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11-21-20, 05:37 PM
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11-21-20, 05:37 PM
#5952
So it is
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11-21-20, 05:39 PM
#5953
So it is
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I'm old too. Chronologically, anyway.
11-21-20, 05:43 PM
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11-21-20, 05:45 PM
#5955
Klaatu..Verata..Necktie?
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It would be impossible to keep my HR in Z1 or Z2 and get anywhere. Just getting to where the riding gets good is 7 miles and about 500 total feet of climbing, with 3 stretches of about 6% for about 1/2 mile each. I can't even imagine gearing that would allow me to stay inn Z2 on those
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11-21-20, 05:45 PM
#5956
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11-21-20, 05:48 PM
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Five days or more in a row? That's the context that I'm taking about. Going hard the whole ride, every ride, every day probably isn't going to end well.
11-21-20, 05:49 PM
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It is!
I generally liked it on the 45 miles I did today. Couldn't tell at the very end if I was getting some nerve numbness or my pinky fingers were just getting really cold.
Oh boy indeed!
I briefly had a bar mount cage on this a few years ago, but didn't like it much. The clamps I have are reasonably discreet, but I certainly wouldn't mind some old TA cages with the single integrated clamp.
I generally liked it on the 45 miles I did today. Couldn't tell at the very end if I was getting some nerve numbness or my pinky fingers were just getting really cold.
Oh boy indeed!
I briefly had a bar mount cage on this a few years ago, but didn't like it much. The clamps I have are reasonably discreet, but I certainly wouldn't mind some old TA cages with the single integrated clamp.
11-21-20, 05:51 PM
#5959
Fat n slow
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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.
11-21-20, 05:51 PM
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11-21-20, 05:53 PM
#5961
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11-21-20, 05:53 PM
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Fat n slow
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I used to puke in basically every running race, once finished a 5k in like 18 minutes after having to stop and do it at mile 2.
11-21-20, 05:54 PM
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11-21-20, 05:55 PM
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There’s room enough for more than two up on the roof.
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11-21-20, 05:55 PM
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People are teh dumbs. Even Charlotte isn't coast, and it's in a state that has coast. I strongly suspect no one in Knoxville would consider themselves east-coasters, and I can confirm that actual east-coasters would quickly refute that claim as well.
11-21-20, 05:56 PM
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11-21-20, 05:57 PM
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11-21-20, 05:58 PM
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I meant that training advice that one hears everywhere that Z3 and Z4 are "No Man's Land", and to be avoided. But hills aren't no fun unless you're banging on the door of Z5 by the end, if not solidly IN Z5, and what's the point of riding 6 miles of flat to gently rolling road if you're not going to pound along like its a time trial? It's no more fun than descending a non-technical hill where you can get up to 40 mph sitting up and hitting the brakes.
I mean, if you're not going to go for the available exhilaration, what's the point?
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11-21-20, 05:58 PM
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cowboy, steel horse, etc
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Love it when they get the jets out in the humidity
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11-21-20, 05:59 PM
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11-21-20, 06:00 PM
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Everything East of the Mississippi looks like East Coast from here. It's like when you're flying West over the US at night and you pass the Mighty Mississippi, and suddenly the lights grow really sparse.
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11-21-20, 06:01 PM
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11-21-20, 06:02 PM
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My most spectacular bad physiological happening was after a 10k regional X-C championship in college, where I came through the chute and went right down with horrible vertigo. I was literally holding onto the grass so I wouldn’t fall off and had to crawl to the team van. Never beat that time either, on dirt or pavement.
11-21-20, 06:02 PM
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11-21-20, 06:04 PM
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That would be like me calling Oakland "basically LA".
