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Century a Month Challenge 2009
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Highway_To_Hell wrote: »last week I got back into cycling to work (on a fixie) and it is around 70km each day (350km for the week), I found my knees a bit sore probably from the 2+hrs a day of cycling without freewheeling.
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FrankGrimes wrote: »Well done fella!
Feels good breaking the 100km barrier eh?
Your stats there are very strong - 30km/h is really good solo for that distance and I'm sure the more knowledgeable folk than me will tell you that a cadence of 90 is good. Add in a resting heart rate in the 40s and you'll probably be flying around the Wicklow 200 in no time!
Do you really think so? I hadn't even considered even thinking about doing the Wicklow 200! Now that you say it, I really would love to complete it...what do you think? Is it a proper race (like race speeds) or more of a leisure cycle? What would be the average "average speeds" be, that is to complete it in a respectable time in comparison to the other competitors? I presume it is a great experience...do many teenagers do it? Any help would be great as I know absolutely nothing about it! Thanks in advance
***Probably should post this in the Wicklow 200 thread!***0 -
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Would love to strive for this, but have been building up distance slowly and gently in the last month after a spot of IT band bother from tail end of last year (managed a few centuries then). Been off the bike since October, partly due to that, and partly mainly due to arrival of a new baby
Off to see the physio on Friday, hopefully that will set me up for full return, as I've signed up for the W200.
I miss the hills
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My second ever century ever! I only started this challenge last month, so I guess it doesn't really count! Hopefully I will get into a routine of doing a few of these a month on my own, it is a great feeling alright! Anyway, here is the route I did. This time I threw in a hill or two to test myself, I was trying out a new side of Cratloe as you can see I turned around at one point! I was near my house at 90km but continued on to bring it up to the 100km. I also attached the stats from my Polar CS200 below:
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Home:Ballyhoura wrote: »My second ever century ever! I only started this challenge last month, so I guess it doesn't really count! Hopefully I will get into a routine of doing a few of these a month on my own, it is a great feeling alright! Anyway, here is the route I did. This time I threw in a hill or two to test myself, I was trying out a new side of Cratloe as you can see I turned around at one point! I was near my house at 90km but continued on to bring it up to the 100km. I also attached the stats from my Polar CS200 below:
Well done. I love that climb to woodcock hill and gallows hill. Did you go all the way up to the "golf balls".
I lived on the old cratloe road as a kid, and used to regulalry keep fit during the rugby off season by cycling up there on my 5 speed peugot race. Did it over the new year, and strangely it felt more difficult than it did 20 years ago.0 -
Well done. I love that climb to woodcock hill and gallows hill. Did you go all the way up to the "golf balls".
Hey man, its a good old climb alright. I only started using the map my ride facility in the last week because of the elevation feature (cool graph!). Anyway, today I didn't go right to the top (ie. the "Golf Ball") because I wanted to check out the 6% gradient on another part of the hill! Can you please tell me where exactly Woodcock hill and Gallows hill are as I usually just call them "Cratloe hill" and people are correcting me all the time calling them these names. I know they are basically the same area, but where one stops and the other begins I would love to know! Thanks 0 -
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117km yesterday ticks the box for April for me.
Stocking Lane - Sally Gap - Kippure - Laragh - Wicklow Gap - Blessington - Tallaght - Crumlin.
Suffered badly for the 40km chunk in the middle with lower back muscle flexibility problem after tilting my bars down to where they should be. Pulled them back up in Laragh and after a good few stretches managed to get it just about bearable but was in a lot of discomfort with it and frozen toes. Had to stop in Hollywood for a sandwich and more stretches where I realized it was my Sealskinz socks causing the problem - the waterproof layer means sweat condenses and pretty much froze the toes so bad I couldn't feel them. Cycled the 40km home with no socks but it really helped.
So between the back, the toes and semi-bonking it was one of the roughest days I've had in the saddle but am happy to say I've noticed a really big improvement in climbing. Not saying I fly up the hills or anything, the mind now just knows I'm capable of making it to the top so I'm not solely focused on surviving and managed to push for a little bit of less-slowness (wouldn't exactly use the word speed) up the hills at times. And believe me, for me that's big progress.
Disappointed when I saw the 4hr 37mins for the first 100km but then realised 50km of that accounted for 1400 of the 1700metre ascent total and considering it had 4 (for me anyway) tough climbs and the discomfort I was in, I'm now reasonably happy with it.
Honestly thought about jacking it in and calling for a rescue when the back was at its worst and I couldn't stretch it out, but knowing that I might not have time to do another 100km in April and wanting to keep up on my committment to this challenge was a big factor in me keeping going so I'm glad the OP posted it (wonder how he's getting on himself!).
By the way, gotta love that ~35km home run stretch from Hollywood - Blessington to Tallaght - lovely flat or -1% road most of the way and certainly helps the morale to be cruising along at 35km/h for the last part than facing up to Poggio and the drag up from Enniskerry.0 -
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Home:Ballyhoura wrote: »May century completed on Sunday! What was initially a 50km recovery ride turned into a 100km fairly soon after I saw how nice the weather really was!
What software do you use to get the stats out of? The cals number seems way off. My ride on Sunday was 102K over 5:47 and SportTracks/Garmin think I burned 4562Calories.0 -
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What software do you use to get the stats out of? The cals number seems way off. My ride on Sunday was 102K over 5:47 and SportTracks/Garmin think I burned 4562Calories.
It's a Polar CS200, and uses your Weight & Height to determine you body mass index. It probably calculates a fitness index using your age and resting heart rate I'm not sure.
Basically, if you are less fit than me then if you do the exact same workout you will burn more calories! I'm not saying you don't know how the system works, or that you are less fit than me or that my computer is more accurate than yours (I don't think any of then can be 100% accurate, just a rough guide)! Please, dont take any offense!
I always find it crazy that the GDA's for the standard adult is 2000kcal per day and on one cycle we can burn this (and twice this in some cases!
) in one go! Technically we could eat two (or three) of each meal and still not gain any weight but this generally doesn't happen in my case! Interesting fact I think! :pac: 0
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