Cycle to work
From the thread below, I'm intrigued to see people's routes to work on their bike. Here's mine, generally flat and about 11.3 miles. Bastard hill on the way home though...
(, Fri 13 May 2011, 10:44, Reply)
I *heart* that website!
(though the 'work out calories' is obviously bollocks)
Last year I was doing a lot of cycling & I was sad enough to get home and input every route. Sort of related, my brother's trying to convince me to cycle Land's End to John O'Groats, which sounds fun; but he wants to do it without any training, which doesn't.
(also- what link below?)
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Fri 13 May 2011, 10:56,
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pedometer
It's indeed great, but I think the calories thing is based on it being a pedometer, i.e. walking, so when it's reporting 8000ish for a 50 mile "ride" it might be about right if you walked that maybe?
(, Fri 13 May 2011, 11:01, Reply)
8000 kiddie fiddlers in 50 miles?
Either your paedometer is bust or you cycle around /talk.
(, Fri 13 May 2011, 11:12, Reply)
tbh, comparing and contrasting various online calorie counters
there's so many variables, from body-make up, type of bike to terrain &c. that it's impossible to accurately work out.
Still, probably best not to obsess about calories anyway.
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Fri 13 May 2011, 11:28,
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Here's mine
Almost exactly 10 miles each way:
www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4502616
2800 calories? I doubt it. Great site though, hadn't seen it before.
This is a crazy 200 mile ride I've got lined up in Sweden next month:
www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4502626
29000 calories, lol.
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Just Juan Cornetto will take you to the lo-rider show n' flaunt ya on, Fri 13 May 2011, 11:05,
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I think it's got itself a bit confused, it's relatively flat there. I'm guessing it's because I go down a couple of small cycle lanes.
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Just Juan Cornetto will take you to the lo-rider show n' flaunt ya on, Fri 13 May 2011, 11:13,
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is that the overnight round the lake jobbie? was talking to someone about it a few weeks back - i assumed as it's round a lake it'd be pretty flat. apparently not, so i'm going to stick to the Dunwich Dynamo because I'm a wuss. And only have one gear.
(, Fri 13 May 2011, 11:15, Reply)
Yes, it's the Vätternrundan. We've got a 10.30pm starting slot, will cycle through the night, see the sunrise and push on to around 1pm ish. There's 20000 people doing it, should be 'fun'
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Just Juan Cornetto will take you to the lo-rider show n' flaunt ya on, Fri 13 May 2011, 11:57,
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I assumed
you lived in Oz form the place names there.
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RocketSurgeon is pretending he's still young, Fri 13 May 2011, 11:18,
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OH HAI!!!
I'm in King William Street.... let's get lunch...
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RocketSurgeon is pretending he's still young, Fri 13 May 2011, 11:16,
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It's weird how steep London Bridge apparently is
It does feel a bit knackering TBH, but doesn't really look it.
(, Fri 13 May 2011, 11:40, Reply)
Nowhere near as bad as Tower
or Waterloo I find! Shame SportyPal doesn't take stopping at traffic lights into account but these are some stats for a similar ride sportypal.com/Workouts/Details/961513?key=65c2204df441788898db5163d302d0321bb901e5&ms=1
(, Fri 13 May 2011, 11:47, Reply)
Heres mine (round trip)
www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4502701
2795 calories though? That not even close to accurate. Nice and hilly though.
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Peej, Fri 13 May 2011, 12:09,
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Ooh I loiks that.
Though I can't get the route to stick to the roads.
Which is vexing.
I really like the linking up of OS & googlemaps.
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Fri 13 May 2011, 12:37,
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Almost the same as yours
except I start in Farringdon and finish in Hither Green. 8 and a bit miles :)
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miltonlives on, Fri 13 May 2011, 14:00,
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the nice route through Lewisham and Deptford avoiding all of the big hills.
(, Fri 13 May 2011, 15:50, Reply)