I saw that on Strava - with your backpack! Chapeau, indeed.adam0bmx0 wrote:I saw police on the bottom of the front descent last night (around 6pm), came around the long sweeping corner doing 65km/h, had to scrub off speed pretty sharpish, luckily they didn't flag me down at the T-junction stop sign.
I also got a Cootha front x 3 PR, with 27.03 which put me at 8th fastest of all time for that segment.
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Postby adam0bmx0 » Thu Feb 22, 2018 1:42 pm
Ha yea, I keep the battery pack in there for my bike's electric motor.RobertL wrote:I saw that on Strava - with your backpack! Chapeau, indeed.adam0bmx0 wrote:I saw police on the bottom of the front descent last night (around 6pm), came around the long sweeping corner doing 65km/h, had to scrub off speed pretty sharpish, luckily they didn't flag me down at the T-junction stop sign.
I also got a Cootha front x 3 PR, with 27.03 which put me at 8th fastest of all time for that segment.
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby RobertL » Wed Mar 14, 2018 11:07 am
That’s quite an accomplishment for me.
Some history - I got back onto a bike in mid-2015 and started commuting on an old MTB. I was fat and lazy and weighed 120kg.
I got interested in it and pretty quickly bought a second-hand road bike. In November that year, I decided to try this Mt Coot-tha climb that I had heard about. It took me over 24 minutes and I had to stop twice. It nearly killed me.
I kept riding to work and added some solo rides. I was getting fitter bit by bit and losing weight. In February 2016 I went back to Coot-tha and got up in 20 minutes, without stopping.
Shortly after that, I started doing group rides. Each of those rides has some sort of hill segment, and I started monitoring my progress on Strava. I decided to set myself a goal of getting into the top 50% of all Strava times on all the various hills.
I quickly realised that the big hills that everyone rides – Coot-tha, Gravatt etc – would be the hardest ones to achieve that aim. Every decent rider in Brisbane and beyond rides those hills, so it was the biggest challenge.
In early 2017 I started doing the weekly Coot-tha group ride with Lifecycle. My first time with them had me going up in 14:59, so a 5 minute PR compared to a year before that!
The 50% goal time was 12:04, so I had to get 25% faster. (I like numbers, can you tell?)
Slowly but surely my times improved until I did a 12:09 a couple of weeks ago – I was within touching distance.
Last night, I took 9 seconds off that, so mission accomplished! I have literally got 25% faster in about 14 months.
So now I have to think of a new goal. Taking one more second off my time and getting into the elevens is an obvious one, but not a huge stretch. Maybe I should aim to get into the tens by the end of the year - but that may be unobtainable?
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Postby jasonc » Wed Mar 14, 2018 1:12 pm
Go for sub 10. that's 1min per 250mRobertL wrote:So now I have to think of a new goal.
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Postby RobertL » Wed Mar 14, 2018 2:31 pm
jasonc wrote:Go for sub 10. that's 1min per 250mRobertL wrote:So now I have to think of a new goal.
That's 2 minutes faster than now!!!
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Postby RobertL » Tue May 15, 2018 12:55 pm
19s faster than the old KOM for Coot-tha front!
Seems legit
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Postby jasonc » Tue May 15, 2018 1:10 pm
Check the heart rate. More dodgy than the nbnRobertL wrote:https://www.strava.com/activities/1560754753
19s faster than the old KOM for Coot-tha front!
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Postby RobertL » Tue May 15, 2018 1:16 pm
I guess I'm wondering whether this is an accident by him, because he left Strava running while in his car? Or he's having fun on an e-bike or similar and has labelled it wrongly? Or is he deliberately trying to claim the KOM by cheating?jasonc wrote:Check the heart rate. More dodgy than the nbnRobertL wrote:https://www.strava.com/activities/1560754753
19s faster than the old KOM for Coot-tha front!
Seems legit
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby adam0bmx0 » Tue May 15, 2018 1:30 pm
I'd say eBike, to do that time power data would be much higher, as well as heart rate as pointed out. Just flag it.RobertL wrote:I guess I'm wondering whether this is an accident by him, because he left Strava running while in his car? Or he's having fun on an e-bike or similar and has labelled it wrongly? Or is he deliberately trying to claim the KOM by cheating?jasonc wrote:Check the heart rate. More dodgy than the nbnRobertL wrote:https://www.strava.com/activities/1560754753
19s faster than the old KOM for Coot-tha front!
Seems legit
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Postby RobertL » Tue May 15, 2018 2:38 pm
adam0bmx0 wrote:I'd say eBike, to do that time power data would be much higher, as well as heart rate as pointed out. Just flag it.RobertL wrote:I guess I'm wondering whether this is an accident by him, because he left Strava running while in his car? Or he's having fun on an e-bike or similar and has labelled it wrongly? Or is he deliberately trying to claim the KOM by cheating?jasonc wrote: Check the heart rate. More dodgy than the nbn
Flagged!
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Postby RobertL » Wed Sep 12, 2018 9:07 am
37 for me so far. PR down to 11:28.jasonc wrote:Another year, another 100 Coot-tha backs
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Postby RobertL » Wed Sep 12, 2018 4:32 pm
Was that while wearing your enormous commuting backpack?adam0bmx0 wrote:Talking of Cootha fronts, a month or so ago I managed a 5:18 front, putting me 7th fastest of all time (14,000+) I was happy with that. 460w avg was my power.
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby adam0bmx0 » Thu Sep 13, 2018 10:51 am
haha no, stripped everything for that attempt!RobertL wrote:Was that while wearing your enormous commuting backpack?adam0bmx0 wrote:Talking of Cootha fronts, a month or so ago I managed a 5:18 front, putting me 7th fastest of all time (14,000+) I was happy with that. 460w avg was my power.
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby bwdftp » Wed Sep 19, 2018 2:44 pm
adam0bmx0 wrote:Talking of Cootha fronts, a month or so ago I managed a 5:18 front, putting me 7th fastest of all time (14,000+) I was happy with that. 460w avg was my power.
But Fronts don't count Adam
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Postby RobertL » Thu Sep 20, 2018 10:38 am
Nice.jasonc wrote:Did my first sub 9 since April last year this morning. Max hr 190. Hurty
I equalled my Coot-tha Back PR on Tuesday, and simultaneously did a 19s PR on the Santos segment*. Given that they are virtually identical, and most people's times are almost the same, I don't know to explain the large discrepancy.
* Yeah, I know - don't look at the Santos segment. It's the wrong one...
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby adam0bmx0 » Thu Sep 20, 2018 1:21 pm
Lies!!!! Real men (and women) do the front!bwdftp wrote:adam0bmx0 wrote:Talking of Cootha fronts, a month or so ago I managed a 5:18 front, putting me 7th fastest of all time (14,000+) I was happy with that. 460w avg was my power.
But Fronts don't count Adam
Managed my 2nd best time up Cootha back last night, 7:18, happy with that, followed it up with 8:53 and a final 8:32.
Also got 8th fastest of all time for 2 back reps for my efforts.
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby bwdftp » Fri Sep 21, 2018 9:42 am
Was a good day for 7:18sadam0bmx0 wrote:Lies!!!! Real men (and women) do the front!bwdftp wrote:adam0bmx0 wrote:Talking of Cootha fronts, a month or so ago I managed a 5:18 front, putting me 7th fastest of all time (14,000+) I was happy with that. 460w avg was my power.
But Fronts don't count Adam
Managed my 2nd best time up Cootha back last night, 7:18, happy with that, followed it up with 8:53 and a final 8:32.
Also got 8th fastest of all time for 2 back reps for my efforts.
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby adam0bmx0 » Fri Sep 21, 2018 11:08 am
Ahhhhhh, are you who I think you are?bwdftp wrote:Was a good day for 7:18sadam0bmx0 wrote:Lies!!!! Real men (and women) do the front!bwdftp wrote:
But Fronts don't count Adam
Managed my 2nd best time up Cootha back last night, 7:18, happy with that, followed it up with 8:53 and a final 8:32.
Also got 8th fastest of all time for 2 back reps for my efforts.
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby bwdftp » Fri Sep 21, 2018 11:26 am
yepadam0bmx0 wrote:Ahhhhhh, are you who I think you are?bwdftp wrote:Was a good day for 7:18sadam0bmx0 wrote:
Lies!!!! Real men (and women) do the front!
Managed my 2nd best time up Cootha back last night, 7:18, happy with that, followed it up with 8:53 and a final 8:32.
Also got 8th fastest of all time for 2 back reps for my efforts.
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