bassjones

Goal is 100 for the first time...

5/16: 11.89
5/10: 4.92
5/6: 4.73
5/2: 5.9

month so far - 27.44 miles

getting there... I need to increase frequency. The miles will come as my endurance increases. I'm also walking 2-3 x's a week at 2-4 miles a time.

Sayre Kulp 

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MTD: 145 miles
YTD: 1161 miles

brwarrior

5/13 - 6.58
5/14 - 12.53 (I like this nice ride. Takes about an hour off the clock, bike lanes for the most part and very light traffic.)
5/15 - 6.14 (AM Commute) Today was the local Bike to Work Day.
5/15 - 5.17 (PM Commute, with idiots.) Had a couple people pull in front of me, on bikes no less. And there was the girl walking in the middle of the bike lane. At least she was facing traffic, didn't mean she actually got out of the way.
5/15 - 24.78 (Evening ride). My weekly ride with my best friend and riding partner.

I'm off the bike until my first metric on Saturday unless I take a cruise tomorrow night into the Farmer's Market. It's very cool as they have a local bike group do a bike valet.

MTD - 268.08
YTD - 757

(During the metric on Saturday I'll surpass my entire 2012 mileage in about 2+ months of riding this year.)

IBOHUNT

Hope it's 'watch your dog run away for a week' flat and(!) you have some drafting help;

https://bikecalculator.com/index.html

185 lb rider; 20 lb bike with a .1% grade which is only(!) 500' gain over 100 miles (not likely there) no headwind that link says that will take an average power of 222 watts.

For 5 hrs that's not an easy task. That's at the top of Tempo or into Threshold for many a rider. To get that into an Endurance wattage zone you have to have an FTP of ~300 Watts.

By myself; that dog ain't hunting. With a few other STRONG riders, no stop signs and flat flat flat... maybe.

A 6 hour solo flat century is very realistic for many as that's *cough* ONLY(!) a 17 mph avg *cough*

I'm sure some of our esteemed colleagues that know more about what it takes to accomplish a feat such as that can chime in.


edit:
I went and did a 1 hr ride and plugged in my numbers. The wattage required by the website is ~20% higher than what Golden Cheetah and Garmin report I really used. (avg power 240W, .9% grade)

That said, 20 mph is a tough one to crack for any real length of time. Don't think I can do a tempo pace for 100 miles.

IBOHUNT

Might I suggest you move?
Henley On Thames, Oxfordshire is a lovely place.

SoggySandwich

So far in May I have done 261.98 miles. I have an event on June 1st so I will be slowing down before then so I may not make my 401 goal. I should make it if I keep my same pace going. My weight loss has stalled at 310 - 315 lbs because I am eating too much and too much junk, but overall I am down from 360 lbs.

2012: 647.62 mi
YTD: 848.32 mi

Jason300

5/16 41 miles Strava Link
5/14 28 miles Strava Link
5/12 Sprained Calf muscle
5/9 34 miles
5/8 12 miles + 2 mile run = brick
5/7 41 miles
5/6 28 miles
5/2 37 miles
5/1 16 miles


MTD = 239 miles
Goal = 550 miles

mattgmann

5-14 8 miles
5-15 17 miles
5-16 17 miles
6-17 17 miles

MTD - 159 miles. 171 to go

IBOHUNT

Mike - here's an excellent read from another place I belong for trying to get to 20 mph:

https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...rove-MPH/page2

You'll see that the difference between 17 and 20 mph is HUGE in terms or required power.

Now go forth and interval...

Tandem427

5/17 72.8 miles

MTD: 600.6 miles
YTD: 2748.4 miles, 20.06 miles/day

Castelli's Battaglia in Montagna: 431.6k/813, 53%, day 5 of 14

Kazzy

5/17 - 20.66
Had two flats today, one on each tire. I think I got some bad tubes when I had the shop replace my tires. At least I can do the change out in the field with these tires. My previous tires I couldn't get off the rims to save my life. But they also never flatted. So there's that.

lolguy

5/17: 19.44 miles
MTD: 206.95 miles
YTD: 1,612.03 miles

volosong

Easy 50k.

20130501 - 20.1 mi., (32.4 km) - 1,113 feet, (339 m). Strava Link
20130503 - 63.0 mi., (101.4 km) - 1,127 feet, (344 m). Strava Link
20130504 - 14.4 mi., (23.2 km) - 757 feet, (231 m). Strava Link
20130505 - 18.0 mi., (29.0 km) - 2,478 feet, (755 m). Strava Link
20130506 - 17.5 mi., (28.2 km) - 413 feet, (126 m). Strava Link
20130507 - 18.2 mi., (29.3 km) - 1,016 feet, (310 m). Strava Link
20130508 - 21.0 mi., (33.8 km) - 556 feet, (170 m), Strava Link
20130509 - 5.1 mi., (8.2 km) - 53 feet, (16 m), Strava Link
20130510 - 10.0 mi., (16.1 km) - 167 feet, (51 m), Strava Link
20130517 - 31.0 mi., (49.9 km) - 1215 feet, (370 m), Strava Link

mtd: 209.1 mi., (336.5 km) - 8,895 feet, (2,711 m), 10 rides
ytd: 781.3 mi., (1,257.4 km) - 26,114 feet, (7,960 m), 28 rides

May goals:
(1) ride 404 miles/650 km -- 51.8% complete
(2) climb 14,764 feet/4,500 meters -- 60.3% complete
(3) complete two metric centuries -- half complete

yearly goal: ride 3,107 mi./5,000 km (259 mi./417 km per month),
climb 118,110 feet/26,000 m (9843 feet/3,000 m per month)

volosong

A 97 mile commute!!! It's no wonder you were late to work. Well done.

donalson

5/6 - 11.6
5/8 - 13.3
5/16 - 14.1
5/18 - 27.2 group ride with a local cycling club, first time out and with the "new-cruisers" aka fairly slow and no drop group... the felt good though about mile 23 or so and then I bonked... really had to push myself for those last few miles... will bring a banana or something next time i go out that long.

66.2 miles MTD
43.8 miles to go

plumberroy

8 miles wet and humid 104.3 M.T.D.
Roy

Tel0004

Today was a long day. I couldn't sleep, so I woke up at 3:30 am, and surfed the web. I had to leave at 5:15am, since I was volunteering for a charity bike ride. I was on my feet from 6am-9:30 am helping with registration, then at 9:45 am, I headed out for a 30 mile ride. My longest ever.

At about mile 26, my nipples were hard enough to cut to cut glass. It was chaffing on my Tshirt. I know it happens to marathoners, but I didn't think it happens to cyclist. I did wear a cotton tshirt, which I realize is not ideal, but I didn't have any problems on my 28 mile ride about two weeks ago. I think I'll either get some bodyglide, or get a cycling tshirt before my next long ride. I got a cycling shirt on clearance in XL, but I'm probably about 2 months away from fitting in it.

The actual ride length was 32.1 miles today. It puts me at 204 KM, with a goal of 250KM. I would be really surprised if I don't hit my goal by this Wednesday. Because I'm close enough to my goal, I'm going to raise if from 250km, to 175 miles. (the strava challenge is why I'm using metric for my goals)

IBOHUNT

CASA Century plus a little.

About 126 miles and 7,900' gain today - that makes it a 'bumpy' day

goldfinch

Tomorrow I leave for "up north." It is 41 degrees there today. Yuck. I rode 7.7 yesterday, doing hill intervals, and rode 31 miles today so I am at 240 for the month and 1994 for the year. I won't have much riding in for the next few days because rain and high winds are in the forecast. I don't do rain.

Gravity Aided

7 miles, rural riding on my Miyata CityRunner, bringing irony into it.
80f
SE winds 10 mph
56% rel hum
29.96 bar

brwarrior

5/18 - 60 California Classic Weekend Metric. My first Metric! I was talking to my friend I do event rides with it just got to be monotonous. Just cranking away. The last 1/3 to 1/4 of the ride was not that scenic. Just the blah country (farms). It's like once you cross that 30 mile/2 hour mark it loses the fun factor. Maybe when I'm more fit. The ride wasn't as hard as I thought. We missed a couple of hills that I thought were going to be on the route but they weren't. I guess I should have looked at the map closer. I forgot to turn on the Garmin until 2 miles in so things are a little off.

MTD - 324.96
YTD - 814

contango 

Another 200k brevet. Set a new PB for the first 100k and a new PB for both moving time and overall time for a 200k.


May 03 - 28 miles
May 04 - 18 miles
May 07 - 30 miles
May 08 - 64 miles
May 12 - 65 miles
May 16 - 25 miles
May 19 - 126 miles

MTD - 356 miles / 338
YTD 1344 / 3107

lolguy

5/19: 22.36 miles
MTD: 230.49 miles
YTD: 1,635.57 miles

plumberroy

Got out and road the local 8 mile trail again today for 112.3 M.T.D. After a rough day friday at work and busting my hump Wed. and Thurs. to get the garden in , I really had to push my self to ride the last 2 days. I also passed 400 miles since I started keeping track march 1 this weekend Y.T.D 412.3
Roy

Gravity Aided

13 miles on the Miyata CityRunner, running in the City
Temp 90f
Winds S 23g28
57% rel hum
29.79
Wary of a rapid fall in the glass.