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Road Cycling “It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” -- Ernest Hemingway

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Old 10-13-20, 08:46 AM
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
60sec hillclimb? I'm there.

I have an overpass within riding distance.
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Pre-spinal injection COVID swab complete. There was a good line of cars, but the wait ended up being only about 35 min.
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How about this one https://strava.app.link/a7UUwDklyab

It’s my favorite climb around here
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Originally Posted by phrantic09
How about this one https://strava.app.link/a7UUwDklyab

It’s my favorite climb around here
Like. We don't have any climbs longer than 2 miles around here. Sad!
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Originally Posted by mvnsnd
Check out the course and see that it really does not favor a TT bike in the first place.
Here's the Strava activity:
https://www.strava.com/activities/4174585608
Since they said it was a 10km TT, I'm pretty sure that wasn't it. This one looks more like the triangle ride they showed in the video:

https://www.strava.com/activities/4163480636
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Originally Posted by datlas
Like. We don't have any climbs longer than 2 miles around here. Sad!
Well, if you like that, you'll love this...

https://www.strava.com/segments/8109834

It's the one climb around here that EVERYBODY does. 3miles, 1300 feet. Shaded. very little car traffic.
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Originally Posted by datlas
Like. We don't have any climbs longer than 2 miles around here. Sad!
This one's less than 2 miles and few than 2 miles from my house.

https://www.strava.com/segments/23402690
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Old 10-13-20, 09:39 AM
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Originally Posted by genejockey
Since they said it was a 10km TT, I'm pretty sure that wasn't it. This one looks more like the triangle ride they showed in the video:

https://www.strava.com/activities/4163480636

You are correct! I had the wrong link. Much flatter too
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Originally Posted by genejockey
Well, if you like that, you'll love this...

https://www.strava.com/segments/8109834

It's the one climb around here that EVERYBODY does. 3miles, 1300 feet. Shaded. very little car traffic.
Yup it's pretty well known. One of my cycling friends is trying to break 20 minutes on it, but somehow always ends up a little above 20. Because old.
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Originally Posted by phrantic09
How about this one https://strava.app.link/a7UUwDklyab

It’s my favorite climb around here
This one seems comparable to that one.

https://www.strava.com/segments/4395214

I've only been up this one once, barely. I keep meaning to go back, but every time I pass that road, my handlebars don't want to turn.
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Originally Posted by datlas
Like. We don't have any climbs longer than 2 miles around here. Sad!
This one's nearly three.

https://www.strava.com/segments/2274106

Good one to hit on a Saturday morning from the bike shop.
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Old 10-13-20, 09:56 AM
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Originally Posted by genejockey
Since they said it was a 10km TT, I'm pretty sure that wasn't it. This one looks more like the triangle ride they showed in the video:

https://www.strava.com/activities/4163480636
There's a clue in one of the segment names.
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Originally Posted by datlas
Yup it's pretty well known. One of my cycling friends is trying to break 20 minutes on it, but somehow always ends up a little above 20. Because old.
I believe they did it in the 2010 Tour of California.

My best ever time on it is just under 25 minutes, but I'm 4 minutes off that these days. I did the 'Best Ever' about 20 years ago, so there's that.

I hadn't done it in 7 years, because I kept thinking "I'm too old to be doing this before I get a really solid base of miles" - basically wimping out. This Sunday, I even went down the West side - that's where I took that picture I posted, looking toward the Pacific, then back up a different way over the hill and down. Old La Honda is a great climb and a terrible descent. Conversely, La Honda Road (CA Rt. 84 is a terrible climb and a great descent.
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Originally Posted by datlas
Like. We don't have any climbs longer than 2 miles around here. Sad!
If you look at the map at the bottom of the hill basically on both sides of the Mohawk you can climb 500-1000 over 1-2 miles along route 5S or Route 5. It’s pretty awesome. I used to live down there and do those climbs a lot more, now it’s a 30 mile ride to get to them so I don’t get down there much

One of the climbs is an old deteriorated road in a hollow that is no longer “open”
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With a time on distance x grade handicap for age fatness?
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There's a clue in one of the segment names.
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Is this good care? No, and it wouldn’t be tolerated where I work, but I’m not sure what the community standard is. When I was seeing patients regularly, I heard plenty of bad stories about community specialists. The system seems to be focused on throughput and making money and you’re just a widget on the belt. You could try an academic center where the level of professionalism might be higher, but the fellows turn over every couple of years and continuity can be shaky.
I'm not either. Before I saw solo witch doctors. No RNs or PAs.

I'm supposed to see the MD in January, so I guess I'll stay put until at least then. It's not so easy switching. Probably need a referral, might have to go to the GP just for that. Then who knows where they'll try to refer me, I probably won't get an appointment for two or three months at a different place. Yada, yada, yada.
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I'm not either. Before I saw solo witch doctors. No RNs or PAs.

I'm supposed to see the MD in January, so I guess I'll stay put until at least then. It's not so easy switching. Probably need a referral, might have to go to the GP just for that. Then who knows where they'll try to refer me, I probably won't get an appointment for two or three months at a different place. Yada, yada, yada.
My advice is see what the MD says in January.

If not satisfying, it's certainly worth getting an appointment with one of the physicians at your closest academic medical center as I had suggested a few pages back, if only as a "second opinion."
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Originally Posted by datlas
Those "GCN does science" videos should be taken with a grain of salt. They typically have an n of 1 or 2, so not enough to draw any real conclusions.
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I just saw a patient who is a not-so-serious cyclist. He is also a pilot. He told me his chain was worn so he had to take it to the shop to get a new chain and cassette and chainrings that were also worn.

I did suggest he could just change his chain every 3000 miles and/or measure chain wear to avoid having worn cassettes and chainrings.

I hope I reached him. Not sure.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
There's a clue in one of the segment names.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Thank you.

If it's from a trusted poster.

Speed?
I'm gonna say 0 mph. Hard tellin' though.
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