Working toward 50K ride.
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Re: Working toward 50K ride.
Postby DoogleDave » Sat Sep 14, 2013 3:34 pm
And I agree with Josh, as you start to ride longer distances and your legs and cardio get stronger you will naturally be able to maintain a faster ave speed.
This time last year I was busting my butt trying to ride even 20km's with a 30km/h ave speed. 28's weren't too hard but hitting that 30 mark just seemed to be difficult (unless I had a good tailwind with me for most of the ride).
Now, 12 months later and alot more km's in the legs, holding a 30 km/h ave isn't too difficult - and for the 20 km circuit I often ride I have recently hit 33-34 km/h ave speed.
So don't be in too much of a rush to improve too quickly. Just enjoy what you are achieving now and the improvement will come in time....though you will find you're never happy.
The quicker you get, the faster you want to go - LOL
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Re: Working toward 50K ride.
Postby Paul B » Sat Sep 14, 2013 4:10 pm
Yea, well I have managed a 35k ride at 27kph and 21k ride at 28kph and a couple of 15k rides at 30kph. Essentially, everything is moving in an upward direction, so I am pretty happy. Nothing like goals to keep you moving forward (& Strava )DoogleDave wrote:Perhaps you could keep your 50km+ rides for the weekend where you can just get out there and enjoy riding the longer distances, but then during the week try something like riding 30km's within an hour (or 20km's within 40mins) - essentially training rides where you are trying to come home with a 30 km/h ave speed?
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Re: Working toward 50K ride.
Postby Paul B » Sat Sep 14, 2013 4:16 pm
Good idea.joshnh wrote:
Mind if I make a suggestion? Rather than focusing on your average speed, focus on the distance ridden. My guess is you will enjoy your riding more if you aren't so focused on keeping your average high. Also, your cycling fitness will improve with longer rides. Time does become more of an issue though.
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Re: Working toward 50K ride.
Postby briztoon » Sat Sep 14, 2013 5:39 pm
Most peoples distance goal is to ride 100km and then an imperial 100. 50km is just a short afternoon spin after work. As others have said, increasing your average speed just happens the longer you ride.Paul B wrote:If I did that I wouldn't be me I'm pretty driven by goals and stretching. Anyway, as far as focusing on the distance, that was the point of the thread. Achieved that goal... moved onto the next challenge. Avg speedjoshnh wrote:
Mind if I make a suggestion? Rather than focusing on your average speed, focus on the distance ridden. My guess is you will enjoy your riding more if you aren't so focused on keeping your average high. Also, your cycling fitness will improve with longer rides. Time does become more of an issue though.
Plus is your 50km ride one long ride without a single stop because of traffic lights? I can't ride more than 1.5km from my place without having to stop at a red light. If so, lucky you, I hope the country side offers some fantastic views. Smashing out 30kph average over 50km is pretty easy when you've got small recovery periods at every red light.
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Re: Working toward 50K ride.
Postby Paul B » Sat Sep 14, 2013 5:58 pm
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Re: Working toward 50K ride.
Postby Paul B » Sat Sep 14, 2013 6:07 pm
Umm... I'm not most people... I'm me Just having some fun. I know 50ks is no big deal.briztoon wrote:
Most peoples distance goal is to ride 100km and then an imperial 100. 50km is just a short afternoon spin after work.
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Re: Working toward 50K ride.
Postby briztoon » Sat Sep 14, 2013 7:36 pm
Paul B wrote:no red lights here mate... this is rural Tasmania
Any where near the Huon Valley?
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Re: Working toward 50K ride.
Postby Paul B » Sat Sep 14, 2013 7:44 pm
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Re: Working toward 50K ride.
Postby 2wheels_mond » Sun Sep 15, 2013 12:45 am
I could be wrong, but surely there's not a whole lot of hills out that way.Paul B wrote:Lots of challenging hills
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Re: Working toward 50K ride.
Postby Paul B » Sun Sep 15, 2013 11:03 am
yea... probably right. No hills.. no real challenge.2wheels_mond wrote:I could be wrong, but surely there's not a whole lot of hills out that way.Paul B wrote:Lots of challenging hills
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Re: Working toward 50K ride.
Postby Paul B » Sun Sep 15, 2013 4:12 pm
Why not come along on the DFBTR and check it out for yourself2wheels_mond wrote:
I could be wrong, but surely there's not a whole lot of hills out that way.
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Re: Working toward 50K ride.
Postby 2wheels_mond » Sun Sep 15, 2013 5:12 pm
Sadly it's a long trip out for me, I do the Dome 6 a.m. ride that morning and I'm busy with uni during Thursday day. Perhaps over the summer, presuming it stays a regular thing.Paul B wrote:Why not come along on the DFBTR and check it out for yourself2wheels_mond wrote:
I could be wrong, but surely there's not a whole lot of hills out that way.
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Re: Working toward 50K ride.
Postby Paul B » Sat Sep 21, 2013 3:00 pm
yea I use a Garmin 500... Strava. Doing the 50K rides about 3 times a week at the moment and did the Cenotaph to Richmond Bakery round trip this morning (57.5 ks). I guess the next goal is 100ks which doesn't seem that big a deal. Ultimately, and the entire purpose from the start has been to be fit enough to keep up with a group of cyclist's. Well and truly on the way to that goalabr89 wrote:Or at least that's what I found worked best for me. Also one more thing, invest in a good bike computer. That allows you to keep an accurate track of distance and speed covered. You can identify the rate at which your improving
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Re: Working toward 50K ride.
Postby Paul B » Wed Oct 23, 2013 1:41 pm
Well mission accomplished, 53kms (AT) 30.9 kph. And I realised my goal of riding with the Richmond Bakery guys.2wheels_mond wrote:50 km/h at 30 kph + will be quite difficult as a solo effort you'll probably find, obviously depending on hills/wind/stoppages/etc. Don't want to sound discouraging or negative, certainly possible, big goal to have though, good luck!
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Re: Working toward 50K ride.
Postby casual_cyclist » Sat Oct 26, 2013 10:56 pm
That's awesome!Paul B wrote:Well mission accomplished, 53kms (AT) 30.9 kph. And I realised my goal of riding with the Richmond Bakery guys.2wheels_mond wrote:50 km/h at 30 kph + will be quite difficult as a solo effort you'll probably find, obviously depending on hills/wind/stoppages/etc. Don't want to sound discouraging or negative, certainly possible, big goal to have though, good luck!
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Re: Working toward 50K ride.
Postby 2wheels_mond » Sun Oct 27, 2013 8:52 am
Well done! Just be careful of using average speed over the whole ride as your sole measure of performance, there are many, many exogenous factors which can affect it.Paul B wrote:Well mission accomplished, 53kms (AT) 30.9 kph. And I realised my goal of riding with the Richmond Bakery guys.
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Re: Working toward 50K ride.
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