spdntrxi

I did HOP ride yesterday... I'll call it Lidium.. because I think lite and med rode together.. good pace up Collier but I suck at climbing regardless of %grade.

TheKillerPenguin

Adherence to exercise and affective responses: comparison between o... - PubMed - NCBI

In other news, science has discovered outdoor exercise is more motivating than indoor exercise...

TMonk

^
I don't buy it.

Due to rain, I'm skipping Ontario today. Really, all I'm skipping is cornering hard, I'm gonna put myself through a 3hr road ride instead.

bmcphx

I was the only one this morning in the group wearing arm/knee warmers. Hovering around 50f the whole time, easy spin Z2 for two hours to the hipster donut shop.

My reward was The Bear Donut: sour cream donut filled with sweetened peanut butter, topped with bbq sauce, bacon, smoked gouda, and ******* jacks

edit: the censored word is cr@acker. We can't say cr@acker??? Wtf is wrong with the moderating on this site, seriously? I can't say gu n or cr acker?? Censor the foul language, not the every day language.

Enthalpic

Are you a post menopausal woman?

TheKillerPenguin

Training block complete. Now to catch up on all the **** I've been neglecting for the past 3 weeks...

hack

Team ride today. Fun one with some hills. 70 miles, 5500 ft.

Week total was about 12.5 hours, 235 miles, 850 TSS.

aaronmcd

7 hours, 120 miles, 332 TSS.
Rode to Fremont, did the 2nd Early Bird Crit (8th of 44), rode back, then joined Eric Wohlberg's 50th b-day ride. Got in a good 20' threshold 95 miles in. That hurt. Now to clean up and ride easy to join everyone for a huge meal.

I now feel old... because I don't think of Eric as old, and he's 50. (I'm 30)

furiousferret

Weekly Totals:

6:01:24
94.2mi
Load: 184

Now back to the grind.

bmcphx

Went out for a second ride today because I felt guilty about the donut I had this morning. Focused on cadence and averaged about 100rpm with high power.

caloso

2 hours with the Juniors. I love this ride.

mattm

About 200 TSS today with riding to/from the crit, 855 for the week.

Build 1, week 2 done.

-22 TSB, feeling it.

TheKillerPenguin

Yurp, I'm -38 and I honestly am torn between eating everything and getting out of bed to get all of the food. Reallllllly happy for this rest week.

gsteinb

700 TSS on 12 hours. been on fudgy's active rest plan, and have some sort of exercise every day for a month.

globecanvas

I took a rest week (well, 5 days). CTL dropped 7 points. It's all fine.


I'm bad at losing weight, always have been. I just love, love, love to eat in a way that I think many people don't. Not an excuse, just the way it is. I think part of it is genetic, my dad and my kids are both the same way. Everybody comments on how much my kids eat -- they are all fit, because they are very active, but they eat 2-3x more than their peers, and they love to eat. Expending a lot of energy toward diet control keeps me normal-person thin (5'9 155), but I've never been bike-racer thin.

The past few months I've been doing some low-key weight training in addition to my usual efforts to lose weight. The result has been that my weight is the same, but clearly more muscle and lower body fat -- lots of veins that have never been there before. I'll continue trying to lose weight, as I always do, but if the end result is that I race at the same weight as previous years but stronger, I'll be curious to see how it pans out.

bmcphx

Being bike racer thin sucks, you don't want to go there. I watch numbers too much and it gets frustrating when you eat something you really wanted and then have to cover that later.

One thing that always gets me is my hydration habit which is drinking a lot of water in the afternoon, generally 80% of my daily consumption comes after 3pm. Because I'm drinking a half gallon of water in the five hours before bed, I'll go to sleep weighing 5-6lb more than when I wake up the next morning.

mike868y

i really need to get better about doing this

weird question, do you wake up a lot to pee? i tend to drink a lot of water in the afternoon/evening but have had to consciously cut back to the point of going to bed thirsty to limit how much I wake up at night :/

TheKillerPenguin

I respectfully disagree, you get to your weight basement and weight becomes another variable you can play around with and actively control. I've experimented with active weight loss and all that crap and it seems like at 6'2'' 156lbs is about my limit as far as getting light goes, as trying to get below that has yielded nothing of worth. So now that I know that's as low as I really should go, it means I know I can get away with gaining a pound or two during a rest week as prep work for the next block and I don't have to sweat it, I know about what weight range I should be in the AM and set myself a minimum weight limit to hit before I go to bed, and I stress less about calorie counting and instead aim to continue eating healthy. Knowing you're as skinny as you can get without removing vestigial organs takes a lot of the stress out of dieting and meal planning.

mattm

thats a nice tss/hours ratio, sounds intense.

bmcphx

Not anymore.

Creatre

I'm the same, a majority of my water intake comes in the evening/night. I wake up to pee way too much.

gsteinb

I was searching for 'it depends' and came across this.

I was going to ToAD last year but crashed at Exeter and chickened out racing so far from home with my kid.

Perhaps this year.

SteveM

The last two weeks I had a TSS of 891 on just under 11 hours and 883 on just under 12 hours. Per Strava(HR & Power) my form was -25 after Sat ride.

Ygduf

All I know is @mattm is now attacking off the front in the first half of races and then winning the sprint at the end. All after incorporating active rest!

Next you'll all wear compression tights at home and spend too much time aggressively self-massaging with the r8!

gsteinb

I'm a compression sleeve or socks guy. I had tight but they're hella expensive