Strava

Why not find a straight road and ride along it for 10mi?

This way I am still less than 2 miles away from home when I've ridden 10 miles.

Why not find a straight road ... for 10mi?
This is London, my friend, not 'straya.

I've found that strava doesn't work well with laps, tbh it's about time strava fixed it.

e.g. you create a 3 lap segment, each lap is 5miles and the total is 15miles. It all looks good when you set it up but afterwards it is messed up, showing shorter distances and giving wrong speeds and times.

Eurgh. Been at it for a few hours this morning and I'm only up to 37pc. If I keep slogging my guts out I think I can reach 60pc or so, but there's no hope of finishing the Rapha Rising challenge. Still, it's all good training.

http://app.strava.com/rides/13731796

One Matthew Sparkes seems to be in second place on the leaderboard for the Strava segment that I created, at a highly creditable 1,500 mph average for his 35.75 laps of Herne Hill.

strava on a shitty gps like iphone 3g can create some interesting results. i had a 65mph topspeed on hh recently

One Matthew Sparkes seems to be in second place on the leaderboard for the Strava segment that I created, at a highly creditable 1,500 mph average for his 35.75 laps of Herne Hill.

Yeah, I think that might be off by a few percent. I don't remember being that quick.

It is a right slog. I've only done one ride so far (on Sunday) and did 3200m of climbing. That's 46% so if I want to complete it I need to do that again and more.
Fingers crossed for decent weather this weekend!

Anyone getting involved with Rapha Rising today?

Eurgh. Been at it for a few hours this morning and I'm only up to 37pc. If I keep slogging my guts out I think I can reach 60pc or so, but there's no hope of finishing the Rapha Rising challenge. Still, it's all good training.

http://app.strava.com/rides/13731796

It is a right slog. I've only done one ride so far (on Sunday) and did 3200m of climbing. That's 46% so if I want to complete it I need to do that again and more.
Fingers crossed for decent weather this weekend!

I'm working late shifts Thursday and Friday so could squeeze in a couple of hours each morning, maybe 750m each day. Then I'm riding to Oxford on Saturday, which should be a few hundred. But Sunday I'll be stuck in a car all day. Probably going to crack 50pc...

Is it around 1000m per day?

Is it around 1000m per day?

Just under. If I'd got going straight away it would've been easier.

That is tough, unless you're on holiday.

It's 8 days so 850m climbing a day.

Very do-able if you have 2-3 days off.

Hard work though!

Just create fake atmospheric conditions to trick your GPS..

Eurgh. Been at it for a few hours this morning and I'm only up to 37pc. If I keep slogging my guts out I think I can reach 60pc or so, but there's no hope of finishing the Rapha Rising challenge. Still, it's all good training.

http://app.strava.com/rides/13731796

I live in this area Streatham, had seen a few hills over Crystal Palace way, but this is impressive, will have to go check this area out.

Why not head out for laps of Whitedowns?

Fuck Whitedown. The steeper climbs make for really hard repetitions. Much better to do reps of Box Hill.

Takes so long to get back round to the bottom again. Not as much altitude in more miles, as the london lap above, not worth it.

http://app.strava.com/rides/10099400

Aren't you going to Cornwall Sparky? You can easily get in 1000m of elevation for every 30km / 40km travelled.

I said reps, not loops.

Climb, descend back down, then climb again. Not interesting riding but hey, does the job

Ah okay, my mistake.

I've never been out to Box Hill, but I will try it. Yep, off to Cornwall on Sunday (via one night in Bath) so the challenge will be over, sadly, although I'm taking a bike. I've just found a nice little 3 mile loop over in Crystal Palace that has ~400 feet of climb, so I've just been hitting that: 20 minutes after leaving the flat I can be there doing reps. It's all been a bit hastily decided, so rather than planned-out, it was more a case of finding something near, quick. I can fit a couple of hours in before work. Was going to ride to Oxford with some new work people but tempted to bash out 2km straight up...

Link to loop?

I live in this area Streatham, had seen a few hills over Crystal Palace way, but this is impressive, will have to go check this area out.

Why not head out for laps of Whitedowns?

If you're interested, I've just created a segment. The climbs are nice: gradual enough to keep a decent speed, but steep enough to get a decent elevation in each rep (about 100m?).

It's a bit confusing, because they both seem to be called College Road at the top, but you start at the bottom of the one that's lower on the map, at the mini roundabout, straight to the top, left at the lights, left on the big roundabout, all the way to the bottom, go around the toll booth thing, then back. Did that 10 times this morning, with a stop for a cup of tea in Dulwich at number 5!

Are you able to make a route on google maps, bit confused!? Be really convenient for morning hill laps!