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I have a stupid question. The wife and I bought our bikes the end of June. We bought a 7300 amd a 7100WSD Treks. I can only seem to avgerage a pace of 12 mph. We ride an avg. of 10 miles aday and cant seem to get past that hump. Any advice?
BillMc

Ride more, like 1500 miles then you will be stronger and faster.
Take awhile for your legs to be stronger.

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I didn't really hit my stride till the 1000km mark.

The only stupid questions are the ones you don't ask.

Well after reading the post, I am assuming it is me not the bike. More miles and I will get faster. Going to try to ride more on the weekends, when I havent done a 12 hour day. I do know one thing I have dropped nearly 15 pounds since I started this bike riding thing. I also feel and sleep better, love my bike rides. You can keep the head winds though.
BillMc

I'm in a similar situation. My wife and I got a 7.1 and a 7.3fx at the start of July. She still averages 12-13 mph whereas I've progressed from 14mph to 17mph for 20 mile rides in the same timeframe.

The difference is in training. She rides maybe 20-30 miles a week. I ride 2 weekdays and both weekend days. The weekdays are hard 20-30 mile rides, as hard as I can possibly go. That may include intervals or hills, or maybe just a mile or two of trying to maintain 21mph (and then of course a few minutes of slow recovery riding). Either way if my legs aren't burning, I feel like I'm slacking on those weekday rides.

Then on the weekends I go for distance. That started with 40 mile rides, and has moved to 65-70 mile rides. I'm not as concerned about pace on these, altho I still try to keep going as fast as seems reasonable given the distance.

With the varied training, it seems that progress is coming nicely for me. I'm sure its not the optimal training plan, but the time requirements are light on the weekdays and heavy on the weekends, which is what I need given the constraints of working life. Maybe it could work for you too.

I started riding my 7300 in June. 3 to 4 weekday rides of 5 to 10 miles pushing it and at least one 25 mile ride on the weekend, also pushing it a bit.
I started out averaging 11mph. Now I am in the high 12s. When riding with a roadie pushing me I have been has high as 13.7 on a few rides. I think I will get to averaging mid 13s on a regular basis but not much higher than that.