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Road Cycling “It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” -- Ernest Hemingway

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Old 04-29-20, 04:53 AM
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Woke up to thunder, lightning, and pouring rain. Good day to have already not had a run on the schedule.
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Real miles today, work permitting.
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Originally Posted by MoAlpha
Real miles today, work permitting.
Me too.

I still don’t work on Wednesdays because cycling.
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Originally Posted by sfrider
Great ride today, temps in the 80s except in the city which was 70s. No possums, dead or alive. No snakes. The helicopter tape on the chainstay is doing its job.

The wildflowers are out in force! 65 miles around the hills, great ride.


I like your bike sir.
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Got 18 miles in this morning. Still getting used to the bike. I still can’t seem to get the seat where I want it. I moved it back 2 mm this morning and that got the resistance I was feeling in my legs to go away, but I still don’t feel like I am distributing my energy In an efficient manner. I still feel like I am working a lot harder and not going any where.
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Well, I really screwed up royally today. Messed up the takeout order for our 35th official anniversary dinner. I gave up my entree and got a few pieces.
Happy Anniversary! I'm sorry the meal was not what you hoped, but that's small potatoes, in the grand scheme.
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
I like your bike sir.
Me too.

Are those buttercups?? Does the bike like butter??
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
Got 18 miles in this morning. Still getting used to the bike. I still can’t seem to get the seat where I want it. I moved it back 2 mm this morning and that got the resistance I was feeling in my legs to go away, but I still don’t feel like I am distributing my energy In an efficient manner. I still feel like I am working a lot harder and not going any where.
I've been thinking about what you've been describing, but I'm still not understanding what the issue might be and how it might differ from the garden variety resistances (air, rolling, etc) that we face on every ride.
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
Got 18 miles in this morning. Still getting used to the bike. I still can’t seem to get the seat where I want it. I moved it back 2 mm this morning and that got the resistance I was feeling in my legs to go away, but I still don’t feel like I am distributing my energy In an efficient manner. I still feel like I am working a lot harder and not going any where.
Any change in position will entail an initial loss in efficiency until the neuromuscular system learns the new output pattern and settles into a groove. Can you get us a pic of you on the bike?
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
I've been thinking about what you've been describing, but I'm still not understanding what the issue might be and how it might differ from the garden variety resistances (air, rolling, etc) that we face on every ride.
I don’t know really how to describe it, once I have my bike computer up that might help me to get a little bit more information. My heart rate is noticeably higher, I almost feel like I am pedaling and going no where.
Im sure it will take some time to get used too.
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Originally Posted by sfrider
Now there's some riding country.
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I don’t know really how to describe it, once I have my bike computer up that might help me to get a little bit more information. My heart rate is noticeably higher, I almost feel like I am pedaling and going no where.
Im sure it will take some time to get used too.
Is your chain lubed?
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Originally Posted by MoAlpha
Any change in position will entail an initial loss in efficiency until the neuromuscular system learns the new output pattern and settles into a groove. Can you get us a pic of you on the bike?

I will try to do this later today.
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We just had dinner. Swedish meatballs on noodles, boiled cabbage and beets.
Beets here too, but roasted.
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Originally Posted by datlas
Me too.

I still don’t work on Wednesdays because cycling.
Priorities
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As I continue to wake, I'm considering my Wed ride. I just looked at the weather and I'm seeing 17mph winds coming from due north. With winds this stiff, I usually like to plan my route so that I deal with the worst of the wind on the way out and get a break on the way back. I don't think that I've ever had a route that heads out primarily northwards, though.
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Originally Posted by sfrider
Great ride today, temps in the 80s except in the city which was 70s. No possums, dead or alive. No snakes. The helicopter tape on the chainstay is doing its job.

The wildflowers are out in force! 65 miles around the hills, great ride.

I love that colorway
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
As I continue to wake, I'm considering my Wed ride. I just looked at the weather and I'm seeing 17mph winds coming from due north. With winds this stiff, I usually like to plan my route so that I deal with the worst of the wind on the way out and get a break on the way back. I don't think that I've ever had a route that heads out primarily northwards, though.
Im trying to figure out if/when I can ride today. It’s the wife’s birthday, she said “you should go ride, it’s just another Wednesday.” But I feel like that’s a trap.

only chance I’ll likely get is a quick 25 at lunch
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A butcher at a market I frequent has frozen camel patties among other exotic meats. Double dog dare me?
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Im trying to figure out if/when I can ride today. It’s the wife’s birthday, she said “you should go ride, it’s just another Wednesday.” But I feel like that’s a trap.

only chance I’ll likely get is a quick 25 at lunch
My wife's bday was over the weekend. I went out for a ride, but only after getting up early, baking a bday cake for her and making breakfast for the family. If you don't have brownie points in the bank, make sure you plan on earning some when you get back from your ride.
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A butcher at a market I frequent has frozen camel panties among other exotic meats. Double dog dare me?
Didn't know camels wore those.
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Originally Posted by indyfabz
A butcher at a market I frequent has frozen camel patties among other exotic meats. Double dog dare me?
There are a few restaurants in Mpls that have camel burgers. I think that the frozen part is more daring than the camel part.
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My wife's bday was over the weekend. I went out for a ride, but only after getting up early, baking a bday cake for her and making breakfast for the family. If you don't have brownie points in the bank, make sure you plan on earning some when you get back from your ride.
Nothing can be as bad as forgetting her birthday last year (long story).
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Originally Posted by Bah Humbug
Woke up to thunder, lightning, and pouring rain. Good day to have already not had a run on the schedule.
“I woke last night to the sound of thunder
How far off I sat and wondered”
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Originally Posted by Lemond1985
Didn't know camels wore those.
Maybe they wear them on their feet.
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Originally Posted by Trsnrtr
“I woke last night to the sound of thunder
How far off I sat and wondered”
Seger wasn't my first thought, Bulwer-Lytton was.

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