scheibo

late to mention it, but congrats! 3hrs in the dark that early in the morning is impressive

caloso

Thought I had the rain timed perfectly this morning and then that all went out the door when I got a huge gash in my tire. I had a liner in there, but whatever I hit got more of the sidewall.

TMonk

Thanks.

I did it again today!

wktmeow

Not looking forward to all the rain the rest of this week...

Sprints and AC work tomorrow, ride to Swami's + the ride + back Saturday, TT bike work Sunday, all in the wet ;o;

I thought this was supposed to be sunny San Diego! I want a refund.

scheibo

Nice! I can maybe do a 6 AM wakeup, but 5 AM is too much for me.

This. except you need it down there, no? up north we've got enough rain this season, at least as far as im concerned.

tried to do some intervals on the trainer today (cuz water falling from clouds) but i think the weekend at team camp and then doing a workout yesterday broke me - i gave up halfway into the first repeat and just pedaled for an hour. looks like i have at least a couple more days indoors, so hopefully im ready for a workout tomorrow

TMonk

I think I may join you for Swami's on Saturday. I'm going to have the same plan of riding to the ride and then back home. It looks like we may get a slight break from the storms on Saturday so I'm going to try to get 5+ hours in. It will be incredibly windy though...

gerundium

getting sick and missing over a week of training really sucks when you want to be on good form in early april....

training status: getting back into it slowly with some recovery riding.

dz_nuzz

Having one of those weeks where all the numbers are easy. It is glorious when it doesn't matter the bike you are on but you feel like a total badass. Only problem is that it tends to precede a glorious falling apart where Z2 feels like horribleness.

aaronmcd

2 days insanely slow after team Camp and I'm up to -10 from -42 on sunday. Legs feel great though, and it's partly sunny with minimal rain today. Gotta get out after work and hammer around the city!

Ygduf

a week ago on the tt bike.



today on the tt bike, after changing out cranks from 165 to 175, same workout.



it felt so much easier to make power...

Wylde06

Seeing those intervals makes my 3x10 at ftp seem weak.

Only 242 watts for mine tonight.

https://www.strava.com/activities/837726677

scheibo

basically the same cadence which seems odd because shouldn't you have theoretically higher cadence with a shorter crank? or maybe you just like that cadence and can still settle into it even with a longer crank. either way, GJ.

next week: 185 mm cranks and even more power?

scheibo

hey, you still did better than my last trainer workout where i gave up 5 minutes in!

tetonrider

did you change arms or swap cranksets?

what power meter? crank-based? IME, some crank-based meters change slope when arms are changed. you'd think that the electronics in the spider would be stable, but that's not always true.

OTOH, if your crank arm length increased and cadence stayed the same, you were pushing a bigger gear which means more power.

me? i re-check slope when making a crank arm or ring change (same spider), even if it is just to verify things.

aaronmcd

Wow, beautiful night. Warm and 99.9% dry. Got in 2:30 with an added 3x10 Z4 across the bridge.

aaronmcd

That may be how bigger gears work but somehow I don't think longer cranks = bigger gear.

tetonrider

longer cranks DO mean it's the equivalent of pushing a bigger gear.

for the same gear and the same power, with a longer crank you get more leverage and cadence will drop.

if you keep cadence constant, the extra leverage translates into more torque, which means more power.

aaronmcd

Nope. For same gear, same cadence, longer cranks will have same power. More leverage means less force but more distance, same torque. Force x distance = torque or energy. Energy per rotation x rpm = power.

Cadence in a gear dictates speed of the rear wheel. One can't simply put on longer cranks, turn the same gear at the same cadence and get more power out of it.

spdntrxi

^ my dynamics history lesson says correct.

Ygduf

Didn't intent to start a debate. It's a quarq riken, and I changed the crankarms. fwiw, the cadence was ~2% lower with the longer arms, so if you think I was in 56/17 with 92 cadence vs 56/16 with 90 cadence, that's 3.3 ratio vs. 3.5 ratio just multiplied against the cadence, same force applied, comes to like 306/315 gear-ratios-minute or whatever monstrous combo those numbers represent.

Wylde06

I didn't know you could change just the crankarms?


I want to try 165's but haven't wanted to buy a whole new power meter...if the crank arms can be changed though..

hack

Easy to do with the Quarq (assuming you're using the Sram version). Take off the three bolts behind the spider and move over to the other set of arms. I was doing this back and forth between a GXP and BB30 crankset before I got tired of it and purchased a second powermeter.

hack

I quit 3 minutes into my trainer ride last night


Just started back on the TT bike and wasn't even close to hitting power marks. Quickly turned it into a "just feeling out the bike again" ride.

scheibo

hmm, my ride was: "ride through puddles and up a climb to get nice and wet and sweaty and then freeze my ass off descending at 37F while the avg temp for the ride was 43F".

still 1000% better than indoors though...

tetonrider

not saying this is wrong, but any time you make a significant change on a quarq....check your slope. seriously.

it's a quick procedure. if it hasn't changed, no problem. if it has changed, you will want to know.