your daily bicycle log

triathlon, mostly long course. runner.

Well that's a rather personal question! aaargh xpost MY JOEK, RUINED

(cheers cutty :))

HEY CUTTY,, how's the sram force working out?

it's really great. the doubletap system is intuitive and smooth and being able to shift when sprinting/tucked is rad.

i heard sram red handles cross-gearing a lot better, though.

oh cool.

Yeah the doubletap shits on shimano.

90 mins. moist out. rode with a ch4mp1on systems/s0mm3rville cat 1 who was thoroughly impressed. yay!

Two hours out over the hills before work for me. Quite frosty and cold but still a lot of mud around on the trails. Been a while since I went out on the singlespeed and my thighs now feel like heavy dead meat. It's feeling like a long, long day at work...

Documentary evidence that I did actually get out of bed this morning and go for a ride:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/birdnestsoup/DSCF4592.jpg

PS this is where I turn into an internet bully and tell Mark that he's gotta do it on Sunday, whatever the weather.

jealous

Ach, you can ride it up the hills for me any time you like.

looks like brooklyn (no, it doesn't)

Also, don't stray on the moors!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/birdnestsoup/DSCF4595.jpg

I didn't take my nice short cut through there today :(

Oh wait - I saw a badger on my way home too!

Okay, that's me done.

No biking as working in germ*ny although I have been looking at the db rental bikes that you just swipe a credit card to unlock parked all over berlin, never got a go though.
In chicago in 2 days with a cross check, and in queens in a week. Let's talk riding and drinking.

are those what moors look like then? i thot theyd be flatter. thats nice.

Haha no, those aren't actually the moors, I was kidding. It's the South Downs, which are like a long straight line of chalk hills that stretch for about 100 miles across the south east corner of Britain.

In chicago in 2 days with a cross check, and in queens in a week. Let's talk riding and drinking.

-- Ed, Thursday, November 15, 2007 3:38 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

OK!

ok, its mid nov and the temp at 7:45 was more than 50 deg. WHT IS UP?!?! i rode in a long sleeve tshirt and no jacket. crazy.

Moors:

http://myolympus.org/files/0891/Burbage_pano2.jpg

I ride round here (just outside Sheffield) when I am home with my folks.

holy balls

wowzers. what a green and pleasant land.

omg

gritstone!

You can see bits of Burbage/Stannage edge there too, which is supposedly some of the best climbing in England, although I am not qualified to say. There do seem to be an awful lot of UK mountaineers based in Sheffield though.

Stannage:

http://www.gr8trails.co.uk/Stannage%20Edge.jpg

Ugh. Homesick. And I miss summer.

One 'n'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanage

9 miles around Richmond Park, 9 miles on the trainer.

4 hours, 64 miles from williamsburg to nyack and backs

Nice work Cutty. Wondering whether or not to go out tomorrow morning cos I feel like I've got a cold coming on. Weather looks horrible too - freezing cold plus heavy rain and I'm thinking I'm going to get fitter -or at least less feeble- just by staying in bed. Do you guys ride when you're feeling ropey or what?

(will probably go out anyhow, I just like riding my bike really)

Nick, I take every excuse not to ride in shitty weather! Yeah, if you're actually ill, don't ride. But tomorrow morning you'll know.

Cutty, you're the fucking man. Nice going.

I don't know if feeling like you might come down with a cold qualifies as 'actually ill' or not! In the days when I used to check my resting heart rate, I'd know when it was be a good idea to rest because it would be about 10bpm above what it should be or something like that. These days I don't bother with that stuff, it would just be too depressing. Any other indicators that tell you when to give it a miss?

When trying not to fall asleep is actually painful and your body has shut down from tiredness and you can't keep warm anymore? Hence my bike being parked in Williamsburg.

Sounds like a wise call to me! Get some ZZZZzzzzz's Laurel.

http://z.about.com/d/classicrock/1/7/8/ZZ_Top_Color_3_low_res.jpg

usually its best to rest with a cold. but sometimes i find a little aerobic can actually cure a cold for me!

wahhhhh
http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/6238/weathersl1.jpg

did my first ride non-commute since labor day, my usual "minimum" ride. 33 miles, 1500 ft of vert, 1.75 hours. with mule deer.

http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/4803/deercreekgm4.jpg

http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/2972/outnumberedsl0.jpg
topped out heading down:

less than 50mph is sorry effort but i tried for you guys

http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/5443/topdescentej2.jpg

http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/8563/maxspeedgw0.jpg

yaow. what a ride!

short trip to check out a flat i was thinking of renting. went flat-out to keep pace with traffic and not get skittled. return trip far more subdued due to finding bike path (cunningly hidden in middle of median strip). flat itself was somewhat disappointing.

less than 50mph is sorry effort but i tried for you guys

modest

short trip to check out a flat i was thinking of renting. went flat-out [...] flat itself was somewhat disappointing.

Luck you didn't get a flat though.

Lucky grr

modest?! i was trying to show off for youse all but coulndt hit 50 i tucked and evrything.

since i brot a camera for my little iltrmb travelogue, here's the exit to the canyon, a red rock wall about 300 ft vert very pretty in the sunsets. i need a closer shot to illustrate

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/3458/exitsmalljv2.jpg

i don't think i've ever come close to 49.8MPH. we don't share the same hills though!

2 hours on the fluid2

6x10 minutes-SLOW 60RPM cadence 53x12 ;) (better than going to the gym)
1x15 minutes 100RPM Z2

also that road is beautiful. i need that.

seasons when im not racing (wich is all of them now?) and can "do anything," i probly ride it 150 times a year. its the portal to lots of other climbing routes. 30 miles is the maintenance route, but your typical 45 to 65 mile training rides branch off of it. i do it so much i dont even notice the pretty very much

and yeah, the speed is ALL the hill. the fast stretch on the descent is the top where it is straight at 7% to 8%, the bottom is very twisty at 4%-6%.

when the power training mania for super slow cadence strength mashing came around like 10 years ago, you started to see guys going up the climb above in April in their 53-14 or 53-13 at like 45 rpm. srsly its mental. my patellas wld fly off.

Crazy! I think my top speed ever has been in the 30s, on a distance trip in high school! Beautiful road, Hunt.

Spitty rain and cold here, going to pick up my baby from Jon's house & pop around for noize brunch.

example of profiles of rides "behind" deer creek. the first "prong" is the turnaround of yesterdays ride.

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/4295/deercreekhighdriverm8.jpg

that last descent is NICE, 25 minutes of effortlessly hauling ass and leaning the bike over into turns.