Category: Cycling
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Flamme Rouge: World Tour – Triquetra E01
That’s a mouthful. The short of it is I’m tackling a 21 stage virtual cycling series. It lasts all month with two days off and is killing me, but also making me strong like bull. I’m certain to be burnt out before setting foot outside for the year. We just completed our first nine days, of which the last two bleed into “Episode 2.”…
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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 dirt off these ancient roads and we had more…
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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. I’m officially calling her a cyclist now; running after…
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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 that the hours per day didn’t add up to…
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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. Race day. Rebecca and I are signed up for…
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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 I know enough to know something isn’t right. A…