your daily bicycle log

i'm somewhat moderate intake during the week, but on the weekends when i'm burning over 4000 calories i probably eat something every hour.

i really ought to buy like a flat of clif bars

I've been having Clif bars for brek b/c I love them, but at 250 calories it's really probably a bit much for one meal when I have desk job. They come in better flavors than stupid Luna bars, tho.

If you weigh all food and poop, you can back-calculate your metabolic efficiency, apply it against your tested CP30. When the resulting graph reaches a deflection point, you know youre in danger of overtraining.

k i'm ready to start coaching, i just need clients. i would love to see a coach convice his athletes to weight their poop. just be all 'this is how lance did it, bitch, start weighing"!

uh, "weigh." Or "weight," i guess. "Eat these balloons of lead shot and go train. once you shit that out, you will go uphill like a rocket!"

...apply it against your tested CP30.

http://daedalushowell.com/images/c3p0-luke.JPG

http://www.billkopp.com/keyboards/yamaha-cp30.jpg

heh, i dint evein notice that. it means 30 minute critical power, i think. xpost

i think hes holding up poop?

This is so exciting; all these gnarly cycling mathematical acronysms is incredible. I'm like those people in that thing about the cave seeing the sun for the first time.

"they say your methods have become unsound, coach." "get your ass out of that diaper and start weighing or you'll never make cat 2."

haha. OK COACH!

nick we haven't even gotten in V02 max and lactate threshold.

lactate threshold? sorry, bro, i don't drink milk

LOLOLOLOL GEDDIT

binder bolt replaced, went for a nice hour-long cruise to break in new saddle

Went for a ride just to listen to new(-ish) Cornelius album, rode/listened through it twice.

I'm not really logging all the grocery and/or beer runs because that would get tedious.

Oh absolutely. I only mentioned mine to be ridiculous -- and cos a lot of weeks local transpo's the only riding I do.

commuting is all ive done since the second week of Sept. thats a fucking tragedy.

Just to and from work today (14.25 miles, 1 hour riding time). I felt pretty good, I gotta say. Only got overtaken twice by other cyclists.

90 mins today, spinning in z3

got the cinelli fitted today also!

starting work as courier tomorrow.

Good luck man! How big's the area that you'll be covering?

No bike today as I am going away for the weekend and had to bring bags into work. Waiting for the bus on Theobalds road you get to see some pretty awful cycling, 2 near death experiences and some very bizarre stuff:

1) Mr scruffy media type why are you down on a small ring and standing up to pull away.
2) Pretty lady, look behind you before you overtake not halfway through the manoeuvre then you might see the lorry
3) When riding in a pack of cyclists going in a straight line is probably a good idea.
4) Mr Hipster, why were you riding down the wrong side of the road into the path of 30 cyclists 2 buses and a lorry?

gbx, will you start a thread for your courier experiences? I badly need my faith in couriers restored cos in central London they are THE most dangerous people on the roads and I get a bit angry sometimes.

Tomorrow I am intending to cycle to Weybridge - 16 miles I think? - so I'll report back if so.

easy hour ride.

bike is in the shop right now getting steerer tube shaved and a general fine tuning all around. front derailleur started acting up after the bike fit because i think the shifter cable tension got all outta wack.

I badly need my faith in couriers restored cos in central London they are THE most dangerous people on the roads

i am coming to the conclusion that peds are the worst offenders... last night at like 10pm i was heading east on the bike path thru bloomsbury, not many people around, i see a guy like 40 metres away skip out of a building and down the steps outside it and i'm going pretty fast and he is heading directly for a collision and surely he is going to look to his right as well as his left isn't he? ISN'T HE? no he's not omg so i yell "Oi! Watch out!" like quite loudly and he STILL blithely carries on so i yell again and at the last split second (i am on the other side of the bikepath by now and heading for the kerb) he turns and does this hilarious "weeuurrghgh!" thing and jellyfish move. then about 1 minute later i'm coming up to that horrible-looking generator hostel with the blue light and there are about 7 people walking down the pavement together with their backs to me, except one of them is in the cycle lane, i ring my bell but she veers into my path and i *just* miss her, as i pass i say "yeah, clever place to walk, well done" and she yells "BITCH!!" and i laugh. that route is deathtrap i swear :/

today i screamed at a kid who was just taking a stroll down the bike lane. yeah, just walking in the bike lane, not across it, with it.

I hate people.

Police car double-parked, city bus behind me, car PASSES me to pull over behind the cop, making my path suddenly 10 feet shorter.

OH WAIT I forgot to say that the cop car was parked IN THE BIKE LANE. I just skated into the bus's path and kept going, not much choice. Luckily bus driver wuz not asleep.

Did a quick hour just now; would've stayed out now but it got really freaking frustrating.

(see: BIKE PET PEEVES thread for details)

how did you make that hour so quick

usually mine is 60 minutes or so

10am -- show up at $COURIER company, begin filling out NICA paperwork ("workman's comp? bahahahahahahah")
12.30pm -- meet up with other courier who is going to show me the finer points of operating a cell phone and clipboard. he is a herb, and from kentucky, but a nice dude in general
1.15pm -- herb nearly gets swiped by a cab pulling quickly out into traffic. dude seems, at times, overly cautious (tends to wait at reds crossing one-ways, even when there is no traffic for like 5 blocks), and totally oblivious (see above) and a little unsafe. to his credit, however, he is NOT a sneering black-hoodied DRUM smoker, and is very helpful
2.30pm -- after shadowing like 4 deliveries, i am cut loose on my own.
2.47pm -- arrive at 35 E Wacker, deliver package to somewhere on monroe
3ish -- pickup at 737 N Michigan, which is a Neiman Marcus. Walked around, bemused, until finally asking a tidily dressed sales person in men's wear if he knows where suite XXX is. he very kindly informs me that i am in the wrong building, that yes, it IS confusing, haha, and that i should go downstairs to the lobby and walk through a particular set of glass doors. i follow his instructions, and present myself to a very surly security guard. i pick up the package (small envelope, actually), and head out to 800 w halsted. this is the longest run of the day, and it would've been nice to have a few more stops, as i basically could've hit nearly anyplace in the Loop on the way.
3.22pm? -- make delivery. wait about 15 minutes for dispatch to give me another run.
3.55pm -- arrive at 200 n lasalle. head over to 161 n clark, which is basically around the block, and where i completely fuck up the whole "getting into the building" part. security guard yells at me within steps of the door, telling me to use the messenger entrance. i tell her it's my first day, she softens, and points me in the right direction. after getting inside, i get the floor wrong (30 instead of 47), which means i have to go back down and get into a different bank of elevators. make the delivery (4.10pm), and the secretary is thrilled that my clipboard is so shiny and new! most of the time the messengers hand her grotty dirty manifests that she doesn't want to touch! eww!
4.30pm -- get a cup of coffee at starbucks. check in with dispatch. nothing -- it's late on a friday, not many runs to be made, and i'm low man on the totem pole. slowly roll back to headquarters after chilling in some building's plaza
5.10pm -- punch out, head home, crack beer.

also i fought with three pedestrians, u-locked a car, got a mohawk, and listened to hardcore music on my ipod while i rode against traffic

When can we expect the helmet-cam footage to go up?

i'll see what i can do

always use the messenger entrance

i didn't know where it was!

HA!.....GREAT THINGS ARE GOING TO COME FROM THIS EVAN! MANY MANY LOLZ.

A+ to you mr. gbx.

you are my latest guru. because you drank beer. the messengering is good too.

i'm leaving for my 14 miles home. its too cold waahh.

DFuuck do not cycle in tight jeans. How do the skinny minnies do it? I don't need my clothing to work AGAINST me and pinch things.

Also: drunk. Also: my light fell off my back poskcet somewhere along the way, probably when I hiked my tightest-ever jeans up at a stoplight.

Off to brave the wilds (not wild) of Surrey (flat). I will take my camera.