May 2016 Bike Bicycle Cycling Challenge

End of the month update as the weather tomorrow looks horrendous and I'll only get an 8 mile commute in on Tuesday.......

May 1-8 228.1 miles
May 9-15 95.6 miles
May 16-22 145.8 miles
May 23-29 201.3 miles

May total 670.8 miles
Year total 2422 miles
374 miles ahead of my 5000 miles/yr goal

Had some downtime during a fishing trip this weekend, so borrowed a ladies beach cruiser and did 13 miles around the island this morning. Definitely miss my usual bike, but nice to explore the area. Plan to knock out my last miles tomorrow.

5/3 - 21 miles
5/4 - 13 miles
5/5 - 4 miles
5/6 - 4 miles
5/8 - 33 miles
5/10 - 33 miles
5/11 - 58 miles
5/12 - 34 miles
5/13 - 28 miles
5/14 - 17 miles
5/15 - 50 miles
5/16 - 13 miles
5/17 - 15 miles
5/18 - 21 miles
5/19 - 13 miles
5/20 - 11 miles
5/22 - 12 miles
5/23 - 22 miles
5/24 - 11 miles
5/25 - 26 miles
5/26 - 11 miles
5/29 - 13 miles

Total: 463 miles
Goal: 500 miles
Remaining: 37 miles

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Main goal for May is a 100 mile Audax in the New Forest (southern England) on May 8th.
Last big training ride before the event was today - easy week ahead to arrive at the event with fresh legs.

Today's ride was 73 miles @ 16.5mph, felt good and even had some welcome sunshine at last - April was cold!
That took me to over 7000 exercise calories for the week.

Audax done!
Weather turned hot and the strong wind was a PITA! Although it was a circular route the wind was on my back on the flat, sheltered parts and in my face on the climbs and open moorland sections with no shelter. Never cycled so much on the drops and my poor old neck is killing me now.
My neck is a bit damaged from repeatedly throwing myself into the scenery and Armco barriers in my misspent youth as a motorcycle racer.

100.6 miles @ 14.7mph in drop-dead gorgeous countryside.

213.7 miles so far for the month.

Four rides of varying lengths this week totalling 127 miles. Sunshine and warmer temperatures certainly make a difference!
340 miles for month so far.

Entered another Audax event at beginning of June (205km this time) so training hard.

Had to take what weight lifters would call a deload as legs got really fatigued. So an easy 5 days, lots of recovery walking, couple of one hour gentle spins in the gym to pump some blood through my legs, and no weight training for my legs at all (training like Johnny Bravo!).

Worked wonders and I came back this weekend feeling really strong.
Nice fairly fast 56 miles on Saturday with some climbs and Sunday was mostly hill training for 41 miles including 3 laps of the iconic Zig Zag Road up Box Hill in Surrey (part of the 2012 Olympic course).

107 miles for the week and 447 for the month so far.

End of the month for me as I've cycled three consecutive days over the long Bank Holiday weekend.
Found some lovely new roads to go back and explore but struggling a bit to balance mileage and recovery. Now going to have an easy week ahead of my Audax event next Sunday, fingers crossed for kind weather.

114 miles for the week, 561 miles for the month.

wayneh73 wrote: »

End of the week update....

Had a good 63 mile ride Friday with a friend. Started as a social ride but we upped the pace for the last 20 something miles home and I ended up with a new 40k PB of 1hr 12mins 35secs at an average speed of 20.54mph


This is why we ride lol

You're not in Cygnet there, are you? That table looks familiar.


Oh ... maybe not quite the same, but similar ...


(Taken a year ago in Cygnet, Tasmania)

Missed my April goal so I will go for 300 in May. April had 2 weeks of cold, wind, and rain that really messed things up!

5/1 - 23.94 miles
5/2 - 15.56 miles
5/3 - 31.67 miles
5/5 - 9.24 miles
5/6 - 14.48 miles
5/10 - 20.13 miles
5/11 - 19.27 miles
5/17 - 22.78 miles
5/18 - 38.23 miles
5/19 - 15.82 miles
5/23 - 20.58 miles
5/25 - 19.20 miles
5/28 - 19.89 miles
5/29 - 30.91 miles
5/30 - 31.23 miles

MTD - 332.92

Jan - 170.47
Feb - 245.31
Mar - 409.88
Apr - 227.22

YTD - 1385.79

5/01 - 18.15
5/02 - 14.22
5/03 - 14.29
5/04 - 18.12
5/05 - 17.97
5/10 - 14.76
5/11 - 18.00
5/12 - 17.97
5/13 - 18.36
5/15 - 33.29
5/17 - 18.05
5/23 - 14.49
5/24 - 18.12
5/25 - 18.09
5/28 - 50.03




May total: 303.91
Goal for month: 400
Year to date: 1,522.07

Jan - 175.9
Feb - 343.3
Mar - 353.8
Apr - 363.4

Month over....89 hours....1680 miles

Best ever

19 yesterday, I was tired from my long Sunday ride.

Two rides today...1:03 on the trainer and then 34 outside

Well I guess that's it for May, and I did this: far more than I've ever done before and hopefully next month will be bike-filled too, at the end at least as I'm working away from home, fromThurs. Maybe hire a bike where I'm going...

3/5 5.6 miles indoor
4/5 5.7 miles outdoor Pitfield Lane
5/5 12.88 outdoor Tadley rec ground
6/5 10.5 outdoor Padworth church circuit
9/5 7.5 indoor
10/5 10indoor
11/5 8.5 outdoor
13/5 7.9 outdoor
16/5 10 outdoor silchester
19/5 8 miles indoor
20/5 9.2 outdoor Ufton Hill
22/5 12.2 outdoor Duke of Wellington Estate
24/5 9.7 outdoor Silchester
27/5 10.4 outdoor
31/5 8.6 indoor

Photographed quite a few of the surrounding churches as planned but I think more are hiding in the countryside nearby....here's St Mary's Burghfield, one of the few open during the day to enter. We'll see what I can find next month. Thanks to some of you for friending me and all of you for inspiring me to keep pedalling!

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Machka9 wrote:

Review ...
Distances include cycling + walking
March: 489.8 km (304.3 miles) = 38 hours 4 min
April: 491.94 km (305.6 miles) = 43 hours 6 min
May: 361.81 km (224.8 miles) = 35 hours 50 min
June: 569.53 km (353.9 miles) = 41 hours 53 min
July: 230.7 km (143.35 miles) = 32 hours 45 min
Aug: 211.3 km (131.3 miles) = 28 hours 8 min
Sep: 306.7 km (190.6 miles) = 35 hour 2 min
Oct: 441.82 km (274.5 miles) = 47 hours 43 min
Nov: 660.21 km (410.23 miles) = 60 hours 41 min
Dec: 499.91 km (282.8 miles) = 54 hours 56 min
Jan: 864.79 km (537.35 miles) = 65 hours 36 min
Feb: 470.53 km (292.4 miles) = 40 hours 39 min
March: 917.73 km (570.2 miles) = 66 hours 13 min
April: 417.83 km (259.6 miles) = 40 hours 23 min

April wasn't a brilliant month for me in terms of exercise ... I had hoped to do one or two longer bicycle rides but sometimes life intervenes in the plans. April ended up being an incredibly busy month with a heavier-than-usual workload at work + assignments due at university + the final steps of my citizenship process. I wrote the citizenship exam and then my ceremony was on April 29 and I am now officially an Australian Citizen!

May should be a calmer month, although I will be wrapping up the uni course I'm in so there will be work to do for that. Nevertheless, I hope for more kilometres than last May.
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May 1 - 3.8 km (45 min) walking + 40 min on my bicycle on the trainer indoors. It was a windy, rainy, cold day. Winter is upon us.
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Totals:
May Cycling Outside: 0 km (0 min)
May Cycling Inside: 40 min
May Walking: 3.8 km (45 min)
May Stairs: 0 flights (0 min)
May Time Total: 85 min = 1 hours 25 min
May Distance Total: 3.8 km = 2.3 miles

May 3 - 40 min on my bicycle on the trainer indoors. Wintery out there.
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Totals:
May Cycling Outside: 0 km (0 min)
May Cycling Inside: 80 min
May Walking: 17 km (200 min)
May Stairs: 95 flights (76 min)
May Time Total: 356 min = 5 hours 56 min
May Distance Total: 17 km = 10.5 miles

May 14 - 34 km (105 min) cycling outside
May 15 - 29.4 km (90 min) cycling outside
Finally getting outside ... but very, very windy.
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Totals:
May Cycling Outside: 63.4 km (195 min)
May Cycling Inside: 80 min
May Walking: 59 km (710 min)
May Stairs: 295 flights (236 min)
May Time Total: 1221 min = 20 hours 21 min
May Distance Total: 122.4 km = 76 miles

OK, back to it again ... I have been up to my eyeballs in my last assignment for the course I'm taking. Got 3 hours sleep in 30 hours over the weekend. So tired!!

May 21 - 15.7 km (50 min) cycling
May 22 - 18.69 km (60 min) cycling
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Totals:
May Cycling Outside: 97.79 km (305 min)
May Cycling Inside: 80 min
May Walking: 75.2 km (905 min)
May Stairs: 445 flights (356 min)
May Time Total: 1646 min = 27 hours 26 min
May Distance Total: 172.99 km = 107.5 miles

May 28 - 50.7 km (160 min) cycling
May 29 - 31.2 km (95 min) cycling
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Totals:
May Cycling Outside: 179.69 km (560 min)
May Cycling Inside: 80 min
May Walking: 85.6 km (1030 min)
May Stairs: 520 flights (416 min)
May Time Total: 2086 min = 34 hours 46 min
May Distance Total: 265.29 km = 164.84 miles

May 31 - 1.8 km (20 min) walking + 30 flights of stairs (24 min) + 40 minutes on the bicycle on the trainer indoors


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May is the last month of Semester 1 of University here = big assignment due. So, a lot of my time was spent doing that.
May is also late autumn = cool, rainy
And in early May we spent a weekend in Sydney for a cycling conference ... without our bicycles!!

So with all that in mind ...


Totals:
May Cycling Outside: 179.69 km (560 min)
May Cycling Inside: 120 min
May Walking: 87.4 km (1050 min)
May Stairs: 550 flights (440 min)
May Time Total: 2170 min = 36 hours 10 min
May Distance Total: 267.09 km = 165.9 miles


I suppose one highlight is that I exercised an hour more this May than last May. Not sure how I managed that ... must be all those stairs. And speaking of which, 550 flights of stairs is a total of 11,000 stairs.

Awesome job everyone!! I did some biking this weekend and didn't track my miles, but I'm pretty sure I would have fallen short of my goal of 450 miles. Oh well, there's always June!