May 2018 Biking Cycling Bicycling Bike/ Bicycle/Unicycle/Tricycle Challenge!
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If you are new to posting on this thread, or if you are new to cycling, We welcome you! If you are returning from a previous thread, We welcome you, too.
This thread is for anyone who rides a bicycle ... or unicycle, tricycle, tandem, etc.
Do you bike to work? Do you pull your children to the park? So you ride weekends? Do you spin, at home or the gym? Do you race crits, ironman, or centuries? Or, are you just starting out and remembering how much fun you had biking when you were a kid? However you choose to push your pedal, you are welcome on this thread.
There's no set challenge across participants - this is a mixed-ability / mixed-experience / everyone welcome group. Just pick your own target that you want to achieve this month, post that when you join the thread, and post updates throughout the month as you're working towards your target.
Let's get going in May!
This thread is for anyone who rides a bicycle ... or unicycle, tricycle, tandem, etc.
Do you bike to work? Do you pull your children to the park? So you ride weekends? Do you spin, at home or the gym? Do you race crits, ironman, or centuries? Or, are you just starting out and remembering how much fun you had biking when you were a kid? However you choose to push your pedal, you are welcome on this thread.
There's no set challenge across participants - this is a mixed-ability / mixed-experience / everyone welcome group. Just pick your own target that you want to achieve this month, post that when you join the thread, and post updates throughout the month as you're working towards your target.
Let's get going in May!
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I have been mountain biking for a couple years and my wife got me a full suspension bike this year so my goal is to ride a minimum of once a week to make sure my skills and fitness improves to make the bike worth it. I like to try all different types of trails to keep it changing. I have competed in a couple 30 mile single track races on my previous hard tail but haven't decided if I want to take it on with a FS bike. Anyone who live in Western Washington or Oregon feel free to hit me up. I have a small group of friends who try to meet up a couple times a month and try new trails. We just did Post Canyon in Oregon last week and Sandy Oregon a couple weeks before that.
My son and I on his first time riding single track.
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I'm not sure what to set my goal at for May. The weather is usually pretty wet this time of year so the trails may not be ride-able. I do like to get out on my mountain bike at least twice a week, also to offset the cost of a full suspension bike ;-) . I ride single track and some technical trails but I'm still pretty new to the sport. I'm in Billings, MT. I also just bought a new bike that will work on both road and single track so I'm excited to get that this week and be able to ride on the roads/paths when the trails are wet.1
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I'm happy to find this thread. I'm an older roadie that just stopped riding one day - and overate and got fat. I guess that's why I'm back to MFP... At one time I would ride 150 miles a week - that was back then.
Now I'm trying to get back in the saddle. Right now I'm riding 30-40 minutes 3x a week. Depending on wind, that's 5-6 miles or so. I want to get back to being able to knock out a 12-15 mile loop from my house.
My goal for this month is 100 miles.2 -
Man it’s nice to see more mountain bikers in this thread!
Finally the weather has broke here and I can set a monthly goal.
So for May I am looking at 50 trail miles and 50 road miles1 -
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I have an upcoming challenge in June for Cancer Ride for Kids. This would help me achieve my goal of 26 miles in one month. I ride a recumbent bike due to hip issues, and this will be a challenge for me. I rode 1.2 miles today, working towards 1.5 miles at a time.3
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I have an upcoming challenge in June for Cancer Ride for Kids. This would help me achieve my goal of 26 miles in one month. I ride a recumbent bike due to hip issues, and this will be a challenge for me. I rode 1.2 miles today, working towards 1.5 miles at a time.
Keep pedaling! You will make it !
1.2 miles is a whole lot better than sitting on the coach1 -
I like to join in. I’m a 40 something WAHM that likes to bike to get from here to there around my small college town. Nothing fancy. Just riding with my kids to school and to run errands mostly. Sometimes just for the fun of it. I have an old Raleigh hybrid I nabbed off of Craig’s list for $100. It’s in my LBS right now getting new tires and a spring spiff up. I can’t wait to get it back on a Friday in time for our mayor,s bike ride.
I do have dreams of working up to doing a longer organized ride (50 miles maybe) or committing to doing 80% of errands via bike. Oh and I’m currently coveting a rack a panniers to get the groceries off my back but then I wondering if I’m just being a consumerist chump. Any recommendations?
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Goal for the month is 70 hours. Got three races this weekend so starting with a taper week which is going to make 70 hard but planning on a 500 mile week in late May if the weather holds.
Almost 300 hours for the year so far
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Review ... (Distances include cycling + walking + a bit of running)
Mar-15 … 489.8 km (304.3 miles) = 38 hours 4 min
Apr-15 … 491.94 km (305.6 miles) = 43 hours 6 min
May-15 … 361.81 km (224.8 miles) = 35 hours 50 min
Jun-15 … 569.53 km (353.9 miles) = 41 hours 53 min
Jul-15 … 230.7 km (143.35 miles) = 32 hours 45 min
Aug-15 … 211.3 km (131.3 miles) = 28 hours 8 min
Sep-15 … 306.7 km (190.6 miles) = 35 hour 2 min
Oct-15 … 441.82 km (274.5 miles) = 47 hours 43 min
Nov-15 … 660.21 km (410.23 miles) = 60 hours 41 min
Dec-15 … 499.91 km (282.8 miles) = 54 hours 56 min
Jan-16 … 864.79 km (537.35 miles) = 65 hours 36 min
Feb-16 … 470.53 km (292.4 miles) = 40 hours 39 min
Mar-16 … 917.73 km (570.2 miles) = 66 hours 13 min
Apr-16 … 417.83 km (259.6 miles) = 40 hours 23 min
May-16 … 267.09 km (165.9 miles) = 36 hours 10 min
Jun-16 … 552.1 km (343 miles) = 54 hours 48 min
Jul-16 … 709 km (440.5 miles) = 60 hours 41 minutes
Aug-16 … 775.9 km (482.1 miles) = 54 hours 52 minutes
Sep-16 … 371.3 km (230.7 miles) = 32 hours 20 min
Oct-16 … 649 km (403.3 miles) = 49 hours 46 min
Nov-16 … 403 km (250.4 miles) = 52 hours 16 min
Dec-16 … 511.05 km (317.55 miles) = 52 hours 2 min
Jan-17 … 741.9 km (461.0 miles) = 70 hours 3 min
Feb-17 … 600.5 km (373.1 miles) = 57 hours 30 min
Mar-17 … 1113.2 km (691.7 miles) = 78 hours 25 min
Apr-17 … 1181.9 km (734.4 miles) = 76 hours 45 min
May-17 … 426.6 km (265.1 miles) = 39 hours 21 min
Jun-17 … 575.7 km (357.7 miles) = 41 hours 53 min
Jul-17 … 714 km (443.7 miles) = 52 hours 23 min
Aug-17 … 475.8 km (295.6 miles) = 38 hours 41 min
Sep-17 … 455.5 km (283 miles) = 41 hours 25 min
Oct-17 … 647.1 km (402.1 miles) = 57 hours 19 min
Nov-17 … 427.0 km (265.3 miles) = 50 hours 4 min
Dec-17 … 553.5 km (343.9 miles) = 52 hours 12 min
Jan-18 … 590.2 km (366.7 miles) = 57 hours 49 min
Feb-18 … 826.9 km (513.8 miles) = 57 hours 35 min
Mar-18 … 582.01 km (361.6 miles) = 50 hours 11 min
Apr-18 … 176.23 km (109.5 miles) = 29 hours 47 min
My goals all fell apart in late March for reasons out of my control. I don't know how May is going to go, but I'm hoping to start to pick up my fitness pieces.
For a start, I've signed up for a 5K run at the end of the month. A little goal.
And I've got some plans for more indoor cycling as winter comes on.1 -
Saturday is Official Women's Mountain Bike Day. So if you are a mountain biking woman, go ride, or men, take a woman mountain biking on Saturday
https://www.bicycling.com/news/a20067613/imba-international-womens-mountain-bike-day/3 -
Main thing for me in May is my 92 mile charity ride on the 13th.
Up to the first weekend (maybe Monday too...) I'll doing plenty of riding, especially hills.
Then it's tapering down the mileage and intensity, cutting out caffeine until the day (I'm a low caffeine responder so need to go from almost zero to loads to get any discernible benefit on the day) and supplementing with beetroot shots (because pink wee is fun?).
But main activity in the week before the ride is watching the ever changing weather forecast as that will make or break the day as regards actually enjoying the ride.0 -
What a way to start May! 80 degrees yesterday and 80 today. 2 weeks ago we had snow and freezing rain.
7 mile road ride tonight against 20 mph sustained winds.
Looks like Friday will be nice for a trail ride after work. Maybe Saturday too
Road miles: 7
Trail miles: 0
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Im in again, ill target 600Km again, starting to get cold round here. Getting tougher to get out the door in the morning. 3hrs/72km so far this month.
Ive created a cycling thread in fitness and exercise as this challenge gets reset every month. I thought it might be useful to have a ongoing thread to discuss cycling.
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10664558/cycling-bikes-indoor-outdoor-etc#latest0 -
garystrickland357 wrote: »I'm happy to find this thread. I'm an older roadie that just stopped riding one day - and overate and got fat. I guess that's why I'm back to MFP... At one time I would ride 150 miles a week - that was back then.
Now I'm trying to get back in the saddle. Right now I'm riding 30-40 minutes 3x a week. Depending on wind, that's 5-6 miles or so. I want to get back to being able to knock out a 12-15 mile loop from my house.
My goal for this month is 100 miles.
I'm sure that you'll be doing your old loop by the summer. Good luck!0 -
Just a short ride last night. My friend brought her dogs so we don't go quite as far on those nights.
May 2 - 5 miles trail
Hoping to pick up my new bike tomorrow or Saturday. I can't wait for more biking options.0 -
My Goal for May is to start winning races on the track and keep my 1st place in my local TT League. For that my coach has given me a plan, so the sub goal is to be able to stick to that plan as much as possible.
1. 28km - 53 min ( intervals ) - Zwift
2. 27km - 45min ( racing ) - Velodrome
3. 30km - 55min ( racing ) - Zwift
Interval sessions : 1/18
Racing sessions : 2/80 -
What a way to start May! 80 degrees yesterday and 80 today. 2 weeks ago we had snow and freezing rain.
7 mile road ride tonight against 20 mph sustained winds.
Looks like Friday will be nice for a trail ride after work. Maybe Saturday too
Road miles: 7
Trail miles: 0
Total miles: 7
Huskydoo - you must live in michigan! that is my exact weather.
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I bike trained quite a bit last summer (1,200 miles) and then rode a 5 day 300 mile event over Labor Day. after that ... i was quite a slug! Now I feel like I am starting over. Why oh why did i do so little over the winter!! I would like to do the event again but this time doing their harder route! This route is 330 miles with more hills. Four 70+ mile days and the last day is a shorter 50 miler. I am wondering if i can handle this! Well i have to start somewhere and i rode 30 miles in April and have had 1 May ride for 9 miles (it was windy and warm and so hard!). I really need to get 200 - 300 miles in May.1
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What a way to start May! 80 degrees yesterday and 80 today. 2 weeks ago we had snow and freezing rain.
7 mile road ride tonight against 20 mph sustained winds.
Looks like Friday will be nice for a trail ride after work. Maybe Saturday too
Road miles: 7
Trail miles: 0
Total miles: 7
Huskydoo - you must live in michigan! that is my exact weather.
Yep!
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Hills today, lots of hills....
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That is a lot of hills indeed !
1. 28km - 53 min ( intervals ) - Zwift
2. 27km - 45min ( racing ) - Velodrome
3. 30km - 55min ( racing ) - Zwift
4. 34km - 60min ( social ) - Zwift
Interval sessions : 1/18
Racing sessions : 2/80 -
Rainy day Thursday. Got a 4 mile ride around the block. Friday extreme high winds 60-70 mph gusts (still do not have power). Winds died down in the afternoon and got 6.5 miles of trails in after work.
Road miles: 11
Trail miles: 6.5
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May 2 - 5 miles trail
May 5 - 8 miles trail *** Celebrating #womensmtbday
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1. 28km - 53 min ( intervals ) - Zwift
2. 27km - 45min ( racing ) - Velodrome
3. 30km - 55min ( racing ) - Zwift
4. 34km - 60min ( social ) - Zwift
5. 47km - 90min ( race + intervals ) - Zwift
Interval sessions : 2/18
Racing sessions : 3/8
Distance: 166km
Time: 5h03
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Long easy pace ride today, 80 miles looping around Guildford, Surrey in hot sunshine. Garmin didn't like the route so had to wing it for most of the ride while being told to U turn. Found some lovely new roads around The Hog's Back though which will be well worth revisiting.
189 miles for the week.
Will taper down now so I'm fully rested before next weekend's event.1 -
So I did 2 days racing.
First day...warm up then 2.3 miles 580 feet of climbing. 8:40 total time. 322 watts at 130 pounds. Best ever.
Second road race. Finished 7th, in the lead group but nothing special. Started with 80 plus.
So today I skipped the criterium race (4 hours of driving did not seem worth 45 minutes of racing). Instead I did a solo 100.5 miles with 3000 feet of climbing. Averaged 21.3 mph which is my fastest solo 100 ever. Very happy with the ride.
5/6 weeks until my goal race of the year.4 -
Review ... (Distances include cycling + walking + a bit of running)
Mar-15 … 489.8 km (304.3 miles) = 38 hours 4 min
Apr-15 … 491.94 km (305.6 miles) = 43 hours 6 min
May-15 … 361.81 km (224.8 miles) = 35 hours 50 min
Jun-15 … 569.53 km (353.9 miles) = 41 hours 53 min
Jul-15 … 230.7 km (143.35 miles) = 32 hours 45 min
Aug-15 … 211.3 km (131.3 miles) = 28 hours 8 min
Sep-15 … 306.7 km (190.6 miles) = 35 hour 2 min
Oct-15 … 441.82 km (274.5 miles) = 47 hours 43 min
Nov-15 … 660.21 km (410.23 miles) = 60 hours 41 min
Dec-15 … 499.91 km (282.8 miles) = 54 hours 56 min
Jan-16 … 864.79 km (537.35 miles) = 65 hours 36 min
Feb-16 … 470.53 km (292.4 miles) = 40 hours 39 min
Mar-16 … 917.73 km (570.2 miles) = 66 hours 13 min
Apr-16 … 417.83 km (259.6 miles) = 40 hours 23 min
May-16 … 267.09 km (165.9 miles) = 36 hours 10 min
Jun-16 … 552.1 km (343 miles) = 54 hours 48 min
Jul-16 … 709 km (440.5 miles) = 60 hours 41 minutes
Aug-16 … 775.9 km (482.1 miles) = 54 hours 52 minutes
Sep-16 … 371.3 km (230.7 miles) = 32 hours 20 min
Oct-16 … 649 km (403.3 miles) = 49 hours 46 min
Nov-16 … 403 km (250.4 miles) = 52 hours 16 min
Dec-16 … 511.05 km (317.55 miles) = 52 hours 2 min
Jan-17 … 741.9 km (461.0 miles) = 70 hours 3 min
Feb-17 … 600.5 km (373.1 miles) = 57 hours 30 min
Mar-17 … 1113.2 km (691.7 miles) = 78 hours 25 min
Apr-17 … 1181.9 km (734.4 miles) = 76 hours 45 min
May-17 … 426.6 km (265.1 miles) = 39 hours 21 min
Jun-17 … 575.7 km (357.7 miles) = 41 hours 53 min
Jul-17 … 714 km (443.7 miles) = 52 hours 23 min
Aug-17 … 475.8 km (295.6 miles) = 38 hours 41 min
Sep-17 … 455.5 km (283 miles) = 41 hours 25 min
Oct-17 … 647.1 km (402.1 miles) = 57 hours 19 min
Nov-17 … 427.0 km (265.3 miles) = 50 hours 4 min
Dec-17 … 553.5 km (343.9 miles) = 52 hours 12 min
Jan-18 … 590.2 km (366.7 miles) = 57 hours 49 min
Feb-18 … 826.9 km (513.8 miles) = 57 hours 35 min
Mar-18 … 582.01 km (361.6 miles) = 50 hours 11 min
Apr-18 … 176.23 km (109.5 miles) = 29 hours 47 min
My goals all fell apart in late March for reasons out of my control. I don't know how May is going to go, but I'm hoping to start to pick up my fitness pieces.
For a start, I've signed up for a 5K run at the end of the month. A little goal.
Tuesday, 1 May 2018 ... 3 km walking + 6 flights of stairs
Wednesday, 2 May 2018 ... 5 km walking + 6 flights of stairs
Thursday, 3 May 2018 ... 1.8 km walking + 6 flights of stairs
Friday, 4 May 2018 ... 1.8 km walking + 12 flights of stairs
Saturday, 5 May 2018 .. 5.92 walking and running
Sunday, 6 May 2018 ... 3.26 walking and running
Monday, 7 May 2018 ... 6.6 walking + 6 flights of stairs
2017 Monthly May
Walking Distance (km): 27.4
Walking Time (min): 342.3
Cycling Distance (km): 0.0
Cycling Time (min): 0.0
Stairs Climbed Number: 36.0
Stairs Climbed Time (min): 28.8
Totals
Total Distance (km): 27.4
Total Distance (miles): 17.0
Total Time (min): 371.1
Total Time (hr): 6:11:03
No cycling yet, but I'm looking into the possibility of setting up Zwift for the winter.0 -
May 2 - 5 miles trail
May 5 - 8 miles trail *** Celebrating #womensmtbday
May 6 - 7 miles trail0
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