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10-25-20, 07:11 AM
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The group's end-of-year ride, last night, could have went better.
A group irregular, a guy with a reputation for being squirrelly at times, drifted in to another guy and may or may not have gotten his drops hooked on the other guy's straight bars. Regardless, the end result was that he went down and took out one other guy that was behind him. The squirrelly guy was the only one injured, but he got banged up pretty good - broken clavicle and concussion.
His girlfriend was not happy when she got the call and came to pick him up and blamed our "drinking game," though the tumble took place early in the ride and no one was even remotely intoxicated (nevermind that there wasn't enough drinking during the entirety of the ride to get anyone drunk). Trying to explain to the gf that he was at fault wasn't a bridge that anyone wanted to cross, though.
A group irregular, a guy with a reputation for being squirrelly at times, drifted in to another guy and may or may not have gotten his drops hooked on the other guy's straight bars. Regardless, the end result was that he went down and took out one other guy that was behind him. The squirrelly guy was the only one injured, but he got banged up pretty good - broken clavicle and concussion.
His girlfriend was not happy when she got the call and came to pick him up and blamed our "drinking game," though the tumble took place early in the ride and no one was even remotely intoxicated (nevermind that there wasn't enough drinking during the entirety of the ride to get anyone drunk). Trying to explain to the gf that he was at fault wasn't a bridge that anyone wanted to cross, though.
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10-25-20, 07:13 AM
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10-25-20, 07:14 AM
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10-25-20, 07:17 AM
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10-25-20, 07:20 AM
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I've had no interest in looking at my F/F since daily morning rides became impractical - it would just depress me. Until the spring, I'm just going to concentrate on not getting too fat and out of shape. Still considering strength training, too, though I need to get a feel for how that could be practically integrated in to the routine.
10-25-20, 07:53 AM
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I've had no interest in looking at my F/F since daily morning rides became impractical - it would just depress me. Until the spring, I'm just going to concentrate on not getting too fat and out of shape. Still considering strength training, too, though I need to get a feel for how that could be practically integrated in to the routine.
I am learning that old age isnt so much a barrier to performance (at my level) as a drag on increasing fitness. Therefore, if I want to improve next season, that is, move from fourth to third quartile among the guys Im riding with, I am going to have to carry a reasonably high load all winter.
I desperately need strength training, but I will have to wait until the gym at work reopens. Its the only place I would consider safe under current conditions. Until then, its core and resistance bands in the basement.
10-25-20, 08:03 AM
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I understand.
I am learning that old age isnt so much a barrier to performance (at my level) as a drag on increasing fitness. Therefore, if I want to improve next season, that is, move from fourth to third quartile among the guys Im riding with, I am going to have to carry a reasonably high load all winter.
I desperately need strength training, but I will have to wait until the gym at work reopens. Its the only place I would consider safe under current conditions. Until then, its core and resistance bands in the basement.
I am learning that old age isnt so much a barrier to performance (at my level) as a drag on increasing fitness. Therefore, if I want to improve next season, that is, move from fourth to third quartile among the guys Im riding with, I am going to have to carry a reasonably high load all winter.
I desperately need strength training, but I will have to wait until the gym at work reopens. Its the only place I would consider safe under current conditions. Until then, its core and resistance bands in the basement.
10-25-20, 08:13 AM
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With my birthday around the corner, I was thinking about this, too, when considering the goals that I should set for myself. Yeah, I'm getting further and further away from being 22 years old, but it's not like I've ever trained optimally, or even close to it, so I feel like I should be able to get stronger every year, for a few years, at least.
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10-25-20, 08:21 AM
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10-25-20, 08:29 AM
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10-25-20, 08:53 AM
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10-25-20, 09:15 AM
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10-25-20, 09:18 AM
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Got it - so that'd be like me driving to Madison, WI. That would suck. How frequent would the drive be? Weekly or so?
10-25-20, 09:21 AM
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10-25-20, 09:22 AM
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Harsh.
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10-25-20, 09:24 AM
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10-25-20, 09:30 AM
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10-25-20, 09:30 AM
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10-25-20, 09:32 AM
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10-25-20, 09:36 AM
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10-25-20, 09:45 AM
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I don't know what this means but two problem areas I've noticed lately are when I'm just starting the ride, and when I resume after I stopped it (using the stop button) for a while. That's what happened on the map above. I'm leaving the office and I went north on the smaller road and then east on the bigger one.
I dunno much about how adaptive battery works either, but it's there...(in the version of Android my phone runs)
ETA:. I never press stop til I'm done riding for the day. Mainly because I always forget to press go again.
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10-25-20, 09:49 AM
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10-25-20, 10:07 AM
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Oh, I see.
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