Speaking of which, I rode on Zwift last night, did an hour in "London", including going up Box Hill. I pushed reasonably hard, got a PR on Box Hill. Also briefly held the Green Jersey. Briefly as in, for a few minutes.

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Still, it motivated me to push really hard on the sprint when it came around again, and I managed to do exactly the same time, with a higher average power. I'm guessing that I was going faster when I hit the start line the first time around.

After the ride, I found that both my bibs and my jersey were wringing wet. That's with two fans on high. I'm curious whether I sweat as much on the road and it just evaporates, or do I sweat less on the road. It wasn't terribly hot in the garage.

We've seen pics from the Donut Rides. :innocent:

Mine low about the same, but only for about 4 miles.

My hands and feet can’t tolerate anything much below freezing for more than an hour or so even with fancy gear.

Now here’s a typical example of undernourishment. For lunch today I had a sausage sandwich. Im topping that off with some yogurt followed by some pear sauce. Normally that would hold me till dinner. But if I want to gain a little weight maybe I should make it two sausage sandwiches, or maybe a half a chicken.

On-the-ride/rest stops, anything goes. Especially donuts.

Zwift has more hills than coastal VA. Looking at your London ride yesterday, Box Hill killed your average. You went up it three times, which is total of about 6 miles over 45 minutes - yeah, that's going to put a dent the average speed of a 2 hour ride.

Breakfast is the hardest meal to add variety. I had just a heaping bowl of oatmeal today complete with raisins, craisins, and fresh blueberries.

Totally lame, I know, but you can’t eat eggs every day, I had eggs and sausage with some buttered toast yesterday.

I'm within a couple percentage points of MoAlpha's kcal/kg/day, and he's an ol coot, too.

Didn't you say you were doing keto? If so, my macros are going to look significantly different and not applicable to what you're looking to achieve.

Oatmeal day for me to. Raisins, craisins, walnuts, and almond milk. Had fresh pineapple and blueberries on the side. I've been on a fresh pineapple kick for so long now, a can of pineapple would be the very last can I opened if stranded on a desert Isle with a variety of canned food.

They automatically put your avatar in green if you're at the top of the sprint leader board? That's fun. I think that I've tried spooling up for a Zwift sprint section once, then I noticed it was something stupid like a 400 yards and totally not in line with my effort.

Also, was this a categorized ride or anything like that? The few times I've paid attention to the course/climb/sprint leader boards, the podium has seemed pretty well out of reach.

I don't wear a shirt on the trainer, but I'm the same - very sweaty inside but typically dry(ish) outside. It's totally evaporation outside - on those hot, multi-bottle rides, it's not unusual for my dark jerseys to be visibly crusty by the time I get home.

Two years in a row I had chicken fried steak and a biscuit with sausage gravy at some point during rides from Ione, WA to the Sandpoint, ID area. The rides were 100+ and 92, respectively. I could get away with that in my 30s.

I had heritage flakes topped with fresh blueberries and blueberry kefir. Same for tomorrow.

Who says you can't have eggs every day? I love eggs - I have two (organic, free-range, vegetarian-fed, day spa-pampered) eggs and oatmeal for breakfast (almost) every day!

And what's with the oatmeal, sandwiches (with bread, presumably) and toast? I thought that you said you were on keto? Or are these some funky keto-friendly concoctions?

Doctors.

As a timed sprint section approaches, a list of current leaders will pop up on the left side of the screen. You can get a good judge of its length by the times posted. A 15-20 sec effort, I know I can go all-in from line to line. If it's longer than that, I'm going to need to meter my effort.

This is another confirmation why I will probably live in So Cal for the rest of my life.

Eggs are healthy again. TTKU.

I split my day with the ride too. I had to wait for the Amazon delivery. 86A and low humidity at the end.

Speaking of Amazon deliveries...

Hey datlas - do you have a Danish dough whisk? Mine just arrived today and I'm unreasonably excited about it. Looking forward to upping my bread game.

whats the green jersey? I’ll prolly be on around 6 pm eastern time.

Had to order my mellow johnies jersey, they didn’t have anything in my size.

Get to go pick up a mountain bike tomorrow….:innocent:

way to read other post, before posting.

No, I WAS on keto briefly to reduce some blood sugar. Lost a little weight and now can't get it back with my pre-keto diet even after a month.

I love eggs too, had it virtually every day while ketoing,* but that gets old after awhile.



* new word alert. :innocent:

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Are you keeping your watch/clocks on proper time? Kudos if so.

correct, I said the last two days I did a lot of climbing.

Today isn’t going the way I envisioned. So I might do a short interval session followed by some cruising around low key. I want to avoid climbing today. I tried to get on again last night just to do zone 1 pedaling and my legs were like, No bro.

Box hill is an ass hole.

I don’t but will investigate. Slightly related, we got a new Cuisinart food processor today. Mrs datlas seems pleased.