Date
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Route
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Course
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Ride Time
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Total Time
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Distance
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Avg Speed
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Altitude
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Max Altitude
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Max Speed
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Odometer
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05/12/14
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Lida Berkshire Single Loop
|
Climb
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00:59:25
|
01:05:38
|
16.4
|
16.6
|
1023
|
1412
|
32.2
|
32445
|
05/13/14
|
Lida Berkshire Single Loop
|
Climb
|
00:58:11
|
01:00:59
|
16.3
|
16.8
|
962
|
1408
|
31.6
|
32462
|
05/14/14
|
Lida Berkshire Single Loop
|
Climb
|
00:58:20
|
01:01:57
|
16.3
|
16.8
|
923
|
1412
|
30.6
|
32478
|
05/15/14
|
Lida Highland Single Loop
|
Climb
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00:53:04
|
00:56:42
|
14.8
|
16.7
|
849
|
1398
|
30.6
|
32493
|
05/16/14
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Rose Bowl Laps
|
Flat
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00:54:01
|
00:57:38
|
16.4
|
18.2
|
556
|
959
|
29.7
|
32510
|
05/17/14
|
Longden - Santa Fe Dam
|
Flat
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01:43:12
|
01:48:35
|
30.6
|
17.8
|
1084
|
887
|
31.6
|
32540
|
Total Time
|
06:26:13
|
Total Distance
|
110.8
|
Total Climb
|
5397
|
After a good bit of climbing, it was time to change it up with some flat courses, and I was glad to do so. I was coming up on the 6 week mark of this training block, and my legs were tired. I was really looking forward to the 3 day break I give myself in the middle of the 12 week program, and the timing worked out too, with a visitor coming into town, the Giro to watch, along with the Tour of California coverage. After my ride on Saturday, I even made it downtown just in time to see Peter Sagan win the stage. And bonus, my Lida Berkshire Loop covered a good part of the AToC route as it dropped in from Angeles Crest and made its way to the Colorado Street Bridge. But I was ready for sleep, eating, and drinking, while not riding my bike, after all that. The next 3 week block will be concentrating on muscular tension and resistance training on the bike, so that means paying attention to my pedal stroke on heavier gears and slower cadence. I'll also be getting more sleep without having to watch two cycling races every day too!
Welcome back! Can you explain how the altitude part of the table works?
ReplyDeleteHaving no knowledge of the places you ride on except from your videos, it looks like the rides you call flat are not flat at all!?
Hey, thanks! The Altitude column has the total altitude for each ride as measured by my altimeter, measured in feet. It's a barometric altimeter in my cycle computer, so it's very sensitive to changing weather, wind, stuff like that. The roads I mainly ride on are in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in Southern California, so I can't avoid climbing somewhere. I call a flat ride anything that has about 15 feet of climbing per mile or less. Rolling can have a bunch of up and down short climbs, but if I'm having to spend about half of my ride time going uphill, I'll call it a climbing ride. Otherwise, anything with a climb that takes more than 8 minutes, when I'm only riding an hour, I'll also call a climb. A bit subjective, but then, so are the course classifications in a stage race! Heh.
DeleteWhoops, typo. That should be 50 (fifty) feet per mile, not 15, for a flat ride.
DeleteMakes sense. Maybe I have already mentioned it but I have around 40 km to go before I hit a hill... so 90+% of my riding is on the flat. I guess if I lived in a place like that, I'd have a little more incentive to lose weight :)
ReplyDeleteBarometric altimeters are pretty accurate, but they indeed have problems with weather. Today I was out, trying to join a group ride so I was checking my speed fairly regularly. At some point I see the screen reading -3% ...on a road that was absolutely flat to the eye. That must have been some nasty weather I was moving towards (we actually have tstorms advisories for tomorrow)
The good thing about GPS is that you can get rid of those pressure drifts afterwards, you click a button and the elevation profile from the ride is matched against maps (well, DEM actually). Quick and easy.
Heh. I have to go about 50 feet on my street and take a right turn, and I'm going uphill. Well, at least the downhills are fun.
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