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Annually - I don't drink Alcohol from New Years Eve to my Birthday (yesterday).
It is a mental/physical reset that I have been doing the past 5 years.
So...
Went out for my b-day dinner. Had to go somewhere I knew had high chairs and something my kids would eat. So.... KUA`AINA burger is was. Didn't want my first beer in Japan to be a Kona, and since I don't drink soda, I ended up drinking orange juice like my kids.
I ordered a cheddar Avacado burger set. It comes with fries and onion rings.
End result - Ate the burger, 2 onion rings and a few fries and felt full.
Headed home and we had cake... more full and more Sugar than I have had all year combined most likely.
Put the kids to bed and then hopped on the bike for a 35+km ride just to feel better.
I took the Fargo on 27.5x3" wheels, so I could hit curbs, potholes, steps, and whatever else I fancy.
I also dropped a Lagunitas Sumpin' Easy Ale in my frame bag. Around 27k or so, I decided to head to the top of a hill and have my first beer and enjoy the fantastic weather.
Nice end to the birthday celebration.
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so the beer mystery is solved. phew
just did 3 sets of 2 minutes straight pump for your quads @andywood shared in the training video before. I think you're supposed to only do it once, but I rested 60 sec in between and did it three times. afterwards was like:
My Garmin Edge 1000J, "Michiko", and I have been together for a while.
Rubber cement from tyre patch kit. Worth a try... maybe...
She's long out of warranty. Garmin Japan have a fixed fee of ¥27,000 for repair/replacement. I can get a replacement rear case from eBay for around ¥6,000, but it will be white (EU version) rather than the original red. Or upgrade... but there are no features in the newer models that I want or need.
I'm currently performing surgery using a variant on @kiwisimon's wheeze - using the grey low-temp stuff as my colleague (and former TCC denizen @FarEast happened to have some and I only need a tiny amount). Cures in a hour at room temp., they say. I hate waiting...All is not lost
Distance measurement is just a metric in a vacuum that has little meaning....
Sure, going farther is better than shorter - if on the same route (in most cases) - however not knowing the terrain, bike, etc... it is just a metric.
I didn't know they did that. I'm quite into elevation on my rides so I'll have to keep my eye out from now on.replaced by Strava's own calculations that are routinely inflated by 20% or more
No issue with that complaint. I have been irritated on my local to my house rides seeing occasional HC segments (auto generated) that are actually tunnels.Right, but I was complaining not just about Strava messing up my distance when I pass through a route with lots of tunnels, I was also complaining about it messing up my elevation (i.e. terrain).
If it's worth recording, it should be worth not messing up the numbers.
Satellite reckoning works much better for latitude / longitude than for elevation. Any device without a barometer (or whose barometer Strava chooses to ignore) will come out with inflated numbers. I no longer enter any Strava climbing challenges because they basically reward the riders with the noisiest GPS recording. With elevation gain there is no level playing field
Right, but I was complaining not just about Strava messing up my distance when I pass through a route with lots of tunnels, I was also complaining about it messing up my elevation (i.e. terrain).
If it's worth recording, it should be worth not messing up the numbers.
Satellite reckoning works much better for latitude / longitude than for elevation. Any device without a barometer (or whose barometer Strava chooses to ignore) will come out with inflated numbers. I no longer enter any Strava climbing challenges because they basically reward the riders with the noisiest GPS recording. With elevation gain there is no level playing field
I just deleted my account. I use Garmin connect and training center. I stopped comparing my self to others a few decades ago. I now just compae myself to myself. Instead of segments I just use my regular rides and look for longer trends with heart rate and times over my standard courses.I'm happy to buy the Strava team a coffee each month so to speak as it's probably one of my most used applications.
Cant you put a speed sensor on the wheel and add a Ant+ dongle to your computer or just use your head unit?I liked that feature, too, although it has become a bit useless, because I have a dumb trainer and while I am spending 6-8 hours on my indoor trainer each week, I log exactly 0 km. I don't really care about my kilometers, but it'd be nice to include this wear on my cassette and chain in some way. (Although that would complicate tracking the usage of my tires, I presume.)
I have my speed sensor on my front wheel, so I could actually do that. Thanks! It's be nice, though, if there were an indoor mode where you don't wear your tires and brake pads on Strava (because I don't), but put wear on the chain, chain rings and cassette.Cant you put a speed sensor on the wheel and add a Ant+ dongle to your computer or just use your head unit?
The only truly accurate way to measure elevation gain is based on map elevation, AFAIK.