Huffing and Puffing
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Huffing and Puffing
I ride 4 miles to the train station every morning, I always seems harder gong from home to the train than the train to home. The mornings are a workout for me I poke along at about 12 mph on my MTB, comming home I hit 20.5 mph today for a mile and averaged about 15 mph. I fired up the GPS and found that the train station is about 150 feet higher than my house. I knew it was up hill but I had no clue that it was that much up hill. I never thought that a 150 feet in 4 miles would be noticable.
Total commute each day 16 miles.
One of the ladies at work today saw me doing the 4 miles from the train stop to work it amazed her. She thought I was only doing about a mile from a different station she was amazed. I told her not bad for a fat old man!
I like amazing people.
Joe
Total commute each day 16 miles.
One of the ladies at work today saw me doing the 4 miles from the train stop to work it amazed her. She thought I was only doing about a mile from a different station she was amazed. I told her not bad for a fat old man!
I like amazing people.
Joe
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Originally Posted by taylor8
I ride 4 miles to the train station every morning, I always seems harder gong from home to the train than the train to home. The mornings are a workout for me I poke along at about 12 mph on my MTB, comming home I hit 20.5 mph today for a mile and averaged about 15 mph. I fired up the GPS and found that the train station is about 150 feet higher than my house. I knew it was up hill but I had no clue that it was that much up hill. I never thought that a 150 feet in 4 miles would be noticable.
Total commute each day 16 miles.
One of the ladies at work today saw me doing the 4 miles from the train stop to work it amazed her. She thought I was only doing about a mile from a different station she was amazed. I told her not bad for a fat old man!
I like amazing people.
Joe
Total commute each day 16 miles.
One of the ladies at work today saw me doing the 4 miles from the train stop to work it amazed her. She thought I was only doing about a mile from a different station she was amazed. I told her not bad for a fat old man!
I like amazing people.
Joe
I ride quite regularly and find it takes me about 5 miles to get comfortable on a bike before I can start to put in some effort. If you find it tough for the first 4 miles, why not cycle to the next station on the line and get yourself comfortable. Either that or move house so that you can have a downhill run in the morning
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It's your call: either accept the lower speeds in the am or stretch for 15 minutes before you start. Your body is simply not read for those easy 4 miles.
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Originally Posted by taylor8
I fired up the GPS and found that the train station is about 150 feet higher than my house. I knew it was up hill but I had no clue that it was that much up hill. I never thought that a 150 feet in 4 miles would be noticable.
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Next station is 25 miles away across a 1000 foot hill with 8 lanes of freeway. I was just supprised at the small agin in altitude would slow me down so much. I wish I had the time to do the next station but I also have a two hour train ride to where I work. I would have to leave the house at 3 am and would not get home at night until after 10 p,.
I think part that is hard is walking out of the house and having to hit it hard right out the door with no warm up. I takes me about a mile before I feel loose and ready to ride.
This next week is a no ride week for me because I will be in a class.
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I think part that is hard is walking out of the house and having to hit it hard right out the door with no warm up. I takes me about a mile before I feel loose and ready to ride.
This next week is a no ride week for me because I will be in a class.
Joe
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Originally Posted by taylor8
Next station is 25 miles away across a 1000 foot hill with 8 lanes of freeway. I was just supprised at the small agin in altitude would slow me down so much. I wish I had the time to do the next station but I also have a two hour train ride to where I work. I would have to leave the house at 3 am and would not get home at night until after 10 p,.
I think part that is hard is walking out of the house and having to hit it hard right out the door with no warm up. I takes me about a mile before I feel loose and ready to ride.
This next week is a no ride week for me because I will be in a class.
Joe
I think part that is hard is walking out of the house and having to hit it hard right out the door with no warm up. I takes me about a mile before I feel loose and ready to ride.
This next week is a no ride week for me because I will be in a class.
Joe
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I have improved my first four mile time by 10 min in the past month. I try to push it hard. Like I have said I have an odd commute, 4 miles on the bike 62 miles on a train and 4 miles on a bike. There is just no time to do any more riding as I spend about six hours a day commuting. When the days were longer I was doing an extra few miles in the evening but now it is just stright home, I hate riding at night, cars and bad sections of town to traverse.
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Originally Posted by MikeR
I know - it's Like "Funny, I didn't notice that hill when I was driving!"