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Howdy all, thought I would stop in to say hello and to post a progress update. I've been doing pretty okay recently on my diet and exercise. I managed to ride a little over 5,300 miles last year and have a goal of 6,000 miles for 2021.
I'm currently down 85 pounds, from 295 to 210. I'm still just as ugly but that isn't nearly as easy to fix. My initial goal is to get to 195 then decide if I want to go lower.
Anyway, that's about it for me. Hope everyone is doing well.
I'm currently down 85 pounds, from 295 to 210. I'm still just as ugly but that isn't nearly as easy to fix. My initial goal is to get to 195 then decide if I want to go lower.
Anyway, that's about it for me. Hope everyone is doing well.
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One of the nice things about Intervals is that, when you're riding without a PM, it does a better job of estimating your effort than Strava and it's added to the load tally. That's brought me to the point where I like having power info, but I don't have a burning need for it on every ride. As long as I have a pretty decent estimate of my cumulative load, I'm cool with that.
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I need to find a power solution for the Revolt. I don’t really want Keo cleats on a bike I’m going to ride in the mud and dirt. I had a slow motion crash BITD on SPDs that got packed with dirt and I couldn’t get out of either side before I fell over and would like to avoid a repeat if I can.
for the time being I’ll swap the Vectors, it’s about 3 mins to do, but long term I’d like something more like a MTB shoe on that bike.
for the time being I’ll swap the Vectors, it’s about 3 mins to do, but long term I’d like something more like a MTB shoe on that bike.
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Car Audio, Sound quality world championships. I got 4th that year. It was my worst finish of the four years I competed. But still pretty damn good.
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Some of those take up a lot of GPU resources, don't they? Or are they more CPU-intensive? The closest I get is the occasional iso RPG, but they don't usually have as many moving parts onscreen.
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One of the nice things about Intervals is that, when you're riding without a PM, it does a better job of estimating your effort than Strava and it's added to the load tally. That's brought me to the point where I like having power info, but I don't have a burning need for it on every ride. As long as I have a pretty decent estimate of my cumulative load, I'm cool with that.
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One of the nice things about Intervals is that, when you're riding without a PM, it does a better job of estimating your effort than Strava and it's added to the load tally. That's brought me to the point where I like having power info, but I don't have a burning need for it on every ride. As long as I have a pretty decent estimate of my cumulative load, I'm cool with that.
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Had an awesome ride this morning. Temperature was a warm 38 degrees, barely any cars out. Didn’t pass any walkers on the cap trail and I managed to not crash. Only area of disappointment. Kate, my Australian lass head coach tells me my average speed every mile. Sometimes she hard to hear over the wind and what not (she lives in my back pocket) anywho, the last 10 miles or so I was sure she was saying average speed 19.5 mph. This made sense in my head because I felt awesome, so I pushed it even harder. When I finished I came to the realization that I am still just as slow as ever. Kate is no longer in my back pocket. Going with Elizabeth next.
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The quality of the sound, the placement of every individual instrument, the accuracy, the stage height. Even the bass drums sound like they are coming from the front of your car's hood. It really is amazing at how accurate the sound can be. It should sound like you are at a live concert. You can even hear the singer walking across the stage. Often times you can hear the singer take a breath. You can hear the drum stick hit the cymbal, not just the sound from the cymbal.
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It really only works with a good solid indoor and outdoor database of rides with power and HR. Before I got a PM, the R value for the relationship between power and HR estimates of load on rides with both was in the .7-.8 range, based on fake miles: acceptable, but not great. Post-PM, it went to .97 or so and uses a different estimate of FTP depending on whether the workout is indoor or outdoor. With no power data, it's based solely on HR zones with no anchor to the physics and is, thus, meaningless.
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Exactly, you gotta make him very nervous in the pocket, that’s how Michael Strahan and the Giants whupped his ass 2x.
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I saw these pictures on the "I Love Road Cycling" group on FB. Had no idea they were from a BF member. Small world.
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