How do I get faster?

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08-14-14, 09:45 PM

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mr_pedro

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Originally Posted by rms13

A month in a half after setting my PR on this loop at 28:01 (17.6 mph/avg) did it today in 26:40 (18.5 mph/avg) for a new PR.

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Thanks for everyone's advice. I think the best advice was really to just ride faster. On this particular ride there is one main climb and some shorter ones that I used to shift to the small chain ring and today is the first time I did the entire ride in the big ring. Standing and mashing where I used to shift down and spin.

I joined a club and doing my first organized group ride in 1 1/2 weeks. It's a no drop ride that should get my feet wet.

Well done. Once you are strong enough, keeping up with a group that is slightly faster than you is all about getting into the red zone and recovering while still at speed. Avg speed is not always a good indicator of how hard the ride is. When I was going only on solo rides my rides where at a steady effort, when I started doing group rides, every hill became an interval and had to be attacked at full speed.