August Cycling Challenge

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!!!

Your acclomplishments are great. Some of my best rides this year are shorter ones my wife did with me on a neighborhood trail. We pack a lunch ride 10 or so miles, eat and have a beer and ride back. Don't be imtimated by our miles. Your riding is for your personal goals and your health. You are not competing against us so stay riding, have fun, and keep breaking those goals.

Steve

Checking in: My goal is SPIN Bike: 20 minutes 3x a week for week 1

Ok so I hopped on the bike tonight and I lasted 12 minutes. :embarassed:
I'm pretty embarrassed to put that out there but I own it.

I counted 75rpm and kept that speed for most of my ride with less than a minute cool down. Then I stretched for a while

I have a DVD I'm going to use tomorrow (my husband swears he knows where it is lol) and I think that will make a huge difference in my stamina. I need a proper warm up and cool down with someone telling me to keep the pace, etc, etc.

I need to go help my husband look for the dvd now :grumble:

Daily goal 15
Daily avg. 16.9
Monthly goal 400
Total so far 118.6

8/1 - 10.0
8/2 - 16.0
8/3 - 11.3
8/4 - 62.0
8/5 - 15.3
8/6 - 0.0
8/7 - 4.0

Traveling so I had to use a hotel exercise bike.

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!!!

Your acclomplishments are great. Some of my best rides this year are shorter ones my wife did with me on a neighborhood trail. We pack a lunch ride 10 or so miles, eat and have a beer and ride back. Don't be imtimated by our miles. Your riding is for your personal goals and your health. You are not competing against us so stay riding, have fun, and keep breaking those goals.

Steve

Thanks....I'm as happy hubby rode with me as I am about the 10 miles. Thanks for the encouragement!

21 miles @14mph avg. On my hybrid. Road bike is in the shop. 121 for august

8/1 12 miles in 55 minutes
8/5 15 miles in 73 minutes
8/8 9 miles in 43 minutes

Total 36 miles

Thursday 8/2- 10 miles
Saturday 8/4- 14 miles
Sunday 8/5- 17.5 miles (15.1 avg. mph- my best avg. speed yet
Monday 8/6- 8 miles (got a late start and it was getting dark)
8/7- rest day
8/8- storming here.... We desperately need the rain, but it means I have to resort to getting my cardio on our elliptical. Boo!

Total for August so far: 49.5

Aug 1 Weds - Off
Aug 2 Thurs - 30min walk (23 hrs 30min left)
Aug 3 Fri - 30min walk ( 23hrs left)
Aug 4 Sat - 90min bike (21 hrs 30min left)
Aug 5 Sun - 90min bike (20 hrs left)
Aug 8 Weds - 45min bike/speed w/o (19hrs 15min left)

Doing Aug challenge of exercising 24hrs for month too.

Goal for August - 700 Miles

08/01 - 1 Hour 11 Minutes - 14.78 Miles - 1067 Calories - 12.45 MPH Ave - 97 Feet Ascent
08/01 - 1 Hour 18 Minutes - 15.33 Miles - 1195 Calories - 11.76 MPH Ave - 176 Feet Ascent
08/02 - 1 Hour 10 Minutes - 14.55 Miles - 1023 Calories - 12.44 MPH Ave - 52 Feet Ascent
08/03 - 2 Hours 32 MInutes - 29.47 Miles - 2398 Calories - 11.67 MPH Ave - 311 Feet Ascent
08/05 - 1 Hour 43 Minutes - 20.74 Miles - 1562 Calories - 12.03 MPH Ave - 37 Feet Ascent
08/06 - 1 Hour 10 Minutes - 14.43 Miles - 1076 Calories - 12.37 MPH Ave - 87 Feet Ascent
08/06 - 1 Hour 29 Minutes - 15.72 Miles - 1282 Calories - 10.59 MPH Ave - 151 Feet Ascent
08/07 - 1 Hour 23 Minutes - 17.86 Miles - 1363 Calories - 12.88 MPH Ave - 67 Feet Ascent
08/08 - 2 Hours 04 Minutes - 25.81 Miles - 1990 Calories - 12.49 MPH Ave - 44 Feet Ascent

Totals - 14 Hours 01 Minutes - 168.70 Miles - 12956 Calories - 12.04 MPH Ave - 1021 Feet Ascent

Miles remaining to goal: 531.30

Just started cycling (using Strava on my Android phone) and found MFP right after that. The fat is melting off, and I couldn't be happier!

I did my biggest ride yet on Sunday. My house in Los Angeles to Malibu and back (50 miles total). It took almost four hours and really drained me, but it was great fun! I couldn't stand stationary cycling (or other exercise machines); it bores me to tears.

8/1 22.3-road
8/1 2.6-commute
8/2 2.6-commute
8/3 15.4-road
8/4 22.3-road
8/6 22.3-road
8/7 22.5-road
8/8 26.0-road

136 total

Is it possible to create a group for this? Be a little easier to track or find post.

172/450

I'm training for a triathalon in April 2013 that will include a 20 mile hilly bike ride.

Lucky for me I live by a bunch of hills and have a sorta crappy bike!:laugh:

How do I pledge? I'd say I'm good for 15 miles a week....but since this is a challenge I'll shoot for 20 miles a week in august!

Anyways tonight I did 4 miles in 27 mins (remember lots of hills....)

Usual way is just declare a total mileage you'd like to hit for the month, and a "long ride" goal - so... for example mine is 300 miles in the month, with at least one "metric century ride (100km - or 62.1 miles)" over the month...