How fer did you ride today?!
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wife's family lives very near there in westlake village. never been to the museum though. and never ridden a bike in TO/WLV/Simi etc. might see what it's like some day, i bet the roads up over the range to 1 are a lot like ours up north, but maybe a little bigger climbs?
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wife's family lives very near there in westlake village. never been to the museum though. and never ridden a bike in TO/WLV/Simi etc. might see what it's like some day, i bet the roads up over the range to 1 are a lot like ours up north, but maybe a little bigger climbs?
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64 miles from the 2nd roll..
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wife's family lives very near there in westlake village. never been to the museum though. and never ridden a bike in TO/WLV/Simi etc. might see what it's like some day, i bet the roads up over the range to 1 are a lot like ours up north, but maybe a little bigger climbs?
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awesome! yah it be. like 3 hrs round trip w/o traffic which would only be in laguna beach on pch or ca hwy 133 on a saturday w/thousands looking for parking.
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Got COVID from an unaccompanied hacking minor in the seat behind mine on a puddle jumper. Wife got it too so when back probably won’t be hitting the pavement. Mystery picture
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I was hoping to do a 100 km gravel ride, but the iffy weather forecast kiboshed that plan. Instead I rode 46 km which included 6 trails/abandoned roads. I used my new trail bike (Tanglefoot Moonshiner) for the task, and got a bit muddy. Lots of fun but no speed records broken. Well, 1 PR on one of the trails but it was downhill. I don't count those.
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78.65 miles, 16.0mph, moderately flat at 4,075 feet of climbing. got ticketed for running a stop sign near the beginning of the ride, before 9am, nobody out and about and certainly nobody else at the intersection. small downtown four way stop. but as they say, don't do the crime if you can't do the time.
Shame on you! Running a stop sign! We now have "stop signs = YIELD signs" for bikes up here. Not down in CA?
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#4314
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Okay, I'll be one of those guys who post "I only rode [something] miles, but it was [some way]."
Only 14-ish miles, but it was rolling hills, and I averaged nearly 20 mph on fixed gear.
Here's the elevation profile:
As you can probably guess, I was riding in circles (10 laps around a 1.38 mile course).
But Broctoon, why would you ride at a place like that? You didn't even go anywhere!
I do it for an interval workout, and get a heart rate graph like this:
Finally, this is my favorite one. The speed graph. I'll just note that the peaks definitely come when I'm on one of the two descents of this course, but the troughs don't necessarily coincide with the two climbs, as I like to sprint up hills as hard as I can.
This workout is very strenuous and very fun. It doesn't hurt that lots of pretty girls like to walk and jog this course.
I'm always trying to beat my previous best lap time or best overall time for 10 laps. One thing that occurs to me (should be obvious, but may not be) is that average speed doesn't mean much. I can do a tempo workout, 20 + or - 2 mph on level ground for about 60 minutes, and not be nearly as exhausted as I get after riding this 42 minute workout, which was 19.6 mph average speed, but fluctuating from about 14 to 32 mph. There are 20 cycles of climb-flat-descend, and my poor little ticker never knows what's coming next! Fixed gear bike is a deliberate choice for this workout, because it allows no cheating. It requires or at least encourages me to push as hard as I can up hills and spin a very fast cadence down them. Also, there is of course no coasting, ever.
Only 14-ish miles, but it was rolling hills, and I averaged nearly 20 mph on fixed gear.
Here's the elevation profile:
As you can probably guess, I was riding in circles (10 laps around a 1.38 mile course).
But Broctoon, why would you ride at a place like that? You didn't even go anywhere!
I do it for an interval workout, and get a heart rate graph like this:
Finally, this is my favorite one. The speed graph. I'll just note that the peaks definitely come when I'm on one of the two descents of this course, but the troughs don't necessarily coincide with the two climbs, as I like to sprint up hills as hard as I can.
This workout is very strenuous and very fun. It doesn't hurt that lots of pretty girls like to walk and jog this course.
I'm always trying to beat my previous best lap time or best overall time for 10 laps. One thing that occurs to me (should be obvious, but may not be) is that average speed doesn't mean much. I can do a tempo workout, 20 + or - 2 mph on level ground for about 60 minutes, and not be nearly as exhausted as I get after riding this 42 minute workout, which was 19.6 mph average speed, but fluctuating from about 14 to 32 mph. There are 20 cycles of climb-flat-descend, and my poor little ticker never knows what's coming next! Fixed gear bike is a deliberate choice for this workout, because it allows no cheating. It requires or at least encourages me to push as hard as I can up hills and spin a very fast cadence down them. Also, there is of course no coasting, ever.
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30 miles. Dodging potholes.
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48 miles, only asked for a few dollars by a stranger. I don't always carry cash, today was that day. I had a spare water & tube tho.
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I did 4 minutes at 40 RPM average today on a semi-recumbent trainer. Considering I had my left knee replaced 9 weeks ago and the right knee 4 weeks ago today I'm pretty happy with that. One week ago I could barely get on the bike much less go all the way around with my right knee. I'm getting my folding bike out tomorrow and attempting a real ride. Fingers crossed.
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