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daaaaaang

shaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasta brother thats sick. ive never ridden that far in a ride!

curious to see what this embed instruction actually puts in... (its my ride today)

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that was grand.

fwiw

Distance: 26.09 mi
Time: 01:12:48 h:m:s
Elevation Gain: 912 ft
Avg Speed: 21.5 mph
Avg HR: 153 bpm
Calories: 912 C

shasta u appear to have peaked your form nicely for the giro

I did a mid-afternoon lap of the Richmond Park gravel path (not road) and despite being a) on the slick 23mm-tyred fixie and b) among lots of bike and ped traffic, I smashed my lap record by 40 seconds to record 29.05. I've no idea how!

Distance: 22.09 mi
Time: 01:09:36 h:m:s
Elevation Gain: 1,736 ft
Avg Speed: 19.1 mph
Avg HR: 128 bpm

no time for real rides this weekend :(

shiiiiii- that's epic shasta

Not trying to show anyone up, one year ago I was an average joe commuter bugging cutty every 10 mins on IM with annoying roadie questions. I've since cut that down to every 10 hours. All y'all's have inspired me to ride long and hard.

I have a few key rides coming up in the next few weeks and I'll try to log those here. Try to get some pix/vidz as well.

this was me yesterday: meandering loop with a lot of it on tight-ish paths, so i wasn't hammering. started just after 1pm with blue skies and a bit of a breeze, finished in darkness and on-off showers. i managed to get lost for half an hour when i should've crossed a road, i also had the stem faceplate come loose on a sweeping downhill right @ 60kmh+. o_O took five and a half hours (stops for rest, fuel, re-tightening stem bolts, getting bearings back when lost).

dist: 85.24km
moving time: 4:19:39
avg spd: 19.7km/h
avg HR: 147 bpm
1981 calories, om nom nom

Getting antsy as was in chicago all weekend so no biking and have to drive to York, PA today so no biking today or tomorrow.

holy balls "steve"!

Put the tri-bars on this morning in anticipation of a time trial I'm doing on Sunday. For the third time in a row I drove out to Essex and did a loop in the countryside, making the most of the last of the good April weather (the weekend is forecast to be relentlessly cold and wet, so my time trial won't be a lot of fun). I started off fairly gently then started to wind it up a bit on the tri bars. Did the first 10 miles in 29.17 and by 18 miles I'd got the average speed up to 21.4mph. After that I eased off for a bit (partly because I didn't know where I was). Did 25 miles in about 1:13.30. Stopped off at a shop to buy some water as I'd finished my energy drink and realised I was still in with a shout of an average speed of 20mph, so I dug deep and gave it everything for the last 7 or 8 miles (into a headwind) and managed it.

Distance: 42.09 miles
Time: 2 hours 6 mins 17 seconds
Average speed: 20.0 mph
Route: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=3681998

yeah can't be fucked to cycle up to kilburn today

Pause midway through Saturday's ride (in a village called High Easter):
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3536/4560392659_d7b348751a.jpg
and pause midway through today's ride (in a village called Great Easton):
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3406/4561021240_0e5dab6d5a.jpg

Time: 02:24:00
Distance: 40.75 mi
Elevation Gain: 3,786 ft
Calories: 1,366 C

the temp at home: 63 deg
air temp while descending at 40mph from 8400 ft: 42 deg

froze my damn knuckles and toes off.

very persistent drizzle today, I think I need to man up and go out, it's not exactly cold.

Maybe after laundry and the Tour de Romandie Highlights.

Muddiest ride of my life today. We were going to do three out of a possible seven laps of ten miles each - not too much of a struggle you would think, even in my current not so fit state. We managed one, and that took 1h 45. Basically almost all of the course was a mudbath, most of the time it was slidy wet mud that sent you skidding all over the shop, but they occasionally mixed it up with some drier stuff that was like riding through a grow bag, even on the flat it felt like you were struggling up a steep incline. I maybe could have attempted another lap but one of our party was exceedingly unhappy so we decided to call it a day, and when i got back on the bike, albeit after cooling down for 20 minutes, it felt like the right decision. When I got back to the car I was scraping mud off my legs with a stick.

today:

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/31994726

weekend totals spread across 2 club rides with "race-effort" segments:

185.9 miles
17.1 mph
12,537 net elevation gain

i attacked, and attacked and attacked the climbers in the cross wind. there was no way i could stay with them up the big climbs so i tried to tactfully get away at the right moment before a big climb to get an edge and cross the top around the same time. i hit 32-33mph in a sprint coming out of the paceline which is a landspeed record for me on flat land. felt good after a week off the bike, but i am sore and wiped out. i need a couple days off for sure.

here is a graph showing one of the series of attacks which came about 55-60 miles in. Our pack of 8 had broken apart (8 to 5 to 3 to me desperately trying to hold off a Cat 3 dude who beat me in the final few meters) coming out of some rollers and averaging over 27mph/370W for 5.5miles/12minutes to sprint for the Stinson Beach town sign:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4060/4572156754_57af058bdb_o.png

ha that is ridiculous im about to boycott shasta posts to save my slef esteem

shasta is roadie to the core!!!

Made it out into the rain and it turned into a pretty nice, if flat, run. Stats should return some self esteem to Hunt3r.

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/32018109

http://connect.garmin.com:80/activity/embed/32017317

w kiddo

btw on my muddy enduro event, the guys doing 7 laps only managed 6 (girls did 4), and only 14 out of 80 doing 3 laps managed all 3.

rain on your NEW BIKE Ed? noooooo

I have just spent the last half an hour cleaning, polishing and oiling

once yr done with those calves you better clean the bike!!

i forgot to put my ride of yesterday - i think it was 75km or so, wireless bits on the computer weren't working for a while tho. did kinglake climb again - 5% for 7km - climbed at 10-14km/h without going into the red zone like last time. got a bit chilly bombing down the mountain tho!

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/32366061

im sorta confused about my hr- back inna day, my threshold hr for this length was about 163. 168? that was code red. 170+? imminent destruction shit- i could not stay there long, and recovery would be sketchy. so yesterday i was at 167 most of the time, bounced over 170 on the hill with no real issue. i expect my threshold power to be far lower than before (8 yrs ago and trained). but i do not expect my threshold hr to be higher. wondering if this phenomenon will repeat in final two tts.

meant to post that to racelog

also, 30mph wind out of the south, i could barely hold the bike up with disc. it was insane and scary, but it was the only wheel i had. i didnt get passed by anyone yesterday, but my average speed dropped below 25 :(

w/r/t to heartrate, i found that when i'm in high-intensity training, my fatigue rate is at a much lower HR then when i'm tapering (ie, 175-180bpm = cork popping during training, but after tapering i can get up to 185-195 before i have to pull the ripcord).

also, racing with a disc in 30mph winds = D:

kudos for staying upright!

http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/05/06/leguizamo.urban.biking/index.html?hpt=C2

Rubbish ride today. Very Windy, which is OK but it was whipping up so much dust and pollen. I have go to get some wrap around glasses, had to ride so much one handed just to have one hand holding down eyelid trying to empty crap out. Also tried climbing, which wasn't great either. Long way to go on that. Add to this that I bought bathroom scales yesterday and I'm tipping 105kg. Need to do some serious work.

Now making up for curtailed ride with yoga and torturing myself on my large blue ball.

In other news I managed to win some rollers second hand on eBay so my target is for min 1 hr per day by whatever means.

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/32628965

Distance: 50.24 mi
Elevation Gain: 5,066 ft
Calories: 1,634 C
Avg Temperature: 60.8 °F
Moving Time: 02:47:14
Avg Moving Speed: 16.7 mph
Max Speed: 43.0 mph
Elevation Gain: 5,066 ft
Avg HR: 137 bpm
Max HR: 166 bpm

Did a 90 mile loop that the first 45 miles is the same as the Tour of California Stage 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cra3MVVkmTY

Not sure if I told you guys yet, but I'll have the opportunity to ride Stage 3 and Stage 8 (in LA) the day of the races. Very excited!

Anyways, tried to keep it in Z3-Z4 on the climbs, didn't feel like pushing it today. I'll save that for the race day ride!

Distance: 87.6 mi
Moving Time 04:59:19
Total Elevation Gain 5,712 ft
Average Speed 17.6 mph (max 47.7mph)
Average Watts 191W (max 60 second avg 383W)
Average HR 118 bpm (max 172 nb: NOT Z4 fwiw)

No riding at all this weekend as I have to help with a road race my club is organising. This means getting up at 5.30am, picking up a clubmate and then driving for about an hour to some village hall in the middle of nowhere. Instead of marshalling, my role is to be in the second car and note which riders are in breaks etc. and inform the commissaire over CB radio. I wasn't especially looking forward to this as it means four hours sat in car going round and round a ten-mile loop at slow speed without any toilet breaks. I'm looking forward to it even less now, as I couldn't get to sleep last night till gone 3am, so I've had barely two hours' sleep - that dreaded insomnia loop where you get stressed about not falling alseep when you know you need to get up early so you need to get a decent night's sleep but the longer it takes to get to sleep the more stressed you get which makes it more difficult to get to sleep....

I played hooky with 2 bros this afternoon, we rode up Mt. Diablo (3,850 feet of climbing in ~10.3 miles) then came back to the city for a 60 min crit which was FAST. technical turns, rolling course... laps were 25+mph for the leaders. I got dropped after a few laps and then would jump back in with fresh legs (kinda sad but mostly lol).

Did a 10-mile hilly time trial (8 laps of Hog Hill) last night and managed to knock nearly a minute off my course PB from last summer. Came 9th out of 33 (I think). Had to be careful on some of the descents as there were slower riders on the course and you didn't know how safely you could overtake them.

Went out this morning and did 36 miles at 18.3mph. Weather a bit chilly and it rained for about 15 minutes.

i see on velonews splash page "training for gran fondos: pt 3 climbing technique."

i got all kinds of bad attitude on this emerging us gran fondo thing. why does this bug the shit out of me? its so...bicycling mag. ooh do a GRAN FUCKING FONDO! better train for THAT, better learn how to climb in a GRAN FONDO! what is the secret, how not to get crashed by 3000 other fat mantises doing their BIG RIDE of the year? do you race? yeah, i did a GRAN FONDO! look, i know how good dudes are who go out to "win" gran fondos- way better than me. and its less lame than doing a tt series and nuttin else, really. still. GRAN FONDO! get training. maybe u can try a TRIATHLON someday.

u_u i sorry for breaking iltrmb with my crankiness. im way fonda fondos.

we actually have a thread devoted to these gran fondues iirc T_T

i know that my post was the _worst_ of bogus crappy racing roadie attitude. i got no right.

i still am unclear why a racing mag wants to give you a strategy for climbing in a fondo. i should read it maybe id learn something.

all i know about Gramp Fondas is ALWAYS attack in the feed zone, esp with a full mouth full of brie-baguette.

fat mantis you should have a snack---that's what I do when I'm cranky

...."cranky"

bike lol

lols @ that solution u peddling, i do get mega crabby when i get hungry.