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Mr Consistency

My gosh… new record for me I think. Haven’t posted in almost 3 months!!! (And yet I’m still ahead in the total post count).

Anyway, went out for my mid-week ride today, doing some hill repeats as per last week. I don’t know what it is but I seem to be very consistent when it comes to a lot of my rides. Considering I had about 6km of traffic to deal with, it still took me almost exactly the same time to the second as my last week’s attempt.

Some other examples of my consistent performance (or lack thereof).

• Time trial course I did 2 years ago in Melbourne. My first leg out was almost identical to the second again as my return leg back.
• My regular commutes into work is usually +/-30 seconds apart from the commute back home, despite the hundreds of traffic lights that I have to deal with.

And it’s not like I try to time them that way. I just don’t look at the elapsed time figures until I get home.

Is there an explanation for this?? Or am I really just consistently slack?

YPR#46 – Same old…

Just the same old ride, but we managed to get three of us together. Alan, Keith and I did the same old Beach Road ride to Mordi before Keith and I had to go to work on a SUNDAY!

YPR#45 Cup Day AToS

Finally another proper YPR. HYG, Keith and I joined quite a few BV forums for a ride around the AToS route. HYG rode in from Ringwood with another forumite so it was another decent ride for him. Keith came to my place first to make sure I woke up. Good thing I was dressed.

New bike computer working reliably now after some tweaking with the position of the sensor. Still need to tweak the wheel settings a little bit as the computer gave a max. speed of 83 and 84 km/h down Williamsons Road and Foote Street. However, GPS data says it was just a touch under 80 km/h.

I intially tried keeping up at the front of the group coming up Doncaster Road. I quickly realised that was a bad idea so I backed right off and plodded along. behind them As usual, Keith was monstering up every hill. HYG was maintaining a good pace up all of the hills. If we keep up the regular road riding, we should see some better results at dirt crits.