Silly Commuter Stats

daxplusplus

Jeez - that _was_ a good ride.

Nice one.

Sharkyssurfers

DaxPlusPlus wrote:

Only two commutes this week as http://app.strava.com/challenges/rapha-rising-2013 starts tomorrow (climb 7,235 meters in 8 days) and I wanted to have a rest of some sort before what could be a very interesting week of commuting.

Especially as I probably can't ride tomorrow (we'll see - still negotiating that point) and also definitely can't do Thursday because of work commitments.

mu ha ha ha ha i'm coming for your spot beware :twisted:

daxplusplus

You haven't got a chance ;-)

daxplusplus

Or .. your welcome to it - I'm aiming higher :twisted:

gbsahne001

bruised sit bone is making the miles a little uncomfortable!

Sharkyssurfers

DaxPlusPlus wrote:

Or .. your welcome to it - I'm aiming higher :twisted:

same here :twisted:

daxplusplus

Good luck .. see you there. Reckon the top places need a bit of a change.

CarlosDSanchez

Hopefully moving house next month, so I'll be taking the rest of my holiday in August and my Sunday club runs are going to be limited

Should get extra commuting miles in though

Sharkyssurfers

DaxPlusPlus wrote:

Good luck .. see you there. Reckon the top places need a bit of a change.

trouble is we will get up there and someone will dump 6 months worth of mileage and knock us down again

gbsahne001

Sharkyssurfers wrote:

trouble is we will get up there and someone will dump 6 months worth of mileage and knock us down again

don't know anyone who would do that

Initialised

Just started to wonder if I can make the top 10...

rubertoe

Initialised wrote:

Just started to wonder if I can make the top 10...

I'm struggling to hold a place in the top 30!

Not due to lack of motivation more lack of mechanical ability and not having an n+1 that works....

gbsahne001

Day off and a pleasant (albeit warm) 75 miles inbetween the school run.

daxplusplus

Finished off the Strava Rapha Rising climbing challenge last night .. or rather it finished me off (padummtsh!)

Day off today to let legs recover.

rolf_f

DaxPlusPlus wrote:

Finished off the Strava Rapha Rising climbing challenge last night .. or rather it finished me off (padummtsh!)

Day off today to let legs recover.

Good effort - I'm still just short of 5000 metres and having a hard time of it with this weather. I just flake out as soon as I get home. I'll probably string it out til Sunday but it will get done! :x

daxplusplus

The penultimate climb of last night was the closest I've ever coming to giving up on a climb. I was out of the seat and staring down at the road - rocking from side to side as I went up the steepest part of that hill right at the start of the climb. It was purely a mental thing. But then I remembered I'm a stubborn b@gger and just keep on going :-)

As for the heat - I've found the High5 zero tabs a revelation in this weather .. that and using my buff as a head band to keep the sweat out of my eyes.

Initialised

rubertoe wrote:

Initialised wrote:

Just started to wonder if I can make the top 10...

I'm struggling to hold a place in the top 30!

Not due to lack of motivation more lack of mechanical ability and not having an n+1 that works....

I was down at 29th back in April (as I had to ride a n+1 a size or two too small for two weeks), you can do it.

willy b

So, 5 months left, everybody on target?

rubertoe

willy b wrote:

So, 5 months left, everybody on target?

No.

iPete

willy b wrote:

So, 5 months left, everybody on target?

Don't have a target as such but 10,000 is looking like game on, again (I'd rather it wasn't, flogged myself at the end of last year to do that!)

dhope

iPete wrote:

willy b wrote:

So, 5 months left, everybody on target?

Don't have a target as such but 10,000 is looking like game on, again (I'd rather it wasn't, flogged myself at the end of last year to do that!)

Stopped Strava'ing my commutes but should manage 4000 non commuting miles, rather than ~3500 combined miles last year.

CarlosDSanchez

Don't think I'm going to make 12k. Holiday at the end of August without the bike and hopefully moving to a house (which needs "work") in September so I don't think I'm going to get many more Sunday club runs in. Should make 11k+ though.

daxplusplus

I'm within a few miles of overtaking last years total mileage- so happy with that 8)

Still not sure if doing more miles is a good or bad thing though (from a getting "better" perspective).

rubertoe

I shoudl add that my Goal was around 8k miles, I have had way to many days off the bike for that. Next year I'll doubt I'll get anywhere near it.

gbsahne001

on target for 14k, possibly pushing 15k but it tails off towards the end of the year, so I think that's unlikely

willy b

Good work people! 15k though :shock:

Are you that German chap on Endomono who does around 100 miles A DAY?

gbsahne001

No, if I were then I'd be looking at circa 25 - 30k, he clearly is retired or has nothing better to do.

willy b

gbsahne wrote:

No, if I were then I'd be looking at circa 25 - 30k, he clearly is retired or has nothing better to do.

He's a machine 8)

gbsahne001

that or he's a team of people, I really don't get why people post false workouts on the site just in order to get to the top of a challenge.

redvee

I've completed 62% of my annual target which means I'm approx 14 days ahead of schedule and 39 days ahead of last year.