10 miles on a road bike compared to same on a stationary bike?

Colorado Bicycler wrote:
Well, Maggie - I did a great Colorado ride today - on our "Urban
Trail
System" - you feel as if you are in the country, but you really are
in
the city. Temp - about 54F, little wind, 1.5 hours of fine riding!

Hope your weather gets better. A shame not to be able to ride
outside.
Perhaps a "non-rain" dance?

I've tried a "non-snow" dance, but it's not working. This weekend I
plan to BOWL in some benefit thing. I haven't bowled in so long I hope
I remember how....May 1st I am in Walk America...
http://www.walkamerica.org/lindabuset
I am exercising and raising money for charity through activities, but I
am not doing any riding.

I'm glad you had a wonderful Colorado ride. I am going back to Tahoe
the second week in May and I plan on riding alot. I'm sure the high
altitude is going to kill me.

Hopefully the weather in Jersey will get better soon and I can see if I
can really ride a real bike for any distance. I can sure ride that
stationary.
All Good things,
Maggie

Look , all you folks need to do is get a snowmobile like myself. That way
you are in a win win situation. You love the snow and the warmth! You cant
beat sledding after a nice nor'eastern. :-)


"jj" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 04:14:55 GMT, "chris c"
wrote:

I live in Western NY so the roads are all flat except for your minor
hills
and that. If I do 10 miles on my staionary bike everyday, will it be easy
for me to do 10 miles on the road bike? Obviously the speed is harder to
keep the same especially on hills. I find myself aroun 20 mph on the st.
bike. Thanks

20mph, but at what power setting? Pedalling at 20mph on fairly flat roads
for 10 miles is definitely intermediate level riding ability, imo. You'll
have to decide if the position on the stationary bike is similar enough to
your road bike so it works the same muscles. You might need more neck and
shoulder conditioning, however we're only talking 30 min of riding.

Since I was snowed in yesterday (5"), I rode my old stationary bike, one
of
those department store things with a strap and fly-wheel.

Observations:
Definitely a little harder than riding 10 miles on the flats, since
there's
no coasting, even a little bit. ;-)
Quads definitely got pumped, but after 35 minutes, that eased off and I
got
a second-wind.
Watching TV and/or playing fast songs on the stereo, it was pretty easy to
ride for 50 minutes.
With the big seat that comes with those, the worst effect is my butt got
numb at 40minutes, otherwise I could have easily gone past an hour.
No soreness the next day.
Not sure how much cycling-specific training effect, since the position is
different.

Conclusion:
Dump the stationary bike and get a trainer for 200 bucks (or get rollers)
if you have a lot of bad winter weather. Been lucky this winter. Only
about
5 days of weather too bad to ride outdoors. (US, mid-atlantic region).

jj

chris c wrote:
Look , all you folks need to do is get a snowmobile like myself. That
way
you are in a win win situation. You love the snow and the warmth! You
cant
beat sledding after a nice nor'eastern. :-)


"jj" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 04:14:55 GMT, "chris c"

wrote:

I live in Western NY so the roads are all flat except for your
minor
hills
and that. If I do 10 miles on my staionary bike everyday, will it
be easy
for me to do 10 miles on the road bike? Obviously the speed is
harder to
keep the same especially on hills. I find myself aroun 20 mph on
the st.
bike. Thanks

20mph, but at what power setting? Pedalling at 20mph on fairly flat
roads
for 10 miles is definitely intermediate level riding ability, imo.
You'll
have to decide if the position on the stationary bike is similar
enough to
your road bike so it works the same muscles. You might need more
neck and
shoulder conditioning, however we're only talking 30 min of riding.

Since I was snowed in yesterday (5"), I rode my old stationary
bike, one
of
those department store things with a strap and fly-wheel.

Observations:
Definitely a little harder than riding 10 miles on the flats, since
there's
no coasting, even a little bit. ;-)
Quads definitely got pumped, but after 35 minutes, that eased off
and I
got
a second-wind.
Watching TV and/or playing fast songs on the stereo, it was pretty
easy to
ride for 50 minutes.
With the big seat that comes with those, the worst effect is my
butt got
numb at 40minutes, otherwise I could have easily gone past an hour.
No soreness the next day.
Not sure how much cycling-specific training effect, since the
position is
different.

Conclusion:
Dump the stationary bike and get a trainer for 200 bucks (or get
rollers)
if you have a lot of bad winter weather. Been lucky this winter.
Only
about
5 days of weather too bad to ride outdoors. (US, mid-atlantic
region).

jj


The last time I was on a snowmobile was in the pocono mountains and I
flipped on a turn and rolled down the mountain. Good thing I was young
and the thing didn't roll over me. I still have nightmares.
All good things
Maggie

On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 04:50:07 GMT, "chris c" wrote:

Look , all you folks need to do is get a snowmobile like myself. That way
you are in a win win situation. You love the snow and the warmth! You cant
beat sledding after a nice nor'eastern. :-)

There's no exercise in that. Try cross country skiing, and especially skate
skiing if there is a groomed XC ski center by you.

Ben

that's what the gym is for.


"Ben Kaufman" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 04:50:07 GMT, "chris c"
wrote:

Look , all you folks need to do is get a snowmobile like myself. That way
you are in a win win situation. You love the snow and the warmth! You
cant
beat sledding after a nice nor'eastern. :-)

There's no exercise in that. Try cross country skiing, and especially
skate
skiing if there is a groomed XC ski center by you.

Ben