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- Dec 2, 2017
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This made me smile and gave me the fuzzies:
You can really count on Danny MacAskill to brighten up your day!
You can really count on Danny MacAskill to brighten up your day!
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[On] a particularly free-flowing ride, [your] body and being—shoulders, hands, hips, legs, bones, muscles, skin, brain—seem to be inseparable from the strong but supple bicycle frame. At such moments, to conceive of the bike as a vehicle is perhaps not quite right. It may be more accurate to think of it as a prosthesis. Ideally, it is hard to say exactly where the bicyclist ends and the bicycle begins.
Yeah... hard to know what to say to that.
Yeah. I prefer my rollers over a turbo trainer for indoor riding. But on rollers pedaling while standing has so far proved impossible for me for more than a few strokes. And after 20 min or so the numbness is really unpleasant.Standing was linked to higher blood flow and pressure, prompting the scientists to back the common advice for male cyclists to stand up on the pedals every 10 minutes as potentially 'effective' and easy to do.
that's what she saidAnd after 20 min or so the numbness is really unpleasant.
You can find me in the crowd for a solid 3 seconds, perhaps.This might be a taaaad late, I checked periodically, but the Olympic Women's Road Race is finally up. Watched it. Really great, you can really see the pain and effort in Anna Kiesenhofer's face.
To be honest, reading off the stats, it is not too dissimilar from a tour I did last week (130–140 km, 2,900 m of elevation). The profile was a bit different, though. Still, the race is a mixture of amazing, boring and amazing again. Kiesenhofer attacked from the gun and stayed in the front for the whole race. She couldn’t hide weakness by staying in the draft, she really had to be the strongest rider by a wide margin that day. I felt a bit bad for the Polish and Israeli rider, if they had had a little more to give, they would have gotten a silver and bronze. But they went all out, too, and it just wasn’t quite enough. Still, they went gonads to the wall for a medal, and they deserve kudos for that.Might rewatch the whole thing this weekend. I still want to cycle the whole Olympics course to see how I compare (not at all) but haven't yet... That would be a fun trip though.
The amazing chameleon wheel
Yeah, but doing it at that speed would be a challenge! At least the hill that I was at, they put some solid effort into climbing that.To be honest, reading off the stats, it is not too dissimilar from a tour I did last week (130–140 km, 2,900 m of elevation). The profile was a bit different, though. Still, the race is a mixture of amazing, boring and amazing again. Kiesenhofer attacked from the gun and stayed in the front for the whole race. She couldn’t hide weakness by staying in the draft, she really had to be the strongest rider by a wide margin that day. I felt a bit bad for the Polish and Israeli rider, if they had had a little more to give, they would have gotten a silver and bronze. But they went all out, too, and it just wasn’t quite enough. Still, they went gonads to the wall for a medal, and they deserve kudos for that.
I tried watching the race after it had unfolded, but was geoblocked. I noticed that some Olympic events were uploaded bit-by-bit on the official channel, and I kept an eye out.
The Selle Italia Superflow, or whatever similar saddle model with an inside opening. is really great to reduce the pressure and numbness. No need to think about this "10 minutes threshold"quote:
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Standing was linked to higher blood flow and pressure, prompting the scientists to back the common advice for male cyclists to stand up on the pedals every 10 minutes as potentially 'effective' and easy to do.
But they warn that this is an arbitrary time period, so more evidence is needed on how often men need to stand on their pedals, and for how long.
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Crazy to know she is a scientist, postdoctoral researcher in mathematics, and trained by herself before the games, to beat all the peloton.This might be a taaaad late, I checked periodically, but the Olympic Women's Road Race is finally up. Watched it. Really great, you can really see the pain and effort in Anna Kiesenhofer's face.
Quite a few people got upset about the lack of team radios. I thought it made for great racing. (When I race, I don’t have team radios either, so I can relate.) It wasn’t as if the competition was in the dark, they were in touch with their teams regularly and at least Shapira and the Polish cyclist knew that Kiesenhofer was ahead. (I was really rooting for them, getting caught in the last bit of the race sucks. But they gave their all.)Yeah, but doing it at that speed would be a challenge! At least the hill that I was at, they put some solid effort into climbing that.
Obviously the roads wouldn't be closed for my one man Olympics but I figure I'd take a few hours beyond.
It was a great race and I loved the race Kisenhofer ran. The lack of radios also affected it and made me think TdF and others should also stop those.... Make people actually have to pay attention to the racers around them and whether any strong ones might have slipped through the cracks!
Her PhD supervisor actually gave a talk at a workshop I organized shortly after. Her supervisor is a character, an amazing researcher and all-around classy individual. Because of Covid-related travel restrictions, the workshop was virtual. I wish I could have met her in person. I asked her what she feeds her PhD students …Crazy to know she is a scientist, postdoctoral researcher in mathematics, and trained by herself before the games, to beat all the peloton.