Mt Coot-tha training
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby marinmomma » Thu Dec 27, 2012 9:12 pm
Kudos to all of us nutters for making it so
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby Comedian » Thu Dec 27, 2012 9:18 pm
Here here!marinmomma wrote:Did anyone else receive the email from Strava saying the Mt Coot-Tha Back segment is the 6th most popular cycling (Strava) segment in the world??
Kudos to all of us nutters for making it so
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby marinmomma » Thu Dec 27, 2012 9:27 pm
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby singlespeedscott » Fri Dec 28, 2012 10:52 am
What's the most?marinmomma wrote:Did anyone else receive the email from Strava saying the Mt Coot-Tha Back segment is the 6th most popular cycling (Strava) segment in the world??
Kudos to all of us nutters for making it so
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby brett.hooker » Sun Dec 30, 2012 10:57 am
At least I am holding up the bottom of the scorecard for everyone else...
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby marinmomma » Sun Dec 30, 2012 7:38 pm
Some segment in California, Box Hill near Lodon came in third.singlespeedscott wrote:What's the most?marinmomma wrote:Did anyone else receive the email from Strava saying the Mt Coot-Tha Back segment is the 6th most popular cycling (Strava) segment in the world??
Kudos to all of us nutters for making it so
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby jasonc » Mon Dec 31, 2012 6:48 pm
my cousin from sydney was telling me about it whilst we were both in melbourne. happy to contributemarinmomma wrote:Did anyone else receive the email from Strava saying the Mt Coot-Tha Back segment is the 6th most popular cycling (Strava) segment in the world??
Kudos to all of us nutters for making it so
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby vbplease » Mon Feb 11, 2013 9:14 pm
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby BrisVegas » Mon Feb 11, 2013 9:25 pm
vbplease wrote:Now Cootha isn't too far out of the way in my commute to work, i'm doing a loop here and there. Got my PB down to 9:56 today Not sure how much further it will come down.. working harder gears is definitely helping!
well done! Sub 10min is motoring I reckon. Cootha can easily be on my way to/from work, but I suck at hills, so tend to avoid it. I did the Botanic Gardens hill on the way home today and set a PB. Now if I could just go at that pace for 2.2km I'd be laughing.... and still nowhere near sub 10min!
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby jasonc » Mon Feb 11, 2013 9:55 pm
great. another one ahead of mevbplease wrote:Now Cootha isn't too far out of the way in my commute to work, i'm doing a loop here and there. Got my PB down to 9:56 today Not sure how much further it will come down.. working harder gears is definitely helping!
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby InTheWoods » Mon Feb 11, 2013 10:20 pm
So bitter Well done vb.jasonc wrote:great. another one ahead of mevbplease wrote:Now Cootha isn't too far out of the way in my commute to work, i'm doing a loop here and there. Got my PB down to 9:56 today Not sure how much further it will come down.. working harder gears is definitely helping!
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby singlespeedscott » Mon Feb 11, 2013 11:21 pm
Well done on the sub 10min. Just as a matter of interest, what gear were you pushing?vbplease wrote:Now Cootha isn't too far out of the way in my commute to work, i'm doing a loop here and there. Got my PB down to 9:56 today Not sure how much further it will come down.. working harder gears is definitely helping!
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby vbplease » Tue Feb 12, 2013 9:09 am
For that last ride my gears went something like – 39x23 for the first 400m to try and carry some momentum from the downhill section. Then change down to 39x25 for the majority of it.. when I come to the section I call “the wall” – gradient goes to 14% according to my garmin at the right hand bend followed by 300m straight section, I change back to 39x23 and get out of the saddle. Finish most of it in 39x25 in the saddle, except for the last 100m I get back out of the saddle, but don’t change the gear because my legs are cooked.
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby Crawf » Tue Feb 12, 2013 10:54 am
Well done! Is that the 'Strava' segment or actual marker to marker.vbplease wrote:Now Cootha isn't too far out of the way in my commute to work, i'm doing a loop here and there. Got my PB down to 9:56 today Not sure how much further it will come down.. working harder gears is definitely helping!
I know the difference between my two times is 20 seconds.
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby vbplease » Tue Feb 12, 2013 1:12 pm
Hopefully that's what everyone else has been referring to? I think that segment stops about 75m short of the marker.. near the ABC entrance.
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby jasonc » Tue Feb 12, 2013 1:47 pm
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby njosey17 » Thu Apr 18, 2013 11:23 am
Jumped up there on Wednesday morning and thought I may have just snuck in - 10:07, so annoying!
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby Purt » Wed Apr 24, 2013 8:46 am
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby jasonc » Wed Apr 24, 2013 9:27 am
I saw a bloke pulled over going down the front this morning. I figured it was for speeding so I yelled out "check he's got a bell"Purt wrote:Mate got fined for no bell coming down Cootha back this morning. Cop overtook us going up and stopped him on the way down, went over the bike, $50 fine for no bell then told him he can go whine about it on a bike forum. "With honour we serve".
$6 a for a bell. you don't have to use it, just throw it on your bike
/rant.
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby Purt » Wed Apr 24, 2013 9:38 am
But the weight!jasonc wrote:$6 a for a bell. you don't have to use it, just throw it on your bike
tbh I can totally understand pulling people over on a bikeway. But on Mt Cootha it's a bit unnecessary.
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby jasonc » Wed Apr 24, 2013 9:42 am
so does the rider put the bell on when he gets down the bottom of coot-tha to go over the pedestrian bridge?Purt wrote:But the weight!jasonc wrote:$6 a for a bell. you don't have to use it, just throw it on your bike
tbh I can totally understand pulling people over on a bikeway. But on Mt Cootha it's a bit unnecessary.
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby BrisVegas » Wed Apr 24, 2013 9:47 am
jasonc wrote:I saw a bloke pulled over going down the front this morning. I figured it was for speeding so I yelled out "check he's got a bell"
$6 a for a bell. you don't have to use it, just throw it on your bike
/rant.
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby Purt » Wed Apr 24, 2013 10:03 am
Hardly ever go that way, always ride back towards Samford.jasonc wrote:so does the rider put the bell on when he gets down the bottom of coot-tha to go over the pedestrian bridge?
If I did I would return home for my bell.
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Re: Mt Coot-tha training
Postby michaelten » Wed Apr 24, 2013 6:13 pm
Have they been there in the afternoon/night?
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