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10-29-17, 08:38 AM
#4426
Mostly Harmless
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10-29-17, 08:42 AM
#4427
So it is
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10-29-17, 09:55 AM
#4429
Super Modest
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Re: Blade Runner
Keep an eye on the electronic billboards. They kept the original movie's product ads even though some of them are now defunct like Atari. Sort of fun.
Keep an eye on the electronic billboards. They kept the original movie's product ads even though some of them are now defunct like Atari. Sort of fun.
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10-29-17, 09:58 AM
#4430
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As for bike cleaning, I’m sort of in the middle. My bikes are usually wiped down every couple rides but not with a fine tooth comb. Chains are generally kept clean and lubed.
Only my trike seems to get the short end of the cleaning regimen. I tend to ride it on crappy days and it shows.
Only my trike seems to get the short end of the cleaning regimen. I tend to ride it on crappy days and it shows.
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10-29-17, 09:59 AM
#4431
Casually Deliberate
It's a cool word, isn't it? I had thought I encountered it in a William Blake poem but all I'm finding online is a reference to Eliot's "Sweeney Among the Nightingales". In any case, the poet used it to describe a giraffe and I was so taken with it because we never hear the opposite of "immaculate" even though we see mobile, modest, precise and so on almost as much as immodest and immobile. Am I right in assuming someone or something can be "pressionable" as well?
10-29-17, 10:06 AM
#4432
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10-29-17, 10:10 AM
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10-29-17, 10:12 AM
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10-29-17, 11:12 AM
#4436
VFL For Life
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10-29-17, 11:38 AM
#4437
Senior Member
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Well, that was fun. 0°C for the Monthly Metric, which was needed to fill out the Weekly Won Hundred. No accumulation other than on a wooden bike path bridge - walked it 'cause I couldn't keep the wheels under me. Then I couldn't clip back in and found that the snow had packed in to ice in the ol' Speedplays. Going SPD on this bike is starting to make more sense. Prolly the last ride for the skinny tires 'til the spring, too.
Bike ride loot - found this at about Mile 35 -
And WBC (water bottle check) for @Velo Vol -
Bike ride loot - found this at about Mile 35 -
And WBC (water bottle check) for @Velo Vol -
10-29-17, 11:41 AM
#4438
serious cyclist
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10-29-17, 11:42 AM
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10-29-17, 11:46 AM
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10-29-17, 11:48 AM
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10-29-17, 11:52 AM
#4443
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https://www.strava.com/activities/1252456598
For those not clicking, twenty miles. Miles 9, 12, 15, and 18 were at race-pace of sub-6:50. Overall average pace was 7:43, which is close to my marathon PR pace (though that was on a much hillier course). By far my best training run ever, and I'm not even wrecked now.
Still, tomorrow is a rest day.
For those not clicking, twenty miles. Miles 9, 12, 15, and 18 were at race-pace of sub-6:50. Overall average pace was 7:43, which is close to my marathon PR pace (though that was on a much hillier course). By far my best training run ever, and I'm not even wrecked now.
Still, tomorrow is a rest day.
10-29-17, 11:55 AM
#4444
VFL For Life
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10-29-17, 11:58 AM
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10-29-17, 12:10 PM
#4447
Peloton Shelter Dog
48 miles and back in the barn prior to the steady rain. I am beginning to see my old body emerging from under the flab. It's down under all that fat someplace. I have no idea how much weight I've lost, but it has to be 10+ lbs. easy. I'll weigh myself when I think I look thin, and when I do it will depress me because the scale will read 10 lbs heavier than I think it should. So why bother?
Anyway i feel better on the bike and at the end of a long ride like today the steep sections of Mt. Doom seem less excruciating. 5888 miles for 2017 through today. Weak sauce but more than most of the 41 freds.
Anyway i feel better on the bike and at the end of a long ride like today the steep sections of Mt. Doom seem less excruciating. 5888 miles for 2017 through today. Weak sauce but more than most of the 41 freds.
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10-29-17, 12:12 PM
#4448
Peloton Shelter Dog
Trying to get as skinny as possible in preparation for 5 wks in a sling and off the road bike after my should surgery which will probably happen between Dec. 1-10. I'm think I'll give Zwift a try in the hopes that it may make indoor training bearable. I am quite skeptical that it will. But I'll have no choice and I don't want to gain any weight back. Too hard to lose it.
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10-29-17, 12:19 PM
#4450
Farmer tan
48 miles and back in the barn prior to the steady rain. I am beginning to see my old body emerging from under the flab. It's down under all that fat someplace. I have no idea how much weight I've lost, but it has to be 10+ lbs. easy. I'll weigh myself when I think I look thin, and when I do it will depress me because the scale will read 10 lbs heavier than I think it should. So why bother?
Anyway i feel better on the bike and at the end of a long ride like today the steep sections of Mt. Doom seem less excruciating. 5888 miles for 2017 through today. Weak sauce but more than most of the 41 freds.
Anyway i feel better on the bike and at the end of a long ride like today the steep sections of Mt. Doom seem less excruciating. 5888 miles for 2017 through today. Weak sauce but more than most of the 41 freds.
I'm at 5250 and will take the opportunity to pass you while you're post op.
Strava says I'm 955 behind the pace needed to hit goal, though.