This ain't enlish class numbnuts..have you reviewed some of the posts you've written ?Pleeeaaassse...Spartacaad..
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Finally someone who understands me.

I had a baby once. She goes off to college next month. So it goes.

I moved the bars down a spacer and moved the elbow pads all the way in. I'm considerably more aero now and quite comfy, I think that did help quite a bit with that 2mph increase in average speed over that course from the last time. I'm going to go one more spacer down on the bars next.

I know right? I could train and train and train and train and starve and starve and I'd get to 24 mph. Maybe EPO might boost me to 25+. For 27 mph I'd need to be motor paced by Whooshface on his Harley.

I am riding big miles and not eating so much. Hoping to be pretty skinny by August. Nearly 300 miles last week. 300+ this week.

You know how to measure progress? Distance.

What's the longest ride that everyone here has done? The 41 wants to know.

Actually one real concern was that the pulmonary embolisms may have permanently compromised my lung function. Which in my case is metaphorical with bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age, i.e., who would notice? All that being said, if I can ride like I did yesterday that this fat and out of shape, I suspect that my pathetic lung function remains intact.
























Quick, alert Velonews.

More progress. A week ago the guy I ride with dropped me completely on this 3 mile series of grinding climbs that we hit @ about mile 60 on a hilly 70 mile ride (it's nearly 5000 feet of climbing for me on that route). On that day he gapped me at the bottom and I think he put at least 1000-1500 meters into me by the top. Today we rode up this same section together and I actually gapped him by 200 meters on the final (and biggest) climb. Felt much better on the bike this week, starting with that TT ride.

It's coming around. I'm losing weight. I think. I would never actually weigh myself of course. But my pants are getting a little loose.

I told my wife 'I dropped that kid on the last climb today'. Then I told her the most disturbing part of that is I'm calling a 38 year old guy 'kid'. Oh well. The Social Security checks will come soon enough. I will use them for Bike Schwag.

Good luck with your progress. Pretty soon people will be hollering at you to pull your pants up.

Youth and climbing prowess is over-rated: Yesterday on a 20 strong group ride around the local mountains, a pack of 5 speedsters, none of them over 25 y.o., flew up the last climb of the day. I held on for the first 3 miles of moderate grade as they flew along at 20 mph. Knowing what was ahead - a 2 mile section of much steeper gradient - I fell back with a more appropriate age-to-speed group and finished a minute behind the speedsters. We all waited a good while until the entire group was back together before descending. I crushed the descent and finished the ride well ahead of the speedsters. One of them later confessed that he felt sick after that blistering climb, and had nothing left for the rest of the ride.:rolleyes:

Don't you have a power meter? I don't, but of all the people around here, it seems like you would have one and know how to use it instead of comparing yourself to misdirected youths.

I do have a Powertap. And by using it on that TT course Wednesday I learned that I was .5 mph faster on a flat course even though my average power output was a full 35 watts lower (255 this week, 290 watts @ that TT in 2008). Which makes me think I'm 1-2 mph faster on the Cervelo P3 than I was on the Cannondale Slice, a bike that never really allowed me to get into the right position. The P3 fits me better, and it is also a WAY better bicycle.

At any rate, I also learned that if I can get my average power now up to about 88% of what it was then, I think I will eventually make a full recovery from this leg/pulmonary blood clot episode. The leg is really starting to look and feel close to normal, it's recovering faster; I can tell normal circulation is being restored. From all accounts big blood clots (mine extended from my calf to above my knee) do take a while to resolve, and mine seems to be well on schedule. As long as it's improving, that's good news. The cycling does seem to help. I think it forces the circulation issue in a good way. My doctors have encouraged me to ride all I want if it doesn't bother the leg, and the leg feels fine.

I was released from the hospital June 8. Got back on the road bike June 14. 1140 miles since then after today's ride. I am so much happier now than I am back on the bike, it's hard to convey.
































I can only try by blogging on BF and trying to keep you Freds entertained.

Well?

I am not entertained by the 20 triathlete threads that have popped up in the last two days.

All the white space in your posts confuse my simple Fredly brain. Do you fall asleep on the spacebar? I hear the older we get, the little naps help more.

I found a pal to do intervals with. Erich, former very successful Cat 2 racer in the 90's, now 50+ and 30 lbs. overweight, but still very fast on the flats. He hurts me on the flats a bit, I do that to him when the road tilts upward (I'm only 10 lbs overweight and dropping fast). We did 40 minutes of trading hard pulls today and both agreed that we'd never go that hard on our own. We'll start doing that a couple of times a week. That will get me into race shape.

Between that, my rapid weight loss and my Di2, you are all effed.

First race of the season Sunday AM. Rt. 29 TT. 35k (20+ miles) of individual TT suffering. I'm looking forward to it.

That's called a BF Dramatic Pause.



































































Get it?

Erich (my interval pal mentioned above) turned a 54 min. 40km TT in his prime. To translate that into Fredese, that's an average speed of 27+ mph for about an hour. That is very fast for an amateur TT guy. Trust me on this.

Good luck at the races. How are you dropping all this weight? You know of course no matter how much you lose, you're still too fat for this sport... :innocent:

Fixed.

If you ride 300+ miles per week and watch what you eat, you'll lose weight too. Calling what I do on a bicycle 'racing' implies that notion that I might actually beat somebody, which is a dubious prospect. But I shall pin the number and hammer on my TT bike as fast as I can. I did that race last August or September, I'll be curious to see if I can best the time I posted that day (I think it was an avg. speed of 22 mph). I'm slow, but I do enjoy it.

Slow is relative, fo' sho'. Nearing 50 and in better shape than all of my old drinking buddies who are in their 30's. I think you'll agree that slow and alive is better than young and sedentary.















Your Popeness inspires the Fredly masses.

"Between that, my rapid weight loss and my Di2, you are all effed."

Nice to know

You of course are particularly effed.

Not for nothing, but the only other people I know who can average 22+ mph on a bicycle solo are amateur racers. They're not my pals who come over and burp up the beer at my BBQ's.

Not that anyone really cares.

And don't even ask me wtf 'not for nothing' means, it just sounds more dramatic at the head of a declaratory statement about stuff nobody cares about.

This sport is so friggin stupid. Look at the Tour de France where this week they have elevated Stupidity and Carnage to Wagnerian levels. It's amazing anyone survived week one at all.

This forum is, that's for sure. It's time for some excommunications.

Calm down.