Average time to ride whole trail (Red to blue and back)?

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vlkslvr

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I was wondering what it takes some of the riders here to ride the whole 6MR from 27 to Canal and back (or the other way around).

I start out on the 27 side go out on the red taking as much of the trail and avoiding the fields, cross over middlebush, staying on the red to canal and then back on the blue and finish 27 side all on the red trail.

I want to start doing more group rides and I want to make sure I've got the fitness to be able to keep up with different groups.
 
I consider myself beginner and it takes me about 2hrs if I include the white.
 
Whomever posts a group ride usually states the pace. If I take my sweet time and make an enjoyable lazy ride out of it, I'll take 2.5 hours to do the whole loop. I'm betting that some of the really fast riders here can do the whole loop at close to the hour mark.
 
Depending on who I'm with I have been able to do the whole loop (Including The New Red Trail) in as little as an hour fifteen with one quick stop. I have come to the conclusion that I need an hour and a half average to get the whole loop in at a decent pace.
 
Madness also does the whole loop and rides to and from his house in an hour fourty-five.
 
qsilvr99 said:
I rode with the group this past Wednesday. They probably did the loop in 1:45. I took 2:08 with the bypass on the way back. My avg. speed was 6.5mph.

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/8384210
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I rode the wednesday group ride as well and I believe rolling time was 1:28, including the white trail but cutting off the last twisties on 27 side.(We did do the fields by canal instead of short cutting behind the buildings)

(Stolen from the other thread but here is the GPS data for the ride we did:
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/8599191
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We stopped quite a few times to regroup so I think the starting and stopping might have added a few extra minutes to the rolling time, but it did allow us to catch our breath. I can see riding the loop we did in 1:15 if you were with a small fast group but much faster than that would be impressive to see to say the least.
 
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Dang, so you guys took the bypass as well huh? I was hoping to catch up with you.

Training Center and Connect.Garmin doesn't show moving vs. total time.
 
stb222 said:
I thought Madness was slow? Dude didn't ride all winter.
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Just cause I didn't ride all winter doesn't mean I got fat and slow.....lol
Honestly I have rode the loop with some other people that are way faster then I am through that place. I have been on an avarage of 10 to 11 miles and hour on most of my rides when I am hammering though there by myself. Compaired to some others I have rode with there that is just enough to keep up and not get completly left.

I am going to try to hit up a loop around there today at 5:30 if anybody is interested.
 
stb222

ok guys, I did some research on motionbased... the officially fastest rider in last 90 days is stb222. he did the full loop in 1:22 h and spend less than 2 min stops. I never was able reduce stop time below 10 min 😱
 
alex_k said:
ok guys, I did some research on motionbased... the officially fastest rider in last 90 days is stb222. he did the full loop in 1:22 h and spend less than 2 min stops. I never was able reduce stop time below 10 min 😱
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damn, i knew I should not have stopped to take off my glasses!
 
That means he was actually faster then 1.22 cause the GPS units lose signals sometimes and don't record during that laps in time. That's a damn fast loop. I hit it up today at a pretty fast pace and had an actual wheels moving time of 1hr 27 mins. at an average on 10.4 mph. I started to fall off the pace towards the end. I have always wondered what kind of times some of you guys have done the whole loop in. Kinda good to find out where I stand in the evolution scale............😀
 
Longer loop?

Seems like the loop I do is longer somehow. I have a bunch of files in Training Peaks from 6-mile and they're all around 16 miles...They are all just over an hour. I know I've hit the loop in under an hour. I'll have to look in my 2008 Power Agent files to get an actual distance/time.

-Jim.
 
jimvreeland said:
Seems like the loop I do is longer somehow. I have a bunch of files in Training Peaks from 6-mile and they're all around 16 miles...They are all just over an hour. I know I've hit the loop in under an hour. I'll have to look in my 2008 Power Agent files to get an actual distance/time.

-Jim.
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My total loop yesterday was the same as yours, it was a total of 16.3 miles. I've seen your pace, it's border line retarded, either that or I was border line retarded for trying to keep up.....
 
Madness said:
My total loop yesterday was the same as yours, it was a total of 16.3 miles. I've seen your pace, it's border line retarded, either that or I was border line retarded for trying to keep up.....
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what makes you loop 16 miles? Staying along the fields instead of the blue trail?
 
jimvreeland said:
Seems like the loop I do is longer somehow. I have a bunch of files in Training Peaks from 6-mile and they're all around 16 miles...They are all just over an hour. I know I've hit the loop in under an hour. I'll have to look in my 2008 Power Agent files to get an actual distance/time.

-Jim.
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I'd love to see the loop you put together for 16 miles at 6 mile.

And man is that fast, plently of people don't do 16mph on the road, to do it there through the twisties is awesome. I take you it are just flat out hammering the fields and flat sections to get an average that high.
 
stb222 said:
what makes you loop 16 miles? Staying along the fields instead of the blue trail?
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It's the loop Jay showed me last year with the new red section tacked on to it. To get 16 miles you can't cut out any of the twisties on the way back to the 27 lot. I also don't run along the fields on the canal side except for when the blue trail dumps you out along the fields.
 
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