Good stuff.
Although I should make an excuse to be outside. It is hot, all the students are back and the people watching is supreme. I find the mix in this area to be entertaining, from the artsy hairy hippies to the ultra super preppy prep and everything in between.
But no, not out there right now.
Okay - I had a couple excuses to go out, and everyone must be unpacking or something. Or hiding from the heat. Not so many people out there right now.
Kerry posted this link up on FB today. And then i had to go and get the whole PDF. Because I'm so into doing tests with my power meter.
Oh.
Wait.
I don't have a power meter. And I have no plans to get one. But this test seems to be pretty cool. The article has just enough math to make me feel uncomfortable but not totally lost. Me and complex math formulas haven't ever really gotten along very well.
But, being able to determine lactate threshold with a 3 minute test is pretty fucking cool. And w/o using any fancy compu-trainer or blood analyzer.
CONCLUSIONSThe 3MT can be performed using equipment readilyavailable to cyclists without the need for indirect calorimetryor blood sampling. The average power output overthe last 30 s of the 3-min test is correlated with poweroutputs at lactate and ventilatory threshold as well as poweroutput at VO2 peak. The EP from a single session 3MT canbe used to estimate the demarcations between bothmoderate to heavy and heavy to severe exercise intensitydomains.
Cool.
Tonight is the smack down. It is going off on schedule, 5pm Faunce, 5:15 depasqualle square. and I'm not going to be there.
This morning turned into a trucker morning.
Okay - not trucker, that's the tandem. This was just delivery vehicle for the tube and then the pick up of G-ride's wheels, that are now on their way to Vermont.
The ride in started off mellow enough. Sort of. last night's ride with the tailwind was fast. rolled the 46x12 spinning it somewhat easily all the way home - ticked up to the 14 to pull in.
This morning pulling out with the trailer in the 14 set the tone.
Dropped it down to the 13 for the climb up the false flat to the Dairy Bee in Riverside Square. And I did something novel for me. Alternated about 10 pedal strokes standing and 10 seated. Then once I hit the under pass going along the treatment plant and it leveled out I dropped it down to the 12 and picked up some speed. It is only a 46 so the gear isn't that massive. But I went from 10/10 to 20/20. It hurt. Wanted to stop, so i kept going. Dug down and just kept pushing through the burn. Esp with the headwind. The trailer + headwind kind of made even more delicious.
Headed up and over the red bridge, alternating the standing and sitting. Picked up the box and headed up the hill. We'll see what the legs are like on the way home.
So with the trailer and the old bike, i'm not going to be doing the smack down. maybe next week. maybe not.
maybe today was my last chance, but well... it is a chance that has slipped past.
Be what it may. I'll get back to real training sometime soon. The new school schedule means if i want to get even a short run in, shower and get everyone turned around I have to wake up at 5:30 and right now, right now that just isn't happening.
And unless you've been hiding under a rock, you've heard about the passing of one of the greats. Laurent Fignon. I came to realize the cycling thing a bit late. And by that time I had no measure of history to appreciate The Professor's career. Only that he was Lemond's nemesis. Heck I didn't even know about the Badger and Lemond until much later. I was new to the sport then. We all were new at some point. My entry point is likely later than most of my competitors and friends racing around here but, that was still a looooong fucking time ago. I'm some what ashamed to say I never held him with enough respect to name my pet fish after him. Hell I never had a pet fish, and my small animal pets were named after Edward Abby or Farley Mowat. Yeah. Those two figured far more prominently in my development than Greg and Laurent (around that time in the mid to late '80s).
I need some bits to hang on the Blue to really get excited about it. Right now, with too many unknowns as a far as where the parts are for it, I don't have a completion date so it is just a pretty frame decorating the office. nothing more. I have a parts list on a piece of scrap paper here by the keyboard with the list of what i need on it. pretty short damn list. waiting on the sponsor to get back with prices and availability for all the stuff.
There. Season is officially underway. I've registered for VT weekend and G-ster. 50th for sat, 49th for sunday. Field is already pretty large and i expect it to get much bigger. Now to see about lowering this crossresults ranking a bit more before then. Better register for Quad i suppose. Maybe i should do the 1/2/3 race for the points, Off the back and lapped three times still might get me more points. Just kidding. I'm racing "my" race. Gonna be fun. Last time at Quad I signed up for back to back races and bailed on the second one. Not doing the double this time. Hopefully I have learned from the past and won't be repeated the back to back race double anytime this season. But we will see. Plenty of time for me to do something predictably stupid.
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you are not kidding at all, and we both know it.
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