How the other half train...
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Hi all,
I haven't posted for a while but this is because I have been riding my bike and enjoying it a lot more than doing computery things. Furthermore, until recently I had a job so internet and forumming fell to the bottom of the priorities list. This said, I have managed to sneak the occasional nose through the forum at work...
After a morning glued to the computer and phone, trying to rectify an acromonious departure from my job, I resolved to go on a bike ride with a mate who I haven't seen for a while.
Before the ride, we both gave it "Oh, let's take it easy...not been training much, mate." Needless to say, this was bullcarp. As soon as we left we both tried to achieve mach 3 for 10 minutes. Once warmed up (puffed out), we settled into a steady pace and were taking turns at the front, maintaining a steady 28/29mph on a flat ride (for us this is right on the edge of sustainability - probably a bit past it to be honest).
Feeling smug, we zipped along in over-exerted silence, interrupted only by ticky chain noise and road-hiss. This smugness dealt with very effectively.
Even at 28/29mph, some guy had not only caught us (on his own), but scorched past us like we had just learned to ride without stabilisers. We tried to keep up for a bit, half died in the process and slowed to a more sustainable pace; bear in mind most of our energy was now going towards being amazed, avoiding total emasculation and shouting wheezy, out of breath combo-swears at what had just happened.
Later on we visited my GF and just couldn't shut up about it. Later still, we stopped at a pub and still couln't stop being amazed. I am still amazed now.
Now I could make a million and one whiny, embittered excuses about what happened. He was dinky, he rode a very flash Felt bike, we were "just playing", we both weigh a lot (I am 103kg and used to strength training for example), we don't train loads, we were in the wrong gear, we didnt warm up properly, we had't taken the right pre-ride supplements, we didnt stretch, the weather was wrong, he slipstreamed, we didn't have the right tyres, our helmets were too tight, we had bugs in our teeth, our riding poitions weren't millimetre perfect, etc.
But I won't...
The long and short of it is this: I just dressed up in lycra to go to the pub with another man. On the way to the pub, another man (demi-god) made us both look ponces because we are unfit and slow and rubbish.
The moral of this story?
Don't dress up in lycra, go to the pub with another man and act all hard and sporty because another man will win the willy waving contest before you even get there
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If Mr Felt is reading this by the way - Just wow...serious speed and fitness 8) .
I love cycling a bit more today.
Fred.
I haven't posted for a while but this is because I have been riding my bike and enjoying it a lot more than doing computery things. Furthermore, until recently I had a job so internet and forumming fell to the bottom of the priorities list. This said, I have managed to sneak the occasional nose through the forum at work...
After a morning glued to the computer and phone, trying to rectify an acromonious departure from my job, I resolved to go on a bike ride with a mate who I haven't seen for a while.
Before the ride, we both gave it "Oh, let's take it easy...not been training much, mate." Needless to say, this was bullcarp. As soon as we left we both tried to achieve mach 3 for 10 minutes. Once warmed up (puffed out), we settled into a steady pace and were taking turns at the front, maintaining a steady 28/29mph on a flat ride (for us this is right on the edge of sustainability - probably a bit past it to be honest).
Feeling smug, we zipped along in over-exerted silence, interrupted only by ticky chain noise and road-hiss. This smugness dealt with very effectively.
Even at 28/29mph, some guy had not only caught us (on his own), but scorched past us like we had just learned to ride without stabilisers. We tried to keep up for a bit, half died in the process and slowed to a more sustainable pace; bear in mind most of our energy was now going towards being amazed, avoiding total emasculation and shouting wheezy, out of breath combo-swears at what had just happened.
Later on we visited my GF and just couldn't shut up about it. Later still, we stopped at a pub and still couln't stop being amazed. I am still amazed now.
Now I could make a million and one whiny, embittered excuses about what happened. He was dinky, he rode a very flash Felt bike, we were "just playing", we both weigh a lot (I am 103kg and used to strength training for example), we don't train loads, we were in the wrong gear, we didnt warm up properly, we had't taken the right pre-ride supplements, we didnt stretch, the weather was wrong, he slipstreamed, we didn't have the right tyres, our helmets were too tight, we had bugs in our teeth, our riding poitions weren't millimetre perfect, etc.
But I won't...
The long and short of it is this: I just dressed up in lycra to go to the pub with another man. On the way to the pub, another man (demi-god) made us both look ponces because we are unfit and slow and rubbish.
The moral of this story?
Don't dress up in lycra, go to the pub with another man and act all hard and sporty because another man will win the willy waving contest before you even get there
.If Mr Felt is reading this by the way - Just wow...serious speed and fitness 8) .
I love cycling a bit more today.
Fred.
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or you had your comp set to KPH The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.0 -
Yep, sorry about that I couldn't resist, I was only playing :?
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Cleat Eastwood wrote:or you had your comp set to KPH
Definitely mph0 -
Velonutter wrote:Yep, sorry about that I couldn't resist, I was only playing :?
I haven't said where I was...you cycled a long way from N staffs to get us...0 -
Cleat Eastwood wrote:or you had your comp set to KPH
Or the ride was from West to East today....Faster than a tent.......0 -
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And yet i'm sat here impressed that you can sustain a 28/29mph average.
I've only been at this about a fortnight, but i'm happy with averaging 16mph over a 21mile ride, although it definatly isn't flat!
Well done I say!
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Does Bradley Wiggins train around your way?0
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Just to be clear, you're saying that on this flat ride you were averaging >28mph? And some guy on a road bike (not a TT bike?) caught and passed you?
Right. I won't even ask for a Garmin/Strava link cos I know there won't be any proof of this fantasy ride.More problems but still living....0 -
I can do that downhill0
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amaferanga wrote:Just to be clear, you're saying that on this flat ride you were averaging >28mph? And some guy on a road bike (not a TT bike?) caught and passed you?
Right. I won't even ask for a Garmin/Strava link cos I know there won't be any proof of this fantasy ride.
On flat roads I can manage 25mph quite comfortably. I've got a crap bike (see sig) and I've not been training a lot. I can see how a semi-pro on a nice bike can go much faster than that.
Road - Dolan Preffisio
MTB - On-One Inbred
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declan1 wrote:amaferanga wrote:Just to be clear, you're saying that on this flat ride you were averaging >28mph? And some guy on a road bike (not a TT bike?) caught and passed you?
Right. I won't even ask for a Garmin/Strava link cos I know there won't be any proof of this fantasy ride.
On flat roads I can manage 25mph quite comfortably. I've got a crap bike (see sig) and I've not been training a lot. I can see how a semi-pro on a nice bike can go much faster than that.
There's a massive difference between riding at 25mph for a bit and holding an average of >28mph for a significant chunk of a ride.More problems but still living....0 -
amaferanga wrote:declan1 wrote:amaferanga wrote:Just to be clear, you're saying that on this flat ride you were averaging >28mph? And some guy on a road bike (not a TT bike?) caught and passed you?
Right. I won't even ask for a Garmin/Strava link cos I know there won't be any proof of this fantasy ride.
On flat roads I can manage 25mph quite comfortably. I've got a crap bike (see sig) and I've not been training a lot. I can see how a semi-pro on a nice bike can go much faster than that.
There's a massive difference between riding at 25mph for a bit and holding an average of >28mph for a significant chunk of a ride.
Yeah, I can keep it up comfortably for more than 10 minutes if there isn't a headwind. If there's a headwind then I don't stand a chance haha!
Road - Dolan Preffisio
MTB - On-One Inbred
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declan1 wrote:amaferanga wrote:declan1 wrote:amaferanga wrote:Just to be clear, you're saying that on this flat ride you were averaging >28mph? And some guy on a road bike (not a TT bike?) caught and passed you?
Right. I won't even ask for a Garmin/Strava link cos I know there won't be any proof of this fantasy ride.
On flat roads I can manage 25mph quite comfortably. I've got a crap bike (see sig) and I've not been training a lot. I can see how a semi-pro on a nice bike can go much faster than that.
There's a massive difference between riding at 25mph for a bit and holding an average of >28mph for a significant chunk of a ride.
Yeah, I can keep it up comfortably for more than 10 minutes if there isn't a headwind. If there's a headwind then I don't stand a chance haha!
Try an out and back then so the it's not wind assisted More problems but still living....0 -
amaferanga wrote:declan1 wrote:amaferanga wrote:declan1 wrote:amaferanga wrote:Just to be clear, you're saying that on this flat ride you were averaging >28mph? And some guy on a road bike (not a TT bike?) caught and passed you?
Right. I won't even ask for a Garmin/Strava link cos I know there won't be any proof of this fantasy ride.
On flat roads I can manage 25mph quite comfortably. I've got a crap bike (see sig) and I've not been training a lot. I can see how a semi-pro on a nice bike can go much faster than that.
There's a massive difference between riding at 25mph for a bit and holding an average of >28mph for a significant chunk of a ride.
Yeah, I can keep it up comfortably for more than 10 minutes if there isn't a headwind. If there's a headwind then I don't stand a chance haha!
Try an out and back then so the it's not wind assisted
I've been out twice in the past two days, and there's been gale-force headwinds both times (somehow both there and back...). Even with my head almost on the stem, I could only just manage 14mph when going flat-out
Road - Dolan Preffisio
MTB - On-One Inbred
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the op should be snapped up by a pro team any day now....0
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Top post. 28mph.........whooooooosh0
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28mph average? Get Brailsford on the line! ;-) Either that or you have set your wheel size on the speedo to Penny Farthing mode...0
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Mate - your computer is bust.0
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Am I the only one about to quit befor I start!!! 28mph on a flat average??!! Whats a pro average?One plays football, tennis or golf, one does not play at cycling0
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Probably about 28mph but in a Peleton with different riders taking their turn at the front...0
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Paul 8v wrote:Probably about 28mph but in a peloton with different riders taking their turn at the front...
Well with that in mind I thinks the op is using this demi god (his words) to brag in a subtle way albeit implausibleOne plays football, tennis or golf, one does not play at cycling0 -
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When you take your computer off your mtb and put it on your road bike you need to reset the wheel size.
Did the OP capture this ride on Strava or Endomondo?0 -
The OP or the 'demi-god'?Paul 8v wrote:I think he might be on a wind up ;-)
It's an old trick to put the hammer down when passing someone and keep it down until you're out of sight - it gives the impression that that's your normal speed for the whole ride.A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject - Churchill0 -
Crapaud wrote:
The OP or the 'demi-god'?Paul 8v wrote:I think he might be on a wind up ;-)
It's an old trick to put the hammer down when passing someone and keep it down until you're out of sight - it gives the impression that that's your normal speed for the whole ride.
The OP ;-)
I mean if the Demi God was on a wind up, to pass someone doing 28mph like that it must have been Cavendish out on a training ride 0 -
After reading the "two cadence sensor" post ... Maybe they have 2 magnets on their wheel causing speed to be doubled , assuming its not a gps based speed reading. 0
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BROAll the above is just advice .. you can do whatever the f*ck you wana do!
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Sigh.
I don't have a strava or a go pro or a garmin.
I did not say we averaged 28/29 for the whole ride at all. I said we were doing it and were at the point of overexertion.
The guy who passed us on the felt had tri-bars and was lying as flat as a snake.
For further context, my mate has a specuialized transition, myself an allez elite. The computer I have is a cateye, set to 700c mode.
The ride we did was 16 miles on the nose (short I know) the distance travelled whilst trying to keep that sort of speed up was only 4 miles.
To my mind, this isn't super human, this isn't bullcarp and someone passing us, is admittedly a passive boast on my part but more important is the bloke who zipped past.
I measured on google maps btw.0
