Originally Posted by Heathpack (Post 19564666)

Well that hurt.


But it went well. PRed the 40K course by 50 seconds, power PR on this course by 7 watts.


From a power perspective I faded, each of the four legs was done with a decreasing power output. Split 2 was 1:10 slower than split 1, not how you want to race a TT.


But man I had that HR pegged exactly where it should be for the entire TT. Physiologically it was a very steady effort.


Technically, it could have been better but I'm happy with the power and time PRs and the overall effort.


It did not rain. Well a few sprinkles but nothing dicey.


I won, but that is not saying much, I was the only woman to show up today.


PS I displayed my normal data screen and looked at it. Just not as much as I normally would have. Focused much more on parceling out the effort by how it felt and how sustainable for the duration what I was feeling seemed to be.


The State TT is 2 weeks away. If I'm able to shave 2 min off my 40K TT time from last year, I would likely win it. So the 50 second PR today- that was good. I had a race format but no competition, you could look at that as a halfway race. Fix some of the pacing issues and I'm sitting pretty close to where I need to be...

Originally Posted by jtaylor996 (Post 19564795)

Went riding with a certain Addiction buddy today, and look at this. A pic of me actually ON a bike!

https://dgtzuqphqg23d.cloudfront.net...-1536x2048.jpg

Originally Posted by Dan333SP (Post 19564804)

Pro af :thumb:

Originally Posted by datlas (Post 19563879)

So [MENTION=160999]Bah Humbug[/MENTION], is it a Marathon if you run it on a track??

Originally Posted by jtaylor996 (Post 19564795)

Originally Posted by Heathpack (Post 19563740)

My first appointment yesterday was this terrible case. Retired lady with a 70 pound dog, acutely paralyzed in the hind legs 5 days prior. Her vet told her the dog needed emergency surgery right away, as did the second opinion vet who saw the dog and my receptionist when she called for an appointment. The lady insisted on waiting until my next available appointment and then when I look at the dog I say, "Yep, this was an emergency 5 days ago; now the prognosis is bleak and odds are your dog will never walk again, no matter what I do. You can take your chances with surgery, live with a paralyzed dog (but I can see the lady's gnarled hands, she must have rheumatoid arthritis, I don't think she can care for a 70 pound paralyzed dog) or you can put her to sleep." I hate doing low percent success rate surgeries and nudge a little toward euthanasia. But to my surprise, the lady goes for it. We all feel terrible for the dog, who is terrified and is now going to have a major surgery and we might not know the outcome for as long as six weeks. And we feel terrible for the lady who feels huge guilt over not getting the dog in sooner and we worry is maybe making a bad financial decision.

But no value judgements allowed, we do the surgery and it goes well.

Twenty two hours post op the lady comes in to visit the dog and she wags her tail. Hahaha that is so sweet because a tail wag is a voluntary movement for a dog. Which means technically she is no longer paralyzed. Her prognosis instantly goes from "probably will never walk again" to "almost certainly will walk again". Hot damn that was an ok moment today when I got the text from the doctor covering the case. We'll even probably bring it in under estimate, she might even be good enough to go home Sunday.

:)

Originally Posted by seedsbelize (Post 19563970)

The in room coffee is a bad joke. Good thing I brought some instant to hold me til 7:00. Many(all) of you are more worldly than me. Is there a trick to these things? In the past, I've doubled the coffee and halved the water.

Originally Posted by jtaylor996 (Post 19564795)

Went riding with a certain Addiction buddy today, and look at this. A pic of me actually ON a bike!

Originally Posted by seedsbelize (Post 19564005)

We have a dedicated porn channel, but no cycling. wtf?

Originally Posted by Heathpack (Post 19564666)

Well that hurt.


But it went well. PRed the 40K course by 50 seconds, power PR on this course by 7 watts.


From a power perspective I faded, each of the four legs was done with a decreasing power output. Split 2 was 1:10 slower than split 1, not how you want to race a TT.


But man I had that HR pegged exactly where it should be for the entire TT. Physiologically it was a very steady effort.


Technically, it could have been better but I'm happy with the power and time PRs and the overall effort.


It did not rain. Well a few sprinkles but nothing dicey.


I won, but that is not saying much, I was the only woman to show up today.


PS I displayed my normal data screen and looked at it. Just not as much as I normally would have. Focused much more on parceling out the effort by how it felt and how sustainable for the duration what I was feeling seemed to be.


The State TT is 2 weeks away. If I'm able to shave 2 min off my 40K TT time from last year, I would likely win it. So the 50 second PR today- that was good. I had a race format but no competition, you could look at that as a halfway race. Fix some of the pacing issues and I'm sitting pretty close to where I need to be...

Originally Posted by LAJ (Post 19564775)

Dang Billy and Trsnrtr. Positive thoughts.

Originally Posted by jtaylor996 (Post 19564792)

I could hit that. Hard.

Originally Posted by BillyD (Post 19564862)

Family forum, mister!

Originally Posted by BillyD (Post 19564756)

Lots of testing. Best wishes. They should at least find some transistors in the noggin. Get it? Transistors?

I just had an MRI done Wednesday on my prostate. I'll find out how that went next Wednesday.

Originally Posted by datlas (Post 19564633)

I must have missed it. Where are you visiting??

Originally Posted by seedsbelize (Post 19564931)

Cancun

Originally Posted by Trsnrtr (Post 19564180)

I have a brain MRI on Monday. A follow-up to something found during my hospital stay last August.

Hope they don't find anything. Wait, that didn't come out right. :foo:

Moving on, have an ultrasound of my lower aorta later the same day.

Originally Posted by Velo Vol (Post 19564462)

12:30 p.m. and it's raining and in the 40s here. :crash:

Originally Posted by sbxx1985 (Post 19564628)

I got called on during this dumb meeting. I didn't hear the question, nor did I know the answer. I was looking at the Cinelli Zydeco frameset from wrenchscience at the time.

Cool bike.

Originally Posted by Heathpack (Post 19564666)

Well that hurt.


But it went well. PRed the 40K course by 50 seconds, power PR on this course by 7 watts.


From a power perspective I faded, each of the four legs was done with a decreasing power output. Split 2 was 1:10 slower than split 1, not how you want to race a TT.


But man I had that HR pegged exactly where it should be for the entire TT. Physiologically it was a very steady effort.


Technically, it could have been better but I'm happy with the power and time PRs and the overall effort.


It did not rain. Well a few sprinkles but nothing dicey.


I won, but that is not saying much, I was the only woman to show up today.


PS I displayed my normal data screen and looked at it. Just not as much as I normally would have. Focused much more on parceling out the effort by how it felt and how sustainable for the duration what I was feeling seemed to be.


The State TT is 2 weeks away. If I'm able to shave 2 min off my 40K TT time from last year, I would likely win it. So the 50 second PR today- that was good. I had a race format but no competition, you could look at that as a halfway race. Fix some of the pacing issues and I'm sitting pretty close to where I need to be...

Originally Posted by jtaylor996 (Post 19564795)

Went riding with a certain Addiction buddy today, and look at this. A pic of me actually ON a bike!

https://dgtzuqphqg23d.cloudfront.net...-1536x2048.jpg