Moon Shadows are Evil
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I don't use a heart rate monitor so I don't think it takes that into consideration. It will change if you change your weight and weight of your bikes. Like most thing garmin, it isn't very accurate, otherwise I would be like 145 lbs by now.
I hear you, i have enough conversations with my lonesome.
The Kalmyk
Well-Known Member
If your trying to lose weight take the calorie number and chop it in half... Just for the sake of not over eating after the ride... I believe Elbiddy was the one who told me it was based off of speed and distance, not sure... But if your using a hr monitor than I guess it would have to factor in effort as well...
I honestly don't even pay attention to it. I am not a calorie counter by any means and every time I try to pay attention I either get disgusted at how many calories I consume both mustly I just don't care. I have cut out a ton of crap for the most part and have been rewarded with lossing pounds.
I will say that losing the weight is addicting. I would to become a skinny ass climber type, but I doubt I will get that far.
so yeah. bone spurs, bone fragments, blah, blah, blah. no to VERY light riding for a week. that's not gonna go over well.
you need to pick up the slack for me kev. i'm going to try the trainer tomorrow am and see how it goes.
ugh.
you need to pick up the slack for me kev. i'm going to try the trainer tomorrow am and see how it goes.
ugh.
Rest is overrated
Mainly because if you take out my daily ride on a day where I don’t have anything else planned, then my day become just “normal”, which turns out is pretty boring. As expected, yesterday I took a rest day from a combination of the morning weather forecast (rain and wind) and the idea that I should. So I did just that and still woke up early, couldn’t go back to sleep and ended up just coming to work early since I don’t like to waste time in the morning and watching tv, searching the internet and other non-riding activities pretty much all sum up to wasting time. I wasn’t at work especially early, but I have not been in at 6:45 in quite some time. I didn’t have a ton of stuff that needed to be done, so it just made my day longer. Luckily I had a meeting at a client’s office at 10, so that pretty much took care of the morning.
Later in the day my wife and I went to our tax guy and found out that our return isn’t going to be that great, which put the kibosh on my buying more bike stuff I don’t need. At least we don’t have to pay in. I did get a ride in after this though since I dropped off one of our vehicles to get an oil change and rode home directly into a headwind of like 30 mph winds. It was only 15 min, so it doesn’t actually counts as ride. I also felt obligated to ride since Jake told me to pick up the slack.
Today
On the bike around 5:30 and did my normal morning loop for the second time this week. I can’t remember the last time I did that route twice in the same week since I have been avoiding the NW winds that destroy me riding that way. Wind was calm this morning but it was cold. Pretty normal ride and far less ice than Monday, but still some sections that were super sketchy, one bad enough that I walked around since it was sheer ice for like 50’ and I did not plan on break two derailleur hangers in one week. Started to feel like crap around 1:15, probably because I am starting to show symptoms of some kind of cold and have been swallowing a ton of snot, which always makes me feels hungry, or maybe my stomach is just upset. Either way, the 140 calorie granola bar just was not cutting it.
I stopped at home to grab my bag (hehe) and headed to work. I was inside all of 2 min and within 5 min of riding again, my hands were cold. By the time I got to work my hands were hurting really bad. Not sure what happen as they were fine until I stopped at home. Pretty sure this is the first time my hands were that cold this season.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/67405203
So now I am feeling pretty crap and just having a blah day because I am super achy, like low grade fever achy. Hopefully it just goes away as I have had a stuffed up ear since Monday and it is just annoying. I ended up just catching a ride to pick up my car since I didn’t feel like suiting up to ride the 2 miles over there. Blah.
In more exciting news, a fleabay steal just showed up today…..will be on the ewr shortly.
Mainly because if you take out my daily ride on a day where I don’t have anything else planned, then my day become just “normal”, which turns out is pretty boring. As expected, yesterday I took a rest day from a combination of the morning weather forecast (rain and wind) and the idea that I should. So I did just that and still woke up early, couldn’t go back to sleep and ended up just coming to work early since I don’t like to waste time in the morning and watching tv, searching the internet and other non-riding activities pretty much all sum up to wasting time. I wasn’t at work especially early, but I have not been in at 6:45 in quite some time. I didn’t have a ton of stuff that needed to be done, so it just made my day longer. Luckily I had a meeting at a client’s office at 10, so that pretty much took care of the morning.
Later in the day my wife and I went to our tax guy and found out that our return isn’t going to be that great, which put the kibosh on my buying more bike stuff I don’t need. At least we don’t have to pay in. I did get a ride in after this though since I dropped off one of our vehicles to get an oil change and rode home directly into a headwind of like 30 mph winds. It was only 15 min, so it doesn’t actually counts as ride. I also felt obligated to ride since Jake told me to pick up the slack.
Today
On the bike around 5:30 and did my normal morning loop for the second time this week. I can’t remember the last time I did that route twice in the same week since I have been avoiding the NW winds that destroy me riding that way. Wind was calm this morning but it was cold. Pretty normal ride and far less ice than Monday, but still some sections that were super sketchy, one bad enough that I walked around since it was sheer ice for like 50’ and I did not plan on break two derailleur hangers in one week. Started to feel like crap around 1:15, probably because I am starting to show symptoms of some kind of cold and have been swallowing a ton of snot, which always makes me feels hungry, or maybe my stomach is just upset. Either way, the 140 calorie granola bar just was not cutting it.
I stopped at home to grab my bag (hehe) and headed to work. I was inside all of 2 min and within 5 min of riding again, my hands were cold. By the time I got to work my hands were hurting really bad. Not sure what happen as they were fine until I stopped at home. Pretty sure this is the first time my hands were that cold this season.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/67405203
So now I am feeling pretty crap and just having a blah day because I am super achy, like low grade fever achy. Hopefully it just goes away as I have had a stuffed up ear since Monday and it is just annoying. I ended up just catching a ride to pick up my car since I didn’t feel like suiting up to ride the 2 miles over there. Blah.
In more exciting news, a fleabay steal just showed up today…..will be on the ewr shortly.
The Kalmyk
Well-Known Member
Looks like you have stuff shipped to work??? I like your style😀
Yeah, I started doing that early on.
ArmyOfNone
Well-Known Member
Garmin's calorie count is WAY off. They have made some improvements however from what I understand is that they will not pay for the more accurate algorithm (IE Polar)
Yesterday I apparently either hit the snooze like 5 times or didn’t hear my alarm at all because I didn’t end up getting on the bike until 6:25. I was just going to ride straight into work, but I figured that is no good for padding my mileage for the year and I also needed some breakfast, so I extended my commute to get me some einstein’s . Only thing to report on this ride is that I was able to start without lights at 6:25. I probably could have used lights for the first 10 min, but overall it was ok. The increasingly longer days gives hope that this winter will eventually end, or at least if it stays this cold forever, at least the sun will help warm us for longer periods of time each day.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/67669975
it can’t get here quick enough
the warm weather than is. With the anticipation of warmer temps this coming week (although the forecast I just looked at on weather channel did not show temps out of the 40’s over the next week) mother nature has given us another damn cold morning. Not the coldest this season, but cold nonetheless. While I don’t particularly enjoy these temps, with the handful of times between this year and last year that it has been below 10*, I have now figured out what works for me to stay warm in this temperature range. Thankfully we don’t have to deal with these temps that often, but this morning I was dressed just about perfectly. So I did an abbreviated version of my alternate morning loop. The ice on the roads is much better but I still had to walk a section or two due to some areas of poor drainage, which seems to be the norm on these early morning rides this week.
Only thing this ride really achieved was to top Ben’s record of a 9* commute with this ride. Technically only the last 15 min was the commute at which time the temps rose to a balmy 8.6* according to my garmin. Due to the suspected inaccuracy of the garmin thermometer, I will settle for a tie, however Ben’s commute was probably something like 20 times longer than this one, so maybe he still takes the cake.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/67669966
I won the kid birthday lottery
As I mentioned, febraury weekends are filled with kids birthday parties and this weekend is a double down Saturday with two different parties, an hour apart from each other with the expected time commitment between 9:30 and 4:30. These two parties are actually my son’s close friends (ie, parents are my wife’s close friends) so I figured of any of the parties, these were the ones I surely had to attend. However, due to my wife’s best friend’s husband being out of town tomorrow, my wife has relived my duty to attend these parties. Score! So what I expected to maybe get in an hour ride in the pre dawn hours will now turn into a 4 hour ride at the minimum. For the quick people in these parts, No, I am not bad at math but my wife is smart and has piled on a bunch of errands for tomorrow but they won’t take more than 2 hours and I have slated some for today at lunch, so a big riding window is present. I am looking forward to the longer ride and I may let the synapse see the light of day for the occasion. If I ride 72 miles, I will hit 1,000 miles on the year, which is a solid 2 weeks before last year. If I don’t hit it tomorrow, it should be Sunday or Monday.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/67669975
it can’t get here quick enough
the warm weather than is. With the anticipation of warmer temps this coming week (although the forecast I just looked at on weather channel did not show temps out of the 40’s over the next week) mother nature has given us another damn cold morning. Not the coldest this season, but cold nonetheless. While I don’t particularly enjoy these temps, with the handful of times between this year and last year that it has been below 10*, I have now figured out what works for me to stay warm in this temperature range. Thankfully we don’t have to deal with these temps that often, but this morning I was dressed just about perfectly. So I did an abbreviated version of my alternate morning loop. The ice on the roads is much better but I still had to walk a section or two due to some areas of poor drainage, which seems to be the norm on these early morning rides this week.
Only thing this ride really achieved was to top Ben’s record of a 9* commute with this ride. Technically only the last 15 min was the commute at which time the temps rose to a balmy 8.6* according to my garmin. Due to the suspected inaccuracy of the garmin thermometer, I will settle for a tie, however Ben’s commute was probably something like 20 times longer than this one, so maybe he still takes the cake.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/67669966
I won the kid birthday lottery
As I mentioned, febraury weekends are filled with kids birthday parties and this weekend is a double down Saturday with two different parties, an hour apart from each other with the expected time commitment between 9:30 and 4:30. These two parties are actually my son’s close friends (ie, parents are my wife’s close friends) so I figured of any of the parties, these were the ones I surely had to attend. However, due to my wife’s best friend’s husband being out of town tomorrow, my wife has relived my duty to attend these parties. Score! So what I expected to maybe get in an hour ride in the pre dawn hours will now turn into a 4 hour ride at the minimum. For the quick people in these parts, No, I am not bad at math but my wife is smart and has piled on a bunch of errands for tomorrow but they won’t take more than 2 hours and I have slated some for today at lunch, so a big riding window is present. I am looking forward to the longer ride and I may let the synapse see the light of day for the occasion. If I ride 72 miles, I will hit 1,000 miles on the year, which is a solid 2 weeks before last year. If I don’t hit it tomorrow, it should be Sunday or Monday.
Dusty the Whale
Mr.Chainsaw
1,000 for the year is very nice. I'm headed into 3 days off and looking to come out on the other side of 500...after the commutes to work by the end of the week I should be close to 600 for the year. Glad to see you're off birthday duties and can enjoy the warmer weather
BiknBen
Well-Known Member
I appreciate the props but I have to admit that you have me beat. My 9F commute was from Robbinsville to Pennington back in '04. It was 13.5 mile and about 50 minutes. You can have your cake and eat it too.
If you are still looking for motivation...I did it on a fixed gear back then. 😛
ChrisG
Unapologetic Lifer for Rock and Roll
Phooey, the fixie helps keep you warmer.😀
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/67945000
write up pending, missed the 1000 miles on the year by 0.11, 🙄
write up pending, missed the 1000 miles on the year by 0.11, 🙄
As planned, my wife was out the door at 10:00 on Saturday, which let free time for me until around 4:00. I could have rode for 6 hours, but I decided to actually do some stuff before I went to ride. It seemed like a nice day and the sun was out when I left to run some errands. When I came back an hour later, the skies had clouded over and the wind picked up. I quickly got up on my roof and pulled the rest of the xmas lights down as I knew that my wife would notice they were down. Bonus.
Hop on my synapse and immediately it feels weird. The seat feels pointed down and I am literally all over the road with the steering. Also, I never dropped the seat height a tad, which I typically do since I am as flexible as baseball bat and it gets worse in the winter. I will pay for this later. At this time it was windy as hell and completely overcast. Where the hell was the warm weather? I had planned to ride in the Lambertville direction and thought about changing that since I would be going into the wind for the first 10 miles, but decided to stick with it because I like the roads in that area more better. Soon into my ride it starts to flurry really hard, WTF! It wasn’t a total surprise because I saw it on the hour-by-hour on weather.com, but still. It stopped quickly and about an hour into my ride, the sun started to show. Even though it wasn’t that warm, the sun sure felt good.
First 20 miles of the ride was just getting to federal twist, which I descended because it is so much fun, but it was super sketch due to a cross wind. Most of the road is protected but when I hit the field at the bottom, I was forced about 10’ to the left by the wind. No big deal since there are no cars on that road, but still unnerving a tad. Decided to climb Bryam-Kindwood Rd as I don’t think I ever climbed that before and then circled back around and hit Federal Twist again but came up short on the 50 mph mark on the downhill, still so much fun. I crossed over to PA and hit one of my favorite roads over there and then made my way past new hope. Around this time my left hamstring behind the knee is starting to hurt (is this still the hamstring?) and I see I am keeping my heel up. This is making my pedaling sloppy as I am not pulling as much on the up stroke on that side. On the eagle road climb, it doesn’t feel good at all. Not horrible, but not good either.
Eventually I make it to Wrightstown rd and enjoy a strong tailwind for a few miles and 100 rpm cadence and close to 30 mph speeds are just what the doctor ordered, man does that feel good. So back in NJ and hamstring is screaming now, thank god for the tailwind as it helped take some pressure off. I caught another strong tailwind through pennington and held over a 20 mph average for around 5 miles. I extended my loop to try and make 72 miles, which would have brought me to 1000 miles on the year. The last 2 miles were painful due to the headwind and I just spun out and “cooled down”.
Did alittle stretching and my left leg was super tight. So much so I was walking with alittle bit of a limp. No good. So this ride brought me to 999.89 miles on the year, close enough to 1000 for me.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/67945000
Sunday
Wake up and leg is super tight, also slept like crap because I was coughing half the night with this little cold I have. Dropped my seat a half of an inch and did a short ride in the afternoon to try and loosen up the leg, which it actually did and stretching afterwards helped too. Still alittle limpy though. Did a partial clean of my synapse as lots of puddles covered he lower end of the bike in salty water, RonC and Soulchild may have had a heart attack if they saw this.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/68269288
Today is a rest day and I was going to ride in to work but I was awake coughing between 2:00 and 3:00 am and generally felt shitty this morning. Thought a rest day would do me good, besides, riding into a 30 mph headwind on the way home just didn’t seem appealing. Yeah, yeah HTFU, not today. My leg feels better this more but still tight, I am going to pay close attention to it as I don’t want this to be a nagging thing.
Hop on my synapse and immediately it feels weird. The seat feels pointed down and I am literally all over the road with the steering. Also, I never dropped the seat height a tad, which I typically do since I am as flexible as baseball bat and it gets worse in the winter. I will pay for this later. At this time it was windy as hell and completely overcast. Where the hell was the warm weather? I had planned to ride in the Lambertville direction and thought about changing that since I would be going into the wind for the first 10 miles, but decided to stick with it because I like the roads in that area more better. Soon into my ride it starts to flurry really hard, WTF! It wasn’t a total surprise because I saw it on the hour-by-hour on weather.com, but still. It stopped quickly and about an hour into my ride, the sun started to show. Even though it wasn’t that warm, the sun sure felt good.
First 20 miles of the ride was just getting to federal twist, which I descended because it is so much fun, but it was super sketch due to a cross wind. Most of the road is protected but when I hit the field at the bottom, I was forced about 10’ to the left by the wind. No big deal since there are no cars on that road, but still unnerving a tad. Decided to climb Bryam-Kindwood Rd as I don’t think I ever climbed that before and then circled back around and hit Federal Twist again but came up short on the 50 mph mark on the downhill, still so much fun. I crossed over to PA and hit one of my favorite roads over there and then made my way past new hope. Around this time my left hamstring behind the knee is starting to hurt (is this still the hamstring?) and I see I am keeping my heel up. This is making my pedaling sloppy as I am not pulling as much on the up stroke on that side. On the eagle road climb, it doesn’t feel good at all. Not horrible, but not good either.
Eventually I make it to Wrightstown rd and enjoy a strong tailwind for a few miles and 100 rpm cadence and close to 30 mph speeds are just what the doctor ordered, man does that feel good. So back in NJ and hamstring is screaming now, thank god for the tailwind as it helped take some pressure off. I caught another strong tailwind through pennington and held over a 20 mph average for around 5 miles. I extended my loop to try and make 72 miles, which would have brought me to 1000 miles on the year. The last 2 miles were painful due to the headwind and I just spun out and “cooled down”.
Did alittle stretching and my left leg was super tight. So much so I was walking with alittle bit of a limp. No good. So this ride brought me to 999.89 miles on the year, close enough to 1000 for me.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/67945000
Sunday
Wake up and leg is super tight, also slept like crap because I was coughing half the night with this little cold I have. Dropped my seat a half of an inch and did a short ride in the afternoon to try and loosen up the leg, which it actually did and stretching afterwards helped too. Still alittle limpy though. Did a partial clean of my synapse as lots of puddles covered he lower end of the bike in salty water, RonC and Soulchild may have had a heart attack if they saw this.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/68269288
Today is a rest day and I was going to ride in to work but I was awake coughing between 2:00 and 3:00 am and generally felt shitty this morning. Thought a rest day would do me good, besides, riding into a 30 mph headwind on the way home just didn’t seem appealing. Yeah, yeah HTFU, not today. My leg feels better this more but still tight, I am going to pay close attention to it as I don’t want this to be a nagging thing.
The Kalmyk
Well-Known Member
I will give you the same tip I gave Walter... Go with red and green lights next year... Tell your wife the red is for Vday and green for St. Pday... It buys you till March until you have to take em down
BiknBen
Well-Known Member
You dropped your saddle 1/2 inch? In bike fit units, that translates to about a mile. When making adjustments to position, you should be measuring in millimeters not inches. The point I'm making is that changes should be small and incremental.
Tip on wind and HTFU: I look at the wind direction when planning every ride I do. I ride out towards the wind and come home with a tailwind. That is the biggest reason I'm always riding in the Delaware valley area. It is north and west from my house.
I'll take it a step further and use roads that offer some protection from the wind such as building and woods. Then on the way home, I pop out to all of those wide open county roads and throw up the sail. 😀
Tip on wind and HTFU: I look at the wind direction when planning every ride I do. I ride out towards the wind and come home with a tailwind. That is the biggest reason I'm always riding in the Delaware valley area. It is north and west from my house.
I'll take it a step further and use roads that offer some protection from the wind such as building and woods. Then on the way home, I pop out to all of those wide open county roads and throw up the sail. 😀