ridethecliche

Not spring yet.
The ice I slipped off and pissed my back off on this morning would like to assert that it's still 2 weeks away.

echappist

ouch ouch ouch. Heal up soon!

I need to get out of lab and do some intervals...

GirlAnachronism

Just FYI I rode in the park this morning and ran all the red lights and it was cool. There were a few cop cars milling around but no one seemed to be stopping.

waterrockets 

You could die!

echappist

you stunned them into inaction with your graceful charm. Don't think i can pull that one off

Enthalpic

Just ask her out already.

waterrockets 

Would you rather paypal me for a new keyboard or ship one?

ridethecliche

He's waiting for his grillz, I mean teeth.

hammy56

he's not punk enough...

echappist

and yes, still waiting on 'em grillz, though i do have three metal cyclinders (where the crowns will eventually interface) that are shiny like grillz

bostongarden

We have friends in Houston who have a Bichon named Blake. He is very friendly. When he the husband thought Blake was being too friendly (e.g., jumping on you), he would always say, "Blake, be nice Blake." That's what popped into my head when I saw these two posts back-to-back (except substitute "guys" for "Blake").

bostongarden

Oh yeah, right, forgot, ok, get it now, very good rtc!!!!

bostongarden

You guys made me lose my train of thought. I originally intended to post: Bethel forecast for Sunday, March 6 now showing a change from one hour ago: 50% chance of showers (down from 60%) and high temp of 53 (up from either 50 or 51).

mollusk

Warm up for 5 minutes and then 1.5 hrs of SST. Most of that was going out in a general ESE direction with winds out of the NE at 17 mph with gusts to 25 mph. By my highly calibrated perceived exertion meter I went much harder going out. By my Cateye wireless I was much faster coming back. I'd guess I might have been pushing very close to and sometimes over FTP on the way out and riding at the lower end of SST on the way back. Then 20 minutes of Z2 to get back home.

And over one hour in the drops. I have my bike set up aggressively: the stem is slammed all the way down, it is -17 degrees, and I have deep drop bars. Good thing that I stretch/yoga and do "core" work at the gym.

JohnKScott

30 minute race effort after warmup. Cool down after. First time with this type of intensity this season. Ouch. Power for 30 minutes right in line with what I would expect vs 60 minute FTP effort last week. So FTP test VALIDATED.

Did I say ouch?

Zillon

Just put in an easy-ish 44.2 miles in the saddle on a fresh build. Working the kinks out of the bike and myself before the ECCC season opener this weekend.

Am I ready? Pft, who knows.

BikeNube

45 mintues. 3 20sec sprints. new PR. Can't ask for more than that.

NP248

Hermes

Short 1 hour track workout but I plan on a significant gym workout later this afternoon.

TheKillerPenguin

The best I can figure is I wasn't keeping dem joints warm enough. Spending the last 2 winters in AZ makes you forget how ****ty the cold can make your knees feel.

Was able to go out for a quickish spin today after all, after putting on my knee warmers and winter tights. Methinks the cold doth lay at the root of my problems.

edit: derping hardcore.

What started it initially I think, was that unbeknownst to me, my seatpost slipped about 3/4 of a cm, after what I can only assume was due to one day when I did half a dozen sections of ****ty cobbles. A little after that day, I had an SFR day planned, and did it in the freezing cold rain. Slipped seatpost + cold, low cadence workout = tendon issues methinks. That its rarely warmer than 40 at the moment is making riding through it pretty difficult.

shovelhd

Moving in the right direction, at least.

Ygduf

late base month for me.

Feb:
837 miles/47 hours 44 minutes/31,120 feet. Little elevation due to my recent descending skittishness, and a lot of trainer time.

wens

I think it's off the list now, too lazy to check though.

SushiJoe

I've got about 416 more miles of base left this year

EDIT: wait, no, 411

echappist

wanted to do 12 of 90 seconds at 135% FTP followed by 90 seconds off. Instead was only able to do 80 seconds on and had 100 seconds off. At least i was able to hit at least 139% FTP most of the time, with the last one coming in at 144%.

6x5x1 tomorrow, then taper for this weekend's race at Rutgers. Knowing what that race actually entails, i now wonder if i even want to do the point race (essentially a point race on the road...)

Kate, regarding cops. Saw one with his lights flashing parked on the top of Harlem hill. Later saw one parked by the rink. I thought: eff this, i'll go find a hill in Manhattan and do my repeats there as opposed to risking it in CP. As hammy alluded, i'm obviously not punk enough to run red lights when cops are around.

Then again, had i gotten out of lab earlier, i could have done everything in NJ.

GirlAnachronism

Are you racing CRCA this year? The Power Points races are pretty brutal. You'd probably do well since you need to have a calculator for a brain to figure out wtf is going on in those races.