waterrockets 

Him: "You can't wheelsuck back there all day."

Me: "Watch me."

But I knew better. That's what it took to get third (he won).

JohnKScott

2x15 @ FTP. My legs were fatigued last night. Probably from playing one on one hoops with my daughter on Sunday afternoon. It was hard to keep the power going. Actually it seemed slightly easier on the second set. Legs are tired today.

Ygduf

reported

caloso

80' of tempo on the way to work. It was warm enough that I was sweating but cool and humid enough that nothing was evaporating, and of course I forgot my Halo headband, which meant rivers of sweat running down my glasses.

furiousferret

Tweaked my ankle doing sprints. Whenever I put a lot of press on the crank and the toes are in, it puts a ton of pressure on the muscle and its been sore for a few days. Not an injury, more of a warning that I need to back off.

Creatre

That seems not normal. Fit or shoe issues?

indigo

Finally off of narcotics. Post op appointment this morning. Cleared to ride the trainer. I apparently got the conservative ortho, as he said 3 months till I can ride outside. That's ok I guess as I'm not very motivated right now and the dark times are coming, just glad I can get back to working on the fitness. Will start PT too.

furiousferret

From last year's surgery. It's happened two other times. The high TSS weeks, the heat (105+ last 2 weeks), and bad form during the effort were probably all factors. Its still my first muscle to go on big weeks, but its getting stronger.

Dutch Jazz

Just did some nice training. Windstill, clear weather 18C or so. Absolutely perfect conditions.

I love those days where you are out with two mates and you are just eating miles like its nothing. Not going in the red or anything.

We did 50k and averaged 32ish kph. Which is still special for me becuase at the start of the year we couldn't do 30 without blowing up. Avg HR was 145 where my treshold is 174bpm.

These are the evenings that I absolutely love cycling.

aaronmcd

Just did the Alviso practice crit. I've been going on team Tuesdays now that I joined a team. Break went up the road early with one of our guys in it, and I was told he was good (he won) so 3 or 4 of us patrolled the front for the entire time. Felt like a recovery ride (I exaggerate), and I was kind of bummed I wasn't getting a good workout. Went home and uploaded - 20' at 104%, 13' at 109%. Almost PRed 3 minute power at the end, and hit 1258 watts which is better than I've been doing lately. Huh?!!? Is my power meter messing with me? Double checked - torque was zeroed, and every time I looked at at power it matched RPE - just that the ride as a whole didn't make me feel like I was working hard. Random good form just in time for the end of the season I guess. I have been tending to ride with less fatigue lately, and only averaging a bit more than 200 miles per week.

rideaz

I'm in my second week of broken ribs. I miss my bike. I also miss sleeping and being able to laugh. I am terrified I'm going to sneeze (I'm avoiding cats, children and pepper).
Anyone have any secret to making bones fuse together quicker (my fractures are displaced)?

mattm

Displaced, ouch!!

"One weird trick" i have heard about sneezing/coughing with broken ribs is to hug a pillow when you do it, but luckily I somehow never sneezed when mine were healing.

Wylde06

When I bruised mine last year I did this after sneezing one time. Felt like I was punched in the back.

rideaz

I was more concerned about a "surprise" sneeze Matt! Maybe I'll carry a pillow around with me just incase
Hiccuping on day 2 made me cry...crying also hurts a lot. It's a cruel injury!

abhirama

One of my favourite things to do post-ride is to go look at the ride data, especially after a ride where i felt good. Today, the data showed something i don't see too often: my 30s power was higher than the 18s power by about 30W. Interesting but nothing significant.

Maybe slightly OT: when I'm going hard I like to sit on the nose of the saddle (and therefore not on the sit bones. I'm more or less alright when I'm on my sit bones on the wider part of the saddle) as that seems to give me better power for the same RPE plus I can get into a better position aero-wise. The problem however is that after 5 or 10 mins of this, I experience crotch numbness and mild tingling sensations in my hands (beginning of numbness I imagine) after which I'm forced to ease off. It's frustrating. I'm on my third saddle now (currently arione. previously selle italia slr and flite) and while it's the best so far, it's far from ideal. I also wear good bibs (top of the line PI and one of the cheaper Assos - both really good btw, the best i've had) and they surely have improved the situation but haven't solved it. I'm thinking I'll maybe try a tri/tt saddle to see if that helps. Or maybe I have to learn to sit on a saddle :-/ Thoughts/ideas?

aaronmcd

Idk, I think a lot of people move forward when going hard. I think I do.
And on 30" higher than 18" power, it happens if you have a spike at the beginning and end. I did a 5' test one day (after a short hard ride and a couple hours to recover). Had a slight spike at the beginning and of course at the end, but the interval was around 5:03. So my 5' PR is 399 watts, and 5:03 PR is 400 watts. I like the round number, so I just call it 400 for 5 minutes haha.

mattm

thats where "on the rivet" comes from.

globecanvas

My kid's ortho said that bones heal faster if you get a lot of protein, 1.5-2g per kg of body weight. He said the body scavenges calcium and whatever else it needs, but increased protein intake is shown to increase bone healing.

aaronmcd

Long climbing ride today. 70 miles, 1 mile climbing.

Due to recent good power numbers, I decided to hit the first climb hard and try for a PR (on that climb). First half at 103%, and finally shook the last guy off my wheel. Faded in the second half though, and ended up just at threshold for the 25 minutes.
Next climb a few hours in is fairly shallow, except for several minutes in the middle at 5%. So a few of us worked together to make good time. PRed that climb by a lot due to the help. And managed to hold threshold power, which I have never been able to do that far into a ride.

caloso

7x(3'+3'). I normally do 6 but today I lost count.

waterrockets 

lol

thechemist

Commuted to work today which will equate to about 4hrs of z2-z3 by the end of the day.

TexMac

Houston we got a problem....of rain, so I hit the gym to work on legs, back, core

TheKillerPenguin

Swole

bmcphx

@abhirama it just sounds like you have fit issues.