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I saw it, and it's awesome!!

Race report #2 from this past weekend's bike race

Indian River Road Race

I missed it originally but took a look.  It looks great!  I assume you've been out riding it already?

All set for Ride the Divide!

Thank you! Yeah, I rode it to work yesterday.

I mainly got it for some bikepacking trips and also for getting me further into the backcountry so that I can start my runs in more remote terrain. But it's really fun. Granted it takes me twice as long to get to work as it did my road bike because I like going off onto side trails and jumping curbs and whatnot. lol

Nice try you know I don't ride bikes

Run alongside, pushing it uphill. Sit on and coast the way down.

Hahaha! Now you're talkin'! It even plays into my crappy downhill running

A local doctor spoke to my tri club about this, and I thought it was really interesting.  I had no idea that there was a $5 app that could do it. I wonder how accurate it is.

Came across this earlier. Ow.

Looks.....  unpleasant?

Always amazed at the amount of work some can do.

oof. Been thinking recently about trying to become a real cyclist again. This may have put me off that idea. The nice thing about being a triathlete is you don't ever have to do anything really hard - heh. My favorite part of that article was actually from the comments when Allen answered someone's question about taking off muscle mass:

"How to lose muscle mass? Buy two arm slings, one for each arm, like you would if you had broken collar bones. Put your arms in slings. Don’t use them for a month. I had a guy do this once....lost eight pounds off his upper body. Otherwise, try caloric deficit and don’t use any muscles except your legs so that everything else atrophies."

I probably would have lasted more than one lap in that bike race I did last weekend had I done this.

Keep raising your FTP and it won't be so hard, right?

Yeah, that looks like it would hurt.  Wonder how he would suggest to set it up for a triathlete who can't (won't) give up running and swimming for eight weeks. 

Ben, you are absolutely right! If I lost 8lbs of upper body weight that would increase my FTP by 6%. Now, I wonder where I can get me a couple of arm slings....?

Start by riding a couple Cat5 crits - you'll need the arm slings after you break your collar bones in the predictable pile-ups, and might get a couple W increase in FTP on the way there.  Win-Win...

Matt

You're in a tech job, right? Maybe you've finally found a use for all the extra USB cables?

Yeah, this would be very tough there. This would be in a bike focus section, likely in the off season. Probably keep Tuesday and Saturday a lot like they are. Then Wednesday and Sunday might reduce somehow. A lot of triathletes would probably have to build up quite a bit just to execute any of the workouts, or even part of it, as they won't have the over threshold development a bike racer does.

Ive got a couple slings left over from last year's debacles that I can send you. if you're really committed....lol. Plus think how much easier it is to generate a  caloric deficit if you can't hold a knife and fork, open cans etc. win/win.