almost...
so many good comments to make - but then - i've finished lunch and haven't read 1/2 of the stuff out there...
Kerry's comment: "I am going to look like a freak at New Bedford."
made me start to think "um... Kerry? the tan lines ain't half the story!"
Big Jonny's got some great email about how retarded it is to run a Fixie w/o brakes (for 99.9% of the people runnin like that) not to mention Exit17 has hit the big time... Drunkcyclist Linkatude!
MegA finally posted more of the pictures solobreak immortalized her as being famous for... lots of boxes with a big 'X' heck most of the descriptions that go with the envelope looking X sound pretty good... maybe she's teasing us...
I ripped it up on the way in today... cadence solid kicking at 105-110... felt fine... starting to feel like 100 did the first time this season... 120 sooner than later? no problem... maybe...
Riding home i got thinking - most road wheels when ya stick the bike in the repair stand and crank the crap out of it in the 53x11 you get some wicked oscillations as in some serious outa balance shit going on. Do those freaks who hit 250-300 rpm carefully balance the rear wheels! I hope so.
Figured out how to have the little yellow buddy display the averages and not factor the zeros in... makes for wicked damn higher numbers on the display... RTFM it doesn't seem to help the PowerAgent junk program figure out the "avg" numbers that way... but at least its on the head display... kinda cool...
A few crazy hours of Feb left to cover - scopes are starting to move, playing general contractor in addition to everything else and splitting time between three buildings right now is killin me...
Three weeks and the shit will be moved into the new place and i'll be back down to running between two buildings...
*sigh*
respect!
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Since you are the only mofo who manages to update on a regular basis and suitably divert my attention away from database corruption and other patch monkey madness, you get all the comments.
Things to consider:
Just because low cadence is "bad" doesn't mean the higher the better.
Trackies have only one gear. The meat of a match sprint lasts 15 seconds or less. These factors have more to do with the high cadences used by track sprinters than it being "optimal" for peak power.
Top road sprinters hit similar speeds and probably put out the same power as track sprinters, but usually do so at lower peak cadence. Some guys use huge gears and lower cadence. Again, completely different situation with drafting, long drag race, slight grades, etc.
Armstrong rode the shit out of his bike long before he lost all the weight and became the super duper spin climber, so there is more to that story than high cadence.
All that said, with training, 100 rpm can feel natural, and I think that has advantages. If nothing else, it makes 90 feel easy, on the flats anyway. Ideally you can do it all -- wide powerband.
Yeah... There's no way in hell i'm gonna be able to NOT get my low cadence power "intervals" in with the trailer, so that side of the power band for me should be pretty stable...
on the other side - if i can push the comfortable cadence up a bit... i should be able to carry the same force applied lower to more cadence and that means wicked power...
Unfortunately i think the application of "wicked" powah is not so healthy for the trailer... so i gots to make some more excuses to hit the other facility and launch into climbing college hill hitting the base of the 11% grade (avg) doing 120 rpms...
See ideally i'm shooting for a performance Diesel power band... where i can make the same wattage from 40 up to 120 and heck - i'm just being hopeful..
one of these days i'll set some good training goals and what not ;)
Updating blogs is so...
photos on the last three should load now.
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