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Looks like my Cardio fitness has improved since November. Slightly faster up the first half of Mt Lemon with HR 34 BPM lower. 2 hours and 31 minutes at 197 watts with HR AVG 123 BPM. Now I just need to get the leg strength back. Certainly enjoyed the 45 minute downhill. 👍👍 W

I’m in for the full route. Haven’t made it up Goat Hill clean since I started riding my Spooky gravel bike which is a 1x with a short cage RD and a wimpy cassette. New long cage rear derailleur last year and just changed to a 34 cassette. Bring on the Goat. 👊 -W PS: unless you have knobby...

Shit, shit, shit. Terrible place to suddenly lose the front tire. At least nobody ran you over. Hope things work out as best possible. W

Excellent job posting this up. That is a positive first step. Multi-faceted scenario that you have described. One piece of it that I have a lot of personal experience with is the major role that daily exercise plays in my mental health and outlook on life. Seems like in recent years it has...

somewhere in the crypto-swamp there is an industry. Blockchain generally and even stable coins. IMHO Trump may not do a whole lot more than than what he has already done which perhaps he views as delivering on his campaign promises. ( hence the crypto-sag ) The worthless Trump and Melanie meme...

it may have some appeal to be off in the woods but IMHO after ago 60 one needs to increasingly dial DOWN isolation for a large number of reasons. Even if that means moving DelBocaVista Phase 5. Otherwise risk the Unibomber lifestyle and spend too much time covering for the basic necessities...

Indeed. Escape from winter. Meandered south visiting folks in Pittsburgh PA, Lexington KY, Atlanta GA. Did a few days on the Florida Trail and chilled at Daytona Beach. Autotrain home now. Will Bikepack it next year. https://www.singletracksamurai.com/huracan-300 W

Florida man W

Yes. G is the best option, if you choose something else you are likely making a big mistake that is not easily corrected.

Bad ass. 👊👊

Jimmy Carter was a great great person Jimmy Carter was not a good president Joe Biden was not a bad person Joe Biden was a mediocre career politician, who was already aging fast when he was elected and attempted to just do the ‘opposite of Trump’ as his whole plan. Donald Trump is a...

What could go wrong? 😉

Some thoughts ( and an occasional fact ) on immigration which will be a hot topic for many years to come. 1: most of the early laws/rules around immigration had a stated goal of maintaining the pre-existing distribution of nationalities and ethnicities. 2: politicians are very leery about...

IMHO if the chain tensioning is done in a manner that is easily adjustable it’s nice to have a few cogs around. I will very often switch cogs just for a different ride profile. With disk brakes a ‘conversion’ often involves a tensioner that looks like a rear derailleur, with rim brakes it’s...

My expectations on medical help are modest at this time. Ulnar nerve had 16 months to heal and it’s still not right, expecting a shrug and a useless PT script. I did see a sports medicine Dr years ago for the neuroma in both feet and got nothing useful but advice against surgery and a useless...

One mistake I see folks make with SS is that they try to use a cog that will get them up the steepest hill on the ride. Very often that means that the cadence is too high on the flats. Instead I’ll use a cog that works optimally for 99% of the ride and leg it as needed. 🧐 Nothing freaks (geared)...

Thanks Pat!

Just had my first physical in 16 months seems like a good time to post something. Back on the bike/gym/trainer for five or six months post heart surgery and things are ok. My GP is a nutrition phreak so I’m adding some supplements and going to tweak my diet to have more plant protein and...

Whoops. Somehow missed all this. On the gravel bike I’m doing a mix of paved/gravel and only small amounts of single track I run anything from 42:14 to 42:18 ( 3:1 and 2.3:1 ). You will need to be close to 2 to 1. Curious how you handled the chain tension… On my SS bike the axle slides but I...

Same here. Had connectivity issues with my ISP a month ago and was happy to see that the workout continued with no internet ( but all the other riders vanished until connectivity resumed ) No crash.