OH..Your.. I get it..

Whooshy, it's 'you're' if you are saying 'you are', which I would have thought you would have learned before you got out of third grade.








Apparently not.

I gave up pointing out grammatical/spelling errors, seems like a pointless endeavor in this place.

It may be pointless to get people to change their grammar, but it sure ups the post count!

Congrats on the improvements PCAD. I'm just hoping one day I can get back to where I was a year ago before babies decided to come.

Get rid of the nuisance(s).

Easier said than done... I'm the mommy, and 2 month old twins are pretty demanding. Last year I could be out with the 2yo in the bike trailer easy enough, but they don't make trailers for 3 kids, or for babies under about 6 months.

Progress. It's a good feeling. Good work on your recovery PCAD! Now it's time to lose that stone or two?

You passed the first question to parenthood. It amazes me how many parents out there have the opposite view.

27mph avg. :O

on your fast recovery!
Now you are aeroerer, but lowering the bar should be aeroerest.

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

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.

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.