2,200 bike calories Saturday

Beautiful ride! Love the scenery. Glad someone is out there having fun. So this road is open from June - October... ish? How often can you ride out here?

Damn the vectors are too expensive for me, i was waiting for watteam's new stuff. I have the same issue with MFP in terms of light, feck you Mfp come do these inclines and tell me that *kitten* is "light"

What bike is that?

Wow that is some awesome burning. And gorgeous riding route.

Beautiful Country!!

Nice & beauty pics. Might want to check your FTP settings, 0.992 IF for four+ hours is nearly impossible.

Yup, probably a good chunk. Testing is training and training is testing. Or, could just commit sin #2 and/or #3 of the seven deadly sins and guesstimate base on ride file(s)

Fantastic ride! Thanks for sharing!

NorthCascades wrote: »

The part I'm grumbling about is that MFP saw that my average speed was low (because I was going up hill, on dirt and gravel) and categorized it as "light" exercise. This was the hardest ride I've ever done!

I totally get it. I ride trails. They are much harder effort than roads. Hands down! However...I am too lazy to wear a HRM and my calorie burns are high enough even using the slower average speed that I am credited with.

I am glad I saw your comment on the tire sizes too. I just tried a more technical ride and almost ate it a few times due to my narrow tires. I plan to up-size as well.

I've just recently gotten a road bike and my speed is 10.5 so far but let me tell you, I'm working my (albeit, overly large) @ss off to do that! So, I feel ya. Beautiful pics!!

Here is the script I wrote to copy the ride files from my Garmin 520 to local machine. I use the Google Drive folder so I can access GC from multiple computers and hence the TIMEOUT (allow for synchronization between local and server). Garmin device has to be connected before you initiate the batch command. Modify the path to GC Auto Import and executable, and Garmin device mount and activity file path to your own settings. Under GC Tools => Options => Athlete => Auto Import set the folder that GC will search for new ride files. The batch command will prompt you for number of back days for the copy process. 0-today, 1-yesterday, and so on. This eliminate duplication of ride files that are imported to GC. Remember to purge the import folder after closing GC.

Sorry not an APPLE fan.

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@echo off
:start
set /p Offset="Enter Number of Days: "
echo d = date() - WScript.Arguments.Item(0) > earlierday.vbs
echo wscript.echo year(d) * 10000 + month(d) * 100 + day(d) >> earlierday.vbs
for /f %%a in ('cscript //nologo earlierday.vbs %Offset%') do set NewDate=%%a
del earlierday.vbs

:: Month
set strMonth=%NewDate:~4,2%
:: Day
set strDate=%NewDate:~6,2%
:: Year
set strYear=%NewDate:~2,2%

set BatchDate=%strMonth%-%strDate%-%strYear%

XCOPY /D:%BatchDate% /I /Y F:\Garmin\Activities "C:\Users\kchang\Google Drive\Cycling\Imports"

TIMEOUT /T 90
:: Total Delay = 90 seconds
START "" "C:\Program Files\Golden Cheetah\GoldenCheetah.exe"

Killer ride, and looks like a great area to really enjoy it. Well except for the elevation up part only being so enjoyable I suppose!

As for the MFP conversions... yeah I can see how that could be a downer. Around here I have next to nothing for elevation, but the MFP conversion is more influenced by traffic and intersections, etc. I could work my tail off and have a lower graded ride. So I just pay more attention to Strava as an indication of calories per hour, since most of the variables balance out more.