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Dealing with a sore muscle on the back of my right knee.  Not really the hamstring, but I don't think it's an IT band either.  Feels like a sore muscle as it's the area that cramped up pretty bad after my ride on Saturday.  Wanted to spin yesterday, but opted for full rest instead.  Will likely hop on the bike and do some ridiculously easy miles on very flat terrain after work.

I did manage to climb almost 42k feet over 8 days last week.  The last ride on Saturday was the azz kicker as it was super hot and I was getting dangerously close to heat exhaustion.  Needless to say the next few days will be focused on recovery, then hopefully a few short but hard rides, hopefully in good shape for Mauna Loa next Saturday.

It's been stinking hot and humid by our standards this summer.  I'm not at all complaining - I consider it payback for the winter we had.

Jason, that kind of climbing blows my mind.  I just looked up how much climbing I've done for the entire YEAR and it's around 28k feet.  Truly impressive in my books!

How do you expect Mauna Loa to compare to Haleakala?  I know it's farther and higher but do you know what you are facing with grades?

Anyone here know anything about cyclocross bikes?  We're thinking of getting some to give us something we can get a little more offroad with (not mountain bike offroad).  If so, what should I look for and what should I avoid?

The grades should be fairly similar to Haleakala.  A lot of 5-7% with short sections at 10%.  There is a very short downhill portion, and a somewhat long section that's around 1-2% in the middle of the course that makes up for the added distance, but the actual climbing sections are pretty similar.  The main thing though is that it's a 8am start, which means the first 2-3 hours will be quite warm and borderline hot.  Probably 80-90 degrees ambient temperature.  As we gain altitude, but also get closer to the mid day hours, I would expect temps to settle a bit...but am probably expecting ambient temps of around 85 even near the top.  Still much cooler compared to the temps I was climbing in on Saturday.  Garmin was reading ambient temps of up to 106, with the last 3.5 hours averaging right at 100 degrees.

I had 3 hard'ish days in a row.  Today is a swim and a run but nothing too intense.  Doing a 20k TT after work tomorrow.

My leg started hurting just reading about climbing 42K in 8 days.  Then I reminded myself you measure things with that funny imperial system and it didn't seem so bad...

With serious lack of consistency this year, last week was best week YTD - need to string together 6 more of these to show up at Muskoka with some semblance of fitness.  I took a look at my logs from 2012 for this time period, and kind of wish I hadn't - I was killing it in relation to how my recent training has been, hours, paces, power, you name it and I'm down across the board.  Not much I can do about it at this point except put in the best effort I can for the remainder of the season and then try to properly rebuild over Fall and Winter.

Anyone made the switch over to Garmin Express from Ant Agent?  I did this a number of weeks ago and it's a serious PITA and I can't upload to BT anymore through my Garmin (or TP for that matter, but I add those ones manually).  Anyone have suggestions?

I use Garmin Express but I don't have a device that uses the ant agent.  For TP, you can set it up to automatically push from GC to TP  and BT is working on the same.  Ron says it's almost ready.

For now, you could do the automatic sync to TP and then you can do an import from TP to BT.  Still a PITA until they get the sync to BT going too.

Thanks for that - unfortunately, I think it's only for Premium members.

Speaking of Golden Cheetah, I have a question.  If you're viewing an activity and you go to the Analysis page and click on 'Ride', you see your graph with power / elevation / etc over time.

If you click and drag over part of it, it selects a subset and shows stats on that timespan.  Do it again, it makes selection #2, etc.

How the hell do you unselect those or clear them?  I swear I've hit every keyboard and mouse combo possible and the only way I ever clear them is to close the program.  I'm sure I'm missing something simple but it is completely undocumented.

I never figured that out either - but now Golden Cheetah won't record my trainer rides.  I tried turning off Garmin Express but since the Ant Agent is uninstalled GC doesn't recognize my HR strap or PT.

It can vary slightly depending on your version of Goldencheetah but on the bottom left of the screen there are three small icons.  One of them is a little picture of a stop watch that says Intervals if you hover over it.  Click on that and an intervals pane should appear along the left.  The one that you created should be there and you can right click and delete.

Mmm, there is a comment in the post from Ray saying it works with the Free version.  I can't find anything else that confirms that though....

Well the guy that had the highest total for the challenge worldwide was at something like 67k of elevation gain...in meters.  I looked at his rides, I think I would have shot myself.  He was doing like 70 repeats of a 500 foot climb on the last day. 

Knee is feeling a lot better today.  It was sore throughout yesterday so I didn't get to spin, but it feels about 80-90% right now.  

I've always thought one of those week long swim camps in a tropical location would be cool.