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Originally Posted by Heathpack
(Post 19513069)
This was me with the eye surgeon.
Can I race my bike? Not for awhile. Can I ride my bike? You can't crash. Ok no mountain bike. Can I ride my road bike? Not on the road. Ok trainer only. Can I ride my TT bike on the trainer? No you have to be upright. Ok so you're saying I can ride the road bike on the trainer? Yes. How hard can I ride? Easy. Ok I can only ride the road bike on the trainer below threshold? I guess. For how long? Until I say otherwise. Ok but approximately when will you say otherwise? One week for some of it, one month for others. Ok road bike on the trainer riding sub threshold efforts for one week. Got it. Lol at least the guy is a mountain biker so he had some idea of what I was talking about. |
Originally Posted by Heathpack
(Post 19513096)
Went out to scout the state TT course, which is a big rectangle. Five legs because you ride the entire rectangle and then you ride the first part of the rectangle again.
Road surface is just kind of jarring and it gets to you after awhile. There's big angry dogs who chase you and could seriously kill you. So it's not a "fun" place to ride. I wasn't sure how to pace things today, in light of riding so hard yesterday. I figured I go lope around for an hour at 90% or thereabouts. But once I started riding, I felt pretty good so I just kept ramping it up, TT-style. Strategically (because it's a headwind leg), you want to put the most power into leg 4. And then leg 5 you're heading uphill to the finish, so another place you want to put out strong power. Ergo, I adopt the strategy of going a little easier on leg 4, to rest after leg 3 while simultaneously gathering strength for leg 5. Things were going so well. I'm feeling a little lactic acid in the legs but nothing unmanageable. Then I get onto leg 4 and the "rest" feels so good that I start to rationalize just riding the four legs and skipping the fifth, I'll have covered the entire course that way. Haha once that kind of thinking enters your brain during a TT effort it's all over. You can't even think about stopping because stopping is so much pleasanter than continuing. So in the end, I did four of the five legs. But I managed a 97% effort for 50 min, that's the longest TT interval I've done in almost a year. Happy enough with it, I'll get back out for a scout (in a rested state hopefully) before the state TT next month. And I wasn't killed by a dog. Always a win. Excuse the dad joke. |
Originally Posted by LAJ
(Post 19513079)
Thank you all. TT ended in the walk of shame. Hit a huge pothole in the middle of a downhill corner. It could have been spectacular but it ended my TT. Crit is next.
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Originally Posted by f4rrest
(Post 19513115)
Coulda been worse.
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Originally Posted by f4rrest
(Post 19513112)
That sounds ruff. Whereabouts?
Excuse the dad joke. "Lake" Los Angeles. There is not really a lake there. It's outside of Palmdale, in the Little Rock area. |
Originally Posted by rjones28
(Post 19512930)
No Strava.
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
(Post 19513059)
Oof - that's rough.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
(Post 19512993)
Nearly all of the other things I need to do off the bike are out of bounds, based on my recovery restrictions. :(
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Originally Posted by LAJ
(Post 19513079)
Thank you all. TT ended in the walk of shame. Hit a huge pothole in the middle of a downhill corner. It could have been spectacular but it ended my TT. Crit is next.
Good luck in the crit. |
Originally Posted by LAJ
(Post 19513083)
Good you're ok rjones!
Haven't even had to crack open the drugs yet. :) |
Originally Posted by Heathpack
(Post 19513030)
So weird.
Something similar happened to me recently. Gurney. Liquid injection. When I woke up someone had swiped the lenses right out of my eyes! Put fake ones in their place. And then I had a Starbucks. Again, Mrs BD was semi-conscious during her cataract surgery. I'm starting to think she's masochistic. :eek: |
Originally Posted by Heathpack
(Post 19513096)
And I wasn't killed by a dog. Always a win.
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Originally Posted by LAJ
(Post 19513079)
Thank you all. TT ended in the walk of shame. Hit a huge pothole in the middle of a downhill corner. It could have been spectacular but it ended my TT. Crit is next.
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Good club ride today. I am so beat. I want to go to the Indian buffet for lunch, but right now bed is much more comfy.
Did I miss anything important while out riding? |
Originally Posted by Velo Vol
(Post 19513128)
Wow, your trees are greener than ours are. That was fast.
No kudos. |
Originally Posted by Velo Vol
(Post 19513128)
Wow, your trees are greener than ours are. That was fast.
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Originally Posted by datlas
(Post 19513159)
Good club ride today. I am so beat. I want to go to the Indian buffet for lunch, but right now bed is much more comfy.
Did I miss anything important while out riding? What device(s) do you use for your internet activity? Percentages? (Desktop, laptop, tablet, phone?) |
Originally Posted by rjones28
(Post 19513163)
Photo taken last June.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
(Post 19513197)
In that case, how's the snowpack?
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Originally Posted by datlas
(Post 19513159)
Good club ride today. I am so beat. I want to go to the Indian buffet for lunch, but right now bed is much more comfy.
Did I miss anything important while out riding? |
Originally Posted by datlas
(Post 19513159)
I want to go to the Indian buffet for lunch
Originally Posted by seedsbelize
(Post 19513226)
I don't have a bed though
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I was off the bike M-W, and feel like I fell right out of shape. That or I'm under the weather and not aware of it. I did spend the last two days supine.
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Originally Posted by BillyD
(Post 19513145)
Cataracts already? But you're so young.
Again, Mrs BD was semi-conscious during her cataract surgery. I'm starting to think she's masochistic. :eek: Apparently no. "It happens" per my ophthalmologist. Not even that uncommon. I was semi-awake for mine too. It was groovy. I had fentanyl + midazolam, which is a combo I give to induce anesthesia in my own patients. Good stuff. Totally could understand getting addicted to it. I never thought I'd be able to be still for the surgery, being semi-awake, I was telling my doc how it's unimaginable to a veterinarian that a patient would be still for something like eye surgery. Lol my surgeon says to me during a pre-op appointment, "Hey you're not a Yorkie. It will be fine." |
So I got enough energy to go to the Indian place. It's South Indian food, which is less common in the USA. It's also 100% veg, which is perfect. They have a ton of good food at the buffet, plus it also includes one made to order dosa (which is kinda like a crepe). I am the only non Indian guy here, and the place is packed.
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Originally Posted by f4rrest
(Post 19512933)
False comparison.
Who the hell drives 60 in one of these? Lol |
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