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Lopéz said:
Got up at 7 with the aim of doing 80km.

Amazed myself by actually doing it :p

http://app.strava.com/rides/16402815

I'm still mega slow on hills as you can see by my average speed, plenty of work to be done.
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Max Speed 70.8mi/h

Wuuuuhhh? :p Obviously that's a GPS error in which case I wouldn't trust your average either. You might want to just work it out manually.
 
Hehe yes I just noticed that!
Average of 14.1 mph so even with what I assume has to be a GPS error with regards to top speed, the result on Strava looks about right.
 
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Sometimes Strava gives me mental elevation numbers as well. It then sits and takes ages re-calculating it and tells me I climbed half of what it first told me :p
 
Saundie said:
Anybody interested in buying one of Bradley Wiggins' bikes? Mr Hincapie, I'm looking in your direction :P
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i think its a disgrace he's selling it, someone genuinely interested in bradley/teamsky/cycling could have had a chance to win that! :mad:

theres another one!! KJELL CARLSTROM'S bike is there too

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TEAM-SKY-...0954646968?pt=UK_Bikes_GL&hash=item4aba6341b8

Ben swifts bike

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ben-Swift...0754323764?pt=UK_Bikes_GL&hash=item43b24ee534

Would love to know where sky originally offer sale of the bikes
 
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Had a cracking ride in to work early this morning and an even better one coming back. Pleased to see my average speed is rising a little bit every few weeks, I feel that I'm making faster progress which is encouraging. Feel the bike could do with a long overdue service though, it's occasionally doing that sudden 'clunk' and changing gear without warning when I'm really pressing on or I'm out of the saddle sometimes.

And isn't Strava brilliant?. I can see it becoming quite addictive trying to beat times on certain parts of my route and climb higher up the lists!!. :)
 
Draeger said:
And isn't Strava brilliant?. I can see it becoming quite addictive trying to beat times on certain parts of my route and climb higher up the lists!!. :)
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Yeah, I like it. It can get a bit silly though. There's a segment about a mile long near me that starts and ends at traffic lights, and has a set right in the middle. If you have a standing start or get stopped in the middle then you're screwed. The other day I got a flying start through the first lights, and must have hit the timing of the middle set to sail through. Then I had to stop at the closing set and must have been scant feet from the "finish" point because my time was woeful, and when I looked at the chart I was sat just off the finish line for like 15s at 0mph. Hnnnnngggh. I'd have climbed 2 places if not for that!
 
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Yeah, I like it. It can get a bit silly though. There's a segment about a mile long near me that starts and ends at traffic lights, and has a set right in the middle. If you have a standing start or get stopped in the middle then you're screwed. The other day I got a flying start through the first lights, and must have hit the timing of the middle set to sail through. Then I had to stop at the closing set and must have been scant feet from the "finish" point because my time was woeful, and when I looked at the chart I was sat just off the finish line for like 15s at 0mph. Hnnnnngggh. I'd have climbed 2 places if not for that!
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Suprised it has'nt been marked as dangerous, there is a segment i commute on and it it got removed because of a set of lights in the middle.
 
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Suprised it has'nt been marked as dangerous, there is a segment i commute on and it it got removed because of a set of lights in the middle.
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I've thought that. I've come very closing to running it on red when I've been bearing down on it.

EDIT: Just been to Strava and flagged it. Didn't know you could do that. Makes sense really!
 
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So.... I've kind of been put into a 25 mile bike ride for work in around 6 weeks, having not ridden a bike for quite some time!

I've purchased a road bike which should be arriving in 2-3 weeks (cycle to work scheme) and managed to borrow a very nicely spec'd road bike for the time being to practice on.

Fairly fit already and spend a lot of time in the gym but mainly focused on weights but I'd like to think my cardiovascular fitness is above average.

My question is, how can I best utilise the next 6 weeks to train? (it's on the weekend of 14-16th of September).

I'm finding the move to a road bike pretty difficult, mainly the mounting/dismounting- but hopefully this will improve over the next week or so.

Time wise, well I'm normally in the gym 4-5 times a week for an hour so I already set a decent amount of time aside for fitness, and am happy to cut down gym sessions to replace with rides. I'm probably going to commute to work everyday, but that's only 2.5 miles or so.

So OCUK, any tips / tricks / rough routines I should be looking at? I'm quite competitive... :o

TL;DR - 25 mile bike ride/race in 6 weeks, help me with training!
 
Training for 25 miles? Pff. If like you say you're relatively fit then you won't struggle with that.

Just get some general time in the saddle like you're planning to via commuting and do a few 10/15 mile odd rides.
 
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