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Arrr you're right. It is just me being impatient. It look a while to include my previous activities
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Arrr you're right. It is just me being impatient. It look a while to include my previous activities
Cheers. I've ordered a couple of those.
I'll freely admit that I miss coffee and tea. I drink Jasmine from time to time (rarely) but its caffeine free. It's doubly hard working in France where everyone has shots of coffee all the time.No coffee?Drinking awesome coffee isn't far behind cycling and making/eating awesome food in terms of things I enjoy. I don't find it normally impacts my cycling, aside from if I don't feed my caffeine addiction of course.
I do want to try the chia seed thing though. It sounds pretty interesting.
I try not to drink any caffeine after my lunch time coffee unless I'm about to do a really intensive exercise session involving gym + a turbo session or long ride. I cut back to having about three double espressos worth of coffee per day from drinking farrrr too much years ago. I don't find it really effects my sleep now.
I've said it before but look into taurine as a food supplement to have before bed. It improves the quality of deep sleep you have and massively counteracts the effects of caffeine and alcohol on said deep sleep. Science, yo.
Chia seeds are amazing. Everyone should get on board.
To be honest with you, if you're eating enough you will find it very easy to get through the 100 mile per week barrier. It's a mental thing more than anything else. Worst case, you'll feel knackered and be really slow on one or two of your rides the first time you do it. Then a few weeks of doing it later you'll wonder how you ever struggled
You're right about it being a mental thing, I just think it's just quite a nice number to 'work towards'. Lets not forget that until 8 weeks ago I hadn't ridden more than 14 miles in a single ride! Now I'm doing 30 miles at 16-18mph!
Arrr you're right. It is just me being impatient. It look a while to include my previous activities
That's the thing, Strava segments/KOM's etc take a while to register. You'll see similar if you create a segment from 1 of your rides - you'll have the K.O.M. and then lose it when Strava goes back through and checks all the rides which have gone over the segment. It can sometimes take days!
Which size did you go for? People are saying in the reviews that they come up very snug.
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I'm on course for my second hundred mile week in a row. Next week will be a lighter week, though, as I'm away for work so will probably only manage an evening ride at the start of the week and then a couple of short ones at the weekend.
Didn't read the reviews and went for small based on the size chart.
If they're too small I'll just send them back. You want snug for base layers really though.
You're right about it being a mental thing, I just think it's just quite a nice number to 'work towards'. Lets not forget that until 8 weeks ago I hadn't ridden more than 14 miles in a single ride! Now I'm doing 30 miles at 16-18mph!
I think you'll be surprised, just go for it
Add a couple of miles on to each commute and you'll be at 70 before the weekend.opps i meant 53 on the front not 50!
Great ride home last night, done a few extra miles and notched up 45miles. I can feel a bit of speed coming back slowly after a winter of getting fat
Couldnt believe how many people were out.No rest days never did me any harm doing 150miles/week minimum.
Maybe it didn't do you any harm but wasn't as productive as having strategic rest days?
I wouldn't advocate no rest days. There is such a thing as over training and your body needs the rest periods to recover and get stronger.
I wouldn't advocate no rest days. There is such a thing as over training and your body needs the rest periods to recover and get stronger.
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If your commute is only 4 miles each way (if my maths is right) then I wouldn't even worry about recovery tbh. You're getting enough.
The only way you're going to get less fatigued is to push harder to get your overall fitness up. Do longer rides to get more endurance and harder (faster/steeper) rides to get more strength. Worrying about anything else at this point is unnecessary.
My progression for example was pretty much this - no specific training plan or diet or whatever:
1) MTB commuter doing maybe 5-10m each way. Relatively flat.
2) MTB commuter doing 10m ish each way. Relatively flat.
2a) Started doing weights - Loved doing squats and deadlifts. Dem quads/glutes.
3) Road commuter doing 10-15 mile ish each way - Relatively flat.
3a) Still doing weights.
3b) Started going out on weekend recreation rides - Relatively hilly (sucked at first but gained strength quickly.
4) Road commuter still doing 15m ish rides but altering commute to take in a decent hill climb on the return)
4a) Still doing weights.
4b) Still doing weekend rides with ridiculous hills.
5) As above but doing long sportives.
6) As above but doing things like a solo 100m ride and going to Majorca to climb mountains (inc 85m 12,000 total climbed ft ride).
7) Quit cycling for a year...
At no point during any of that did I take my diet/recovery properly seriously. Just eat more, ride more, eat more, ride more. Mid ride weekend snack was 3 cakes and a hot chocolate at the cafe. Pete will vouch for that. I was overweight but had bags of power to make up for it.
Anyway, long story short, don't worry about it. Just fuel up well and push hard. The rest will come.
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My June audux route planned. 24 hour cycle from Manchester to the south coast and then back to stay at a friend's place in Winchester.
https://www.strava.com/routes/2128345
*cry*
https://www.strava.com/routes/2128345
*cry*
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[Damien];27921018 said:Jesus, that's properly mental.Good luck...
I won't be doing it solo. There will be four of us...at the start
We're going past lots of points where we can bail if it turns out to not be possible. We may also just get the last train back from Southampton to Winchester if we're too destroyed once we hit the coast.I'm a bit worried about it tbh. On the weekend of the first we're riding to Newcastle on the Sat and then back again on the Sunday to get a feel for cycling with crazy fatigue levels.
That last bit from Winchester South is not a nice route.
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Got any better suggestions? I'm happy to modify the route if someone with local knowledge can suggest anything.
Generally speaking I checked most roads on street view and avoided hideous looking ones where I could but by the end I kind of got route-planning fatigue and was less careful than I could be.
edit: We don't particularly *have* to get to Southampton so we could hit the coast(well, kind of coast) a bit further east if it's a less hideous ride.
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Yeah you're probably right. I suppose if I was racing I'd have taken the time to have rest days.
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Hey guys,
I'm doing a 50 mile ride in a few weeks and am looking at putting some road tyres on my MTB. I've narrowed it down to some schwalbe marathons but not sure if I should be running 1.5" or 1.75". With 1.5" it looks like I'll also need new tubes since mine are 1.75-2.25.
Would there much much difference between the two sizes?
I'm doing a 50 mile ride in a few weeks and am looking at putting some road tyres on my MTB. I've narrowed it down to some schwalbe marathons but not sure if I should be running 1.5" or 1.75". With 1.5" it looks like I'll also need new tubes since mine are 1.75-2.25.
Would there much much difference between the two sizes?
It does look filthy!
The rear derailleur 'arm' looks to be doing all the work without the body moving enough. Probably just grime on the cable stopping it? I'll take pics of mine at lunchtime if you want a comparison?
Sorry for the delayed reply, I work nights so only just seen this!
If you could that would be great
Thanks.
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