Average speed guide?

janesy

Thinking of 20mph avg.

my last 100:

http://app.strava.com/activities/126860321

sparklehedgehog

Very impressive!

dsproffitt

On Cycling Weekly's website, http://www.cyclingweekly.cc/ritmo-about if you upload your Strava-type rides to it, it gives you a Ritmo rating.
Not that I know how it works, but it seems to give you a handicap, like golf.

Lower the number, better the handicap.

Takes into account the type of riding you do & the terrain.

Doesnt take into account weather though, with that tailwind

Welcome to the 6ft-overweight-but-working-it-by-cycling club!

sloppyschleckonds

dsproffitt wrote:

Not that I know how it works, but it seems to give you a handicap, like golf.

I'm out.

soulbrother74

Late to this thread but 20mph on the flats? I've been riding 5/6 years and I average 14-16mph over 2/3 hours on flats. I bow to your speed for a newbie.

DavidJB

If you want to ride to a figure get a power meter at least it actually means something. Most of my rides are around 19 mph, does that mean I'm slow or unfit...it doesn't mean anything because average speed doesn't mean anything. Riding as fast as you can is a sure fire way to never improve past a certain point, its piss poor training.

LegendLust

DavidJB wrote:

If you want to ride to a figure get a power meter at least it actually means something. Most of my rides are around 19 mph, does that mean I'm slow or unfit...it doesn't mean anything because average speed doesn't mean anything. Riding as fast as you can is a sure fire way to never improve past a certain point, its wee-wee poor training.

That's where I've been going wrong. When what I should be doing to achieve a 19min 10 is ride slowly all the time.

ai_1

LegendLust wrote:

DavidJB wrote:

If you want to ride to a figure get a power meter at least it actually means something. Most of my rides are around 19 mph, does that mean I'm slow or unfit...it doesn't mean anything because average speed doesn't mean anything. Riding as fast as you can is a sure fire way to never improve past a certain point, its wee-wee poor training.

That's where I've been going wrong. When what I should be doing to achieve a 19min 10 is ride slowly all the time.

Now that's not what he said is it?
Cop on

LegendLust

Ai_1 wrote:

LegendLust wrote:

DavidJB wrote:

If you want to ride to a figure get a power meter at least it actually means something. Most of my rides are around 19 mph, does that mean I'm slow or unfit...it doesn't mean anything because average speed doesn't mean anything. Riding as fast as you can is a sure fire way to never improve past a certain point, its wee-wee poor training.

That's where I've been going wrong. When what I should be doing to achieve a 19min 10 is ride slowly all the time.

Now that's not what he said is it?
Cop on

Go on then enlighten me

DavidJB

LegendLust wrote:

Ai_1 wrote:

LegendLust wrote:

DavidJB wrote:

If you want to ride to a figure get a power meter at least it actually means something. Most of my rides are around 19 mph, does that mean I'm slow or unfit...it doesn't mean anything because average speed doesn't mean anything. Riding as fast as you can is a sure fire way to never improve past a certain point, its wee-wee poor training.

That's where I've been going wrong. When what I should be doing to achieve a 19min 10 is ride slowly all the time.

Now that's not what he said is it?
Cop on

Go on then enlighten me

Haha. That's not what I meant at all.

Structured controlled training with intervals and recovery is much better training that just going out hammering it as hard as you can. It's not some dark secret and I thought it was pretty well understood. :?

LegendLust

DavidJB wrote:

LegendLust wrote:

Ai_1 wrote:

LegendLust wrote:

DavidJB wrote:

If you want to ride to a figure get a power meter at least it actually means something. Most of my rides are around 19 mph, does that mean I'm slow or unfit...it doesn't mean anything because average speed doesn't mean anything. Riding as fast as you can is a sure fire way to never improve past a certain point, its wee-wee poor training.

That's where I've been going wrong. When what I should be doing to achieve a 19min 10 is ride slowly all the time.

Now that's not what he said is it?
Cop on

Go on then enlighten me

Haha. That's not what I meant at all.

Structured controlled training with intervals and recovery is much better training that just going out hammering it as hard as you can. It's not some dark secret and I thought it was pretty well understood. :?

Just checking you were talking sense