The appliance of science....

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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,788
    ut_och_cykla wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    The application of science, surely?
    Appliance of science has a nice poetic ring to it tho'!
    If you're old enough to remember...
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  • ut_och_cykla
    ut_och_cykla Posts: 1,594
    briantrumpet wrote:
    ut_och_cykla wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    The application of science, surely?
    Appliance of science has a nice poetic ring to it tho'!
    If you're old enough to remember...
    Old enough... :wink: but I was watching Swedish TV by then...2 stations plus one danish - no ads... those were the days!
  • Chrissylaa
    Chrissylaa Posts: 19
    107 miles at 19.3 average with the equivalent climbs of 1.5 Alpe'D Huez puts you firmly in upper 2nd cat/lower 1st cat territory.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,788
    edited August 2015
    [Duplicate post]
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  • briantrumpet
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    I think one of next year's targets is going to be 100 solo Devonian miles at 20mph - OK, it's not going to win me the Tour of Britain, but it's a nice round figure, and I think it's achievable.)
    Ha, thread resurrection.

    It's taken me more than four years, to the wrong side of 50, and to France to do it, but yesterday that nut was cracked. No Strava or Garmin, so you'll just have to take my word for it, but 104 miles at 20mph on the nose. I didn't start by aiming for it, and only looked at average speed as I got home. So it was sort of by accident.

    I've given up on the hope of doing it in Devon. Too many lumps for an old git.
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  • andrewjoseph
    andrewjoseph Posts: 2,165
    i've still not done 100 miles.
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  • chrisw12
    chrisw12 Posts: 1,246
    Well done Brian.

    I always think think that 20mph or evens as it's known is a nice little target to aim at. When I first started tt'ing,it was to break 30 mins for a 10. Then ride a 100 in training, then ride a 100 in evens. Then when I did a 12 hour, I happened to finish on 240 miles, evens! The time after that 239 and I was gutted, just missed the magic number. In my last 12 even though 240 wasn't a target, all I kept on calculating is when I'd 'break even'

    So nice thread resurrection and well done again
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,788
    [url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19692930#p19692930]chrisw12[/url] wrote:
    I always think think that 20mph or evens as it's known is a nice little target to aim at. When I first started tt'ing,it was to break 30 mins for a 10. Then ride a 100 in training, then ride a 100 in evens. Then when I did a 12 hour, I happened to finish on 240 miles, evens! The time after that 239 and I was gutted, just missed the magic number. In my last 12 even though 240 wasn't a target, all I kept on calculating is when I'd 'break even'

    So nice thread resurrection and well done again
    Thanks. The funny thing was that last summer I intended to give this a go on roughly the same route (but without the lumpy bit early on) but the weather didn't comply. This time it was just a ride, including a couple of wiggly waggly bits in villages to try and find some water (it was 30C in the shade), so it could have been a bit faster with proper thought. It was just as I got back that I thought "I wonder...?" and looked at the computer.

    Two BTWs - I still don't do things scientifically, just mixed riding; and this is the route: http://ridewithgps.com/routes/10157801

    And a last 'incidentally' - there are one or two old BR faces I miss, rereading the thread... I'll admit I always did enjoy P_Tucker's put-downs.
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