More Manatee Mayhem - 2017 Edition - Closed (Page 74)

Awesome thanks. I'll have to check that out. I'll be home (and in Denver) then so I'll be able to check it out. There isn't an REI in Bfield.

Ah wind, the finest of training partners.

Good job!

Welcome to the group. Please log any training you are doing in your logs, as that helps us in two ways. 1) if you have questions, we have members who will look back at what you've done to get a good, sensible answer. 2) It helps keep us all accountable to our goals (says the guy with no objectives at all)

BTW, which Oly are you working towards for July?

Hi Blanda!  I remember you from some of the forums, mainly your great attitude and smile!  Welcome to the pod!

Nice!  Keep up the healing and forward progress but also remember, as tough as it can be, to be a patient patient.

OUTSIDE!!!  YAY!!!!  Wind; well, I call it character building.

Welcome Blanda! I look forward to getting to know you and I hope that you post early and often!

Tom, I’m glad that you are well enough to drive and to use the bike at the gym.

Jim, it’s great that you were able to get outside. I understand that the trainer is a tool and all that but honestly, who gets into this sport to ride the trainer?

Citing me and St. Jude makes you just suspect enough to bee a Manatee

Harro! {MELON PRESS}

I coach turbo up in Kalamunda every Thurs night 6:30pm. You're welcome to come!

Or, since I'll be up there anyway, I can come earlier and drop by.

You know you are also always welcome in super-klassie Midland :P motto "We're not as bad as Armahole ... yet"

And I'm on the DL (again!) Grief can really depresses your immune system ... mine was awful anyway until I had a Chinese medicine miracle, but it seems to have devolved again.

Kingsley and I got a yucky cold/resp virus that was going around. He got better. I got pneumonia my usual stubbornness I didn't go to a doctor for weeks (I'm fine, it's a virus anyway, could even be the dreaded 100-days cough and just needs to run its course). Kingsley finally made an appointment for me and dragged me there.

Ended up seeing 5 medical professionals and each one gave me the same look I always get ... "are you f#$%! kidding me ... this has been going on for how long?" 

Apparently you need to breathe in order to live well?! Who knew? 

Oh no! Take care!

Thanks for the link!

Question for the group: Last fall I decided to get a smart trainer *or* power.  I went with power.  My "dumb" trainer was acting up last night. Kevin has a Wahoo Kickr that he is willing to share but I think that you need to calibrate these trainers to each user? With a smart trainer does it matter as much how "tight" you set the resistance on the wheel when you mount your bike?  Since the Kickr does power and the PowerTap does power, would I need to get them in sync or what? ETA: Would calibration just be a spin down between riders?

TL;DR - Can you/should you calibrate Wahoo Kickr Snap between two riders? What smart trainer do you have and would you recommend it?

As you know, I recently got a smart trainer and have been going through growing pains getting it all set up, somtake this with a grain of salt- you have to calibrate the trainer for each bike. You do that-at least for Tracx trainers, by spinning up to a certain mph and then letting the tire slow on its own. The app you do that in will tell you if the tire needs more or less resistance.  So, I'd think as you move your bikes on and off, you'd have to recalibrate to make sure the resistance is right.