ridethecliche

Yeah, compacts come with 50/36 or 50/34. The latter don't shift as smoothly as the former since 14 teeth is a good jump size. That said, if you play around with the 52 you can get it to shift about perfectly. I did that on a cross bike.

You need to buy a good ring for it though. Chainrings last for a while, so buy a good 52 compact ring. They make em in 110.

mike868y

I've never thought of that - but thank you I may use that in the future.

mike868y

What is the general consensus on RED rings? I would assume they are probably better than the rival rings I'm using now?

jwible

Just get some Rotors and be done with it.

ridethecliche

I meant good like not the cheapest you can find. SRAM rings are fine. Chainrings aren't something that should be pricey unless you're playing with rotor rings and such.

jwible

When do you start selling these jerseys to us peons? Everyone was very impressed by my Psimet Kinlin / PT wheels last Thursday.

Yeah, I'm a pimp.

botto 

google.

tspek

They are more expensive, so go for it.

Psimet2001 

Thinking about it. i have to make sure I have enough first. Wasn't able to get a lot. I might also redesign one to be "factory" jersey too....

Red rings aren't so hot. There were a bunch supposedly that people ran into that hadn't been heat treated properly. In general they are softer than the otheer rings used in their lineup.

waterrockets 

tspek

mattm

3.5 hours saturday - JRA on new bike
3.5 hours sunday - riding with team mate in headwinds, hill climbing
1.5 hours today - did 15 jumps above ~10 w/kg

Building up for crit on Saturday, can't wait.. TSS at -35 and dropping.

msh1283

5 hours Saturday, 3 Sunday, plus a really ****ty sunburn = easy Monday. 20 mile out and back with gusts up to 40 on the out. My completely subjective numbers are up, based on RPE at least. Tuesday Night crit series starts up tomorrow. Will be my first mass start ever. Shooting for holding on and not getting my wheel knocked out from under me.

badhat

so after a humbling start to my race season with some middle of the pack results, today did a solo drill on one of our monster local climbs Pole Hill Road. 3 miles of around 8-14% grade snaking around the side of a mountain overlooking larimer county. its a nightmare climb. last summer i did it with a group ever wendesday night as a bit of training for mt evans.

tonight was the first time i've done it this year, but i set out to do 2 repeats and full throttle. i havent really done other rides that are useful gauges of my fitness against last year so this was my first chance to see if all my training and weight loss has been working and that... even though i know i'm not where i need to be for my priority races this summer, i'm at least making progress.

long story short, i beat my previous PR of 21:40 by two minutes. and then, i rode down, and rode back up and beat the old PR again, this time only by 20 seconds. so it turns out whatever i'm doin, its working, as i'm about 10% faster on the hardest, steepest hill climb in the county this year. :rock:

fatallightning

yeah, it hurt. big time. especially the kick at the end. the hills and dales and back countries of new paltz and the gunks. its a slightly shortened version of the ride the rapha continental team did. wattage looks too high to me.
https://www.rapha.cc/new-paltz

Dist: 93.23 mi (6:07:22)
Energy: 4356.0 kJ
Cals Burn: 4164.4 kcal
Climbing: 6856 ft

Min Avg Max
Power 0 197.7 1032 W
Speed 0.0 15.2 47.0 mi/h
Wind 0.0 15.7 51.0 mi/h
Elev 77 771 2487 ft
Slope -15.1 0.00 20.6 %

4/5/2010 11:59 AM
76 degF; 1013 mbar

Psimet2001 

This just in....I am too fat.

That is all.

JohnKScott

72 minutes with 2x3x3min Power Intervals (Vo2 type intervals) w/ 3 minutes between intervals and 6 minutes between sets. Second day of two day block of these. Next two days off and glad of it.

El Diablo Rojo

Went out for a 12k TT target was 250w ap. Rolling course really really windy. Ended with 251ap 252np 19.33. Good legs today. Ft Davis this weekend so far so good.

jwible

So, you're on the same training plan as me.

waterrockets 

4x5' (~2:30 recoveries): 374W, 386W (oops), 330W (ouch), 357W.

Fitness improving a little each week now (3rd week back on the bike).

grolby

Off the bike since Friday thanks to moving. ARGH. Might get trainer time tonight. Most likely not riding until tomorrow. Not pleased.

caloso

Head full of mucus last night and between the sinus pain and post nasal drip I got little sleep. So I bailed on my interval set this morning. Might try to get in a decent ride this afternoon but that's no certainty.

umd

6 sprints near or over 900W for 10". Fun fun.

That really jacks the NP up for the ride

Enthalpic

The time crunched program gives you so many days off? I could’ve sworn you just posted about taking 3 days in a row off and now you get two more? With such short workouts that seems excessive.

Apus^2

The purpose is high intensity-low volume. I don't think there are any weeks in the plan that have 3 days off in a row. Some two day blocks stress the system enough that two days off are called for. But I could be wrong. I need to go back and check it.