Road Cycling Essentials
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Nice route ShiWarrior, i ride past your house on the way back from work! Be going up Aston Hill approx 4:25 today
haha cool
I didn't think anyone lived near me
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Is anyone doing the Pavé Battle of June challenge on Strava?
http://www.strava.com/challenges/pave-batalla-de-junio
I'm so close to completing it but it's going to be touch and go given that I absolutely have to have a rest day on Friday and take it easy on Saturday :s
http://www.strava.com/challenges/pave-batalla-de-junio
I'm so close to completing it but it's going to be touch and go given that I absolutely have to have a rest day on Friday and take it easy on Saturday :s
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I know that feeling. I did 60 lengths front crawl before work yesterday and was practically sawing logs on the ride home after work
Same again on Friday
went for a ride felt like crap with no energy but still managed to get some personal bests :S got a kom too but only 7 other people have done that segment so doesn't really count.
oh wait velo viewer says it was mine anyway
I think I need to start doing some shorter 10 mile rides completely out the saddle the whole way though because my endurance out the saddle is like 20 seconds and then my legs don't want to carry on.
I take it most cyclists can sprint out the saddle for quite some time?
oh wait velo viewer says it was mine anyway
My fast twitch muscle fibres haven't really recovered since Sunday but doing those couple of 50 mile rides over the last few weeks really seems to have gave me some decent speed gains compared to doing 20-30 mile rides every 2 days along the river.
I think I need to start doing some shorter 10 mile rides completely out the saddle the whole way though because my endurance out the saddle is like 20 seconds and then my legs don't want to carry on.
I take it most cyclists can sprint out the saddle for quite some time?
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I can't and I'm trying to improve that. That said, you don't absolutely *have* to be out of the saddle to be fast and personally I would say that out of the saddle riding is a lot lower down on my list than just generally cycling more frequently for longer distances and at a faster pace.
yea but it's nice to be able to sprint up to a decent speed before sitting down and I don't really have enough gears to fully sit down on some of the roads around here so I'm almost constantly popping in and out of the saddle every time my cadence starts to drop which is annoying wish I could just sprint up them the whole way.
oh sweet endomondo says I did my personal best 10 miles as well and that included some time sat behind a car at 20mph in a 30 zone, didn't want to over take because my limit isn't much faster than that anyway :|
Personal best 10 miles of 35m:28s which is a 1m:24s improvement.
I wish strava did personal best over distances like endomondo does.
any of you guys upload to endomondo as well and can post yours for compare? I know they are likely much better than mine but still nice to get an idea of how fast everyone is over various distances
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The only real difference is weight isn't it? Unless the difference in grams really matters to you I wouldn't be too fussed.
I have the Charge Scoop with chromoly and it's really nice to ride on btw
Yeah..it would be nice to have that info. I only use Strava I'm afraid so I can't post anything up.
I rarely got the chance to go fast without stopping 20times for more than a mile lol.
over 50km was only done a handful of times too
yea I need to find a nice 10 mile route without traffic lights or those stupid anti motorbike gates they put on cycle routes away from roads that might as well be anti cycle gates...
even the ones seemingly designed to allow a bike through without slowing down are only millimetres wider than my bars are and I don't think my bike has wide drops.
those distance challenges only seem to count from the start of your ride too so might be worth me getting away from the city and then resetting my garmin
even the ones seemingly designed to allow a bike through without slowing down are only millimetres wider than my bars are and I don't think my bike has wide drops.
those distance challenges only seem to count from the start of your ride too so might be worth me getting away from the city and then resetting my garmin
It does for running and some other activities.
It's pretty meaningless for cyclists though. It's just going to be the longest descent you've been down as your pb.
wow can't believe people can be so evil and cruel to a little boy on his bike
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Entered, but had a few weekends away and mainly been doing TTs so time on the bike is lower than usual. I thought I done a bit of riding, but this proves I don't
Have given up on most Strava challenges now, good to challenge myself, but now I've got my levels up, just want to focus on power for TTs, which means I don't ever want to ride for hours on end!
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So just for a change, I didn't tackle any cat 1/HC climbs today!
https://www.strava.com/activities/157963558
https://www.strava.com/activities/157963558
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New cleats. New bottom bracket. Cleaned my chain. Absolutely flying today. 23 miles at a moving average of 18 mph according to garmin (strava says 17.8 boo) which is my fastest yet by around 1.5 mph.
http://www.strava.com/activities/158031708
It could filter that out though, don't include any sections with an average gradient more than -1% or something. I liked seeing what my best 10 miles etc was on endomondo. Come on veloviewer give us this please
Just selecting the fastest 10 mile section of my ride today strava says 33:10 on flat road.
http://www.strava.com/activities/158031708
It could filter that out though, don't include any sections with an average gradient more than -1% or something. I liked seeing what my best 10 miles etc was on endomondo. Come on veloviewer give us this please
Just selecting the fastest 10 mile section of my ride today strava says 33:10 on flat road.
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I only enter the distance ones as its handy for something to simply tot up my mileage per month on the dashboard screen!
I entered the Pave 48Hr challenge but haven't really had a go at seriously completing it, just been doing my usual rides and have needed some rest days to get over some of the rather pacey club rides lately.
Am used to getting out of the saddle quite often, maybe more than is necessary - when you're out with other people you get a better comparison of what is the most efficient/quicker method.
Find it very difficult to maintain a high cadence (90rmp) whilst out of the saddle, and typically you'll slow down once you do so the tip is to go up a couple of gears at the same time, this offsets the lower cadence and helps maintain your speed. Course it can start to hurt the legs after a while which is where leg strength/conditioning comes into it.
Overall though there's no right or wrong way - I've seen people scoot off at speed out of the saddle or up hills and others go just as fast while staying seated. Course when you get to serious hills it's likely virtually everyone has to get out of the saddle to get more energy into the pedals, downside being you're putting more of your body into the wind and being more upright works your heart rate a bit more as there's more work needed to pump the blood higher.
Am used to getting out of the saddle quite often, maybe more than is necessary - when you're out with other people you get a better comparison of what is the most efficient/quicker method.
Find it very difficult to maintain a high cadence (90rmp) whilst out of the saddle, and typically you'll slow down once you do so the tip is to go up a couple of gears at the same time, this offsets the lower cadence and helps maintain your speed. Course it can start to hurt the legs after a while which is where leg strength/conditioning comes into it.
Overall though there's no right or wrong way - I've seen people scoot off at speed out of the saddle or up hills and others go just as fast while staying seated. Course when you get to serious hills it's likely virtually everyone has to get out of the saddle to get more energy into the pedals, downside being you're putting more of your body into the wind and being more upright works your heart rate a bit more as there's more work needed to pump the blood higher.
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