your daily bicycle log

No rides today, unless it dries up a bit. Too much eating, instead.

rain saturday :(

90 minutes on the rollers

bought new saddle to replace shot 90s gel POS that came on my roadie
removed old seat
adjusted blinky light mounting
attached new seat
began to reattach seat stem
broke bolt that runs through seat tube while tightening

rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggggggggggeeeeeeeeeeee

DAN: DOESN'T KNOW HIS OWN STRENGTH

BINDER BOLT. IVE BROKEN LOTS OF THOSE, THEY ARE ANNOYING TO REPLACE!

One and two halves of a 5 mile cross-country loop at Aston Hill. Wasn't much fun - it's an extremely rooty trail and in the rain it's just waayyyy too slippy. And the most exciting downhill section was chalk, which was also fatally slidy. Won't be heading back there until the summer.

4 hours easy easy

THAT'S how October gets done. THe bigger the base, the taller the pyramid and all that noise.

hi five!

easy jaunt to west town bikes for first day of build a bike class. awesome!

man i don't know what to eat on days where i burn 2,500 calories

A COUPLE SLICES OF EGG PIZZA SHD DO THE TRICK.

^^^ my french roommate buys a slice of pizza then throws a motherfuckin egg on it

Eggs with vegetables and goat cheese and a side green salad and corned beef hash and cafe au lait.

One and two halves of a 5 mile cross-country loop at Aston Hill. Wasn't much fun - it's an extremely rooty trail and in the rain it's just waayyyy too slippy. And the most exciting downhill section was chalk, which was also fatally slidy.

Hey Ledge, I've ridden there in the wet (my sister lives in Wendover) and that one steep slippery chalky switchback is NASTY DEATH. Good on ya for surviving.

Well we survived by walking down it... hey ya gotta pick your battles, discretion better part of valour, etc.

Ah, well don't worry, I won't tell anyone...

I set out to find a shortcut through the back of my neighborhood to a bro's place which is only really about a mile away, if I could somehow take a straight shot. I got lost and ended up 3 miles north of his house somehow on the other side of a gigantic 6-lane road that I didn't cross. I did find some railroad tracks though, so if I can retrofit my shit with some kind of theoretical rail-riding gear I am set.

I have seen such a thing, I have I have. For rail-riding on deserted tracks.

^^^ i have, too!

bike frame with an outrigger

http://www.freeridepgh.org/images/seanrailbike.jpg http://www.hellskitchenmuseum.com/images/sean.jpg

http://www.railbike.com/images/michael1.jpg

Good grief - wow!

HAHA HOLY SHIT.

OMG there are actually a lot of old abandoned railways around here, a guy could really have a good time on a thing like that.

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

prospect park is best in the fall

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.