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Anyone good with a windchill calculator? Windchill is you standing on the corner waiting for the bus. What if you doing 30-40kph into the wind and with the wind? THEN how cold it is it? -14, windchill of -25...then ride 30kph into the wind.
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*Brokeback Mountain theme music swells momentarily*
So I says to Mable I says
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https://www.ottawarun.com/windchill.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_chill
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T_WC = 13.12 + 0.6215*T_a - 11.37*V^(0.16) +0.3965*T_a*V^(0.16).
If it's -14C, and -25C with the windchill, that means that the wind is going at about 32 kph.
That means that riding away from the wind (i.e. wind into your back) at 30 kph, you're getting almost no wind chill.. about -14.5C adjusted. Riding into the wind gives a net wind speed of 62 kph, for a wind chill adjusted temperature of -28.3C. The model suggests that the temperature decreases more for every kph of wind at low speeds than at high speeds.. apparently, the big heat loss happens when the wind blows away your "insulating boundary layer".
This picture (not mine) is pretty close to the scenario we're discussing, with -15C at 0kph:
EDIT: Now I have an article about "Impaired anal sphincter function" in my pubmed history. Note that the article is on mountain bikers + not roadies.. mountain biking = more smacking of the taint?
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Leave it to the grad student to go all ubernerdy on us and post a chart.
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What you could do is just straight up request a "nobody gets dropped" group ride ... be it the Donut ride with some of the people from the forums or just us. I'm comfortable doing a ride the distance of the Donut and I don't have anything to prove, so as long as I can keep up with you I certainly won't be trying to ride you into the ground. That might be an easy way for you to pick up some group riding skills in a comfortable environment.
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What you could do is just straight up request a "nobody gets dropped" group ride ... be it the Donut ride with some of the people from the forums or just us. I'm comfortable doing a ride the distance of the Donut and I don't have anything to prove, so as long as I can keep up with you I certainly won't be trying to ride you into the ground. That might be an easy way for you to pick up some group riding skills in a comfortable environment.
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Hahaha, oh god ... 'cross provincials. I crashed twice on my already terrible hip. It was literally crunching through the rotation (oh look at Mike baring his teeth in pain every time he remounts the bike) and I could hardly walk back to the car once the race was over. Good times! That being said, I'm a stretching pro these days so hopefully it won't be so troublesome this season (+ preemptive ibuprofin).
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And thanks Mike, great suggestion - I want to work towards doing a century a month, so if there's anyone willing to do some sort of regular ride - not hammerfest, but of enough pace to carry the distance nicely (160k =~ 8hours or less?) that'd be groovy.
I want to be faster/stronger basically, as well as more competent/skillful/comfortable in group riding. I'd definitely like to get out there and ride with you guys more, as my schedule permits.
I'm thinking of doing a somewhat long ride this weekend as a starter to my gearing up training - anyone want to join me - I'll probably be riding with my buddy who'll be taking his fixed conversion, and it'll probably be fairly relaxed.
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wow thank ya!!!
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Hahaha, oh god ... 'cross provincials. I crashed twice on my already terrible hip. It was literally crunching through the rotation (oh look at Mike baring his teeth in pain every time he remounts the bike) and I could hardly walk back to the car once the race was over. Good times! That being said, I'm a stretching pro these days so hopefully it won't be so troublesome this season (+ preemptive ibuprofin).
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I'll come along on a no-drop group ride assuming schedules work out!
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I was at Patty King this morning (spicy beef patty avec coco bread) and "Total Eclipse of the Heart" came on ... which then of course got stuck in my head and then I found myself sprinting down Spadina to "AND I NEED YOU MORE, THAN EVER!" ... which was odd/motivating/even odder to say the least. It was the skate video effect gone horribly wrong.
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I was at Patty King this morning (spicy beef patty avec coco bread) and "Total Eclipse of the Heart" came on ... which then of course got stuck in my head and then I found myself sprinting down Spadina to "AND I NEED YOU MORE, THAN EVER!" ... which was odd/motivating/even odder to say the least. It was the skate video effect gone horribly wrong.
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Stretching is good, where can I get some?
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Anyway, now that I've embarrassed/complimented a few people ... the completely random song stuck in my head on the way home was Boston - More Than a Feeling. I had to look it up on YouTube when I got home to find out whoever sings the damn song, but there I was: humming along under my balaclava to effing Boston.
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I assume not, but is there any racing scenario where one could actually get away w/ rocking an iPod (even if an earbud was just in one ear)? It seems like it could lead to a huge amount of radness, minus the "crashing into other riders you didn't hear coming" part.