Velo Vol 

You play in a tee-ball softball league?

LesterOfPuppets

SS bottles do taste better. If only they could be made to be squishy...

If they tasted water out of a plastic bottle from the 80s they'd probably pass.

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Bah Humbug

She was driving to the pool, opposite way.

DougRNS

^^^^fify
this post has been flagged because obtuse.

Bah Humbug

That doesn't make them right.

phrantic09

I don’t think of the area around here as hilly, but maybe it is, most of our rollers get to the 6-8% range which makes z2 difficult

LesterOfPuppets

UP 4020 leaving Cheyenne April 7, 1957. A rare calm day.

BillyD

Negative, it's just a good technique to sharpen your hand-eye coordination.

MoAlpha

I could do it here if I had ridiculous gears and didn’t mind poking along alone at 7 mph, but that’s not what I ride for. Also, at age 64 with a job, slow distance is a waste of time. Data suggest old people need lots of VO2max and threshold training and it certainly works for me.

rjones28 

Some NSFW language.

DougRNS

Post ride mid afternoon meal. Up on the roof. #Drifters

I had a grilled chicken chipotle ceasar salad and the Mrs. had the same in a cobb salad. Had an incident with a motorist on my ride.

That's all I'm going to say about that - F. Gump

phrantic09

Same here, I’d rather almost puke from the effort of a hill than take it slow.

WhyFi

At really low power, I wouldn't make a point of keeping your cadence high - just keep the pedals/drivetrain engaged, spinning slow and easy. Like, boring and borderline wrong easy. Additional metrics would help, obviously - HR at least, but you could probably grab a left crank arm meter for under $300 in the coming weeks. The more time you spend in the saddle, the more important it is to vary the effort, I think. Well, if you want to get faster. Just going off of feel, you seem to settle in to a fairly narrow speed range (a spread of maybe 2mph?) regardless of whether you indicate that your effort was easy, moderate or hard. On my shorter rides, I can see a spread of 5mph between easy and hard.

WhyFi

I couldn't really do it until I made a decision to ride every day, regardless of how much I hurt, and boy did I have some hurty days. I quickly found that those easy days helped me recover more than taking the day off, but I'm sure that mileage varies. On my normal 3 day/week riding schedule, I probably wouldn't have the discipline to go easy... but then again, on that schedule, I don't think that I'd have the need to go easy.

WhyFi

Agree on both points, but enduring boredom is worth it if it helps push your z3 and z4 higher.

WhyFi

Oh, I know - I'm fat and there's no such thing as an easy hill, but I think that my ~18mile recovery route is something like 200' of gain, though I do struggle to keep my HR under 110 on that one bridge.

Velo Vol 

You're a barrel of fun today.

What is "right" when it comes to water bottles?
Looks like a scene from hell.

phrantic09

Same here, I’d rather almost puke from the effort of a hill than take it slow.

MoAlpha

I don’t take many days off, especially after big efforts, because I come back stiff. I also seem fairly tolerant of 700-800 TSS/wk, which, it seems, most people at my age and crappy performance level aren’t.

Velo Vol 

Pushing the envelop.

https://www.strava.com/activities/4371775632

Zero flybys.

Also, what was with all the traffic this afternoon/evening?

DougRNS

Pot meet kettle.

MoAlpha

I guess if you mean REALLY slow... I haven’t almost puked (or pooped) from a hill since my foot racing days, and I don’t remember liking the feeling.

DougRNS

At 64 years old I don't have time for endurance rides - M Alpha

Bah Humbug

No holiday spirit around here, I guess.

DougRNS

Age jokes? Pot meet kettle.