Watch it buddy. Sock length is serious business.

I sleep more than I ride.

#justsaying

Kudos

I don't know the upper and lower cutoff's for "middle class" but it should be adjusted for geography/cost of living.

For example, a single person making $50K/year in Idaho may be quite comfortable, while the same income in NYC or San Francisco may be less so.

Haha, I was going to mention that you kudo'ed my warm up ride for a strength/core workout. I got a few Strava comments too. On account of my bad-ass 20 min ride when it was cold out.

Speaking of strength workouts, these are not my thing. But they are new in my schedule, so of course I do them. Yesterday was my 3rd one. I was massively sore after the first two, for 48 hours. Today though I feel only pleasantly sore despite the fact that I was confused and mistakenly doubled my weight for all the stuff that requires weight (still not much). Sweet.

Well, yes. Many people are appallingly bad at math.

And then there's the whole grammar situation.

That 250k figure Clinton and Sanders were debating was a total household figure, two people iow. So in Datlas' chart, residents from Maryland thru Virginia all legitimately qualify as middle class.

Wow. California is not that bad a deal compared to Maryland.

I'll still arm wrestle you any day of the week, missy.

Problem is that it's much more specific than state - here in Austin is much more expensive than Amarillo. A few chunks of California are completely insane, and other parts are quite cheap. Brooklyn is more expensive than Buffalo. According to that chart, AG and I are well over middle class... but it sure doesn't feel like that here. Over in Lubbock we'd probably feel a whole lot more comfortable.

I'm usually more interested in the post-ride data. Unless I'm doing a workout with specific power targets or riding a TT, in which case I look at the real time data.

But even after a TT, when I've seen the data live and the results are finalized and we've all gone home, I can't really 100% say how it went until I get home and look at the data. How were my splits relative to my plan? How steady was my power? When/where/how often did I go into the red? How was my start? How long did my turn take? What was my cadence? Did I let my HR drop below threshold, & if so, when & where on the course was that? It takes me 30 minutes maybe to decide if I'm happy with the race. Even though I maybe won it and PRed it, I won't decide what I think of the effort without looking at the data. The flip side of that of course is that I can *not* win it & still be very happy with it, if I raced it well and improved the technical aspects of the effort relative to what I've previously been capable of.

:)

<I went from 10# to 20#, you have nothing to worry about.>

True, it should be adjusted by town or neighborhood...but that table won't fit.

And federal taxes can't have a regional modifier, as far as I know. There would be unfairness cries far and wide, and who could be trusted to set it up without bias and gerrymandering. Carly says a three page tax code should cover it, so we have that going for us :).

In that case, I don't think there will be many kudos given among us.

Three whole pages? That's longer than her immediate competitors'. By a lot.

My old trainer's favorite thing is to absolutely torture big dudes with the 2.5lb-ers. It all depends on what you're doing with them.

But hey, kudos (;)) for doubling!

that table is worthless. new york state is in a different universe compared to a nyc income

try living in nyc on 38grand. ha!

low, middle, and upper are elusive categories depending upon who is making the assertion. If you look at all wage earners, the 90th percentile is no where near as high as people would think.

correct.

Yep, I'll kudos anything especially when it involves women stronger than I am. :D

To make a meaningfull distinction, you have to decide what you're trying to measure. People making twice as much as me and AG don't actually have lives that are all that different from ours - they live in nicer houses and drive nicer cars to work. That's entirely different from measuring the gap to true wealth, where your life is entirely different. It's not even really the top 1%, let alone the top 10%.

Edit: I'm talking about the difference between Tom Brady's dentist, Tom Brady, and Robert Kraft. All three are "above middle class", but they're in three completely different economic strata.

Maryland gets skewed by proximity to DC. NoVa does too, but there's more of rural Va. to counter that.

I find it intimidating that Ronda Rousey and Serena Williams could kick my ass. What if we were dating and I wanted to break it off:

Me - Honey, we need to talk.

Her - Oh really, about what?

Me - Uh, that, uh, that casserole you made last night was terrific, honey. Smooches!