Just got off the trainer. No set plan to get on there other than i had to get on (Nega-Coach challenge) to keep the min of 15 minutes of a day for the month. Well there was one plan. Subdivisions.
Yeah. Rush session. iworedettos and gcdavid started it all. Rush. Yeah.
I got on and cranked it up.
I don't know why but man I've been enjoying getting on the trainer. It is a link to the past cross season. The couple times of week on that thing in the bike room cranking out ear bleeding intervals, seemed to be more mentally beneficial than physical at first. What ever it was/is man i've really been enjoying it.
So i get on there. But I don't want to start with Subdivisions. I'd audio peaked a bit making dinner listening to Trees. So it was cued up a on Chronicles album order. What's after Trees?
Well a song I used to do 150 rpm drills will on the rollers in Michigan with a walkman. la villa strangiato.
With about two minutes of pedaling while i got the iPod in and stuff situated and all that the song came on. And well, i started pedaling faster. Someone's comment about being an electric motor instead of a piston engine popped in my head for some reason. But my cadence was way up there. 120+, yeah i know. 120 is pretty fast. But the old muscle memory and the audio imprinting told my legs to go fucking nuts.
The only problem in La Villa is not a short song. After a while I tried to just slow down and that worked for maybe 30 seconds a minute but soon i was back cranking away.
it was weird. But it felt good.
it hurt.
and i kept going.
took a song off or so skipped over a few cranked it up for another one then it it was subdivisions. 46x12 standing the whole time. Smooth, focus on smooth low rpms and it hurt like hell, sweating like crazy, wanting to sit and shift up the cogs, but i didn't. the whole damn song.
i don't have a plan, or a program right now. I'm just riding to have fun, trying not to lose everything from cx season. Trying to sort of think about setting a base for next year, maybe for a run at a couple crits who knows. But it feels good and i'm liking it.
weird
everyone is supposed to hate the trainer right?
gerbil miles suck.
it isn't why we ride, no. We ride because being out side and getting around on our own power is damn freaking cool.
I can't deny that. I can't deny that i love the hell out of going for a 4+ hour ride. I love it. Nothing better. But there is something really nice about not dealing with cars, pedestrians, road surfaces, hills headwind rain and on and on. There is something really nice about not dressing up in layers to go for a ride.
I do that 2x a day right now. Get dressed for the elements. Don't get me wrong even as i have no choice I still love doing it. But you know it is nice just to toss a pair of shorts on and stick the shoes on and get on with the iPod and pedal my brains out. Sweat like a pig and make my legs burn for a while.
My plan was to get on the trainer for 15 to 20 minutes, well it turned into 50 minutes. It was awesome.
it was a good thing.
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I know Foley is watching Finger Painting, but I'm reading about you drilling it to RUSH. One of my all time favorite bands. Keep up the hard work. No program is a good program. Just saddle up and let your body tell you what you need, not some over paid, under qualified, power measuring dick wad...ahem.....I mean coach. I can say that here right? Cuz only 3 other guys are gonna read this and they all use Nega Coach too.
There's an expression used to indicate the kind of training that "feels good". It's the same kind of training which usually results in an early ride back to the car on race day and a long introspective drive home during which you resolve to stop doing the kind of training that feels good, and start doing the kind of training that feels bad.
:P
i am watching hot Russian curling chicks. Cant quite figure out how they say HAAAAAAARRD in Russian, but I am working on it.
The Japanese curling women were pretty cute.
yeah what ever mark.
it isn't like i'm killing myself like that every day of the week.
I don't need some FT numbers to tell me how hard to do an interval. I just fucking do it. maybe sometimes they are too easy, some times too hard. but i usually finish them pretty damn close to the same speed i started them even if i'm dying.
I've read enough training programs and enough books to know "what to do" and all that crap.
I'll buckle right the hell down when it is time to follow the CX training plan. Right now? Fuck the plan. Fuck the "Hey i want to be your trainer but i want you to call me a coach because that's cooler so give me $200 a month to tell you what to do that you know you need to without me telling you to" bullcrap.
Sure some coaches aren't like that and some trainers aren't either and some of both are really beneficial to alot of people.
see - now you got me all negative and shit.
Just keep eating your Chiportly food and chewing on your carbon fiber bar. ;)
The USA women's hockey team are hawt.
yeah but thanks to NBCs crap tastic coverage I don't get to watch them.
Curling in HD baby.
Chiportly +1.
Notice I did not mention food, coaches, trainers, FT, powermeters or even intervals. Why even go there? Is insult your only defense against the truth? Okay- if January thru August is your "happy-fun-time-off-season", my apologies for suggesting otherwise. I guess pretending to be a slacker is easier than pretending to actually try, especially when you're off the back.. because then you have an excuse other than "because I suck". You can just rationalize that you've been doing nothing but 15 minute endurance rides on the trainer all winter long.
Lighten up it's Friday. Do I need to send you a picture of myself with tongue in cheek?
;)
DNFs are pro. You gotta pull the plug on Saturday so you
don't ruin yourself for a big week on non-fun training, in the vain
hope of getting your FTP up to 255.
I have 2 questions.
1) What the hell is FTP?
2) Who the hell is Mark Basak?
Nice retort Gewilli.
And nice job Il Bruce. I like a man that will continue to focus on hot chicks despite the background chatter.
I'm just sayin'
JONNY BOLD - i just wanted to let you know. The comment you posted there, well i laughed so hard beer went out my nose.
That fucking hurts man.
+1 on Il Bruce
Shit, sorry I wasted good beer. Next round is on me.
Julia Mancuso is way hotter than Lindsey Vonn.
I was all over that curling calendar yesterday while watching the saucy brunette skip on the Russian team. That was pretty distracting.
Myerson sent me a link to a power site that explained what TSS, FTP, and some other stuff was. I tried to read it, I really did. I am an engineer so I sort of feel obligated. But I couldn't make it thru it. I like OTHER peoples data, in a weird way, but I dont see me training with anything other than the mickey watch for the foreseeable future. Did I spell foreseeable right? God that looks awful.
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JONNY BOLD! I would not call it wasted beer. I believe the alcohol will still be readily absorbed as it passes thru the nasal passages as the membrane there is very thin and has a high density of blood vessels. You know, in case you felt bad about yourself or something.
G-Ride, thanks for clearing that up. Why not go "Jackass Style" and beer funnel it right up the old keaster for easter.
Will someone please answer my questions. I swear to God I don't know the answers.
Il Bruce, Julia is the hottest chica I've seen at the Olympics yet. I love her little girly dances too. Shake that thang!
1) I have no fucking clue.
2) Mark Basak is the professional name of Murat Altinbask. AKA the rat. AKA MillworkOne team leader.
G, you know damn well what FTP is, but I'll take the bait:
1) FTP = Functional Threshhold Power, which for most data geeks is equal to the peak 60 minute normalized power output. Most simply: how hard would you ride in a 60 minute time trial? That's FTP power. With a power measuring device, training intensity is centered around this moving target, as it improves pretty rapidly in the spring.
2) I endured years of teasing as a kid because of my given name. Later as an adult, it was a real time waster to spell and explain my name to everyone, so I evolved my first name to Mark and shortened the last name to Basak. Legally I am still Murat. I love my given name, even when I am mistakenly called Borat. As long as there's a 'rat' in there somewhere, close enough.
Yeah i know what FTP is, and I'm sure JONNY BOLD does too. Who doesn't.
Point being though who the fuck cares what your FTP is. All you have to do is beat the rest of the field ;)
Honest to God, I had no idea, and now that I know, I wish I didn't. I love to ride bikes. I'm not interested in the numbers, but if thats something that works for people or motivates them then it's all good. I wouldn't suggest trying to preach that shit like a Jehova's witness though. It just turns lots of people off. Gewilli riding his bike with his daughter is better than any number or abbreviation you can come up with. Unless it's something like RWJM (Riding with Julia Mancuso) but even that is open for debate. I bet she can hammer tho!
But thank you Murat for explaining, and for being a good sport about the now infamous tounge lashing I gave you a few years back. You gotta admit tho man, "Borat" is a sweet nickname. It was cool of you to run with it and go to the Tour that year and cheer the riders on in your shoulder thong.
Spring is coming boys, we're over the hump ;o)
Jonny: Bygones.
Ge: Pretending not to know what FTP is [for whatever reason], and then admitting that you do indeed know, and assuming that everyone else also knows.. using expletives.. meeehhhhh.. indicates all the charm and manners of a douche-bag.
Also, there is very little difference between taking an interest in your FTP, or in your personal best 5k run, or in your best 40k time trial. Some of us require something to aim for to succeed. We're not as skilled as you in achieving accidental success.
Whatever requires you to defecate upon anything to do with a measurable result, you certainly don't apply it to yourself. So it would appear hypocritical to pine about your cross results being in error, relative to finishing 40th or 39th.. but you do it all season long, and no one condemns you for it, wanker. Contrarily, we take an interest in you and wish you success, [for whatever reason].
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Blogger Jonny Bold said...
"Gewilli riding his bike with his daughter is better than any number or abbreviation you can come up with. "
Word.
i didn't know either. I still cant remember TSS, Total something Stress, i dunno. I though power meters read out in watts, but hey I am a mechanical engineer, what do i know.
I wont have one of them on my bike till they read out in fucking horsepower! With LOTS of decimal places in my case. Watts are for light bulbs.
If you want the full run down go to trainingpeaks.com that was the link Myerson gave me when I asked what a TSS is.
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