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01-30-20, 07:55 AM
#3776
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01-30-20, 08:04 AM
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01-30-20, 08:09 AM
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https://www.strava.com/activities/3056434419/laps
Another entry for the archives of "feeling like junk on a good workout". My coach loves this 6x3' running workout; I hate it and I assume that's because it drives a great deal of adaptation. Felt like absolute crap the entire way, but good performance.
I still think the Austin Half is going to be rough in two and a half weeks, after travel and being sick, but eh.
Another entry for the archives of "feeling like junk on a good workout". My coach loves this 6x3' running workout; I hate it and I assume that's because it drives a great deal of adaptation. Felt like absolute crap the entire way, but good performance.
I still think the Austin Half is going to be rough in two and a half weeks, after travel and being sick, but eh.
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01-30-20, 08:09 AM
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01-30-20, 08:18 AM
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Hey CNY people!
I posted this in "regional" but no one reads that. I am thinking of a destination hillclimb ride for later this year (late spring or summer) and best candidate seems to be Platt Cove Rd/Devil's Kitchen. Anyone ridden it and have comments on road conditions, traffic, etc??
I posted this in "regional" but no one reads that. I am thinking of a destination hillclimb ride for later this year (late spring or summer) and best candidate seems to be Platt Cove Rd/Devil's Kitchen. Anyone ridden it and have comments on road conditions, traffic, etc??
01-30-20, 08:19 AM
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You were a lame DJ BITD if you used anything else.
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01-30-20, 08:20 AM
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I got an email from Trek yesterday and was smitten with a closeout pink jersey therein. To my surprise, they said that the shop nearby had them in stock. I made a trip immediately. To my frustration, the inventory was wrong.
01-30-20, 08:22 AM
#3783
So it is
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If I'm on a bike, it's high vis, blinky, Fly6 on the rear, Virb on the front,
Until you've had a raccoon (or something) hit your front wheel hard enough to have to stop and center back up in the drops, and not go down. At 2am. 320 miles in. Outside of Greeley, Colorado... You can't say **** about a card to me.
Until you've had a raccoon (or something) hit your front wheel hard enough to have to stop and center back up in the drops, and not go down. At 2am. 320 miles in. Outside of Greeley, Colorado... You can't say **** about a card to me.
01-30-20, 08:25 AM
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We have plenty of climbing and great scenery, but no "destination climbs" that I'm aware of.
https://onondagacyclingclub.org/climbs/
https://onondagacyclingclub.org/climbs/
01-30-20, 08:28 AM
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If I'm on a bike, it's high vis, blinky, Fly6 on the rear, Virb on the front,
Until you've had a raccoon (or something) hit your front wheel hard enough to have to stop and center back up in the drops, and not go down. At 2am. 320 miles in. Outside of Greeley, Colorado... You can't say **** about a card to me.
Until you've had a raccoon (or something) hit your front wheel hard enough to have to stop and center back up in the drops, and not go down. At 2am. 320 miles in. Outside of Greeley, Colorado... You can't say **** about a card to me.
about a Fly6, but I’m still resistant to the idea.
01-30-20, 08:29 AM
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Oh that would piss me right off. Had they sold it in the interim, or were they just wrong?
01-30-20, 08:31 AM
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What’s the traffic like around Asheville? I’ve been retired since 2005 but a speaker at one of the last engineering conferences that I attended had Asheville on the list of impending doom for traffic problems.
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01-30-20, 08:31 AM
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I have a hard time finding "pancake flat" in my area, other than the rail trail.
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01-30-20, 08:32 AM
#3789
So it is
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https://www.strava.com/activities/3056434419/laps
Another entry for the archives of "feeling like junk on a good workout". My coach loves this 6x3' running workout; I hate it and I assume that's because it drives a great deal of adaptation. Felt like absolute crap the entire way, but good performance.
I still think the Austin Half is going to be rough in two and a half weeks, after travel and being sick, but eh.
Another entry for the archives of "feeling like junk on a good workout". My coach loves this 6x3' running workout; I hate it and I assume that's because it drives a great deal of adaptation. Felt like absolute crap the entire way, but good performance.
I still think the Austin Half is going to be rough in two and a half weeks, after travel and being sick, but eh.
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01-30-20, 08:40 AM
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01-30-20, 08:47 AM
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Mrs. LAJ has been informed to go after the person, the family, their dog, anyone even close to the driver of the car that takes me out. If people think it's sport to mess with bikes, they haven't seen a real game yet. Seriously, why people would put so many people in jeopardy, and be willing to change many lives for "the fun of it", is beyond me.
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01-30-20, 08:50 AM
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01-30-20, 08:51 AM
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That somewhat normal for me. It takes me a bit longer to settle down as they progress. I can do intervals on both, and have sort of grown accustomed to the no pedaling breaks on the trainer, versus the occasional terrain change that gives micro-breaks in the wild. Some days, I could be in paradise, and not have a remotely good time, other days, though not fun, the sense a good day on the bike wins out.
01-30-20, 08:57 AM
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On the topic of Puritans which appears here periodically, I hope it's ok to share a few sentences from that The Silk Roads book I mentioned I was reading.
So there's that.
Originally Posted by The Silk Roads, p257
The Puritans who settled New England did so in protest against the changes that had accompanied Europe's rise and against the affluence that followed. They were reacting to the strange stream of new ideas and goods that made the world seem a very different place - where Chinese porcelain was appearing on household dining tables, where marriage of people with different skin colour to Europeans was giving rise to questions about identity and race, and where attitudes about the body were prompting what one scholar has recently termed the "first sexual revolution".
To escape, the answer was to head across the Atlantic. The destination of choice was … the virgin lands of New England where emigrants could lead an idealized existence of devout simplicity. The only difficulty, of course, was the native population … It is easy to forget that the feast of Thanksgiving, first celebrated by Pilgrim Fathers to mark their safe arrival in a land of plenty, was also commemoration of a campaign against globalisation: it was not only hailing the discovery of a new Eden, but triumphantly rejecting the paradise at home that had been destroyed.
To escape, the answer was to head across the Atlantic. The destination of choice was … the virgin lands of New England where emigrants could lead an idealized existence of devout simplicity. The only difficulty, of course, was the native population … It is easy to forget that the feast of Thanksgiving, first celebrated by Pilgrim Fathers to mark their safe arrival in a land of plenty, was also commemoration of a campaign against globalisation: it was not only hailing the discovery of a new Eden, but triumphantly rejecting the paradise at home that had been destroyed.
01-30-20, 09:02 AM
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Mrs. LAJ has been informed to go after the person, the family, their dog, anyone even close to the driver of the car that takes me out. If people think it's sport to mess with bikes, they haven't seen a real game yet. Seriously, why people would put so many people in jeopardy, and be willing to change many lives for "the fun of it", is beyond me.
01-30-20, 09:05 AM
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We have plenty of climbing and great scenery, but no "destination climbs" that I'm aware of.
https://onondagacyclingclub.org/climbs/
https://onondagacyclingclub.org/climbs/
trek stores around here I have found the inventory is usually wrong when it comes to clothing. I have never asked why.
01-30-20, 09:06 AM
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Very similar look to the Technics 1200.
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01-30-20, 09:07 AM
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Mrs. LAJ has been informed to go after the person, the family, their dog, anyone even close to the driver of the car that takes me out. If people think it's sport to mess with bikes, they haven't seen a real game yet. Seriously, why people would put so many people in jeopardy, and be willing to change many lives for "the fun of it", is beyond me.
I Just hope if I am in the situation that the driver is in the wrong and I didn’t screw up.
01-30-20, 09:17 AM
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01-30-20, 09:19 AM
#3800
Vain, But Lacking Talent
I've always wanted some hot pink jacket/vest situation but once I realized my dream of owning a pink bike, it turns out that the light-ish hue of the pink frosting Trek totally clashes with the super bright pink kit I love so much.
That and I can't justify money on new kit until I lose some more weight/wear out my current stuff.
That and I can't justify money on new kit until I lose some more weight/wear out my current stuff.