Thank you all for the beautiful fall foliage pics.
Signed,
The Guy In Houston (where it’s currently 87 degrees with 63% humidity at noon)
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Easy day, 90 min Zone 2
Local grass strip airport
Snoopy windvane
Not 100% certain but think this is a little yellow piper of some sort. Doesn’t matter as the photo stinks anyway. Nice blue sky thought. There are a half-dozen biplanes hangered at the airport. Fun to see them flying around on nice days.
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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 
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Whenever I see “Seurat”, I think of Dune instead of paintings. That’s 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 “training” and doing what feels good. Some intervals, a lot of endurance time. Not optimized, but it’s working to accumulate a lot of hours and TSS without too much fatigue. When the weather changes I’ll sit down and make a plan for next year.
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I forgot about that character in Dune!
Another 2 hour ride, got home just a few minutes after sunset:
My pointillism contribution:
Garmin’s take:
and Garmin gave me an updated ftp estimate - 266W. WKO needs a harder long effort before it cuts me some slack. Coming up in a couple weeks…
Speaking of pointillism,
@wfenwick pics of Millcreek canyon in SLC gets my vote for the win!
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Cali sunsets aren’t too shabby either!
Didn’t 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!
No intervals today, just riding.
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Colorado sunset ride in. Counting the days when the MTB riding will still be good before first snowfall.
I saw my three friends on the trail again. Didn’t get quite so close to running into them this time!
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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.
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Wow!
Double wow!
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Concrete at work and then 45min Z4HR up Millcreek and an hour of fun back down.
@DaveWh where in Colorado are you? I’m just moving to Denver.
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Steamboat Springs. Beautiful here this time of year.
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My sister is over there now. Not riding. Just hiking and eating and drinking coffee as near I can tell.
I rode 2:00 today. No pictures and forum picture upload seems borked right now anyway.
(is borked the right term? I’m trying to be cool so all you IT and coder types will let me hang)
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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.
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Park City gravel. It was spectacular and I took pics… but forum photo uploads still borked. 
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3:15 in the saddle today. 1,600 Kj
Beautiful fall day here. The kind of day people stuck in Chicago can only dream about 
Tried to upload pics but the upload helpers are still not helping.
Bork Bork Bork
That means there also won’t be any pictures in the Beer Me thread. But no worries, beer will still be consumed.
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I got in 3 hours of Z2/3 today. Houston temps down just a bit, which is welcome. 68F at the start. Woo hoo!
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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 shouldn’t 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.
Its working again.
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My usual crowd were away or running the local half marathon but it was too good a day to waste and yet I didn’t 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 you’ll have to use your imagination again
I don’t know if UIdiot will process it as it rather pixelated currently but it gives you an idea.
PS More proof that Garmin’s 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% 
https://www.instagram.com/p/CjyMTEGsXlmZEPJeFUwnnda0Vh-qAtkyhS1WNw0/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
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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 wouldn’t 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.
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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 
I’m 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
I’ll post pics later, was told you can’t 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 (I’ve 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.
Strava segment:
https://www.strava.com/segments/1470688
90+ minutes at tempo / 85% IF.
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