Join in the fun; The Calorie-Count Cycling Club...
This is the place to come to ask that question you have been wanting to ask,
or tell that story about your latest adventure riding your bike,
find out how to use cycling to get in better shape, or anything else you can think of.
So, to start, tell us, what you ride, where you ride and what type of riding you enjoy.
Come back often too check out what's going on and see what's on everyones mind or add your knowledge to the group.
I didn't put my HRM on, but I project that I burned well over 12,000 calories. It was also hot, my computer said 103 degrees at one point; but all-in-all, it was a great experience!
Keep on riding!
Just wanted to start off and say HI!
Let's see according to the thread first post i'll follow in with this information.
I ride a Diamondback Podium 2 (see a picture of it in my gallery), I ride to the train station in my morning commute, and I enjoy all types of riding... but for the most part my riding is 100% all out as fast as I can go so I can get to work on time. Don't worry we have showers at work.
I'm logging all of my commute miles with www.pacerideshare.com and tracking the days that I ride. My goal is to be at 1000 before the end of the riding season this year, I got my bike a few weeks ago and i'm approaching 200 miles. I've lost a few pounds and have been eating better since I got my bike so I really love that it's helped me stay regular with exercise along with have more stamina/strength.
Hi everyone, can I join CCCC?
After years of barely using my bike I started uni in oxford where I cycle everywhere. A couple of months ago I decided I want to do an iron man so a few weeks ago I bought a road bike (Giant SCR4-not top of the range or anything but I'm not looking to win just finish). I've just got my look pedals fitted and triathlon shoes and I'm practicing on them, bit nervous still but I'm off out now - will hopefully manage around 25 miles.
Good luck with the iron man and the 25 mile ride! I just went on my first ride over 20 miles this past weekend and honestly I didn't even notice any soreness afterwards. I've been riding pretty regularly (3 times a week) about 14 miles a day and I half expected the 20+ mile ride to be killer, but it really wasn't.
When is the ironman?
No set date for iron man. I'm doing a half marathon in october (I've done a few as training but this is a proper race) then a full in april and iron man (or maybe half iron man then full iron man) is my next goal.
Didn't go on the ride in the end. Still a bit nervous about the pedals. I think I'll wait for my boyfriend to get his bike fixed and get my confidence up cycling with someone before going a long way on my own.
Hi, my name's Jett
I am a riding fiend. I live in Whistler, which is a biking (some say skiing ;) mecca) When I first moved here I met my best friend who taught me how to freeride mountainbike. Mostly I ride cross country and spend the odd day in the bike park attempting to huck myself off rocks higher than the curbs I'm pretending to huck on. Only, to be honest, I'm getting a little old to keep breaking bones (that collarbone hurt even if it was the best executed scorpion superman into a creek bed anyone ever saw!) So in the last couple of years I've taken up road riding and duathalons. We have a huge tri geek club here that I would join if I wasn't a sinking rock in water. I'm currently riding a rocky mountain old school edge with an updated front end and I have a norco aluminum road bike. I figured if I needed less weight on my bike(s) I should shave the pound off my tushie instead of spending another $2000 for a carbon bike! I ride AT LEAST 20km every day (for commuting) and add in at least one 2hr mtbike race a week (go WORCA) and one long road bike or duathalon training session. Biking has helped me lose over 50 pds from my butt from the past 8 years. I'm still training and racing and hoping to lose the last 40, it's amazing the shape you can get in doing something so FUN!
10,470 feet of climbing (though I think the altimeter was off--it thought I was at 3736 feet at the finish, which the USGS says is at 4848 feet). *shrug*
About 4600 calories sent to the great beyond (based upon an average 171 Watts of power output--about 50 Watts higher than last year. I must be doing something right).
Wife & son gave me grief about shaving my legs. Half the guys there had shaved legs, go figure (of course the lady I rode with for the first 45 miles had nicer legs than all of 'em, and then she dropped me like an old shoe and I didn't see her again the whole ride!). :-)
Hi, all,
I was riding my bike this weekend and was hit by a car.
I wanted to share, that if you are biking, WEAR A HELMET. My helmet saved my life, and I am not kidding. The cops and EMTs find it amazing that I am even walking:
I was riding at a 20mph pace on a straight road when a car pulled along side me and suddenly made a right hand turn. I had no time to react, I only remember the front passenger-side door of the vehicle coming at me, then waking up in the ambulance (and the 8 hours in the ER afterward!).
As a result of the impact, my helmet has 5 cracks on the right hand side. My bike has no damage. I have a concussion, and there's something wrong w/my left peroneal nerve (can't move my foot very well!). I'm bruised and have pain in my head and neck. All of this should go away in a week or so, according to the doctors, so I should be OK. But everyone, please, remember, WEAR A HELMET. I'm amazed at how many people I see on bikes w/o helmets. Its just crazy; something so simple can really save a life!
defrog:
That sounded pretty vicious. Sounds like you will be okay. That's good to hear. It's too bad that the people who need to hear the advice about the helmet probably won't read this blog.
I had a helmet reminder a few weeks ago. I was tooling along on one of the local MUPs when I got too close to the edge of the pavement. My wheels slipped on some wet clay. I hit the ground hard. My helmet took a pretty good lick. And it was so quick that I had no time to react.
End of the season here and i am very sad to have to put my bike away.
I have had many many great times this year mountain biking all over the northeast.
I started out slow with rides on the fire trails and paved rides but then went camping with my friends decided to go more extreme and biked down what i thought then was a pretty severe mountain (so did they) , towards the end of the season i am doing things that make that mountain look like a kiddy trail.
I have had my share of scares, my friend breaking her rotator cuff, getting lost on a mountain and the sun going down and finding our way out by cell phone light.
My share of scrapes, huge gash on my leg from my front tire washing around a corner, scars on my arms from going thru (yes thru) a tree.
and a few broken parts along the way as well.
But i have had so much fun and so many laughs and i am way healthier for all of it.
A couple of quotes and wise things i have heard along the way:
Mountain biking never gets easier, you just get faster.
Always look where you want to be...not where you dont.
The slower you go , the more likely you are to fall.
Very much looking forward to next season, i will get a new bike with rear suspension, a full face helmet and some pads and a helmet cam to laugh at all the crashes sure to come =)
Keep on biking if you can for those of us who will be snowed in soon.
-Ubi
Ubi: Sound like a great season.
I am starting into transition. It's still too warm for full winter gear but too cold for summer outfits except when it's too cold in the morning but pretty warm by noon.
I picked up my new trainer this afternoon -- a Kinetic Pro. It isn't quite what I expected. I had read that you could get weights of 6, 12 and 18 pounds but it looks like the 6 pound weight is more or less permanently attached so you get 6 pounds or 18 pounds. Does anybody know if the trainer is designed to have the 6 pound replaced by the 12 pound?
Ah! the end of another year. I have just crossed over 5000 miles in my ride diary. I am tapering down now after a pretty eventful year. Hope everyone is doing well. Happy holidays.
Joe
Well yesterday was my last training ride for the rest of the year. Didn't end well with me getting a flat, and almost freezing to death changing out the tube, but oh well. It was a good year. I think I put 10k+ miles on my bike. Actually I put put more miles on my commuter and road bike then on my car. :) When I get back from vacation in first week of January need to ramp up the training. The WCCC season starts in February! Plans for next season is to upgrade to CAT 3, and try to do Everest Challenge again.
UD
Spring is in the air so I thought I'd give this a bump.
Nice to have the bump. While I've been using my trainer this winter, I'm not going to be riding on the road anytime soon--I'm 5 1/2 months pregnant (due 8/27), and I'm afraid of having another incident with an SUV. I'll probably be lurking all season, though, so good luck and happy riding to all!
Sounds like a fun thread....Here is my story...I started out at 270+ about a year ago. I am currently at 202 and decided to get into biking. I bought a Trek 7100 hybrid. So far, I am having a blast with it. I have ridden just over 70 miles in the first week. I am REALLY happy with the bike..although I am already eyeing a road bike.
Okay, just found this forum on biking and seeings how there are 60 pages of posts, I am sure this has been talked about but I really do not want to search all 60 pages. I like riding my bike- mountain bike- and am planning on doing an extended trip but .....my hands keep going numb on me.... by the time I have done 20 minutes, they are both all weird, even though I try to change positions often. How does every one else deal with this?
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