Remnants of hurricane Ian are swirling around the mid-atlantic bringing rain for the last several days. Outside Riding has been limited to wishful thinking!!!
TBH, I needed a good rest week though. Been piling up the hours and TSS. Blame the weather for forcing a proper recovery period!!!
Next week will try and get a good TTE test in. Want to establish a good fall baseline and see what I have to build off of over winter.
planning to do short/medium/long duration baselining? or just long?
If time and weather work together I will do:
Hour test or perhaps a Kolie type TTE test
All out 20 min effort (been a long time)
Lactate ramp test (to correlate with prior lactate data sets)
Something like that.
Next year the #1 goal will be to push my regular rides from 2.0-2.5 hours into the 3.0-3.5 range. I have the time and enjoy the outdoor rides a lot more than hammering intervals and being too prescriptive.
Good to hear about the 2BR. I’m happy with the newly installed previous generation Turbo RapidAir 30c. Can’t wait to try my 2BR at 26c front and 30c rear.
Why 26 and 30? Sounds like quite bike of a difference. I’d not do more than 2mm difference to not have the geometry of the bike altered.
And if you do 26C on the front, new RapidAir!
In my experience, a lot of ride ending tire issues when running 26c on the rear. I’m not moving to better roads, and 28c wasn’t available. So that meant 30c for my daily training tire.
Wet over here, kinda. The usual 2-4-Tuesday steady eddy shenanigans. Near the end I thought my water bottles were spraying my legs. But it was the back of my legs 
A little Orange Seal 
shenanigans.
5:30a roll out for a quickie this morning. It wasn’t an easy spin on the road at 237w avg for 21miles like @Aeroiseverything’s return to the outdoors, but I did have more climbing than his 250’ 
(Not that I’m comparing myself to the much younger, perhaps 5% body fat, and more disciplined Lars or anything…)
I decided to hit a Strava segment I used to use for training probably three years ago. It’s next to the straight gravel hill climb I’ve done more often recently (though not much that recently). The beauty of this segment, which just .5mi, is the misleading stat of an average 13.1% gradient: after the initial 14->20%+ bit, there’s a false flat, before it angles up again, though only for 8%-14% and only for a short bit. This is mental as much as physical, at least for me, to keep up the power into the false flat and then hit the next climb. Anyway, the KOM is 1:32, with second place at 2:07 and me at third at 2:12. Funny thing: 2nd at 2:07 has an avg watts of 304 while mine was 407, suggesting we’re, um, in a different weight class. With today’s go, I’m the local legend at 1 instance in the past 90 days, but that’s from my last go on this in July (in which I was merely passing through). A long story to get to the point that I couldn’t complete the segment today:
I had to rush home due to time, so I skipped my usual single tracks but I did see the dog team getting their post-workout recovery fuel.
When I woke up, my ribs hurt more than they had in days, so the climbing had light hands. Coughing from the exertion hurt, so I feel like I’ve regressed a bit. Regardless, it was a good quickie this morning.
The usual Wednesday Whirl here in Byron Bay Australia. About 40k. 600m elevation with av speed of 31.5 km. Fast and furious.
Also titanium and carbon fiber enhanced 
@DarthShivious you’re on the east coast, right? Vermont? I grew up in NH and visit family in New England a couple of times each year. The rain from Ian lasted five days in VA, and was surprisingly cold for a hurricane / tropical storm. Temps are back in the 70s finally.
Yes indeed! Grew up in Connecticut, but currently reside in PA. About 75 min north of Philly and along the Delaware river. Far enough north to get colder temps and snow during winter. But not too terrible.
It was surprisingly chilly from Ian. Am not a weather expert, but was guessing the system pulled cooler air down from the north as it spun around. Was dreary there for 4-5 days. I even rode inside twice 
So that means you jump across the river and ride in NJ? I thought you lived in NJ…
Thanks! Except for a two-year stint in Texas I’ve lived my whole life within two hours of the Atlantic - NH, CT (x3), VA (x2), SC, and FL.
