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Saturday Sep 2, 2017 #
6 AM
flexibility 32:00 [1]
7 AM
Mountain bike (Kodiak) 2:00:35 36.89 km (3:16 / km) +196m 3:11 / km
ahr:115 max:168
Today I thought I would try some bigger hills. North along the river to the bike path along 2nd concession would get me to the biggest accessible hill - 50m in one go, just past the end of the bike path. Traffic was fairly light, so I road up to the end of the road and gave myself a few kilometres to stare at the climb.
I decided that even though I hadn't needed the small ring on the front for anything, I would shift to it before the steepest part of the hill. When I made the shift I was surprised at how big a drop in gearing it meant. This is even after doing a visual and seeing it would be a big drop and having done a quick check looping around at home to get a sense of what the gearing was like....so I spun like a hamster while I went a couple of cogs smaller on the rear. Still, my rhythm was shot and I found myself a bit wobbly half way up. When traffic showed up in the mirror I pulled to the shoulder and walked up to where the bike lane started. This gave me a great opportunity to practice and uphill start, which went fine after Flintstoning onto the big ring and grabbing a couple more gears on the rear.
I did an extra local hill coming home to do a better assessment of the big to small ring difference and found going three smaller on the rear was about right for the shift to the small ring on the front.
I do have to note how low my heart rate has been running on these rides. It also drops back into the 60s almost as soon as I get my bike gear off.
I decided that even though I hadn't needed the small ring on the front for anything, I would shift to it before the steepest part of the hill. When I made the shift I was surprised at how big a drop in gearing it meant. This is even after doing a visual and seeing it would be a big drop and having done a quick check looping around at home to get a sense of what the gearing was like....so I spun like a hamster while I went a couple of cogs smaller on the rear. Still, my rhythm was shot and I found myself a bit wobbly half way up. When traffic showed up in the mirror I pulled to the shoulder and walked up to where the bike lane started. This gave me a great opportunity to practice and uphill start, which went fine after Flintstoning onto the big ring and grabbing a couple more gears on the rear.
I did an extra local hill coming home to do a better assessment of the big to small ring difference and found going three smaller on the rear was about right for the shift to the small ring on the front.
I do have to note how low my heart rate has been running on these rides. It also drops back into the 60s almost as soon as I get my bike gear off.