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Same here. I felt compelled to lend a young co-worker North by Northwest. She had never heard of it. I saw Scarface on the big screen. If you like to read, Godfather is a great book. Among other things, it explains the backstory of Sonny’s involvement with the woman he gets it on with upstairs during Connie’s wedding.
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Straight Outta Compton is a really good film. O’Shea’s son is terrific, and a dead ringer.
My favorite N.W.A track.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u31FO_4d9TY
My favorite N.W.A track.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u31FO_4d9TY
BITD, I wore out 2 copies of Straight Outta Compton on cassette, finally wound up getting it on CD when they released the remaster shortly after the turn of the century.
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Even before that other thread, I'm putting off any new bike stuff (other than the R7000 I need to get on the R2) until the new DA drops and we know the future compatibility situation. If they have a new freehub standard, pull ratio, Di2, or anything else (which they certainly will) I want to know before I go trying to get a gravel/ all-road bike.
Gives lots of time to work on the engine anyway.
Gives lots of time to work on the engine anyway.
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I almost never watch the Oscars, but I did watch Chris Rock’s opening the year he hosted. At one point he joked about Paul Giamatti being his favorite actor. Why? “Because he went from whipping Lupita in Twelve Years a Slave to crying at Eazy-E’s funeral. That’s range!”
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Even before that other thread, I'm putting off any new bike stuff (other than the R7000 I need to get on the R2) until the new DA drops and we know the future compatibility situation. If they have a new freehub standard, pull ratio, Di2, or anything else (which they certainly will) I want to know before I go trying to get a gravel/ all-road bike.
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Great workout this morning, overcast, felt hugely powerful. And despite that, Garmin came back and said "... yeah but I think your FTP is 285 instead of 290". Everyone's a critic.
I suspect its reasoning was the higher-than-normal HR, which easily exceeds anything I've done outdoors on the bike, ever.
I suspect its reasoning was the higher-than-normal HR, which easily exceeds anything I've done outdoors on the bike, ever.
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I don’t keep track of stuff like that. If I have something hard coming up I I try to do hard rides to get in some sort of shape.
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Given I have to take them constantly for the foreseeable future, that doesn't necessarily sound like a bad thing.
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strava tells me mine is 181. But then I updated my weight because I lost another 10 pounds, and now it says 171. I would imagine I’m stronger even with the weight loss, and not really sure how they come up with this number.
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Dexamethasone can get inconvenient because you can get down into fractional milligram dosages and people are often converted to methylprednisolone when they taper. It is rarely if ever used in rheumatological disorders for this and, perhaps, other reasons beyond my meager understanding. @datlas might be aware of minor differences in action or side effects.
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It's a stack of assumptions and guesses. I'm fairly certain that they're just looking at your best 20-min power (probably within 6 weeks) and then taking 95% of that. If you don't have a power meter or a location suitable for that type of steady output (7+ mile stretch that's relatively uninterrupted), they're FTP estimate isn't going to be very good.
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When I lived in Michigan this was one of the great things, close to the western edge of the time zone and north meant late evenings. Not sure of exact sundown, but was still biking and kayaking past 9pm w/visibility.
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Garmin’s metrics in general weigh HR very heavily, and penalizes those of us with relatively high HRs. It really likes people like AGs with slow HRs. It’ll get confused enough with things like body battery that it’ll tell me that I’m bottomed out before noon when I fee fine.