Ygduf

168 HR for an hour is a pretty good workout. No one can question your effort.

Yaniel

thanks. i have a crazy heart rate, my last race it averaged 184 for 54 minutes. my max is just under 210

umd

Depends on his and max and LT HR. He hit 196 on that ride, so assuming that is his absolute max (in reality it is probably higher, it's really hard to hit your actual max), that's only 86%. Not shabby but not like he was killing himself either.

Yaniel, I'm not trying to take anything away from your workout, just illustrate (as I'm sure you well know) that you can't judge someone else's workout by looking at their HR and comparing it to how you would have felt if it were your own.

Edit:

Yep, there you go...

mattm

Mercer Island loop: https://veloroutes.org/r/368

Love that ride!!

umd

Easy days are a nice change after a bunch of hard rides last week

https://connect.garmin.com/activity/29984972

sygyzy

How difficult is the ride up the 101 to Refugio in regards to road condition, cars, wind, etc?

umd

It's not bad at all. You could probably join me sometime on one of my easy days if you wanted.

It only gets sketchy traffic-wise if you keep going further north. For example coming back south on the 101 from Mariposa Reina, you have to pass over a bridge with no shoulder. When they do the AIDS Lifecycle ride, they actually close one of the lanes to traffic over the bridge so that cyclists get a full lane.

Yaniel

Don't worry about it. Like I had said, I intended to ride for 2 hours, which I would've considered a good work out at the effort, but at 1 hour I was kicking myself in the ass heading home for not waiting for the group to come back around.

Caad 8

Tried to do some anaerobic intervals today. It was super windy, and its very hilly where I live, so you never really get a chance to 'recover'.

https://connect.garmin.com/activity/29983479

umd

"You do not have sufficient privileges to view the activity with id 29983479."

Caad 8

I think its fixed now.

edit: of course when I post my workout, everyone leaves....

I guess if you start and finish at your house, everyone knows where you live now....

Yaniel

Don't worry about it. Like I had said, I intended to ride for 2 hours, which I would've considered a good work out for the effort, but at 1 hour I was kicking myself in the ass heading home for not waiting for the group to come back around.

Caad 8

The important thing is if you go back again, and again. Even if you do get dropped.

Yaniel

yea i have no problem with that. my morning ride i get dropped at least once every 4 rides, sometimes more. this one was more like "why is that group so far ahead of us? ah crap my section of the group sat up"

Hunt-man

https://connect.garmin.com/activity/29996772

Almost the same loop from last Thursday. First day I've felt good since the flu got me. Upped my average speed.

Glidedon

https://connect.garmin.com/activity/29966768

Off road ride, I go off road when it's raining. Good climb but slow going :-)

youcoming

Not todays ride but first hard group rid eof year. Not up to most riders standards on here but good for me at this time of year.
https://connect.garmin.com/activity/28719354

Copperhed51

Group ride tonight at 75th street brewery. This ride is ok but waaayyyyy too many stop lights. Brings the speeds way down. I sucked at clipping in today for some reason. Oh well.

Warmup: https://connect.garmin.com/activity/30008319
Group ride: https://connect.garmin.com/activity/30008315
Run from that day (for those who care about running): https://connect.garmin.com/activity/29971116

sygyzy

For you guys with the Edge 500 - remember to disable elevation correction. That feature uses known elevation profiles based on GPS to correct for GPS's that DO NOT have altimeters, such as the Forerunners. The Edge 500 (among others) does have built in altimeters so correction is not needed.

Urthwhyte

Fairly sure it's off by default for 500/605/705

tuxbailey

Lunch time ride.

https://connect.garmin.com/activity/30043498

For those with Edge 305, is the elevation data not trustworthy? The data in the GPS shows twice as much as the map I created in bikeroutoaster (via google.)

NickDavid

This is my normal ride to work and home. I toss in a few extra climbs for training stress.

https://ridewithgps.com/routes/56296

umd

Calculating elevation gain is a complicated thing, like measuring the length of a coastline. The data is inherently noisy, and if you add up every little change of elevation that it has in the data, you will likely get a very inflated number. The slower you are moving and the flatter the ride, the more error there will be. So, most times when it is calculated, some form of smoothing of the data is applied. The exact algorithm will be different between the unit, different software, and websites, so that's why the numbers never agree. In my experience, the elevation reported by the units themselves (at least the ones with barometric altimeters) usually seem to be fairly accurate, and certainly much better than the mapping sites. I would trust it over them.

tbrown524

Quick ride this morning with fellow BF member. An added plus was that we were running late and had to push the pace more than usual.
https://connect.garmin.com/activity/30025657

tuxbailey

If i map the route in an app like google earth, would it give me a more accurate idea of the elevation data?