MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
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..considerably faster than you
...........Ah but over what distance? 😆
I reserve the right to divide my ride into chunks, choose the fastest bit, then claim that as my average.
Ah but how fast, that is the question?
Pretty fast down here, it's dry.
Or are we still talking about roadie bollocks?
Heres my commuting bike 😉
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This is my regular training ride [url= https://www.strava.com/segments/4590592 ]average commute[/url].
I aim for a steady 35mph whilst asleep.
I did an average of 29.4mph on my singlespeed.
Real figure from my GPS, slightly uphill.
Averaged out over 15 seconds. 🙂
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managed mach 1 uphill, but can't find the plot.
so will have to make do with 327km/h to try to get average speed back to an acceptable level, but it wasn't quite enough quick enough to get inside the hour. will have to trim the start of that ride to remove all the traffic lights and low intensity warm up
I did once ride from home to work via Canada, staying only for a second before coming back to Sussex again. Still only took me 35 minutes though. I was pretty chuffed with that.
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A very impressive 0.1mph over 7.6miles.............. on my turbo trainer since January. This is proper GPS distance (oxymoron) as measured by my Edge 800 and does rather put Strava timing into perspective.
I once ran a 4m mile in London. I was a bit miffed when Strava automatically deleted it. Can't think why..
Has it got anything to do with photocopiers?BenjiM - Member
Gatsby is a previous poster on here. Although I won't say who unless he wants to himself.
**goes off to Google photocopiers on STW**
Is this back on again tonight, or have the fast guys got SAS commitments?
God I hope not, I've got stuff to do.
I pootled, 17.4mph, much more normal. Wind was a pain. Sunny though!
21.9 on today's lunchtime spin, but it was practice on the TT bike on tomorrow's (somewhat lumpy) course so not really representative of anything, I thought it'd be a bit quicker TBH 🙂
21.9 on today's lunchtime spin,
mph or kph Mr B? 😛
If it was kph I'd be very worried!
Im going out on my wednesday night ride with a fast crew . I'm going to average 20mph , as we work as team practising through and off's and some team time trial work.
Its still a 20mph average though , So I will be uploading this to Stravaaaaaaaaa and claiming my average road speed is indeed 20mph and drafting has no effect on this obv's.
Having done some longer runs and round trips i would agree a true average of say 18mph is harder to maintain than 23mph over several miles with favorable conditions. 😉
Indeed, if you can keep up a true solo 18mph average over a normal road ride of say 1-2hrs with 500-1000ft per 10miles you're doing very well, if you can keep that up over a longer ride of 3-4hours you're doing flippin well indeed!
cold out last night so I buried myself on my easier 20 mile loop from home that skirts the edge of the moors. 17.5mph average over 20 miles with 1500ft of climbing.
if I go out onto dartmoor proper it drops to more like 14-15 mph.
cold out last night so I buried myself on my easier 20 mile loop from home that skirts the edge of the moors. 17.5mph average over 20 miles with 1500ft of climbing.if I go out onto dartmoor proper it drops to more like 14-15 mph.
Cold indeed, dodging snow showers on my morning ride today, fair bit of wind too.....average only 16.5mph.
[Prepares for round 7 of the willy waving!]
[Prepares for round 7 of the willy waving!]
i'm still a long way down the strava leaderboards...
monkeyfudger - Member[Prepares for round 7 of the willy waving!]
😆 😆 😆
It is Monday morning after all! 😉
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"I personally always aim for 20.4mph over blah blah blah..."
Marathon runners yesterday averaging 13mph stops me ever posting in this thread...
[quote=pictonroad ]Marathon runners yesterday averaging 13mph stops me ever posting in this thread...
surely pro cyclists averaging over 30mph would be more relevant?
Prepares for round 7 of the willy waving!]Cold indeed, dodging snow showers on my morning ride today
It is Monday morning after all!
Won't catch me waving it about in the snow - think of the frost bite 😯
I went out and rode 100km yesterday on a local loop. Was just under 40kmh. Helps when you have a bunch of 60 racing though. Normally closer to 30kmh but it is flat for round here.
It is willy waving but it is also kind of pointless. Two rides, one a TT and the other just a ride. One with an average of 40kph the other at 30kph. Same route, solo ride, different bike, kit and situations.
If you really want to do meaningful willy waving you're better talking about watts or better still watts per kilo.
Won't catch me waving it about in the snow - think of the frost bite
Definitely don't want it dropping off........well i suppose it would put an end to the thread! 😆
Last 2 Sunday Club rides:
81.3 miles at 20.3mph ave. 4,200+ft ascent
90.2 miles at 18.9mph ave. 6,200ft ascent
Tight group formation with rolling rotations on the front, which obviously helps up the average. You've still got to pedal hard though!
18.1mph over 66 miles/3,852ft yesterday. Mostly solo, sometimes in a loose group. The winning male rider finished 45 minutes ahead of me 😆
Last 2 Sunday Club rides:81.3 miles at 20.3mph ave. 4,200+ft ascent
90.2 miles at 18.9mph ave. 6,200ft ascentTight group formation with rolling rotations on the front, which obviously helps up the average. You've still got to pedal hard though!
That's worthy of recognition. Even in a group it's still very good going. Feel free to wave your willy!
18.1mph over 66 miles/3,852ft yesterday. Mostly solo, sometimes in a loose group. The winning male rider finished 45 minutes ahead of me
That would suggest they were averaging about 25mph. No where near impossible but that is some going (especially for your average 'sportive' rider - no insult intended just that by the time you get that quick, you've usually moved on from sportives to Cat three or two racing or time trials).
I guess there were a few "handy" riders taking part. The winning female rider was Lee Craigie (Scottish Commonwealth MTB XC rider ) in 2:57.
The guy that is in first place is a decent track racer, kicked my arse a few times anyway. Obviously only the best of the best can manage that 😀
Certainly dismisses the "Sportives are not races" thing when you've that quality of rider participating and they're doing medal ceremonies 🙂
I was above average on the way in today,I hope to repeat that on my home run 😉
100 miles 17.2 all on my jack jones 1500m of climbing in the Chilterns last Friday
Have shied away from this tread as i am new to road cycling but i rode the Etape Loch Ness yesterday too, it was my first sportive and my Garmin says I averaged 18.3mph over the 66 miles. Had a comfort break and minor mechanical so the race time was 5mins longer at 3 hours 39 minutes so I would guess similar overall pace to scotroutes.
I have never cycled that fast before, it was way faster than i thought i could go.
Well I had my first 21mph average on a solo ride last weekend - 31.6miles but only 850ish ascent. Must have been my new funky jersey that made me superfast.
Can we add KOM's in this thread as well? Picked up another 2 yesterday 🙂
Can we add KOM's in this thread as well? Picked up another 2 yesterday
Definitely KOM's are the ultimate willy waver! 😆 Post up your links.
In fact everyone get your KOM links posted here!!!
You all need to go and enter a TT!
Knocked myself out yesterday. 72 miles, 2558' climbing (big for down here, (Chinnor Hill, Whiteleaf,Wardrobe)
Average just bellow 17 mph.
If I could do double that climbing, and do it that much faster I'd be winning races.
Got 10th in last weeks road race, open road. That was just over 24mph average. Just shows ya.
geetee1972
standard road bike, no clip ons.
Long 21 10 mile
Short 57 25 mile
Last road race outright win 2013
Best overall position in cx league 5th
19th in vets national cx
that's me all waved out
Average still under 17, possibly 16 over the year
Bloody hell, if I could maintain 17mph with that much hill over that sort of distance I'd be well chuffed.
Nice one oldgit 😀
You all need to go and enter a TT!
Just shy of 28mph on Sunday, and that was with only one gear (55/13)
Sanitys climb and average is well higher.
Only and 55/13 in one sentence...nice one
Lots of disturbingly fast people on this thread!
Did my first '10' last week (on all 'bog standard' road kit) and averaged just under 26 (23mins 20secs). Had to slow for one car on a roundabout, but frankly I'm at a loss as to how anyone can average over 30mph 😮
(To join in with the willy waving I did scrape out 133miles at 17.2mph with 11,450ft climbing last week 🙂 EDIT: On the winter bike 😀 )
Lots of [strike]disturbingly fast[/strike] people living in a fantasy world on this thread!
FTFY
And laurels are for resting on.
Well clearly wasn't referring to you Oldgit but chapeau and also feel free to indulge in justified willy waving.
Saturday's 112Km ride worked out at a magnificent 22kmh!! 😆
It was particularly not very nice though - "unpleasant" was how one of my companions put it.
Only done one 10tt last year on bog standard roadie 26.53 on a 'slow' course (or so I'm told) I'm a fair chunk faster now and have the clipon bars just need the stars to align and actually have an evening free when a TT is on!
Tbh I'm more proud of 10th on QECP red loop lst week than another couple of roadie KoMs. I don't seem to be able to get mtb KoMs any more
Another thing I noticed this Weekend was that the guys using auto pause recorded noticeably quicker averages. I've never seen the point of using auto pause? The longest you'll stop is for a pee. Averages when using auto pause and having a 45 minute stop?
Went on my lads computer and looked at my speeds for the year, none have reached 17mph.
If I'm recording my training I don't want to think I've done a 4 hour ride, when actually an hour was stood around, so I use auto pause, don't get why people don't really.
Strava shows both moving and overall times - as do other programs.
Fair enough. I suppose I only record the non stop rides. Though I might start using the Garmin more. I didn't use it in Belgium a few weeks back, but now wish I had, just to have recorded the routes.
Strava shows both moving and overall times - as do other programs.
WKO, which I used to use when I was actually doing some training, and had a power meter just takes the time from the device. Strava does it 'right' though - the weekly, monthly and annual summaries are all moving time.
Eh what is going on? Has Hora suddenly been exposed as an alter ego of njee20? Surely not!
Welcome aboard Hora, ignore the leg pulling. 😆 😆
This stupid thread must have planted a seed. Avg speed never use to bother me but now find myself getting really annoyed at red lights that take ages thinking about my average speed drifting downwards 😳
Use auto pause 
Using that would make it seem like it was bothered 🙂
Auto pause beeping ****s me off, even worse in a group haha!
connect/strava show moving time and total time as separate numbers, average is based on moving not total
You should hear the cacophony of beeps we us lot stop, then another wave as we set off again..
Deafening..
😆
Another round anyone? 🙄
Nearly pipped 24mph average home at dinner time. 😆 Ok before you start it was a nice tail wind and it took me 17 minutes the other way in the morning.
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Auto pause beeping ****s me off, even worse in a group haha!
it was quite loud on HardKnott during the Fred Whitton....
Ah I see you were heading south, if your tailwind was anything like the headwind I endured this morning then 24mph over that short distance on a flat road is nothing special. It was blowing a gale and pishing down on my commute this morning. Fingers crossed for a tailwind home.
Another round anyone?
Oh god no! 😐
Though typical speeds have gone up a bit as more time trialling has resulted in a bit more flexibility and a better position on the road bike. Front a bit longer and lower and ride the drops pretty much all the time now. Makes a pretty big difference.
Another round anyone?
Not until you stop measuring over a 4 mile flat route in one direction 😉
Or else I'll go and measure my 'average' down the nearest **** off big hill and claim Winner
Good effort though!
I got a new record on Saturday, lowest average speed: 19.9kmph for 176km. It was rather hilly though at 5000m, and had more climbing than descending. And it was about 40 degrees.
I think La Marmotte 2015 might be the hardest ride I've done.
For reference the Fred Whitton and Etape du Dales are a rather more sprightly 26kmph!
tlr - Member
I got a new record on Saturday, lowest average speed: 19.9kmph for 176km. It was rather hilly though at 5000m, and had more climbing than descending. And it was about 40 degrees.I think La Marmotte 2015 might be the hardest ride I've done.
For reference the Fred Whitton and Etape du Dales are a rather more sprightly 26kmph!
Well, that answers my casual wondering if La Marmotte was really much harder than EduD or FW!
The day before yesterday's ride home....
Check out my 5.5 mi Ride on Strava: http://app.strava.com/activities/340344125