Originally Posted by WhyFi (Post 21614832)

Thanks - I don't really have much of a frame of reference, so it is what it is. I know my w/kg isn't special, but I don't live in an area where that's too much of a hindrance. I've always felt like I have decent short-term power, but I feel like I'm starting to stretch that out that duration. Also, huge difference that I felt last night was just being able to repeatedly go back to the well for harder efforts. It was nice to think, "that hurt. Let's do it again."

Oh, and it was also gratifying to have one slightly miffed teammate say, "you're not supposed to come back lighter AND stronger - that's not fair." :D

Originally Posted by MoAlpha (Post 21614849)

... that huge, long, ramp and the big acute and chronic loads you're carrying. I am no expert, but I think that suggests potential.

Originally Posted by Trsnrtr (Post 21614671)

Yep, sounds familiar. My biggest problem is cutting tools, knives, saws, chainsaws...- :innocent:

Originally Posted by Velo Vol (Post 21614690)

It seems I'm the only one who truly appreciates how dumb bicycles are.

I go to a website or mechanical video tutorial to learn how to fix something. Then look at my bicycle.

"wut my bike doesn't look anything like that"

Why not? It's a simple machine. You push the pedal and it turns the wheel. But all these Big Bike companies have to come up with something cute to make their product "special."

SMH

Originally Posted by Velo Vol (Post 21614310)

wut

Your trainspotting seems to have fallen off a cliff since you moved to the desert. Sad.

Originally Posted by big john (Post 21614845)

Just had a little jolt. Woke up to a small earthquake at 4:30 so this jolt may have been an aftershock of that. A 70 year old house makes a lot of noise during an earthquake, I've learned.

Originally Posted by WhyFi (Post 21614872)

Yeah, this kind of load new territory for me and I'm a little surprised that I seem to be handling it well. Prior to this stretch, I've only had two 200-mile weeks and those hurt plenty. I'm sure that not being young and oblivious to my body helps; rest, nutrition and stretching/massage are all improved.

Originally Posted by MoAlpha (Post 21614906)

If and when you find your limit, you'll know it.

I have one severe overtraining experience: Summer before senior year of college at the height of the LSD training craze, a bunch of us knuckleheads on the X-C team committed to working up to a 100 mi /wk just prior to return to school and tapering to the first race. It was late August when the crash came and it was weeks before I could climb stairs without my heart going bonkers and my vision swimming and, of course, my season was gone.

Originally Posted by WhyFi (Post 21614938)

As my daughter would say, "yikes!"

100 mi/wk running seems nuts.

Originally Posted by seedsbelize (Post 21614907)

And now it's time tho HTFU

Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets (Post 21613703)

Oh Yeah, I've been looking at more footage and leading up to the through-truss section from the north it looks like all timber trestle.

Originally Posted by seedsbelize (Post 21614901)

I woke up to one in a cheap hotel(solid stone and concrete) in Antigua Guatemala many years ago. It sounded, and felt like a freight train had crashed into the footers, underground. That street filled with people in a flash!

Originally Posted by WhyFi (Post 21614938)

As my daughter would say, "yikes!"

100 mi/wk running seems nuts.

Originally Posted by big john (Post 21615022)

My first earthquake experience was the 1971 Sylmar quake, a 6.9 with lots of damage. One of the casualties was the VA hospital in Sylmar, which was leveled. Rather than rebuild it the fed gave the land to the county which made it into a beautiful park. The border fence to that park is 5 houses away from where I live now, oddly.

Originally Posted by MoAlpha (Post 21614906)

If and when you find your limit, you'll know it.

I have one severe overtraining experience: Summer before senior year of college at the height of the LSD training craze, a bunch of us knuckleheads on the X-C team committed to working up to a 100 mi /wk just prior to return to school and tapering to the first race. It was late August when the crash came and it was weeks before I could climb stairs without my heart going bonkers and my vision swimming and, of course, my season was gone.

Originally Posted by LAJ (Post 21615068)

Overtraining takes a while to overcome, especially if you're in the upper middle age cat. You must have really piled it on to wipe yourself out as a yute.

Originally Posted by MoAlpha (Post 21614809)

Oh, yeah. You gotta baby that thing for a while and get a professional opinion.

Originally Posted by MoAlpha (Post 21615097)

It was insane. In the height of a NY summer, I was running from home in Manhattan, over the Brooklyn Bridge, around Prospect Park, and back.

Originally Posted by phrantic09 (Post 21615101)

Its strange, because it feels fine while riding. Going to give it some time and see what happens. The only reason I haven’t gone to a doc is that I have a moderate degree of distrust of orthopedic docs. Cutters want to cut. (Sorry to any orthos that read this thread!)

Originally Posted by WhyFi (Post 21615117)

In what way is it hurting? And this was after the cleat/pedal change?

Originally Posted by WhyFi (Post 21615113)

That sounds like a nice bike ride. It also sounds like a dumb run.

Originally Posted by phrantic09 (Post 21615101)

Its strange, because it feels fine while riding. Going to give it some time and see what happens. The only reason I haven’t gone to a doc is that I have a moderate degree of distrust of orthopedic docs. Cutters want to cut. (Sorry to any orthos that read this thread!)

Originally Posted by phrantic09 (Post 21615129)

It started with some occasional soreness after the pedal + cleat change along with a hot spot once in a while on the bottom of my left foot.

It’s pain on the inside of the knee almost on the kneecap, mostly when I walk the past couple of days. It’s irritating the **** out of me, mostly because I want to ride.

Originally Posted by WhyFi (Post 21615113)

That sounds like a nice bike ride. It also sounds like a dumb run.