Emeljay
WiskersBlowinInTheWind
Yesterday I went on a ride to stay with my folks in Fountain Hills for a few days, and chose a 20 mile section to become more familiar with the Zeopoxa Bicycling app. My initial use of the app was 15 minutes of figure-8s several days before:
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Having familiarized myself with starting and stopping recording, and watching the Zeopoxa dashboard I started down the first section going Eastbound on city streets just after lunch time. It was start up at the light, pedal moderately hard to about 15 mph, and see if I can make each traffic light. Only made about half of the lights, but did not use the pause/resume feature of the app when I stopped. My goal was just to see if I could keep getting up to 15 mph for the 20 miles.
Did better than that though as I was being motivated by the speed on the Zeopoxa dashboard with much of the time getting up to 16 or 17 mph. I got into a rhythm of pushing just a little more than when I commute. My breathing was not forced and I was really enjoying a ride where I was pushing on.
Next came a hard packed dirt road along a canal for about 2 miles turning into a paved MUP. During this weekday afternoon there were very few using this path so I continued just above 15 or 16 mph, but again stopping for lights until reaching the Northbound leg of this ride.
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Northbound was a very slight, but noticeable uphill grade along an old slick as ice when wet winding MUP around ponds with many elderly retirees enjoying our warm weather. So it was go 12 to 15 mph then slow down to 8 and then speed up before slowing again to be safe until turning Eastbound towards the 20 mile goal.
This last segment was along a 6 lane very fast road so onto the sidewalk, had only a few traffic signals and nobody else on the walkways. So I pushed again to hold to my 15 mph while moving until the mileage read 20 and I pushed stop button on the Zeopoxa app. I kept going because this ride was on the final segment to reach my destination.
I have never before used any form of bicycle performance tracking gear other than a watch and my brain, but stumbled upon a review on my smart phone. I downloaded several and will try them out one by one. Zeopoxa seemed intuitive to me so I started my adventure into bicycle app land.
.
Having familiarized myself with starting and stopping recording, and watching the Zeopoxa dashboard I started down the first section going Eastbound on city streets just after lunch time. It was start up at the light, pedal moderately hard to about 15 mph, and see if I can make each traffic light. Only made about half of the lights, but did not use the pause/resume feature of the app when I stopped. My goal was just to see if I could keep getting up to 15 mph for the 20 miles.
Did better than that though as I was being motivated by the speed on the Zeopoxa dashboard with much of the time getting up to 16 or 17 mph. I got into a rhythm of pushing just a little more than when I commute. My breathing was not forced and I was really enjoying a ride where I was pushing on.
Next came a hard packed dirt road along a canal for about 2 miles turning into a paved MUP. During this weekday afternoon there were very few using this path so I continued just above 15 or 16 mph, but again stopping for lights until reaching the Northbound leg of this ride.
.
.
Northbound was a very slight, but noticeable uphill grade along an old slick as ice when wet winding MUP around ponds with many elderly retirees enjoying our warm weather. So it was go 12 to 15 mph then slow down to 8 and then speed up before slowing again to be safe until turning Eastbound towards the 20 mile goal.
This last segment was along a 6 lane very fast road so onto the sidewalk, had only a few traffic signals and nobody else on the walkways. So I pushed again to hold to my 15 mph while moving until the mileage read 20 and I pushed stop button on the Zeopoxa app. I kept going because this ride was on the final segment to reach my destination.
I have never before used any form of bicycle performance tracking gear other than a watch and my brain, but stumbled upon a review on my smart phone. I downloaded several and will try them out one by one. Zeopoxa seemed intuitive to me so I started my adventure into bicycle app land.
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