Biscotti Madness

Norm

Norm

Mayor McCheese
Team MTBNJ Halter's
Welcome Spring!

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On the first day of spring, I will rest. The end of winter was a full on assault - 15 rides in the last 16 days. For 3 of the next 4 days, I will rest. 2 days off the bike, 1 pre-TM group ride at the Sourlands tomorrow morning, and maybe an easy hour or 2 Sunday just to get out there and not turn into a pumpkin. Next Tuesday, I'll pick up my game, and begin the search for the best biscotti in the land.

And to welcome us to spring...snow? Yeah it's snowing out there right now.

This thread has no stated aim other than to motivate me to ride, to entertain and perhaps motivate some people, to hopefully be informative in terms of bike nitrition and occasionally gear/equipment use/choice, and of course to remind Fred that I'm waiting on some of those homemade biscotti 🙂

For now, that's all. If I have any further independent thoughts I will post them up later without proper due consideration.
 
Will you be mapping out and riding to the said mentioned biscotti locations? Like maybe do a team ride to little italy?
 
yeah, snow. so I it almost always seems to snow on the first day of spring, or close to it, just so everyone around the office can be bitching about it all morning. So planned to ride before work, it was flurrying at 5:15 when I started. First was the constant wind, then it started snowing harder and harder. I rode a totally different route because of the wind. Visibility sucked and I have no idea how I did not hit any pot holes, not one. Luck i suppose and I needed it because the madenning tunnel vision from my light combined with shit visability made riding down right dangerous in terms of reaction time and such.
I stopped home, got my bag and rode to work. My hands were the coldest they have been all winter to the point that the last two miles I rode mostly with my hands in my arm pits. So I guess tomorrow is the first full day of spring. Today's ride just seemed fitting.
 
It is nice to not see snow up North. Biscotti rule.


Colin likes the moving smilies:
:rofl::hitsfan::hysterica:argue::wedgie: :2guns: :scared:😛uke:
 
My daughter woke up early this morning and came in and saw the crying one and cracked up.
 
Norm is probably traveling to brooklyn while we are totally messing up his dessert thread.
 
I realize that I'm beating a dead horse, but we really need some new emoticons in here.

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Now whats this thread about again?
 
Just wanted to point out that the image in the first post is from my front yard. Yesterday.

RNG1 said:
Will you be mapping out and riding to the said mentioned biscotti locations? Like maybe do a team ride to little italy?
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The source of the Biscotti Madness can be found on this ride:
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/7047062

We went to the Home of Biscotti, where the magic happens.

stb222 said:
yeah, snow. so I it almost always seems to snow on the first day of spring, or close to it, just so everyone around the office can be bitching about it all morning.
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People complain, it's what they do. If it weren't for the weather half the people in the office wouldn't know what to say at all.

RNG1 said:
Norm is probably traveling to brooklyn while we are totally messing up his dessert thread.
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In Brooklyn now. I often revel in the absolute silence of the train, and the time to read and relax. Today I realized just how exhausted I am. While the amount of riding I'm doing may be par for the course for some, it's a lot for me and I'm feeling it still today.

mtbdawgJeff said:
Now whats this thread about again?
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The eternal quest for food.
 
Here are 2 pics I took on the ride to the train station. There's a guy on a bike in one of them. I've recently noticed this guy around the neighborhood a bit lately. I think he must live close but I don't know him. Good for him for getting out in this!
 

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I picked up this book again this morning:



I read it a while ago but figure I might as well give it a go again. As my riding volume increases again I'm feeling like I'm slipping a little bit on the "good eating" end of things. I read a blog of a guy out in the Midwest who does a lot of distance training/racing and he made the point recently that as he rides more, he tends to eat worse. More specifically, he still eats his x-y-z fruits and vegetables but he tends to eat more apple pie and chocolate cake than he would ordinarily. It struck me that this is exactly what I've been doing. My calories have been going up, and I still eat quality foods, but a lower percentage of my calories have been coming from "good" foods.

So I picked up the book and started reading again today. The first chapter was on water, and these were a few things of note:

* You should drink 1 cup of liquid per 250 calories consumed (roughly)
* Caffeinated drinks can count as liquid intake but it shouldn't make up too much of your fluids
* Newer research suggests caffeine is not as dehydrating as previously thought
* For those inclined to drink alcohol, drink a cup of water with each drink
* Drink 24 ounces of fluid, 2 hours before exercise
* Drink 8-16 ounces, 30 minutes before exercise

Just some stuff to throw out there to think about. I want to start paying more attention to fluid intake as the temps get warmer, snow notwithstanding.
 
You and I both have the first edition I believe, did we ever decipher what additional info she put in the second edition?
 
walter said:
You and I both have the first edition I believe, did we ever decipher what additional info she put in the second edition?
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Nope, I doubt I would be able to tell the difference if I read one then the other immediately after that. There are probably some updated charts and footnotes but the bulk of the text is assuredly left intact. If she were going to rewrite any substantial part of the book I imagine she would just write a new book. It was more than likely a publisher decision to revamp sales.
 
I'll take a guess...

Second edition includes some discussion about being careful about what you ingest so you do not accidentally fail a dope test.
 
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