Rained and poured today. Thunder and lightning. Kept the shop quiet.

Quiet days are worse than busy days sometimes.

Today I put in street ride.

Today I raced a train to a crossing and my heart rate hit 156, so I died.

Ha ha, that is funny. So using the old 220 formula i could calculate your age?

Racing trains can be a win/lose situation depends on how fast the train is moving.

You could if I told you my theoretical max heart rate. Suffice it to say, it is less than 156.

Not very fast, because it's a long 2-3% grade. I was only going about 22 mph.

R.I.P. good buddy. Your bikes are all too small for me so I won't even ask.

today i:

just missed seeing an annoying coworker nearly punched by a customer, got pretty damn happy that the brewers won on opening day, cleaned up after my border collie after he left the gift of diarrhea in my apartment, *****ed about what a pain it was to ride in the insane amount of wind around here, made some chicken alfredo, and got this stuff in the mail:

http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=372042

*edit: and apparently missed that my gf now buys **** from mary kay... christ, i feel old.

Just part em out homie.

I can ride for 5+ min at 220-age heartrate.

that formula is dum even for younger dudes (27 here)

Well, it's just a rough and simple way to calculate training zones. The max number is less important than the percentages for the ranges. However, there's no way I could sustain my max heart rate number for 5 minutes. You are either mistaken or have a world class VO2 max.

Wrong on both accounts. Also a high heart rate doesn't necessarily indicate a high power output, as you know. My heart rate zones are all high, resting through max.

I regularly complete 4-5 min VO2 max intervals at 190bpm, give or take a few. My LTHR is 187 (based upon the 30min test as described in the Friel method), and I've climbed for 45 minutes before at 186bpm.

At any rate, threshold rate is a much more reliable, useful metric than max is. Zones should be based upon threshold heart rate, not max, which can fluctuate daily by a significant amount.

Could be worse. Could be avon. :p

Yeah, but how long can you keep it hard ?

lulz

well that depends on how hot she is

....I mean, how hot the temp is outside ;)

Please see a doctor for anything over 4 hours.

I am married to a doctor, so she will likely be the first to know.

laughed pretty good at this. I received an email with a photo and some info. and a link to this


The Nikola | Pure Fix Cycles

mind was blown for about 2 seconds, then I realized what today was.

Genius.

Just got back from 1.5hrs in the (mostly) hammering rain, easy-peasy pace. I'm glad I decided to go out and didn't bail.

My legs were super stiff and uncooperative at the beginning; My legs are still tired from Sunday. By the end, I was spinning away without any undue soreness. I should be able to hammer out some intervalz tmrrw.

Plus, I got some major HTFU points (shut up @Huffandstuff !). It reminded me of my college days when I would rain ride regularly.

Today Leader sent me my decals cause they're awesome. 2 of like 4-6 colours too.

Tolllldddyaaaa.

Leader is cool, too bad I don't like the look of most of their stuff.