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#7076
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Nice ride! And wins on the AG and weight class categories.
I missed Stage 3 since I was early on in my recovery from the hernia procedure. I tried cycling for 15 minutes that week and made it for 10 min before getting off the trainer due to too much pain and discomfort. I did recover quite quickly in the ensuing weeks and made all subsequent stages, even hammering/"racing" the last couple. Just need stage 3 to get the full Tour de Zwifit. Hoping to do it tomorrow!
I missed Stage 3 since I was early on in my recovery from the hernia procedure. I tried cycling for 15 minutes that week and made it for 10 min before getting off the trainer due to too much pain and discomfort. I did recover quite quickly in the ensuing weeks and made all subsequent stages, even hammering/"racing" the last couple. Just need stage 3 to get the full Tour de Zwifit. Hoping to do it tomorrow!
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#7077
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Today I learned that a guy who used to ride with our club has passed from cancer at 59. He held 50 Guinness world records from martial arts to breaking things with his hands and all kinds of weird stuff. One time he was riding with some other club members when a drunk in a car started harassing them. Drunk got out of his car and started trying to hit the cyclists with a cane. This guy took the cane away and pinned the drunk until the cops came.
We weren't friends but I remember him as friendly and funny and I was sad to hear he is gone.
We weren't friends but I remember him as friendly and funny and I was sad to hear he is gone.
#7078
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I've ridden the Makuri 40. I gotta say, I'm not in love with the Makuri Islands. To me, they're kind of Meh. No real climbs, just some rollers. I'll stick with Watopia, with occasional forays into London for the Leith/Keith and Box/Fox hills, which are bout my speed - a couple miles, some steep pitches, but nothing like AdZ or Ventoux.
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donut: white flour, sugar, fat, deep-fried … the perfect food
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That sucks. First time I saw that and Ron Hornaday's car, it all made sense. The cow catcher he had as a front bumper, was a thing to behold. Dan Press was another, though he had a far less elaborate set up on his car. We were wholly unprepared the first time we showed up there.
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I guess the graphics are no higher than secondary for me. It's the nature of the road, the ups and downs. New York is absolutely the worst! The little bumps that break your flow - do you stand up for them? Or drop to a smaller gear for 5 seconds? Or just try to power over them? Makuri's not that bad, but there are a lot of stretches with that sort of thing. London is basically flat with a couple sections that go up (or down, depending), but then if you go to Surrey you get hills that are hills, with steadier gradients. The new Southern Coast in Watopia is not too bad, but I feel like it needs a real climb. I guess I'm picky - the outdoor riding here is such a nice mix of ups and downs of pretty good lengths, so I can find the gear and the rhythm for each pretty easily.
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#7084
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I guess the graphics are no higher than secondary for me. It's the nature of the road, the ups and downs. New York is absolutely the worst! The little bumps that break your flow - do you stand up for them? Or drop to a smaller gear for 5 seconds? Or just try to power over them? Makuri's not that bad, but there are a lot of stretches with that sort of thing. London is basically flat with a couple sections that go up (or down, depending), but then if you go to Surrey you get hills that are hills, with steadier gradients. The new Southern Coast in Watopia is not too bad, but I feel like it needs a real climb. I guess I'm picky - the outdoor riding here is such a nice mix of ups and downs of pretty good lengths, so I can find the gear and the rhythm for each pretty easily.
You have me thinking about the way that I use Zwift more broadly, since I don't seem to think about terrain so much. Early on, I would do solo endurance rides covering most of the routes, but now that I've done most of them, I rarely, rarely do that. I have several modes when riding Zwift:
1) 45 - 60 min Active Recovery or Endurance paced spin
2) Racing/Events
3) Endurance rides 3-6 hours (rarely over 4)
4) Solo intervals
For 1), I just go onto Tempus and watch something on Youtube. For 2) and 3), I try to spend most of it in groups, and that tends to smooth terrain out a bit compared to riding solo. So 4) is the only "mode" where the terrain matters, esp since I enjoy riding at 100% trainer difficulty for a realistic feel. For this one, I certainly prefer longer and more consistent gradients (whether uphill or flat) to make it eaier to apply power targets. I do these in Watopia exclusively.
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Saw my first Tesla truck this morning. Not impressed. Looks cheap.
#7088
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#7091
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I return and the whine (not wine) content goes up. SMH
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During the hiatus we took in a foster dog for 4 days then he found his forever home. Mrs. RNS cried when she took him back and after she returned home.
he was a cute 10 pound 6 month old puppy. "Jameson"
he was a cute 10 pound 6 month old puppy. "Jameson"
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It's nice you are doing that. Dogs deserve good.
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Roscoe tolerated Jameson but really he mostly ignored him. We are mulling over other foster options. The biggest concern is Roscoe not tangling with the foster due to territorial disputes.
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#7097
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It hasn't happened again.
#7098
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We've had so many different kinds of interactions among our different generations of dogs, from clearly dominant to frankly not caring about heirarchy or dominance. Such different personalities!
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Mind you, that could be ********.
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