Re: Age/Cruising Speed?

"Ken" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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"(PeteCresswell)" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Road bike or mtb w/hp slicks, flat pavement, no wind, just cruising

along

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at
that certain speed where you're comfortably within your aerobic
envelope/comfort
zone - not dawdling, not hustling - just feeling good... the pace you
could keep
up for 3-4 hours...

You look at the speedo. What does it say? How old are you?

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Trek 700, 4 panniers (fair bit of junk/tools etc in `em) Armadillo's @ 100
lbs+ total weight approx. 45 lbs. plus me - 8.5 stone @ 5`2". When I look
at the current speed it seems to show 12 - 15 mph. most of the time, but the
overall average is a depressing 9.5 most of the time. Age 64, and feeling it
now! (note my sig1)

Colin N.

Colin Nelson said:

Trek 700, 4 panniers (fair bit of junk/tools etc in `em) Armadillo's
@ 100 lbs+ total weight approx. 45 lbs. plus me - 8.5 stone @ 5`2".
When I look at the current speed it seems to show 12 - 15 mph. most
of the time, but the overall average is a depressing 9.5 most of the
time. Age 64, and feeling it now! (note my sig1)

Why depressing?!? You're like Jack LaLane pulling a locomotive with his
teeth! Might not be fast, but strong as hell...

Bill "slow but can go all day; 49 (and hanging on by fingernails)" S.

Per Colin Nelson:

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12 - 15 mph. most of the time, but the
overall average is a depressing 9.5 most of the time

That diff is consistant with what I experience. When I'm hustling, I'll see a
lot of 17-18, some 20-21...and after it's all over the average will be more more
like 15-16.
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PeteCresswell