livedarklions

BS.

And seriously, you're not the guy I'd turn to for advice on social niceties.

Maelochs

I was complimenting you.

livedarklions

Exactly! He's doing this "blogging" in 2 inappropriate forums.

phughes

I have the person in question on ignore, unfortunately the ignore function doesn't hide their posts on the thread level, only within the threads. As a result, I see all of his threads, when I do not want to see his threads. They are inane and serve no purpose except to irritate people and amuse the OP. And yes, when I see he is the thread starter, I generally do not click on the thread, but once in a while I fail see who started it ,and click accidentally. I wish the ignore function would not show any threads started by those on the ignore list.

CheGiantForLife

I started this thread to discuss how others have experienced a new route is JUST beyond comfort zone. Did they keep attacking it, did they avoid it, etc. What was the nature of this route? etc
Grown adults throwing a hissy fit at other people discussing their rides is embarrassing.

growlerdinky

Htfu

3alarmer 

...this is not hard. Get rid of that old truck battery on your rack. You'll make it up the hill more easily, and you'll have more room for groceries.

Quesnel

I get followed around when I go in with my nap sack...It's kind of amusing...

rsbob 

That would ruin his pass time. I used it on him months ago but unfortunately there is no way to not see quotes.

alcjphil

Grasshopper, we progress when faced by challenges. All will be revealed by your fifth ride as long as you do it within a week, or a week and a half(cutting you some slack)

WhyFi

And a supposedly grown adult, with elite HIIT training, that feels the need to discuss the hardships of 5 mile round-trip ride *isn't* embarrassing?

Cool.

indyfabz

You’re forgetting that the 5 mile ride involves carrying a golf club. Or was that a 5 minute ride?

indyfabz

Try using a knapsack.

Quesnel

Thanks. But I like my nap sack. For some reason my auto correct likes it better, too

indyfabz

Your device must have hydraulic disc brakes.

livedarklions

BS, pretty much every sentence in your op starts with "I" and there isn't a single mention of anyone else or a question. And this is pretty much the same post as the one hill thread and a bunch of others.

What's embarrassing is your childish need for attention for every little thing you do.

You want your op to be taken seriously? Fine, if what you're trying to do is build up endurance, quit fixating on routes and routines, your claims of HIIT are laughable on the short loops you're doing. HIIT is useful when done in conjunction with other forms of cardio, it's not a magic method of building fitness in a few minutes. Try incorporating your hills into much longer rides and actually push yourself to make a serious effort on the flat parts. I don't know what a "vanity ride" is supposed to be, the concept makes no sense. You want to be able to ride hard for more than a few minutes before being exhausted? There's no substitute for increasing the amount of time you spend riding hard. Right now, you've decided that you can only make a serious effort on hills and it's a misconception that's holding you back.

Now go ahead and make one of your stupid accusations that I don't know anything about riding bikes and that your misconceptions are "basic knowledge".

Maelochs

Actually, OP is by far the smartest person in the thread (well, maybe not, now that I am here .... )

OP wants tons of attention and posts utter nonsense ... and get tons of attention. So he posts tons of nonsense, over and over.

The dogs all snarl snarkily about how dumb Pavlov is, but they all salivate when he rings the bell.

I enjoy all this .... no reason to take any of it seriously ... and I suspect, whether they admit it or not, even the loudest detractors like it as well.

It just makes sense .... people would have to be pretty dumb to keep posting in threads if it hurt them .... so one has to figure, it pleases them.

@CheGiantForLife and his batteries and golf clubs and other inanities has added a great deal to this site. I don't take him seriously, but i seriously value the responses he stimulates.

livedarklions

What's fun about you is how you alternate between overlong posts telling people exactly what they're doing is wrong and why their posts annoy you and then variations of this exact same post.

Maelochs

Just doing my part .... if people weren't posting stuff which prompted you peeved responses, what would you do all day?

And really, that is my point here ... you keep posting and complaining about how these threads persist. Hint: they persist because people keep posting.

By the way, whenever I find it hard to explain the concept of "irony" I can always point to posts where people tell other people not to tell other people what to post.

WhyFi

You know what they say, "only a good guy with a troll posts can stop a bad guy with a troll posts."

skidder

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In your original post you say you did a 5-mile round trip in 30 minutes (that's 10 mph), went UPHILL both ways, and that wore you out. Unless there's a condition you're not mentioning that sounds absurd to the point I'm not surprised posters are berating you.

Reflector Guy

Obviously the OP is re-tracing my route to school, from when I was a kid. He forgot to mention there was waist-deep snow the whole trip.

rumrunn6

nice thing about hills, is, the more we ride them, the better we get at riding them

rsbob 

I quit!

CheGiantForLife

The route is a steep U-shape.