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Standing in one spot all day has been notably different from walking around even just a little. Being very stationary has tended to lead to more stiffness/soreness. I also do better these days when able to sit from time to time as opposed to standing entirely. One person did have a standing desk conversion and liked it, but the nicest description I can use is "different" or "odd". "Getting older" was a self-applied descriptor.   Did have a taller lab type chair for sitting occasionally.

Over in the lab area this might be nice, actually, but have to accommodate people from about 5'0" to 6'5". And would need to justify the more expensive laptop computers to avoid simply walking across the room.

Ha-ha - that's funny! Matt, just sent you n invite tot he group.Anyone else that can't find it and wants in send me your Strava name and I will send you na invite as well.

Thanks!  It's motivating to be 5th (out of 5). 

Well, motivating to at least get a distance sensor for my trainer!  (or rather find it in the mess of things in the garage)

Matt

Well your outdoor riding should still be fine with the GPS. I won't get any credit for all this Sufferfest hill climbing!

1. Fred

Ben - you need to get a subscription to Kinomap Trainer. The first time I tried it out with he kickr was on a ride up the Tormelet, I think. I had something all screwed up in the settings, and I basically wound up racing to the top in about 28 minutes. When it automatically uploaded to Strava, it  looked like I rode up the actual mountain. The ride was flagged I had all sorts of messages posted to my account. For the first time in my life I was actually glad that I do not read French.

I wonder if they have that little "bug" fixed now?

Garmin seems to think I put out a split second 17,000+ watt spike, ha! Just that one point boosted the NP of a 95 minute ride by like 50 watts. Doesn't seem to show over on strava.

I ran on the treadmill this morning, I hope my knee doesn't end up exploding as a result.  Yes I am ashamed.  There is just soooo much snow that I don't know where I can run outside!

When facing such a dilemma I have learned to stop for a moment and ask myself, "WWJD?" (What would James do?).

This was my other issue.  I think I'm getting soft...

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Question: Unlimited funds: which smart trainer do you purchase to train solo, in groups, and on specific courses?

Background: someone I'm working with wants to expand their business to include cycling solo/group trainer workouts, in addition to other services.

(they are looking at the Tacx i-Genius, but I'm not sold on it)

I don't have an answer for you but something like this would be cool.

http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2014/10/morning-boutiquea-cycling.html

This is what they want to grow to, starting with 4 trainers... but I think KICKR, CompuTrainer, PowerBeam are all worth looking into. I read mostly not great things about Tacx

Are there any regularly groomed cross country ski trails you can run on? I assume you can't run elsewhere because the snow is deep and you post-hole? 

I'll be ok within a couple of days.  It's just the 27 inches of snow that we got yesterday so there are basically no usable sidewalks in the city.  Another dump of snow on Friday won't help...

Now I'm just jealous. 

Power numbers seem back on track based on yesterday's interval workout.  45 days left on my Quarq warranty...part of me was hoping it was broken so I could get a free upgrade to a Riken, and part of me is just glad it's reliable again so I don't have to worry about any potential differences with a new PM.  Knock on wood, but this 975 has been extremely good for me outside of a few scenarios and I suppose that's all you can ask out of a PM.

Well, if it makes you feel better, we'll be having this terrible stretch of 70's and sunny coming up.

Thought about this for a while (and had a couple minutes at work... ahem).  When I compare what I **think** my current 5k time-ish would be to get my Vdot, then add 17%, it's a half point off the 920's estimate.  Very close, indeed.

When I compare my last open 5k that I actually raced (almost 1.5 years ago now - sigh), it's one point below the 920's current #, but still that's quite close.

Just found that interesting...  I wonder what the 920 would say if I'd run that last race with it.

Matt

Edited to remove superfluous stuff from my original post, for your reading ease...

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