Beer Drinker Appreciation Society (BDAS)--OPEN (Page 14)

I have this one:

https://sportfactoryproshop.com/tacx-galaxia-rollers/

Pretty much the same except the one above rocks back and forth.

I also run a cycleops fluid trainer in the winter.

Either way there is a learning curve. You also need to focus on riding waaay more. You should also start out in a door way so you can support yourself on either side. Both will give you a great workout. I find I engage my core a lot more on the rollers but it could just me trying to suck my gut in... :-)

Good luck!

Alan (our resident pro cyclist) is the master of the rollers.  Not sure if he's joined the new thread for 2017 though.

Juan I mentioned this last year and I'll mention it again - I LOVE YOUR BIKE!  Also good to see I'm not the only one doing the 'aero road' thing:

(can anyone tell me how to add pictures in the message?  I swear I did it all the time in the old thread but the one pic I did the same way it's actually an attachment that you have to click on to open, unlike Juan's bike pic...)

Happens to the best of us, and it never ceases to get me down either.  You know how this goes though - you have a few bad days, maybe take a much needed rest day or two, and then get back at it renewed and with the fire again and those bad workouts disappear in the rearview.

Bad workouts are much more easily forgotten than bad races.  And bad races we can learn from.  Someday I'll figure out how to learn from bad workouts too...

How are other things in your life?  Any abnormal stress?  Are you eating enough?  Ramped up training volume or intensity recently?  A couple bad workouts isn't overly alarming, but watch out for patterns.  If they stay bad, an extra rest day may be in order.  Hopefully they were just off days and things will be back to normal soon enough (like for your run tonight!). 

Originally posted by Juancho

Originally posted by firebert

I LOVE YOUR BIKE!  Also good to see I'm not the only one doing the 'aero road' thing:

 

(can anyone tell me how to add pictures in the message?  I swear I did it all the time in the old thread but the one pic I did the same way it's actually an attachment that you have to click on to open, unlike Juan's bike pic...)

 

Thanks John! I am like a kid with a new bike To attach a pic, just click at bottom end "Attach a file after posting" and you will be directed to "add file".... it only accepts very low resolution pictures, but better than nothing. Otherwise, bike would look way much better! Juan

Thanks Juan - that was the issue, the resolution (and file size!).  I found the FAQ on pic uploading and it's like 400x400 pixels and 100KB file size.  My cell phone takes 4000x4000 and 3MB.  Or something absurd like that...  I'll have to figure out how to reduce the resolution and file size.

Yeah, there are days where the workouts just don't, uh, work out.  

That especially seems to be true in the pool. There are days where it feels relatively effortless (grading on a curve here!) and then some days where I fee llike I'm thrashing in the water to no avail.

It's not limited to us mere mortals, either.  My daughter told me Monday night after practice that she just didn't "have it:" and didn't have any "snap" to the workout.

Quick surgery update.  

Got to the hospital surgical center around 10:20 and went through registration and all of the thousand questions that they ask you that have been asked a thousand times before, and I think they asked me my name about 30 times. :-)

Talked with my surgeon, the PA, and the sleepy doctor.  All went fine.  I didn't even pass out when they put the IV in.  :-)

They pushed me back into the ER around 12:15 (15 minutes early!) and I was in recovery a little after 1 PM.  Woke up wondering where the hell I was and my throat hurt pretty good from the breathing tube.  They gave me pain meds and a muscle relaxant and I was out of the door in the car by a little after 2.  They run a tight shop there - everyone was really great.  Surgery did what they were supposed to do.

Got home and laid on the couch half asleep and half awake the rest of the day.  Had some pizza for dinner and went to bed more or less normal time.  Slept kind of meh - trying to avoid percocet and just took tramodol so I was up a little bit during the night, but not bad and nothing like the nerve pain from the back injury.

Pretty sore this morning...hurts to move but it's all from the surgery from what I can tell.  A little tough to get up and get in an out of bed because I can't twist like I normally do.  

I have my first follow up in four weeks with my surgeon.  Until then I can walk as much as I want and do normal activites that don't cause pain.  

All in all, I can't complain so far.  We'll see how it progreeses.  Today is supposed to be the worst.