I missed the Energy System Impact chart with additional color coding (mixed).
Your mission now is to make pretty Pointillism inspired charts. Make Seurat and Signac proud.
lets move this over the the GCN Why Riding Slower thread and discuss if ISM would approve of the roughly minute 50 bioenergetic disruption of this otherwise focused zone2 effort
Whenever I see âSeuratâ, I think of Dune instead of paintings. Thatâs likely a failing on my part!!
Bike content: Am just enjoying the heck out of riding outside this fall. Just winging it in terms of âtrainingâ and doing what feels good. Some intervals, a lot of endurance time. Not optimized, but itâs working to accumulate a lot of hours and TSS without too much fatigue. When the weather changes Iâll sit down and make a plan for next year.
Didnât get many good pictures today but another fun trail exploration. @DarthShivious took your rec and hit Bobsled that was an awesome trail! A few of the gaps really snuck up on me! Definitely a few features currently over my pay grade. 19th Ave was a lot of fun on the return too, really high quality trails!
Was lucky enough to travel to Italy for a week of riding in the Dolomites on my Crux and then raced the Gravel World Championships. The scenery and rides were beyond amazing.
Yes, borked is a technical term that fits the problem.
2 hours and 9 minutes elapsed, 86F at the end, dripping in sweat in my garage. Rushing to go to a party. Thankfully the Bob Marley rock is still out, the pool is my post-ride bathtub and reduced core temp quickly.
In a change to our usual road ride down to Oundle someone suggested a light gravel ride. I was a bit worried that my full gravel bike might not keep up with my friends bikes as they are lucky enough to have lighter treaded ones too. I shouldnât have worried apart from my uber strong mate who I drafted for most of the ride the bike was probably the 2nd fastest on road and off road.
I would up load a screen shot of the route and an awesome picture of my uber strong mate disappearing down a forest track but the forum seems to be broken.
My usual crowd were away or running the local half marathon but it was too good a day to waste and yet I didnât really fancy a solo ride. So I gave my old coach a text and joined his cafe ride. The route snaked down to Molesworth and came back to a new cafe. It was rammed so we decided to try another, it was rammed too. So we headed back to the start. Most folk went home but a couple of us went to the local Starbucks. It was a bit busy too but it was bizarrely an incredibly comfortable day to sit out.
The forum picture posting seems to be still broke so youâll have to use your imagination again
I donât know if UIdiot will process it as it rather pixelated currently but it gives you an idea.
PS More proof that Garminâs VO2Max calculation is garbage. It apparently recorded today but for all but 15mins of Z2 and a brief flurt into Z3 I was in Z1 and first beat is supposed to need a hard and consistent 70% effort of 20mins. I thought it might be my watch but in the last 24h it has only recorded a max of 69%
After putting in 3 hours yesterday, I left just before sunrise this morning to get in 2 hours of Z2 and get home early. To my surprise, the local half Marathon (we must live in sister cities HLaB) was being setup to run past my neighborhood. After about 15 minutes of dodging cones and promising constables that I wouldnât double back and interfere with the runners, I had a beautiful easy ride in 75ish degree temps with light fog. Got some great pics of the sun behind the trees, but I guess those will have to wait.
HC climb up Mt Diablo from the north gate. Up at 5am, ate, and after a 90 minute drive I was parking at sunrise.
Here is a sunset pic of Mt Diablo from where I live, posted above, from a week ago
Best placement on any of my HC climbs on Strava - around 40% - well that would have been an F in school but Iâm a Clydesdale and just below 3W/kg. Beat the previous best placement which was 33% and in November 2017. Always catching the group behind me on climbs
Iâll post pics later, was told you canât see them unless you follow me on Strava
Basically it was a single HC climb over 12.3 mile / 19.8km, with climbing of 3549 feet / 1080 feet. With my low W/kg that took 1.79 hours so about 12 minutes short of 2 hours.
At the top there is a steep 14-17% grade, set a 90 day power PR from 1:45 to 2minutes. Set season best long power out to almost 2 hours (Iâve been somewhat lazy on doing long efforts this year). Took pics at the summit, eat something, turn around and go back.
Mt Diablo is one of the 3 big climbs in the Bay Area. A month ago I did Mt Hamilton. Now I need to do Mt Tam.
Just an hour today. Recovery ride on top of some yard work. 650 TSS for the week so still getting the saddle time in.
Here are a couple shots of a hill near my home. Itâs peak leaf and I didnât do it justice. The camera flattens things but this little bump gains close to 400 feet top to bottom in 3/4 of a mile. Itâs perfect for a variety of intervals 8 min and shorter.
And⌠pictures are borked again. Imagine if you will, an idyllic one lane rural road in Pennsylvania lined with trees having leaves of various colors.