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Beer comes in many different sized receptacles.

Adapt or go thirsty.

My Garmin Forerunner 405 is now picking up random HRM signals.

Cycling in this morning and I have a heart rate for big chunks of the ride despite not wearing the HR strap. I wasn't being shadowed by another rider, there are parts of my commute where there's no-one else visible for 50 yards in any direction ("They're all over us Vasquez").

The start/stop button is a bit dodgy and I FUCKING HATE THE WHOLE TOUCH BEZEL THING that simply stops working the minute there's any moisture (sweat or rain) on it; but I've put up with these things annoyances for ages.

Might be time to order a Forerunner 110.

Me. This morning. Not paying enough attention and should have stopped for the pedestrian at the zebra crossing. At least I managed to say sorry.

where they claim increasing speed limits for HGVs will "cut dangerous overtaking" but I'm yet to hear a convincing argument for it.

It's not the HGVs overtaking other road users dangerously, it refers to cars performing dangerous overtaking to get past HGVs due to the mismatched speed limits for the two classes of vehicles on certain roads.

HGVs are limited to 40mph on single-carriageway NSL roads; cars 60mph. So streams of cars wanting to go at 60mph (as is their $DEITY given right) will all need to overtake the HGVs doing 40mph (ha!) and many of those overtakes will be piss poor.

The argument is that allowing HGVs to do 60mph along with cars on those roads mean that it greatly reduces the number of overtakes required.

And eventually learn to pull away with the cranks at 11/5 o'clock position, or any position. It's just HTFU that needs to be applied.A push off from the standing foot is enough to get the cranks round to a position where you can continue to pedal squares (if you're a masher like me).

(#midgetprolapse)

"The woman in her thirties has been taken to St. George’s Hospital with what police are describing as leg injuries that are not life-threatening."

Source: http://www.putneysw15.com/default.asp?section=info&link=http://nnet-server.com/server/common/hfcrash004.htm

Time machine (and magnets).

I've got all the time in the world to grow a beard and get over to lmnh and cut him up.

One way of dealing with Strava Kudos Spam is by not posting about it on this thread and spamming everyone else.

Just saying...

The commitment you have to make to have a chance is beyond most people.

The vast majority of AUKs simply don't care about the points championship.

It all comes from the simple fact that if you assign points for doing things then some people are going to compete to see who can get the most, regardless of whether there's an official competition or not.

In a similar way, someone has to finish an Audax first and so people try and "win" them.

Steve is nuts, in a great way.

Rides fixed almost everywhere but gears down to 85" for hilly rides like the Bryan Chapman. He usually rides ~105" for everything else.

I'll certainly put some money towards him doing it, I think he's in the process of setting up a donation link. I'll look out for it on yacf and post it if it appears.

I love the time to think to myself. Sure there are low points where I think about giving up, usually:

• I'm bored
  
• Why am I doing this
  
• I don't need to prove anything to anyone
  
• I'm tired, it's cold/wet/rainy or even too hot
  
  

but I know I just have to push on through the low points. "let's see how I think in an hour" usually works for me.

Having company helps, I'm far less likely to consider giving up on a ride if I'm riding with someone else, but I've happily done some 400km rides on my own for all but the first 5km or so. I only really rode with someone else for 400km of PBP, so that left 800km of riding on my own (never really more than 100 yards from another rider though, given there were 5000 people doing it).

During LEL'09 and PBP'11 there were sections I got overtaken by a large number of foreign cars/motor-homes (support vehicles for other rides). Got plenty of room from the majority of cars with French and Spanish number plates. Italian number plates about the same as UK plates (50:50 between good and bad). By far the worst (i.e. majority closest verging on dangerous) overtakes were from vehicles with NL number plates. Maybe all that separation means they're not used to encountering cycles on the road and aren't used to passing them safely.

Anecdata of one thobut.

The biggest reason I have for running two brakes is having a backup should the cable snap on one. I wouldn't want to have to descend a big hill relying solely on leg braking.

Legally, no. Morally, perhaps.

Is what I thought. Note lack of description of the beckoning motion in the Highway Code, and/or see what flashing your lights means.

Netherlands (ITT, flat stage) then Belgium.

Grand Depart: Utrecht

Yeah, I'm torn though because audax isn't really a goal of mine, I'd just be using them for more interesting TT training really.

Reminds me, Nik Gardiner and Gethin Butler both used to use the Bryan Chapman 600 as training rides. (Both of them did it in under 24 hours too I think, Gethin definitely.)

Indeed. I prefer my coffee artificial. This natural coffee trend has had its day. I'm just going to drink things made from e-numbers from now on.

Pure E174 or E175? Might be a bit hot in liquid form, and a tad expensive in quantity.

The rare times I ran in to work (a long long time ago) I left as much as could at work the day(s) before (luckily I have lockers and showers at work): shoes, t-shirt, jeans, socks, boxers, towel, shower stuff, etc. I generally have a stash of all this stuff at work anyway, in case I forget to bring stuff in with me one day.

That just left me to carry:

• 'phone
  
• keys (home and work)
  
• wallet (no wallet, I just carried £50 in emergency cash, one debit card, Oyster card and my work ID card)
  
  

These fit in an "arm wallet" (i.e. http://www.sportsdirect.com/karrimor-arm-wallet-764971?colcode=76497146) and the 'phone used as mp3 player. Nothing else to carry. No need for water on a 10km run in to work.

If it's PF, it's likely to get worse, and it's mortifying as a runner to get it, as it's mainly a fat person's condition.

Ha. Not a problem; I have a BMI of 30 at the moment anyway. Already do calf raises most days as part of stretching regime, will bring a golf ball in to the office and stick one on my desk at home. Ta.

5x5 intervals on the gym bike before lunch today and the ache has gone away completely, so I suspect it's a mild case purely as I've upped my running from nothing (well, I have always done ~2 hours of 5-a-side football a week) to two 30 minute 5k runs a week.

I don't even understand how anyone can spend more than maybe 8hrs on a bike. c.16 is madness.
Also how on earth do you eat so little during a ride?

All generalisations of physiology but (currently reading Faster by Dr Hutch)...

Slow enough, and with a well trained fat metabolism, and your body is powering you with mostly fat. The rate at which you're using carbs (fat burns in a carbohydrate flame) is low enough that the carbs can be replaced by eating (you can only take on a certain amount of carbs per hour). You can go pretty much forever at this pace.

Push a bit harder and your body needs more energy and this has to come from carbs (you're already at the limit of how fast you can process fat into energy). The carbs are being used faster than the body can take in new carbs so this can't go on forever, you'll eventually bonk but how long you can go for at this rate depends on the depletion rate. The average person has 1600-2000kcal of glycogen in the blood and liver - this is what you're depleting. A 200kcal an hour deficit will give you 8-10 hours before you go bang.

Push harder (up to and including race type pace) and you're way beyond what your body can take in and so the glycogen stores are depleted much more quickly, even if you ate like a horse. A 400-500kcal deficit will see you bonking in 4-5 hours; and sooner if you don't eat properly.

25kph average is the upper limit of my "all day" pace, it's closer to 20kph if it's hilly and I'm on fixed.

I can do 30kph average for a few hours, but I have to be careful what I eat. I've simply never averaged over 30kph for anything over that; mind you, I'm just an average fat bloke on a bike (with reasonable stamina and will/staying power).

Dull ache in middle of right foot/arch.

Internet diagnosis gives Plantar Fasciitis. It's noticeable in the morning, and when running, but not painful/uncomfortable enough to make me even considering stopping.

I plan on ignoring it, continuing to run (as long as it doesn't get worse) and working on stretching and core strength.

Sound familiar to anyone?

[EDIT - Trainers are suggested pair based on gait analysis, so I don't think it's the wrong type of support... ]

Putney Bridge, buttery smooth.

Last commute by train: August 4th

Just a thought; if anyone here is riding fixed / brakeless, have you noticed a detrimental affect on your knees causing problems for running?

No, I do the holy trinity of things that are allegedly bad for knees:-

• I ride fixed (including 600km+ hilly Audaxes with 8000m+ climbing)
  
• I run (on pavements/roads)
  
• I play 5-a-side football on astroturf
  
  

Obviously the wrong pedal setup could affect your knees, a bad running gait could affect your knees, the wrong support type of shoe could affect your knees, etc.

Yeah, I'm torn though because audax isn't really a goal of mine, I'd just be using them for more interesting TT training really. The PBP rule is the spanner in the works.

I've seen some very stiff bar bag setups on PBP.