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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're just starting out so give yourself some slack. Cycling is a great aerobic exercise, but you have to work it. You can't expect it to do much good if you're cruising at 10 miles an hour. You don't want the outdoor equivalent of the guy in the gym on the recumbent bike reading the newspaper.  A reasonably strenuous pace is closer to 20 mph and a good workout is 90 minutes+.  Remember the cycling equivalent of a marathon is a century (100 miles).  [/quote]

I'm not OP but also very new to cycling.  I am having problems getting to that 20mph pace--partially because I am having a hard time finding a long enough stretch where I don't have to stop for stop signs, major road intersections, etc.  Last weekend I went for a ride in my neighborhood that ended up averaging about 10mph because I was literally stopping every couple minutes.
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NP here.  Personally I never got up to 20mph, though admittedly have a cyclocross bike.  But for a while I commuted ~10miles each way 2-3x/week for work and trained for a century ride.  Think my pace was generally around 15mph. And I thought that got me into pretty decent shape - certainly I was the thinnest I've been in recent years, and the biking was my primary training before a hike out west where I was able to easily handle 20+ miles and lots of elevation in a day.  So I wouldn't worry about it too much.

That said for longer rides without interruptions I'd look at the bike trails / some of the roads outside the city where you've got longer stretches without interruption.  Rock Creek park on the weekends is great for that, and I did a long training loop one time out River Rd to White's Ferry and back along the W&O that had lots of nice long open stretches.

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