your daily bicycle log

apparently i start work as a courier on friday, so my log is about to get a lot busier

we'll see about this

I dunno, but I'm going to enjoy the stories.

90 mins-almost threw up after 1st interval, yay!

Awesome. (structured intervals in October is a bit unconventional?)

YES^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Last night was my first commute home in proper darkness. Fired up the Lumicycles and climbed up through the woods on the singletrack. Been ages since I've done any nighttime riding offroad, awesome to have those sensations again. Spooky shapes looming up then slipping away on either side, so so dark all around, nothing to do but chase the beam in front of you. Got to the top and on to the road over the golf course, city lights in front of me, the quiet shush! of wind off the sea, the tseep! call of the redwings arriving for the winter overhead. Fuck, one more hour and I can get out there and do it again.

Courier job sounds good to me, I'd love that I think. Never ridden intervals on a bike, had some solid dry upchucks running them on the track though. Enjoy!

Awesome. (structured intervals in October is a bit unconventional?)

4x6(20 second sprints at Z5/95% max + 40 seconds Z3)

everyone on my trainer's team placed 1st in one race or another last season, i'm going to do whatever he tells me to do

I GUESS IF U ARE PAYING SOMEBODY, HAVING THEM TELL YOU RIDE BASE MILES TILL ABT FEB, ISNT REALLY WORTH THE BUCKS.

i don;t know anything about bike training

I DONT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT DOCTOR TRAINING!...........................OR DO I?!?!?!?

you seem to think you know everything!

go on tell me how to do surgery right

i'm going to do whatever he tells me to do

STAY! OFF! THE! DRUGS! ha

obey your coach obv. no march champions tho.

one of his teammates placed #1 in sunday cyclocross race

also 20 second sprints =! 30 minutes in Z4 or anything of that sort

what is Z(x)?

x is the interval, Z is the amount of reps

I DO KNOW A LOT!! ANYTIME U NEED ME TO CUT U OPEN...SAY THE WORD HOMIE!!

you aren't even good at WII surgery

i'd let you work on my bike tho

and i'd let you paint a picture of me holding my bike

Also in the HRM training regime of zones 1-5c, Z4 would be at/just below aerobic threshold power. The power based guys do it more calculated off of critical power/duration? xpost

and yeah i don't think of sprint repeats as intervals. they are their own hell. thats why i dint do them and sucked at sprinting.

Wii TENNIS IS WHERE I SHINE!

right, power training is way more accurate, but you don't start that until early spring for the real pain

Mapquest says I just rode 12.8 miles (6.4 there/back to/from coffee shop, where I hanged out for 30min). It is such a gorgeous freaking day; I didn't want to come in but we're having band practice here in t-minus 90min and the jam dungeon is kind of completely out-of-control.

cutty start an ian-style food consumption log

fatty

i'm somewhat moderate intake during the week, but on the weekends when i'm burning over 4000 calories i probably eat something every hour.

i really ought to buy like a flat of clif bars

I've been having Clif bars for brek b/c I love them, but at 250 calories it's really probably a bit much for one meal when I have desk job. They come in better flavors than stupid Luna bars, tho.

If you weigh all food and poop, you can back-calculate your metabolic efficiency, apply it against your tested CP30. When the resulting graph reaches a deflection point, you know youre in danger of overtraining.

k i'm ready to start coaching, i just need clients. i would love to see a coach convice his athletes to weight their poop. just be all 'this is how lance did it, bitch, start weighing"!

uh, "weigh." Or "weight," i guess. "Eat these balloons of lead shot and go train. once you shit that out, you will go uphill like a rocket!"

...apply it against your tested CP30.

http://daedalushowell.com/images/c3p0-luke.JPG

http://www.billkopp.com/keyboards/yamaha-cp30.jpg

heh, i dint evein notice that. it means 30 minute critical power, i think. xpost

i think hes holding up poop?

This is so exciting; all these gnarly cycling mathematical acronysms is incredible. I'm like those people in that thing about the cave seeing the sun for the first time.

"they say your methods have become unsound, coach." "get your ass out of that diaper and start weighing or you'll never make cat 2."

haha. OK COACH!

nick we haven't even gotten in V02 max and lactate threshold.

lactate threshold? sorry, bro, i don't drink milk

LOLOLOLOL GEDDIT

binder bolt replaced, went for a nice hour-long cruise to break in new saddle

Went for a ride just to listen to new(-ish) Cornelius album, rode/listened through it twice.

I'm not really logging all the grocery and/or beer runs because that would get tedious.

Oh absolutely. I only mentioned mine to be ridiculous -- and cos a lot of weeks local transpo's the only riding I do.

commuting is all ive done since the second week of Sept. thats a fucking tragedy.

Just to and from work today (14.25 miles, 1 hour riding time). I felt pretty good, I gotta say. Only got overtaken twice by other cyclists.

90 mins today, spinning in z3