It feels like my aerobic capacity is greater than it used to be, even back in 2021-2024, when I was riding at least as much as I am now, as well as doing more structured workouts and races on Zwift, where I was routinely hitting 170s. If my AT really is 161, I'm able to do the same efforts that used to push me over AT without exceeding the 150s. I dunno. I've stopped "riding to train", mostly because I was training to ride, and now I just ride to ride and I seem to be able to do whatever I want to do. See what I mean?

That's the plan for this evening, assuming I have enough energy to walk down the block after a killer day at work.

#IDon'tLikeMondays

It's Scottsdale man, potential kept man status.

Yes.

Accumulate the winners, sell the losers. Or as some investing sage once said, trim your losses and let your profits run.

My biggest bet was buying 1000 AAPL in 1995, when the company's continued existence was in doubt.

My biggest regret was reducing my shares of AAPL as the price rose, because I feared losing the gains in a downturn. Every time the price doubled, I sold half.

After all the stock splits, those 1000 shares would now be 112,000 shares.

I can see the debate among the docs, "How do we define "vegetable?"

Feels like Monday.

Heretic! Blasphemer!! Kitten abuser!!!

Well it’s not a tomato.

Whean Apple was looking like it was going in the tank, my mother called her investment man and told him to buy 1000 shares. On his own, he decided to “protect her” and did not make the buy and did not tell her - she seldom looked at her earnings reports, but two years later she wanted to see how much she had made and opened a report and was dumbfounded to not see Apple. The price was so high then that she couldn’t get in. I told her a law suit was in order, but she didn’t pursue it

Would you trust the guys that follow the hypocritical oath, "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers"?

since there are three in my immediate family, I am out numbered.

Lieutenant Dan got me invested in some kind of fruit company. So then I got a call from him, saying we don't have to worry about money no more. And I said "good! - one less thing"

Oof, how are conversations at the dinner table?

Been gone all day and just read through Affliction since early morning. I'll never again wonder why their is no female interaction in Affliction.

Because road cycling as a hobby is ~ 85/15 males, and because forum users tend to be 80/20 males?

I just got back from a fancy mall in Scottsdale, looking to chance upon a kept man situationship, but the only good vibes I got were from a twenty something barista and a granny pushing a baby around in a stroller.

I was also hoping for some supercar sightings but today's action was primarily SUVs and crossovers.

The only eye-catching car was this MBAOTD:

They are the stuff that food eats.

Botanically, it’s a fruit. But from a culinary perspective, it’s considered a vegetable.

Sounds like somebody has a case of the Mondays.

Whatever.

Mondays are the only day of the week on which I never ride, so even in retirement, Mondays are different. Since I don't ride, that's often when I do stuff like mowing the lawns, or doing laundry, or both.

I thought Velo Vol is a chick magnet!

rolled up my sleeves and helped one of my chemists prep a reaction in the lab to avoid being behind schedule. time was running short. felt good to get in the lab and "touch grass" as the kids call it

For those with Strava, do a member search on Ho Lee F _ _. ( two letters). And see who pops up from Australia and other parts.