the laptop and start cranking away....and it felt really hard....even 9 mph felt way hard. I kept thinking my legs were just tired from all the yard work earlier in the day.
This went on for about 5 minutes and I finally decided it was too difficult and was just going to get off and rest for the night...but I decided to check the temp of the rear wheel rim before stopping....it was hot....like burn your fingers hot. That's when I realized the rear brake was dragging....probably was on my last ride too. No wonder it was so hard.

So....got that fixed and voila, even 16 mph which is approx. 170 watts on my trainer was suddenly zone 2.
Total ride was 10 miles bringing the month to 16.5 miles.

Just a quick note for all of the newer cycling challengers. You are not competing against a set goal or against anyone. This is about setting your own goals. It might be your first bike ride in several years. It might be on a stationary bike. It does not matter. What counts is the motivation to get yourself active and moving. Logging cycling miles is secondary for me. My primary goal is to burn fat and lose weight.
I hope everyone in this challenge meets or exceeds their goal.

Thanks for this! I was kind of confused as to what the actual challenge was.
I love riding. I have a "spin" bike upstairs and swore to my husband that if we bought it I'd use it every single day....that was 1.5yrs ago and I probably used it 3 times.

So I chose to set my goal for week 1 of my challenge to 20 minutes 3x this week on the spin bike and 1 long family ride on our mountain bikes Saturday or Sunday.

Once I get my groove I will track miles. I'm a numbers girl and the thought of setting a mileage goal is interesting to me and will definitely help with motivating me to stick with this challenge!

I'm excited!

Got in 31.4 miles on the local rail trail, 47.5 total so far.

Just a quick note for all of the newer cycling challengers. You are not competing against a set goal or against anyone. This is about setting your own goals. It might be your first bike ride in several years. It might be on a stationary bike. It does not matter. What counts is the motivation to get yourself active and moving. Logging cycling miles is secondary for me. My primary goal is to burn fat and lose weight.
I hope everyone in this challenge meets or exceeds their goal.

I like having my own goals. Some challenges have teams and I worry about letting any team down if I do not meet my goals.

Thanks for running this challenge like this :happy:

Thursday 8/2- 10 miles
Saturday 8/4- 14 miles



Total for August so far: 24 miles

I set my goal at 200 for the month, which seems doable right now. But, I'm a teacher and school starts next week. I'm hoping to still get to 200 though

Daily goal 15
Daily avg. 22.9
Monthly goal 400
Total so far 114.6

8/1 - 10.0
8/2 - 16.0
8/3 - 11.3
8/4 - 62.0
8/5 - 15.3

Trying to get 350 miles in this month:
Sport
Cycling, sport
Start Time
Aug 4, 2012 11:05 AM
Distance
25.51 miles
Duration
1h:43m:12s
Avg Speed
14.8 mph
Max Speed
21.0 mph
Calories
1817 kcal
Altitude
558 ft / 646 ft
Elevation
105 ft ↑ / 135 ft ↓
Weather 82°F / 5.6 mph ↖

Is there any way to track miles on an indoor cycle? I love cycle class and I've always been curious on an estimate of miles...??

the last class our instructor said 23 miles but I have no idea if he was kidding or not because I have no frame of reference as I'm not an outdoor cycler.

I'd love to know though! and participate!

Great challenge! I started cycling about six weeks ago. So far this month I've done a 15 and a 12 mi ride, really enjoying the summer weather.

I am in. Setting a goal of 300 miles

8/2 - 33.2 - 2hr. 11 min. 15.11 ave.
8/5- 23.3 - 1hr. 34 min. 14.7 ave.



Total for Aug 56.5

So sad that our weather isn't allowing outdoors biking. I think that I can get in some this afternoon as it is to be dry.

Aug 1 - 27 miles
Aug 2 - 26 miles - aug 3 planned rest day
Aug 3 - Rest Day
Aug 4 - 70 miles
Aug 5 - 17 miles - storm with lightening cut our planned route short
Aug 6 - 35 miles -Round trip commute to work - recovery pace


Total for aug: 175 miles

Okay a lot of you guys are really into this and I can only strive to achieve your miles but I am happy with what I (we) accomplished this weekend. I did my first ride of over 10 miles. Hubby rode with me and we did a local trail racking up a whopping 11 miles!

I'm ecstatic!!!