Jandro 

No, (getting a proper fit on saturday and have family stuff on Sunday) but I will be racing in Monterey the following weekend. Road race and circuit race.

Fat Boy

When you get a little older, eating healthy helps you to train harder. If you eat poorly, your body just can't recover, so you have to reduce your training. Then you sit around and eat junk food. It's a vicious circle. At your age, though, you can get away with eating pretty much whatever you want.

If you've got oranges to make fresh squeezed juice, then eat them whole. Juicing any fruit basically turns it into sugar (fructose) water that is only marginally better for you than drinking a Coke (fizzy, colored, caffeinated fructose water).

Fat Boy

Legs are freakin' sore from last night. Happy to get in a solid workout, but F me.

rkwaki

Here is a picture of an apple that was juicing, his liver is shot and he is now banned from bobbing for apples competition by USADA...

caloso

I thought I had found the perfect place to do 3' intervals: a new stretch of bike trail on the south bank of the American. It's 10 minutes from my office, flat, straight, newly paved, and since it doesn't really go anywhere it would be free of commuters and joggers. Alas, it's the driveway for homeless riverbank campers and there's broken glass everywhere. And goose poop. Guess I'll have to go back to terrorizing the MUP riders or dodging trucks in my industrial park circuit.

Fat Boy

Ring road around a mall at 6am works wonders.

rbart4506

There's one thing are lines and concessions are good for...Perfect for 3-4min intervals...

Now trying to find somewhere to do a 10min+ interval is interesting. I remember when my wife and I first starting working our coach from Sacramento and he'd tell us to go out and do 2x20's. We had to explain to him that there aren't many roads without a stop sign/light, that are safe, that we can do those on...

sstang13

This makes me wonder how cyclist's eat their food, sorta something like this
Something inside me is tellng me rkwaki still drinks out of a sippy cup...
Same here, I've been looking for a route, there's nothing around that's close. I'll be going to do some recon around my house soon for a shortish, flat loop that I can complete but make it home in a short time to refill bottles or escape a storm...this weather isn't looking to promising.

Fat Boy

You know your avatar may very well be a juiced fruit as well. NTTAWWT.

rkwaki

Incorrect...

Fat Boy

Trick question. A true cyclist doesn't eat. You have to be able to ride a 100 miles on a cup of black coffee and a dozen raisins.

rkwaki

Is that why people are always asking to squeeze my melons?

sstang13

LOL, currently guttin' myself at all the above

Also, what does NTTAWWT mean?

caloso

I have a couple of routes which are pretty good, but each has one or two drawbacks. It's still my holy grail to find the perfect training road.

rkwaki

"Not that there's anything wrong with that"

What that means is that Fat Boy is into me and my curly hair...

rkwaki

Come to Tennessee we don't have the mountains (or intelligence) but there are lots of beautiful roads to train on and little, if any, traffic.

Jandro 

Fixed for euro accuracy.

Creatre

I have a hill I do 1,2,3,5 min intervals on. It has a couple warehouses on it so is super low traffic, and is fairly steady incline. I do a loop that is about 8 miles with 4 turns that I use for 10,15,20 min intervals in which I can turn right and not have to hit the brakes (well sometimes very rarely, but still doesnt affect interval much).

Tavish

Sometimes it is harder to take a day off than it is to get in 4hrs.....

this is my training for the week so far preceeded by two races on Saturday and Sunday
Monday: 4hrs - 5x10min intervals at LTHR
Tues - 2.5hrs - 8x1min Efforts these were balls to the wall (I wanted something to wake my legs up on shorter faster efforts) followed by 4x400m sprints and 2x250m sprints
Wednesday - Easy -1hr
Thursday - (DAY OFF)

sstang13

Fixed for even more euro accuracy.

edit: note that an espresso is about 50ml

Fat Boy

I'm not into dudes, but if I were, I'd be knee deep into you, big fella'.

Fat Boy

Ummmm, rkwaki. There are some guys at the door that would like to talk to you...


https://www.inquisitr.com/608399/5-to...en-in-germany/

Enthalpic

Only backwards nations use miles, you should have fixed that.

jsutkeepspining

okay guys come on. Everyone knows the true euro cyclists goes out for 161 km ride with just a double espresso, and a half-dozen figs. But this rider also rides a leisurely pace of 34 kph (which he does not know becuase euro pros train on sensations) without ever going over z1 (or any effort tat involves opening his mouth), stops 2.5 hours into the ride for another coffee, and brings a baguette with him to eat all throughout the ride. This rider also does not wear a helmet, wears sidi shoes, rides campy, , wears full team kit including team gloves, and pays no attention to his srm pc7 that he is forced to ride with because of his contract with his high level professional team.

climber7

that's a pretty tough workout for monday after a weekend of racing.

also, if i do an all-out 1-minute workout, i'm toast. i could never do sprints after.