January 2017 Biking Cycling Bicycling Challenge!

I love to ride and want to take on more distance rides this year. I was a spin instructor but recently gave that up. Now I am looking for something to fill the void. I am currently riding on an indoor spin bike and use the Peloton app. It provides a virtual cycle class. It is excellent.

What do you do with this? Is this a goal setting challenge?

janetpam wrote: »

I love to ride and want to take on more distance rides this year. I was a spin instructor but recently gave that up. Now I am looking for something to fill the void. I am currently riding on an indoor spin bike and use the Peloton app. It provides a virtual cycle class. It is excellent.

What do you do with this? Is this a goal setting challenge?

You can use this forum for whatever you desire. Goals. Logging distance, and time. Asking questions. Posting up minutes. It's really up to the individual. There are no rules or guidelines. Nor is there any sort of a "challenge" required.

Hello Everyone,

At the end of week one I have the following. I'm riding indoors with my bike on a trainer. Way tooo cold outside. I usually do a quick 15-20 minute walk/warm up on the treadmill before the cycling.

January 1st 12.7 miles/57:49 min
January 2nd 9.7 miles/41.47 min
January 3rd - walked on the treadmill; my body has to get used to the saddle again - no biking today
January 5th - 9.09 miles/41 min
January 7th - 9.07 miles/44 min

January Total Miles: 40.56
January Total Duration: 184.36

DomCraigKing wrote: »

DomCraigKing wrote: »

Hi all, well not done this before but certainly up for challenging myself.
Going to go at the starting level of 200 miles. I cycle outdoors and in but my stationary has mileage so will be logging that.
January 4th 10 miles stationary
January 5th 9 miles
January 6th 4 miles

January 7th 10 miles stationary

33 miles so far.

1/3: 15.93 miles
1/4: 8.20 miles
1/5: 5.62 miles
1/7: 4.00 miles

January total: 33.75 miles
Year to date: 33.75 miles

Starting to plan out the year ahead....
Will do my usual New Forest (100 miler in May) and Ditching Devil (128 miles in June) Audax events but if the Spring weather is kind and I get plenty of time outdoors I may change up the New Forest ride to the longer route that adds a loop of the Isle of Wight (124 miles).

There's a couple of unsupported long rides I want to do this year, one near Winchester and the other around the Trough of Bowland. Very tempted by a London - Paris ride for my first taste of foreign cycling.

Right now I've a bit of Christmas weight to lose and hitting the weights hard and training indoors on a Wattbike Pro in the gym and with my hybrid on a turbo trainer in the garage. Really looking forward to getting outside when weather improves.

76 miles so far this month, mostly indoors.

Goal 400km

03/01 - 15km Turbo HIIT session
04/01 - 12km Turbo session
06/01 - 15km Turbo HIIT session
08/01 - 50km road cycle

Total to date: 92km

I'm in this month. I missed being in it last month. I will set my goal at 200 miles combination of indoors and outdoors. Depends on the weather and snow for outside.

1/4 - 8.27 miles - outside 18*F with 18 mph winds weather bug says feels like 3*F
1/5 - 8.0 miles - outside 12* F
1/6 - 7.91 miles - outside 8*F
1/7 - 10.39 miles - outside 12*F

YTD - 34.56 miles

Hi everyone I'm new to Myfitnesspal and I'm slowly figuring it out. I cycle quite a lot, road bike mainly, but with some mountain biking. At home I have a Wattbike and can be found on Zwift a few evenings a week under my name "Rob Askew", would be great to get a ride organised if there are a few of us. Just started training again on the 1st Jan and have about 20KG's to shift before the summer.

I've entered the Stelvio Santini (http://www.granfondostelviosantini.com/) in June so really need to ramp up my training.

Its great to see so many fellow cyclist on this site I'll try and update my stats weekly. Last week I managed 100km in the week on 4 indoor sessions.

Target for January is 500km.

Have fun and take care out there.

@dtcjem I used one of these a little while back. Worked out OK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/tsa/Lavolta-Tablet-Treadmill-Spinning-Trainer-Elliptical-Exercise/B01J6QBS40/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1483973699&sr=8-1&keywords=ipad+bike+mount

askewrj wrote: »

Hi everyone I'm new to Myfitnesspal and I'm slowly figuring it out. I cycle quite a lot, road bike mainly, but with some mountain biking. At home I have a Wattbike and can be found on Zwift a few evenings a week under my name "Rob Askew", would be great to get a ride organised if there are a few of us. Just started training again on the 1st Jan and have about 20KG's to shift before the summer.

I've entered the Stelvio Santini (http://www.granfondostelviosantini.com/) in June so really need to ramp up my training.

Its great to see so many fellow cyclist on this site I'll try and update my stats weekly. Last week I managed 100km in the week on 4 indoor sessions.

Target for January is 500km.

Have fun and take care out there.

@Askwerj - A zwift ride would be great. I ride very early...4:30 - 5:00 am (Eastern Time) Also Thanks for suggestion on tablet holder.

@sijomial - Sounds perfect....unless it prevents you from getting to the wine

@dtcjem That could pose a problem as I'm GMT and ride in the evening. I think Eastern is around 5 hours behind. Weekend ride could be the best option?

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
May: 267.09 km (165.9 miles) = 36 hours 10 min
June: 552.1 km (343 miles) = 54 hours 48 min
July: 709 km (440.5 miles) = 60 hours 41 minutes
Aug: 775.9 km (482.1 miles) = 54 hours 52 minutes
Sep: 371.3 km (230.7 miles) = 32 hours 20 min
Oct: 649 km (403.3 miles) = 49 hours 46 min
Nov: 403 km (250.4 miles) = 52 hours 16 min
Dec: 511.05 km (317.55 miles = 52 hours 2 min

I see last January was a big month for me! My goal for this month will be to match that.

Jan 1 - 101.9 km cycling (321 min)
Jan 2 - 26.9 km cycling (85 min)
The story of the Jan 1 metric century:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/Machka9/view/beaches-100k-permanent-907843

Jan 3 - 5.6 km (70 min) walking
Jan 4 - 6.2 km (77 min) walking + 16 flights of stairs (12 min)
Jan 5 - 6.65 km (83 min) walking + 20 flights of stairs (16 min)

Jan 6 - 8.9 km (111 min) walking + 25 flights of stairs (20 min)

Jan 7 - 4 km (50 min) walking + 26.8 km (85 min) cycling

Jan 8 - 2 km (25 min) walking + 30.9 km (98 min) cycling

Jan 9 - 1.3 km (16 min) walking + 21 km (66 min) cycling + 17 flights of stairs (13 min)



Totals for January:
Walking Distance 34.65
Walking Time 433.125
Cycling Distance 207.5
Cycling Time 655
Stairs Climbed Number 78
Stairs Climbed Time 62.4

Total Distance (Km) 242.15
Total Distance (M) 150.4650361
Total Time (Min) 1151
Total Time (Hr) 19:10:47

dtcjem wrote: »

For those of you riding indoor trainers... Does anyone have a shelf in front of their bike for Ipad or such? I have seen one from Wahoo but its pricey so looking for suggestions or solutions you have found. I currently have my Ipad on a shelf beside me

I saw that one on the Wahoo site - definitely pricey. I use a "Travel Trac Book Caddy", and have done so for the past two years. I'm able to have my phone and an iPad on the caddy. If you do an internet search it will pop up for you. This has worked very well for me, but I am looking for a new one too because of different devices I have added to my handlebar. I did a search on amazon for iPad holders and found one not specifically for a bike but for an Ipad. If you use the search terms "floor tablet stand" you'll see several options.

dtcjem wrote: »

For those of you riding indoor trainers... Does anyone have a shelf in front of their bike for Ipad or such? I have seen one from Wahoo but its pricey so looking for suggestions or solutions you have found. I currently have my Ipad on a shelf beside me

@dtcjem From looking at the wahoo shelf, you want something that's in front of your bike instead of fixed to the handle bar, right? How about a music stand? For 10-20$ you should be able to find one that you can adjust in height, fold up for storage, ... No reason you couldn't put an ipad on it instead of music sheets.

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I bought new gloves on the weekend (according to the sales guy the warmest bike gloves they had in the shop), and on yesterdays commute, my hands only got really cold, but not completely numb and stiff. I guess that's as good as it will get.
No chance to use them today, when I woke up this morning there were 10cm of fresh snow on the ground with more coming down. A good day to drive the car to work and do some grocery shopping on the way home...

I'm actually considering getting an indoor trainer, to be independent from the weather. I saw some rollers online that aren't too expensive. I just have to figure out if I would actually use them or if they would just end up collecting dust after the first excitement has worn off.
I have a bike computer that measures using a little magnet on a spoke of the front wheel. Would that also work on rollers, or would I have to buy something else to track speed and distance?


04/01/2017 - 3.2km new chain test ride
05/01/2017 - 12.5km commute
07/01/2017 - 3.2km supermarket and back
09/01/2017 - 11.8km commute
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30.7 km (of 150km Jan goal) done