Category: Cycling
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Ride: Circus Ride
A local route steeped in history. I was without a bike or much fitness after moving last year so this was the first opportunity I had at it. It was a tough one, but it was a glorious one. 100% redeemed my Overland ride. The flooding from the past year had washed pretty much all […]
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Race: Vermont Overland 2023
Woof. That’s over with. This year, against logic, Rebecca and I hung our training on a single race. For her, it worked out. She had a good time, put in a nice constant effort, felt fine, and finished with a smile on her face. This was her first ever bike race and she slayed it. […]
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The real training starts now
Base training, where I build a foundation for harder training, is over. It began with a [failed] experiment with ChatGPT, resulted in some outstanding gains, and then life threw in a bunch of inconsistency to plateau progress. The ChatGPT Failure In the first week with my fancy AI generated plan, I came to the realization […]
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ChatGPT, my AI Cycling Coach
AI is awesome. No, AI is terrible. Whatever it is, it is powerful and I enjoy playing with it. No, I’m not about to hop on the bandwagon and shift my career to it; I was forced to re-path my career two months ago and I’m just beginning to feel settled. I digress. August 26. […]
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Zwift: The absurd effect of height on TT performance
I do a lot of indoor cycling and racing. Surprise! Of late, I’ve been doing some time trials, and have performed satisfactorily against myself, but looking at the data I seem to be going much slower than you’d expect given a basic understanding of fluid dynamics and… physics? I don’t even know the fields, but […]
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Doing Less: Bike Team
As of the end of January, I am no longer on my bicycle team board. I served six functional years over the past five actual years; two initially as web and communications director, three as president, and one of those presidential years also as web and comms after a board member moved. Double duty with […]