I'm looking for something more interesting to bring into my exercise schedule and I am fairly close to the infamous Yarra Boulevard in Kew (suburb of Melbourne).
I am just a commuter at this moment, and average about 150km a week slowly pushing up to 200km a week, with most of the time carrying a 5 - 7 kg bag on my back which contains laptop, clothes, etc for my days work. My bike is a flat bar road bike (Jamis Coda Comp), so not as fast as a drop bar road bike, but good enough for me at the moment.
Now i'm also a fairly new rider, starting in October 2005, and riding every day from November to now. So i'm getting kilometres into my legs at a reasonable rate. I scored a Cateye Enduro 8 for Christmas and its great at showing me what stats it can (unfortunately no cadence or 'power' calculations).
So anyway, part of commuting was losing some weight, and getting some form of general fitness under my belt. I'm 6'2, and now just under 85kg (down some 6kg since October 2005). So i've reached my goal weight from when I started, it really didn't take much time at all, but i'm hoping this will improve continually, hopefully I will get to about 83kg and maintain that just by commuting.
What i'm looking for is some kind of benchmark for reasonable times for either a lap, or a one way pass of the Yarra Boulevard - preferably starting at Chandler Hwy end. Or if you have stats of one section to another that would be great too. I'd like to get feedback in the times it has taken you from what starting point, to what finishing/turn around point and what sort of level fitness are you at? If you could also include overall distances and avg speeds that would be fantastic.
I am just a commuter at this moment, and average about 150km a week slowly pushing up to 200km a week, with most of the time carrying a 5 - 7 kg bag on my back which contains laptop, clothes, etc for my days work. My bike is a flat bar road bike (Jamis Coda Comp), so not as fast as a drop bar road bike, but good enough for me at the moment.
Now i'm also a fairly new rider, starting in October 2005, and riding every day from November to now. So i'm getting kilometres into my legs at a reasonable rate. I scored a Cateye Enduro 8 for Christmas and its great at showing me what stats it can (unfortunately no cadence or 'power' calculations).
So anyway, part of commuting was losing some weight, and getting some form of general fitness under my belt. I'm 6'2, and now just under 85kg (down some 6kg since October 2005). So i've reached my goal weight from when I started, it really didn't take much time at all, but i'm hoping this will improve continually, hopefully I will get to about 83kg and maintain that just by commuting.
What i'm looking for is some kind of benchmark for reasonable times for either a lap, or a one way pass of the Yarra Boulevard - preferably starting at Chandler Hwy end. Or if you have stats of one section to another that would be great too. I'd like to get feedback in the times it has taken you from what starting point, to what finishing/turn around point and what sort of level fitness are you at? If you could also include overall distances and avg speeds that would be fantastic.