Mt Coot-tha training

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Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Postby RobertL » Wed Feb 21, 2018 2:31 pm

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. :D
I saw that on Strava - with your backpack! Chapeau, indeed.

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Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Postby adam0bmx0 » Thu Feb 22, 2018 1:42 pm

RobertL wrote:
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. :D
I saw that on Strava - with your backpack! Chapeau, indeed.
Ha yea, I keep the battery pack in there for my bike's electric motor. :D

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Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Postby RobertL » Wed Mar 14, 2018 11:07 am

So, I achieved a major milestone that I had set myself yesterday. I reduced my PR on Coot-tha to 12:00 exactly (hmm, another second would have been nice!).

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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Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Postby jasonc » Wed Mar 14, 2018 1:12 pm

RobertL wrote:So now I have to think of a new goal.
Go for sub 10. that's 1min per 250m

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Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Postby RobertL » Wed Mar 14, 2018 2:31 pm

jasonc wrote:
RobertL wrote:So now I have to think of a new goal.
Go for sub 10. that's 1min per 250m
:shock: :shock: :shock:

That's 2 minutes faster than now!!!

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Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Postby ft_critical » Wed Mar 14, 2018 5:50 pm

Well done Robert

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Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Postby adam0bmx0 » Thu Mar 15, 2018 4:59 pm

Well done Robert! Great progress! Definately aim for a Sub-10!!! :twisted:

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Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Postby RobertL » Tue May 15, 2018 12:55 pm

https://www.strava.com/activities/1560754753

19s faster than the old KOM for Coot-tha front!

Seems legit :shock: :? :shock: :?

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Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Postby jasonc » Tue May 15, 2018 1:10 pm

RobertL wrote:https://www.strava.com/activities/1560754753

19s faster than the old KOM for Coot-tha front!

Seems legit :shock: :? :shock: :?
Check the heart rate. More dodgy than the nbn

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Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Postby RobertL » Tue May 15, 2018 1:16 pm

jasonc wrote:
RobertL wrote:https://www.strava.com/activities/1560754753

19s faster than the old KOM for Coot-tha front!

Seems legit :shock: :? :shock: :?
Check the heart rate. More dodgy than the nbn
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?

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Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Postby adam0bmx0 » Tue May 15, 2018 1:30 pm

RobertL wrote:
jasonc wrote:
RobertL wrote:https://www.strava.com/activities/1560754753

19s faster than the old KOM for Coot-tha front!

Seems legit :shock: :? :shock: :?
Check the heart rate. More dodgy than the nbn
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?
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.

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Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Postby jasonc » Tue May 15, 2018 2:38 pm

+1 to flag

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Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Postby RobertL » Tue May 15, 2018 2:38 pm

adam0bmx0 wrote:
RobertL wrote:
jasonc wrote: Check the heart rate. More dodgy than the nbn
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?
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.

Flagged!

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Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Postby jasonc » Wed Sep 12, 2018 8:31 am

Another year, another 100 Coot-tha backs

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Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Postby RobertL » Wed Sep 12, 2018 9:07 am

jasonc wrote:Another year, another 100 Coot-tha backs
37 for me so far. PR down to 11:28.

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Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Postby adam0bmx0 » Wed Sep 12, 2018 3:02 pm

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 RobertL » Wed Sep 12, 2018 4:32 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.
Was that while wearing your enormous commuting backpack? :D :D :D

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Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Postby adam0bmx0 » Thu Sep 13, 2018 10:51 am

RobertL 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.
Was that while wearing your enormous commuting backpack? :D :D :D
haha no, stripped everything for that attempt!

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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 :lol:
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Postby jasonc » Wed Sep 19, 2018 3:10 pm

Did my first sub 9 since April last year this morning. Max hr 190. Hurty

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Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Postby RobertL » Thu Sep 20, 2018 10:38 am

jasonc wrote:Did my first sub 9 since April last year this morning. Max hr 190. Hurty
Nice.

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

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 :lol:
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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Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Postby bwdftp » Fri Sep 21, 2018 9:42 am

adam0bmx0 wrote:
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 :lol:
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.
Was a good day for 7:18s :wink:
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Postby adam0bmx0 » Fri Sep 21, 2018 11:08 am

bwdftp wrote:
adam0bmx0 wrote:
bwdftp wrote:
But Fronts don't count Adam :lol:
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.
Was a good day for 7:18s :wink:
Ahhhhhh, are you who I think you are? :wink: :D

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Re: Mt Coot-tha training

Postby bwdftp » Fri Sep 21, 2018 11:26 am

adam0bmx0 wrote:
bwdftp wrote:
adam0bmx0 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.
Was a good day for 7:18s :wink:
Ahhhhhh, are you who I think you are? :wink: :D
yep :idea:
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