Road Cycling

FrenchTart said:
Essentially both riding outside and riding on the turbo is subject to a lot of factors that mean it's virtually impossible to directly compare one ride's miles and speeds to another. Hence why I personally don't have an issue with turbo miles being recorded in principle.
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I think that's it, different people measuring things in different ways. I think I'm of the same opinion as FT - the mileage is probably the wrong way of recording things, but that's not just indoor/trainer miles! Intensity and duration are much more important from a training principle!

Personally, I don't even consider my own trainer miles to be the same as my 'outdoor' miles. I do use mileage as a 'goal' but it's nothing more than a weekly incentive for me to get additional mileage in around my commuting. Any direct comparing I do with Zwift is really just tongue in cheek! On that note, anyone with Zwift go beat my Box time! (7th on OcUK leaderboard) ;)

xdcx said:
I will never ever understand the logic behind the thinking of someone who is willing to cheat at any level, never mind at an amateur level. Lying to yourself and having the negative judgement of others rightfully put on you when you get found out for the sake a tiny amount of false glory just baffles me.
Cheating on something like Zwift or Strava and lying to yourself and everyone else surely has to be result of actual mental issues up there.
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Yup, you're cheating nothing more than yourself on things like Zwift.

Just let them think they're CAT A/B and then get their arses handed to them in the real world by CAT3-4 riders ;)
 
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URRRGGHHHH

Horribly destroyed again today at my coaching session.

Warm up, followed by 4 mins just above Threshold (around 255W for me), then 30 seconds rest and then 30 seconds max effort, 30 second rest, 30 second max effort. 3 min recovery.....rinse and repeat the whole thing 5 times!!!:eek::eek:

Decent numbers - totally gubbed at the end, nearly puked. The 2nd of the 30 seconds max efforts are so hard as you've buried yourself on the 1st one. legs are screaming.

Anyway - 4 mins x 5 - I managed 255-260W on them all, so all above threshold, the 30 second ones I managed around 530W for the first few, then it was all about trying to keep above 500W for every other one. Thing my last one was 489W or something.

Totally destroyed today. Coach seemed happy with the numbers and the session so all good there but that was horrible - worst session I've ever done in terms of pushing myself as much as I could.....nothing else left in the tank.
 
Is a Garmin 810 still worth a purchase at £70 or is it just too old to bother with now? TBH there is nothing really wrong with my Edge 200 but having that on the bars for my route and my Fenix 3 for HR and barometric altimeter is a bit of a chore.
 
lordrobs said:
Is a Garmin 810 still worth a purchase at £70 or is it just too old to bother with now? TBH there is nothing really wrong with my Edge 200 but having that on the bars for my route and my Fenix 3 for HR and barometric altimeter is a bit of a chore.
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£70?! That's a steal and well worth it.
 
I'll snap one up if I see one then. Aldi clearance apparently but at my local one... well... lets just say the cake isle is more popular than the sports stuff so I could be in luck.
 
I'm stuck in the house off work for my 6th day of Tonsillitis, started with a fever last Tuesday with my temp around 38.5c from my armpit. Managed to get to the out of ours on Saturday for a weeks worth of antibiotics.

Wonder how much two weeks off the bike will set me back now :( maybe I'll be lighter as I've eaten barely anything.
 
lol I'm in the ill club too, not rubbing it in, but I think I'm just about over it now. Not riding tomorrow just to be safe, but I have the rest of the week off anyway. Miles to be made up! Shame the weather looks crap.
 
booyaka said:
URRRGGHHHH

Horribly destroyed again today at my coaching session.
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Ouch, good threshold training for you if nothing else! Keep pushing, can't promise it'll get any easier (you'll just go faster)![/Greg Lemond] ;)
lordrobs said:
Is a Garmin 810 still worth a purchase at £70 or is it just too old to bother with now? TBH there is nothing really wrong with my Edge 200 but having that on the bars for my route and my Fenix 3 for HR and barometric altimeter is a bit of a chore.
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Maybe worth that, but you'll get one barely used for less than £50. I struggled to sell mine, highest offer I had was for £40 and I had hoped to get at least £100 for it! :o

Paid just over £200 for mine around 2 years ago, should've sold it when the ELEMNT first came out rather than waiting (and the 520 being released)... Doh!

Pretty much resolved to keeping mine (even with it's Bluetooth freezing/fault), at least if I go MTB'ing I'll use it to save breaking my ELEMNT/mount ;)
Jonny ///M said:
I'm stuck in the house off work for my 6th day of Tonsillitis, started with a fever last Tuesday with my temp around 38.5c from my armpit. Managed to get to the out of ours on Saturday for a weeks worth of antibiotics.

Wonder how much two weeks off the bike will set me back now :( maybe I'll be lighter as I've eaten barely anything.
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Rubbish, hope you feel better soon mate! At least you're not missing any good weather... Oh wait, the sun just came out! Actually it's raining, no wait. DAMMIT WEATHER! Glad I drove today. ;)

I'm looking at Handlebars, I want some with an angled drop similar to the Ritchey WCS Logic 2/Easton EA50, rather than the usual rounded shape as I find the 'pads' of my index fingers get sore after prolonged use. Even found my left index finger staying numb for ~12 hours after less than an hour turbo session in them. Any others I should be looking at? I'll probably buy a stem to match the bars & would prefer alu for cheapness/resilience to knocks if they do end up on my road bike rather than the turbo. Not looking to sell a kidney (so around ~150 all in?).
 
[QUOTE="Roady, post: 30547841, member: 1758"

I'm looking at Handlebars, I want some with an angled drop similar to the Ritchey WCS Logic 2/Easton EA50, rather than the usual rounded shape as I find the 'pads' of my index fingers get sore after prolonged use. Even found my left index finger staying numb for ~12 hours after less than an hour turbo session in them. Any others I should be looking at? I'll probably buy a stem to match the bars & would prefer alu for cheapness/resilience to knocks if they do end up on my road bike rather than the turbo. Not looking to sell a kidney (so around ~150 all in?).[/QUOTE]

Probably best to go to a bike shop and ask to try a few out. Out of the three, I can only get on with the bars on this one, but I guess some of that could be do with the bike geometry, how how or low the horizontal bar of the bar is relative to the ground/saddle (and the other bikes)

https://static.evanscycles.com/prod...oad-bike-black-blue-white-EV200687-8500-1.jpg
 
merlin said:
6 days and counting, for my first ever Sportive.

<GULP>

*nervous smiley*
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Good luck with it, pace yourself nice and easy and make sure you eat and drink regularly and you should be ok. Also remember sitting on someone's wheel helps save energy but take your turn on the front.
 
Roady said:
Ouch, good threshold training for you if nothing else! Keep pushing, can't promise it'll get any easier (you'll just go faster)![/Greg Lemond] ;)
Maybe worth that, but you'll get one barely used for less than £50. I struggled to sell mine, highest offer I had was for £40 and I had hoped to get at least £100 for it! :o

Paid just over £200 for mine around 2 years ago, should've sold it when the ELEMNT first came out rather than waiting (and the 520 being released)... Doh!

Pretty much resolved to keeping mine (even with it's Bluetooth freezing/fault), at least if I go MTB'ing I'll use it to save breaking my ELEMNT/mount ;)
Rubbish, hope you feel better soon mate! At least you're not missing any good weather... Oh wait, the sun just came out! Actually it's raining, no wait. DAMMIT WEATHER! Glad I drove today. ;)

I'm looking at Handlebars, I want some with an angled drop similar to the Ritchey WCS Logic 2/Easton EA50, rather than the usual rounded shape as I find the 'pads' of my index fingers get sore after prolonged use. Even found my left index finger staying numb for ~12 hours after less than an hour turbo session in them. Any others I should be looking at? I'll probably buy a stem to match the bars & would prefer alu for cheapness/resilience to knocks if they do end up on my road bike rather than the turbo. Not looking to sell a kidney (so around ~150 all in?).
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Aye thankfully it's been pretty rough weather wise, got a text for a Sunday run but nobody made it out.

Sounds like you're describing an anatomic drop rather than round/compact. We tend to do a lot of the Pro stuff, Vibe mainly. I like the 31.8mm diameter right across the whole top bar with no taper.
 
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