Originally Posted by
slyjackson
NO I just know that a person that just started riding that only rides 75 miles a week, without any previous riding experience will not be able to maintain a riding speed high enough plus keep a decent pace up hills and rollers for 50 miles to end with a 17 something mph average.
With a 71 candence I'm surprised that you can even go twenty miles. You must be riding on pancake flat roads. Come to my area in MD with 6-7% grade hills on our "A" 54 mile route. I Guarantee you and your 71 rpm candence will be calling for the sag wagon. by the way, my best with 6 of these 6% grade hills on a 54 mile route gave me a 19.4 average and the faster guys were in the 20 something range and that was done this weekend.
By the way you do realise that I rode the entire 54 mile route at 20-21 plus mph except for on the hills, So why would I be jealous of a 17 mph average?
At what point sly will you freaking understand that he has 3 months of road experience and 3 freaking years of dirt experience?
Your 6-7% grades aren't impressing me.
Come to LBL and ride the North/South trail with extended climbs of 12-14% in the dirt.
I did over 4K feet of climbing in 30 miles on the MTB sunday. I honestly thought it wasn't all that much.
Each loop was 1700 feet of climbing and we did two of those at 22.5 miles. 8.6 miles on the North/South and that's at least another 1k.
Rico can back me up on those numbers. And the two climbs past hillman's ferry make your 6-7% climbs look like a joke.
Honestly, I feel Rico is sandbagging again and he's probably hammering out a 22mph pace.