At the risk of setting off another dumpster fire of a discussion, I was listening to Empirical Cycling and they were discussing the best and worst workouts. Kolie had the ramp test as a bad workout/test and very obviously took a dig at TR without explicitly stating it. I know he favors the longer te…

[image] F10naGodless: Nobody’s ever asked you which testing method you use and then gone on ad nauseum about how inaccurate that method is? Nope, lol. But I’m guessing the reason they don’t ask follow up questions like that is because they don’t want me to ask them follow up questions as to h…

when I was a kid, we just rode with people and then we could see how we measured up against them.

[image] F10naGodless: when I was a kid, we just rode with people and then we could see how we measured up against them. What a bunch of know nothings we were as kids. Look at all we missed out on by not understanding Z3 is stupid and Z4 is too hard but right in the middle is A-OK, I know my …

That’s cause we’re too busy judging you by your sock choice. And secretly wishing WE had a red over-sized pulley wheel.

Mixed blessing tbh. It’s better to train with power data. The days of just riding someone off your wheel (especially after being dropped by the same person on a previous ride) was the absolute way to find our your work is paying off.

[image] Aplcr0331: For instance, here’s how I parse my “numbers”; Best 60min watts=Verbal_FTP. In 2021 it was 246 (Thursday Night Worlds… Yeah, although the big bragging rights around here are the Wed World A Loop and B+ Loop. So I tie my “verbal FTP” to some recent long-ish effort, and its…

Ankle socks get no love but, to be honest, if looking good is wrong then I am never right.

Started back on my no see ‘em socks this week because it’s already time to be working on your leg tan in Cali!

Kolie Moore on the ramp test

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F10naGodless February 10, 2022, 11:05pm 285

It was so disappointing to hear the TR crew discuss their sock opinions. You may think long socks with shorts makes you look pro (maybe it does) but it also makes you look like this.

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Kolie Moore on the ramp test

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