Consistent riding on my new bike
Since getting my new Scott Addict bike just over a week ago I haven’t yet really got to grips with it. Any rides that I’ve done around a known course have all been slower than I’d done previously. I knew it wasn’t the bike, so it had to be either me, or the set-up, or maybe I was just taking it too easy.
So, despite having raced in the Pwllheli Triathlon on Sunday, I decided to go out on Monday and do a hilly 11 mile course that I knew and see if I could beat my Personal Best on it. Last time I did a PB on the course I actually went around twice, posting a time of 36:29 first time around and a 36:27 the second time around, so the time to beat was 36:27.
Off I set in perfect conditions on my new bike, there were no excuses. Well, maybe having raced the day before could have been an excuse and my legs were a little tight, but I soon got into it. I did two laps as before just to see how close I could get them and looking at the stats afterwards you can barely see a difference.
- 18.5 mph average speed on both laps
- 33.5 mph max speed on both laps
- 152 bpm average heart rate on both laps
- 163 bpm max heart rate on lap 1 and 162 bpm max heart rate on lap 2
And, best of all a Personal best time of 34:28 on lap one (a whole two minutes faster than my previous PB) and a not far off 34:42 on the second lap. I’m obviously pleased with that, and its good to have posted a PB on my new bike at last. Maybe I’m getting used to the bike, or maybe it has something to do with the fact that I checked the tyre pressures before hand and increased them from around 85psi to 110psi – Oops, maybe I should have done that before Sundays race!
Looking at the speed and heart rate graphs from each lap, they are almost identical.
Nice work! Good blog.
What’s that Mac software? Zones look a little like Polar colors, but I guess not PPT5, since it’s Mac.
Cheers /P
It’s a program called Ascent – Read me review of Mac Training Software here.
This one is for you.
http://www.pbkblog.com/?p=17104
CH
ps nice bike, just bought the R2 frame today.