I love it when a plan comes together

dg74
dg74 Posts: 656
edited May 2009 in Road beginners
Quite happy. Riding home last night from work, a nice 10 miler after a 12 hour shift, done in 37 mins. Might not sound great to some but to me, that is a marked improvement when I hadn't had the chance to ride as much as I had intended in the last week or two.

Happy, happy, happy, joy, joy, joy (c/o Ren and Stimpy).

:D
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  • lfc_westy
    lfc_westy Posts: 87
    lols that pretty good im 14 and on a mtb i biked 5 urban miles in 15 mins and i was chuffed with that :D well done
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Good going DG, keep it up!
  • SpinningJenny
    SpinningJenny Posts: 889
    Brill!
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    Homer Simpson: “I wish. We were bicycling to a lake.”

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  • dg74
    dg74 Posts: 656
    Today's ride :

    21.64 miles in 2hr 5 mins (including a stop off for a banana and a drink and also a stop off for chain coming off).

    Mr arse is killing but I feel great. Tomorrow I rest.

    :D
  • peanut1978
    peanut1978 Posts: 1,031
    Nice work

    always good to see someone enjoying their bike
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    Good news DG: the more you keep going, the more it gets better.
    My first attempt to ride the 20 miles home from work, about 5 years ago, took 1:45, not including the stop for goodies in the middle, and I'm fairly sure the wind was behind me. I now do a different route (19 miles but much hillier) at an average of about 1:03, and I'm sure if I was really dedicated (mostly to not eating cakes) I could get that down to about fifty-something minutes.
    If you're as geeky as me you'd take delight at recording all your rides & plotting graphs showing the improvement, but you don't have to do that, just get out there and enjoy the ride - and the fitness that comes with it.

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