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Setting up for a 10km ride to work tomorrow and then a 10km ride home.

Any advice - padded shorts are in the fridge getting nice and cool.

This should turn into a 100KM per week cycle. Not sure what sort of gradients I will be looking at as I have not done it yet but there are some hills on the route.

What would be an average time for this sort of ride? 30-40mins or so, not sure what I should be looking at. Not that I will be beasting myself - going to take it steady for a couple of days.

Strava is all set-up now.
 
JOSH86 said:
Setting up for a 10km ride to work tomorrow and then a 10km ride home.

Any advice - padded shorts are in the fridge getting nice and cool.

This should turn into a 100KM per week cycle. Not sure what sort of gradients I will be looking at as I have not done it yet but there are some hills on the route.

What would be an average time for this sort of ride? 30-40mins or so, not sure what I should be looking at. Not that I will be beasting myself - going to take it steady for a couple of days.

Strava is all set-up now.
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I do my 18km to work in ~45-50mins depends on traffic(central london so loads of it and slows me down a lot)

I'd say 10km should be around 30ish max.
 
JOSH86 said:
Setting up for a 10km ride to work tomorrow and then a 10km ride home.

Any advice - padded shorts are in the fridge getting nice and cool.

This should turn into a 100KM per week cycle. Not sure what sort of gradients I will be looking at as I have not done it yet but there are some hills on the route.

What would be an average time for this sort of ride? 30-40mins or so, not sure what I should be looking at. Not that I will be beasting myself - going to take it steady for a couple of days.

Strava is all set-up now.
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10km each way? That should take 20-25 minutes, depending on the route, traffic, etc. Closer to half an hour if there's a lot of stopping and starting at junctions.
 
Dunks said:
Padded shorts in the fridge? :o
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I thought it might lessen the pain - tbh I have no idea, sounded like I good idea when I said it to myself.

grudas said:
I do my 18km to work in ~45-50mins depends on traffic(central london so loads of it and slows me down a lot)

I'd say 10km should be around 30ish max.
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Excellent thanks, there is very little traffic on my route, mainly b roads.

Thanks Von - yeah 10km each way.
 
By no means a huge ride, but did 23km today - started on the road bike doing 7-8km last Saturday and fairly struggling at that (:eek:). A little bit more at a time :)
 
syke said:
By no means a huge ride, but did 23km today - started on the road bike doing 7-8km last Saturday and fairly struggling at that (:eek:). A little bit more at a time :)
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That's what its all about, I remember when I first did my 13km commute! I was knackered by the time I got home and crashed out on the floor in the lounge! 6 months later and I don't think anything of it; I'd been living with such a bad diet and no exercise for 10 years or so when I started bike riding. Its amazing how you improve, now I've ticked off my first metric century ahead of schedule. Imperial next.

Keep at it! :)
 
physichull said:
Went out for 36 miles this morning and was very pleasant. Though I accidentally rode into a farm yard thinking it was a continuation of the road only to see a woman frantically waving and pointing to say I had gone the wrong way! haha!

FAO FrenchTart, I recce'd that route for you to Gorse Covert, it starts off a good surface then just deteriorates into a muddy farm road/track with a very loose surface. A road bike can handle it in the dry but you have to slow down a fair bit, but probably wouldn't like to do it in the wet.
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I'll have to check your strava but got a feeling I know where you mean, we come back that way on the wk 4 route but turn right and go over a bridge then into Gorse Covert? not too familiar where I am in that area.

We actually take the bumpy route on the annual Hell Of The North ride which includes some 'Roubaix' type sections and TPT etc. Did it last year on my Ribble winter bike, think it eventually brought us out near the M62 taking Silver Lane? - not a route for your best wheels!

Had fine ride out with the club today to the Flora Tea Rooms in Henbury nr Macclesfield (great food and service :) ), after a fairly hilly effort yesterday I was hoping for something a bit more steady today but that didn't quite go to plan.

http://www.strava.com/activities/156666790

Still a 70 miler with 18.5mph average ain't bad but the other guy on the front with me on the way back made light work of it while I was a soggy mess just about on my last legs :rolleyes:
 
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Well after all the talk of wanting to extend my run, I finally got round to it tonight. Still nothing compared to a lot of you guys but I'm more than happy with the time and the distance. Combined two previous runs into one so might have to plan some new routes and challenges for myself. Was glad of the rain during most of the run though to keep things cooler.

http://www.strava.com/activities/156897238
 
tl45 said:
I'll have to check your strava but got a feeling I know where you mean, we come back that way on the wk 4 route but turn right and go over a bridge then into Gorse Covert? not too familiar where I am in that area.

We actually take the bumpy route on the annual Hell Of The North ride which includes some 'Roubaix' type sections and TPT etc. Did it last year on my Ribble winter bike, think it eventually brought us out near the M62 taking Silver Lane? - not a route for your best wheels!

Had fine ride out with the club today to the Flora Tea Rooms in Henbury nr Macclesfield (great food and service :) ), after a fairly hilly effort yesterday I was hoping for something a bit more steady today but that didn't quite go to plan.

http://www.strava.com/activities/156666790

Still a 70 miler with 18.5mph average ain't bad but the other guy on the front with me on the way back made light work of it while I was a soggy mess just about on my last legs :rolleyes:
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Wow. I seriously doubt I could maintain 18.5mph over 70 miles :eek: Looks like a fun ride though :)
 
Finished a charity ride for John O'Groats to Lands End on Saturday evening in seven days unsupported with a friend. What a brutal seven days, first four were good and wind conditions were favourable and the body coped ok. Then the last three fatigue/aches on aches kicked in plus devon and cornwall were very hilly/tough to navigate avoiding the fast a30.

It was tough starting the days off with tired aching legs with a century and more infront of you but after 40 miles or so the legs warmed up and seemed to keep spiining with the odd ache here and there on the legs. My left arm also was bad at one stage from the bumpy scottish roads!

Back to work now and legs are still aching/fatigued but wont be rushing to get back on my bike till the TDF in Yorkshire a week on Saturday!

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