Interesting about anemia. I was on a plant-based diet for 10 months and went to my dr for a routine checkup. Everything looked good but she did say I was slightly anemic. She mentioned this was due to low vitamin B12 intake and/or heavy alcohol use the days prior to my blood test. Knowing I’m sober and on a plant-based diet, I figured my vegan lifestyle was the cause.
I was taking a B12 supplement daily and eating what seemed to be a healthy diet. I have since been eating mostly vegetarian with meat here and there.
After hearing this episode I wonder if my test results were related more to my endurance training rather than my diet? My dr has an idea that I’m active but she doesn’t know the intensity and consistency I’m training every week.
It’s been a couple months now off a plant-based diet, I’m thinking about going back for a new blood test.
I saw this asked earlier in this thread but didn’t see an answer, will a blood test be impacted if taken the same day as a workout?
Your B12 level should not be impacted by your workout. Hemoglobin may depend on your level of hydration. If trained you may have an expanded plasma volume, and subsequently marginally low Hgb. If your blood test showed RBC morphology it may have provided a clue to B12 deficiency-- it is a cause of megaloblastic anemia (larger than normal RBC’s)
I’m sad that i listened to this podcast while i was doing Baxter… My kinetic smart trainer broke when i tried switching to the big ring while in erg mode. They were talking in the podcast about how you could choose to ride in the big ring. I realized i don’t usually try that… and something broke so the resistance mode still works with trainer road but the erg mode doesn’t work. When i ride in erg mode the trainer ramps up the resistance and it becomes near impossible to pedal… when i analyzed the ride after the speed stopped working and it measured 0 mph from the point when erg mode stopped working through to the End bof the ride… guessing I’m out of luck and need to buy a new one or is it possible to repair this problem?
There is no reason why shifting gears should cause problems, no matter what mode you use.
However shifting in ERG is something that can take a bit of technique to do smooth when you are at higher resistance levels. That should not be an issue with Baxter. But you still need to get on top of the pedals and power or you can get the Spiral of Death.
Assuming you were pedaling along at 90rpm in the small ring, a shift to the big ring would lead to a decrease in cadence around 20-30 rpm. If you aren’t strong on the pedals, that could catch a person off guard.
I will contact support. Ive had this trainer for long enough it’s certainly out of warranty but hope they might help me fix it anyways. Yeah on baxter i ramped it up to 90 cadence easily when going to big ring… unfortunately my smart Trainer’s speed went up to 30 mph when i heard something in the trainer break… at that time the power started going up and i tried to patiently hold 90 cadence and 400 watts for a full 45s before i ran out of gas and started trouble shooting
Pretty sure you don’t get a distance and speed reading outside of erg mode, unless you have a speed sensor. So the moment it switched off, speed goes to 0. That doesn’t mean it’s broken.
Did you try using it again after that Baxter workout?
Maybe it’s true for the KK trainers, but it’s not the case for my H2, Kickr17, Neo, Magnus or PowerBeam Pro trainers. They all report speed and distance for the workout, regardless of mode.
It’s just taking the rear wheel RPM times the wheel circumference entered into TR for the calculations.
Umm…I thought that I had noticed that information missing before. But I’ve just looked back through my history, and I can’t find any workouts without distance. Maybe I remembered something else about it. To be honest, I don’t care about distnace on the trainer, so I don’t pay much attention to it. Just when it was mentioned in the post above, it rang a bell. But seems I was wrong.
unfortunately you missed the point of my post;
The words “I’ve found that…” have no basis in science, and unfortunately when you look at peer reviewed literature neither do many of those types of testing protocols.
In the interest of due diligence, I definitely will give it another try in some other workout… I suppose somehow it could be a very strange bug in the TR code power match stuff that is specific to that workout fit file… but i doubt it really…
Like many other I was shocked when you mentioned “IgG4-Allergies” on the podcast. I’ve always like the science approach of the podcast - until today. Sorry guys, but this is a no go!
I emailed them a description of what’s going on and Kurt kinetic was very fast to reply and they think all i need is a new Magnet& speed sensor which they will ship to me… thank God! and they sent me specific repair instructions so i won’t need to mail the trainer back to them either! Exactly like ordering a new cartridge for a leaky faucet. Very easy/painless. lol
My kinetic smart trainer broke when i tried switching to the big ring while in erg mode. They were talking in the podcast about how you could choose to ride in the big ring. I realized i don’t usually try that… and something broke so the resistance mode still works with trainer road but the erg mode doesn’t work. When i ride in erg mode the trainer ramps up the resistance and it becomes near impossible to pedal… when i analyzed the ride after the speed stopped working and it measured 0 mph from the point when erg mode stopped working through to the End bof the ride… guessing I’m out of luck and need to buy a new one or is it possible to repair this problem?