your daily bicycle log

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)

GET OUT OVER THAT GLIDE SKI GBX

it so ~balancey~

also the only thing to do in MN in the winter

also also i am pretending that if i srsly XC ski this winter it will somehow be cross-training for an as yet unplanned (and maybe unlikely) "ski mountaineering" trip somewhere this spring

happy go lucky drunk advice: dream it, do it.

obv let me know if you hit CO somehow

did Paradise loop for the first of hopefully many times. With in-city travel and wrong turns, was sixty miles.
― just woke up (lukas), Tuesday, November 16, 2010 6:09 PM (2 hours ago)

wow! not sure where you live but that's exactly a 70km (~43 mile) ride for me.

I live next to Dolores Park. I went east to Embarcadero first, then did Presidio-GGP on the way back. Plus an accidental Strawberry variation off Tiburon and a couple other mistakes.

i think i'm gonna start saying i rode KM instead of miles to seem like i went farther. i rode 56km this weekend. a loop around the city. a ton of climbing. tons of fun. beautiful indian summer. i really love my new bike. http://tinyurl.com/24johcf

u guys know if there are any decent iphone apps that figure out gps route for you and elevation and stuff so i don't have to try and do that on gmaps?

i think strava kinda works with iphone* but there may be other sites.

*topographical tho, ie, not GPS... like if you go over a bridge or through a tunnel it ignores the structure/tunnel and gives you the topo reading which can be very deceiving, esp from a total ascent/descent pov.

strava works with runmeter iirc

I like Cyclemeter

imapmyride is OK

Can't wait for the coming slew of iPhone plus ANT+ stuff to come down the pipe.

what about android huh

insert rapha joke from other thread. only sugoi and canari wearers on android.

went on a short jaunt today and my front derailleur stopped working. saw a dude (z@ch) wearing steve shasta's team's jersey and asked if he knew him and if he could help. he was super nice but suggested i just go to the bike shop and have them look at it. he looked like he was practicing CX, doing a bunch of bunny hops and dismounts on the street (and checking out cute girls). pretty funny. i was stuck in the big gear and the only way to get to the shop was up and over some hills (from GG park down arguello over presidio to the marina). just had to power though it. wasn't really that bad, but it's all fixed now.

correction: that is my ~club~ jersey, my team is totes different. you must have been riding around 3:30pm because I also saw Zach on my way back to my house.

I did 60 miles including a 500W 60 second effort up 18% avg grade on Belvedere Island which was soul destroying. Apparently "off-season slow base endurance ride" is just not part of my repertoire.

sorry, ~club~. yah, he said he'd just seen u 5 min before.

500W 60 second effort up 18% avg grade

wowowow

i nearly got sideswiped into a parked car on friday and i'm still not quite sure how i made the gap between the car and the van that had moved over on me into the bike lane!

i looked at heap of greasy ancient d/a bike parts from my stripped road bike (now at blasters getting powdercoat stripped), considered cleaning and assembling parts on vacant cheapo cx frame, and said "fuck that." i would like to ride one of these days, but weather and work mean its commuting only.

new gruppo for road bike on way *rubs hands greedily*

hunt3r did you opt for FORCE?

yup, and despite wise counsel from friends here, i did stay with standard cranks. i usually ride a 39/23 up the 6%-8% longer climbs in my neighborhood (1500-2500 vert), and there arent too many short pitches over 10%. also, i got an 11-26. maybe i can get another 5 years out of that ratio before my dotage makes compacts a much smarter idea.

i'm saving about 350g over the setup i had on the bike, but i'm giving some back by adding 300g of couplers to the frame. that'll put the frame at a relatively massive 3.9 pounds, but whatevs. love that frame's ride.

since garminconnect has fucked up its maps, ive been playing with ridewithgps.com. it's very good for mapping, but i dont think it will work for running or other activities so well.