Mr. Silver is a cyclist!

[silver]

yesterday, we rode 20 miles. at about 10 miles we had a "disagreement" and each found our own way home.

We discussed our "issues" and then went for a wonderful ride today. Mr. has achieved a great level of fitness and is already capable of surpassing me in speed.

Today we rode 33 miles (Mr. computer said 32, but I think mine's more correct) averaging about 15 mph. Our ride had hills, flats, rollers and wind. This is farther than he has ridden before and he did great!!

Things we've learned.....he's a masher and I'm a spinner. He has very strong, muscular legs and seems more comfortable this way. I have to refrain from coaching him to ride differently. (I'm an ectomorph, tall and thin, as in not strong muscular legs)

Way to go, Mr.!!!!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Oh that is so GREAT!! There is nothing finer than riding with someone you like to be around.
33 miles is a long ride!
About the masher/spinner thing.... i think that is not too uncommon with a man/woman cycling couple. I'm a spinner too, and I head up hills slowly and steadily, usually trying to get a "running start" as much as possible. In contrast, my husband has longer and stronger legs and is a masher.
Meaning he approaches a hill, then suddenly slows down and goes into a HIGHER gear and stands up to power up the hill fast. If I happen to be behind him as we approach a hill, his sudden slow down totally wrecks my running start and messes me all up! We have learned to let him go on well ahead when approaching a hill, so that there enough of a distance between us that neither of us will ruin the other's hill technique. I can stand up on shorter hills, but not the big long ones.
We had some initial differences that we needed to sort out when biking together, and once you come to agreements onhow to work around them, there are way fewer "misunderstandings". It's nice to know ahead what to expect. I remember one of our big problems was the directional language when coming to turns, forks in the road, etc. He would yell "Straight!" and all I would see infront of me was a perfect "Y" in the road. That was a BIG ongoing dilemma to solve, but we eventually came to an agreement!
I'm so glad you two are riding together! It's so much fun once the little kinks ar ironed out!

[Mr. Bloom]

Silver is still stronger on the hills...they wear me out, but I'm improving. I'm whipped four hours later, but I think that this will be the week that I get my own bike so I don't have to alway borrow SilverSon's.

I find that I'm staying in the top five gears except on the long hills, but I'm learning how to find my "sweet spot".

I think tonight's work out will be upper body focused!!

[Triskeliongirl]

So let's replace the car avatar with a pic of your bike! This is a cycling forum afterall. Glad you made it over to the Dark Side Mr. Silver (and congrats on the weight loss, been following that thread too)!!!

[KSH]

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Silver for being riding buddies.

Pppsssstttt... Mr. Silver... mashing is HORRIBLE. If you are not careful, you might end up with pain in your knees because of it.

[Mr. Bloom]

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Silver for being riding buddies.

Pppsssstttt... Mr. Silver... mashing is HORRIBLE. If you are not careful, you might end up with pain in your knees because of it.

Is mashing horrible if it feels natural and comfortable?

[Mr. Bloom]

So let's replace the car avatar with a pic of your bike! This is a cycling forum afterall. Glad you made it over to the Dark Side Mr. Silver (and congrats on the weight loss, been following that thread too)!!!

Silver's working on that with a picture we took yesterday.