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I'm actually surprised I'm asking this question
Last Post 04/23/2018 05:28 PM by Cosmic Kid. 20 Replies.
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79pmooney
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| 04/23/2018 12:53 PM |
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Double post again! My lousy service accepts my "SEND"s but the local traffic apparently stops the page update. I thought I refrained from hitting "SEND" again, but I guess not.
I refuse to have cable/TV etc. or a Comcast cable in to the house so I am living with Ma Bell's DSL/modem. Radically better than the old days, but still ... I could do satellite, but so far, nah. Now if one of the alternative providers would hit this neck of the woods, I would be on it in a flash.
Ben
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Habanero
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| 04/23/2018 12:58 PM |
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| I was a long time keeper of paper logs but gave that up about 8 years ago. There just wasn't much return on investment with keeping that up.
I fooled around with Strava for a bit, but it just didn't do anything for me. I just like to know the details of the ride. I could care less what others have done on the same ride or segments of it. I know plenty of folks who are completely addicted to it, which is great, for them.
Me - I just ride. Lots. |
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79pmooney
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| 04/23/2018 01:40 PM |
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Hab, I used my Excel background a few years ago to make a spreadsheet where for every day there is a line with miles, bike initials, elevation, where?, comments, and bike comments. To the right, miles, elevations and number of rides gets tallied for each bike. So I see monthly totals, yearly totals and at the bottom lifetime totals for both my and all my bikes (and both fixed and free). It's been fun. (Especially two years ago when I realized in the fall that if I just paid a little more attention to the fix gears vs the frees, I could tailor my miles and hit 100,000 miles for each on the same day. July 5th, 2016 I rode an easy 9 miles on my Jessica J, 16 on my geared TicCycles and hit the milestones.)
Once a year I have to copy last year's to a new sheet, correct the days and the connections to past sheets. The rest is really easy. My old paper totals got entered when I started this for the lifetimes. None it this is pinpoint accuracy but the big picture is real.
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Habanero
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| 04/23/2018 02:00 PM |
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| Nice! Seems like a good system you have created for yourself! |
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Orange Crush
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| 04/23/2018 03:22 PM |
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Ben - I have an excel spreadsheet with kms ridden, elevation and totals for year. Everything gets graphed up and compared to previous years. Slope of cumulative numbers is what matters for training and to check where you're at.
Strava LOL - my kid uttered his first #stravaoritdidnthappen after he did a 1:35 20km run (he's 14). You can give him kudos here, I'm sure he'd get a kick out of it:
https://www.strava.com/activities/1525456656 |
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Cosmic Kid
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| 04/23/2018 05:28 PM |
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Posted By Dale Dale on 04/23/2018 10:06 AM
It occurred to me last night while I was on the trainer that I'm doing EXACTLY what most amateurs do:
Too hard on the easy days, too easy on the hard days.
All the more reason for a power meter...objective data. 200w is 200w, how you “feel”is irrelevant. An “easy” day falls within certain parameters...go outside them and you are doing it wrong. |
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