your daily bicycle log

otm i haven't done it in a couple years (and it was only twice), but the track is so, so fun.

thinking a bit baout joining local club to get road racing licence, whose specialty is track. they have spare bikes to use too, because another bike, i mean really!

yesterday: sedate spin round the trail with two friends who i'm riding along the great ocean road with on the weekend. they're kinda freaking out about the 130 km length of the loop we're doing! got rained on a bit in between sunny patches. springtime in belgium, perhaps.

SLP: do you have a dedicated gear inch on your track bike or do you mix it up for different events?

I ride a loaner bike (bianchi pistas) from the track right now, which runs about 86 inches (I think it's a 48 x 15). The guys in my class who have their own bikes and race (well, raced. the season is over now) all bring a few different chainrings. They'll switch them out per-race. I'll buy something over the off-season to be ready to race at the beginning of next season (march)

Yesterday: 67 minutes, 4.5 miles, average speed 3.9mph, thanks to my down tube breaking, presumably as a result of the little prang described in my post of 15th October, which meant that my journey home was on foot (well, I managed 3 miles before getting off and wondering what that increasingly loud metallic ticking noise was). Was quite a nice walk though I have blisters on my blisters today, and need a new frame - this one is fuxored.

Pics?

four weeks of no biking = getting fat

Here you go, Ed:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v222/biondino/bobcrack.jpg

ouch

rode two short 1 hour rides on my new bike. first time riding a road bike and my body hurts like no other. ass muscles hurt from new riding position and shins muscles hurt from using clipless for first time and pedaling all the way around. i feel like i'm walking like a penguin

four weeks of no biking = getting fat
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otmfm. ~feelin~ this, quite literally

ditto! cant wait for this rotation to be done. I'd bike here but its twelve miles and I gotta be in by 615. no dice.

Went for an ill-advised 105 miler today that despite me telling myself pre-ride to keep the HR under 150, I decided to counter some attacks with 1:35 of 450W (avg) around mile 40 which pretty much rendered the remainder of the ride horribly painful. I am now limping around the house trying to choose between chocolate milk, pepsi (w or w/o vodka) or beer.

There is a 5-6 hour hammerfest for tomorrow on my calendar right now which is about to get removed and forgotten about real soon.

ha i rode 60 miles moderately hard, 4000 ft of climbing. what a terrible year for riding-- that's my 2nd longest ride of the year, and longest since century mid july.

well but how is your fitness from running?

i hate climbing. period. hate it. i am thinking of running a compact with a 11-27 in the back on my next set of training wheels. spinnnnnnnnnnnnn.

meh, fitness from running is ok, i guess. i really cant figure out what i wanna do wrt physical activity for the rest of my life. there are no realistic objectives that im interested in attempting wrt cycling, and i don't enjoy running, and i have no discretionary time to indulge myself in something new.

iow, i have no _real_ problems right now and should stfu.

i think you should splurge on a state of the art recumbent, don the optic yellow, and call it a day~~~

(iow: my plan fairly soon)

spoke to dude on recumbent today after long descent who complimented me for dropping him. i complimented him on his taste in chaise recliners, but noted that chaises are even faster when adequately faired.

here is my day out on the coast and in the otways. wish our trio hadn't missed the start by ten minutes - i'm sure i could've shredded a colnago man or six up the big climb. felt good all day! got rained on for a bit around angelsea, but what you gonna do eh.

p wicked powerclimb section before bells beach, steep down - steep up - rinse repeat

waitress at coffee shop stop 2/3rds along had the most slammin bod too, daaaaamn girl

a compact with a 11-27 in the back

this is what I'm running ~spins~

bells beach! slammin bod waitresses! totes jealous!

Winter Training Cycle coach at club ride started on the Strength training part of the course. First half of the (50 mile) ride he made us ride up all the inclines on the big ring and in a small gear in the back. Alternating sitting and pedalling at 60 rp and standing at 45 rpm. The second half of the ride he had us do the same thing but clip out of one side and do it with one leg for 50 strokes, and then switch legs. It's wierd because I thought I'd really feel it in the quads, but what is most sore today is my calves. Probably a form thing... Owie.

wish id had a bike when i visited that neck of the woods haitch, really nice.

Saturday took Skyline to Los Altos to see my girl. Moving to the Bay Area feeling like a good decision. Got a job offer Friday, start Dec 1 if I take it, so I'm gonna splash out, trade the Centurion and Converse All-Stars for carbon and SPDs, see how many rainy miles I can put on before December.

how long ago were you out here hunt3r? it's great, lots of quiet and twisty roads. (great ocean rd can get busy tho.) considering doing another ride next month through the rainforest bit futher down the otways now.

gotta admit i like the challenge of the hills. i'm pretty one-speed tho - just grind grind grind. 39x25 as lowest ratio will do that! maybe i should try a compact one of these days to see if there's an appreciable difference.

lukas, do you live in the city?

Yup, half a block from Dolores Park.

no races yestiday-- it was 27 degrees and deserted. plenty of parking. ahhhhh, <3 u winter.

actually, check that, today its gonna snow, not so psyched for that.

oh, haitch i just saw your question. like 10 years ago i visited, we did some touring and hiking along great ocean rd and environs. missus had her bike, but i didn't have mine, so we just drove and walked around.

Job interview yesterday in Palo Alto for a job I don't really want. Got up at 5:30, rode 42 miles down with a friend who works down there, toweled and changed in their bathroom, did the interview. Wasn't too tired, in fact pretty amped.

nice. i work in sunnyvale and mean to do the ride at some point. but f waking up at 5.30

which way did you go btw? getting past the airport is a bitch

Took the day off and rode 85 miles up the coast this morning at a briskish pace (18mph with 7 shortish category 3-4 climbs totaling about 4k feet of ascent) with a bro who is going to do an Ironman in 3 weeks. I am really losing my fitness but there are enough remnants to fake "it". Need to start buckling down with smarter offseason rides because these once a week deathmarches are not cutting it nor doing me any favors.

xp did this route:

http://www.sf2g.com/bayway.html

sort of insanely complicated. helps to go with someone that's done it before. the sf2g people seem nice, so that's an option if you want to join their mailing list etc.

xp my bro I rode with today is one of the SF2G founders just to tie this all together.

(i really like their kits, for just a bunch of cat6 commuter geeks, they did some good work)

I was riding around in the (slick, concrete) driveway, testing out the new Look pedals I had just installed, wearing my regular (slick bottomed) road shoes. My brother and sister-in-law came over to return some stuff they'd borrowed and conversation turned to the cyclocross race I'd went up and watched last weekend. I decided to demonstrate a cross dismount/remount....on the slick concrete, in my slick shoes. I now have a twisted and swollen right ankle. Idiot.

visited the fam on thursday night, took bike out and did moderately hard 70km out to kinglake and back on friday morning - 32deg c heat, humid and a headwind all the way up the hill, blargh. some roadworks were being done at the foot of the short but sharp hill that is my nemesis on that road (near 10%, 650m) with one lane only and limit dropped to 40km/h - i assured the traffic control guy that i would stay under that on the way up, heh.

I think thanks to my occasional layoffs and greater increased caution after my pair of accidents lately my fitness has decreased by a small but obvious amount. The crashes meant cancelling the longer rides I had planned, but even on my commute I'm aware I'm taking it so much easier because I'm so nervous of not being able to stop if I get doored, or hooked, or pedestrianed or whatever. On top of that, I don't really trust my roadie after the accident as I must have given it an almight smack, and you know what they say about carbon. Ah well. I'll be lucky to complete the 4,000 mile minimum target for the year at this rate.

I'll be lucky to complete the 4,000 mile minimum target for the year at this rate.

I've given up on mine - haven't ridden at all for 8 days, it's been pouring with rain whenever I haven't been working.

I don't really trust my roadie after the accident as I must have given it an almight smack, and you know what they say about carbon

I thought your frame had actually snapped in two?

That's my steel frame! Which I crashed 2 days earlier, though so lightly I thought there'd be no damage at all. Carbon impacting at 10+ mph seems sturdier than steel at 3mph, whaddaya know.

On my fourth-choice bike today, and still managed to get a puncture on the way to work. Sigh.

On my ugly new bike which is way faster than me ... did Paradise loop for the first of hopefully many times. With in-city travel and wrong turns, was sixty miles. My legs could use a glycogen drip and I don't think I'm going to meet my friend at 6am for the Calaveras route.

goddam

winter is upon us here in the middle western states, i don't expect to ride more than 20 miles at a stretch for basically 6 months.

here's hoping this XC skiing thing takes

have u not xc'd before? it's awesome!

xc skiers are uh... very concerned with the perfection of their gear. they make roadies look like happy go lucky drunks.

i have! but only a few times, last winter.

and yeah, my buddy is an ex-collegiate XC guy, and he is fanatical about his shit (he also gave me a pair of fischers, so)