Bah Humbug

They’re awesome. Recovery places have them too. Actually, we have a semi-ridiculous amount of recovery and PT equipment.

bampilot06

gotcha, one of the reasons I only did 20 today, even though I did feel fine once I was on the bike. This schedule is tough though, I can only ride when I am home so I want to ride when I am home and ride hard. I’ll see if I can dig out the foam roller.

MoAlpha

Why not give yourself a well-earned break?

BillyD

bampilot06

Logging is okay fun if it’s going towards something. I don’t need anymore flight time and I don’t plan on going any where else in my career. We pull to the gate and parking break is set, last thing I care about doing is trying to figure out how long that flight was.

MoAlpha

Chicken & egg/feed-forward thing with the sleep. I think overtraining disrupts sleep and bad sleep is slow.

MoAlpha

I can well imagine!

bampilot06

Noticed something new this morning, my legs have gotten big enough that when I pedal they rub against the top tube. Doesn’t bother me, just never happened before.

LAJ

There is absolutely nothing harder than going Vo2 Max on a TT bike. The first time I did a 10' interval of 40" on, 20" easy, I pretty much though I walked into a new weird world. It wasn't enjoyable, and it still isn't, but I've learned to accept the power isn't road bike power, but it's very slowly going up.

bampilot06

It seems like that’s first symptom of over training for me. My legs get like this restless feeling and it makes it hard to sleep. I usually end up on the floor so I don’t keep the wife awake.

LAJ

Yep.

I was a zombie as I went up to 120 CTL

big john

There's a fleet?

WhyFi

For me, it's a dull ache that's just uncomfortable enough to make me restless. Laying on my stomach was often the best - quads were the primary complainers and just the body weight compression helped. But, again, since getting on the foam roller routine, it hasn't been an issue, and this is with a much higher training load.

Funny thing with the wives - mine had started sleeping on the very edge of her side of the bed because of my movement.

Jadesfire 

This summer kinda turned into a ****-show (I mean, whose didn't, I know) and I had to prioritize some other things, so no, not yet. It's part of the reason I popped back in here- motivation since things have settled down a bit and I'm getting back (again) into the swing of things. If this tropical storm doesn't hit us dead-on this weekend, I should have the time to turn the box o' parts into something cool.

SwtBadger

In addition, the amount of daylight is limiting. During weekdays can both leave and return from work in the dark. Starting to get to the mid-August where staying late at work is limiting if one doesn't want to ride in the dark.

datlas 

Metaphorically speaking. I suppose it's a virtual fleet. We could all zoom together, possibly.

Sadly, the fleet is waning.

datlas 

Looks like PERFECT weather today for indyfabz big ride today. I hope there will be pics forthcoming.

abshipp 

Ah, yeah things haven't quite gone the way I imagined they would either. Glad to hear you're getting back into it.

My cycling preferences actually have changed quite a bit over the last couple of months so I think I'll be embarking on a resto-mod quite like yours if a frameset I've got a lead on works out

abshipp 

Ugh I know. Might need to throw a headlight mount on my bike again sometime soon

abshipp 

Dang the V35 is quick.

My dad's flying down to Dallas to pick up my brother, 2.5 hours in and he's just crossed the AR border.

bampilot06

that’s what’s going to work is for

big john

I know. After all the Saturn dealers closed I got to work on a ton of them. Was never really a fan of the old buzz-bomb 1.9. Simple, but meh. Then there was a butt-load of the hybrid Vue things to deal with. First, the leaking hybrid batteries, then the recall of the batteries leaking or not. I accidentally shorted something and fried the 200 amp fuse in the rear cargo area of one and balls of red hot molten metal rained down, burning holes in the carpet. Luckily the car was hammered so the carpet didn't matter.

That might have been my biggest screw-up with an electric or hybrid car. I did once take the battery out of a Volt without disabling it but didn't get shocked.

All the later model Saturns were just re-badged Chevrolets, so familiar turf.

I just remembered they had that awful V-6, a Vauxall, I think. Oh, and the Astra. How could I ever forget the Astra. The only thing marketed by GM that had it's own language. You couldn't plug a Tech 2 into it and read data until you erased the Tech 2 and reloaded it with Astra specific programs. Ridiculous. Later lap-top apps had a program you could use with an interface device to talk to the Astra but it always needed to be updated when one of the cars came in, even to just read a code. Generic code readers would work, though.

Bah Humbug

Some of us are self-medicating.

Bah Humbug

So at least I shouldn’t feel weak for it. I had wondered if I should have the trainer bike set up as a roadie, but probably better to be in TT position for the easy parts and get on the horns for power. Microshift TT shifters were cheaper, too.

indyfabz

As I was riding through the valley a woman pulled out of her driveway on what I think is what Cannondale is calling its touring bike and said “tag” to me.