Search results for:

Im curious about ‘build runs’ which I see in training plans, and fellow athletes doing on strava. Am I right thinking these are runs where you steadily increase pace towards the end, and often done on the end of a long run to simulate running fast on tired legs at the end of a race?
Is your end pace usually your target race pace, or slightly quicker?
I tried one today and it made sense, increasing pace each km after halfway on a 10km run, ending up with the last km slightly quicker than 10km pace. Seems like a sensible thing to do sometimes, especially given I only run in races in tris so doing the pace on tired legs is valid. Equally if I ran that pace the whole run I’d be dead now, too tired probably to do turbo and swim tomorrow.
Am I missing the point?

They only have town bikes, I’m after a road bike ideally.
That’s a kind offer thanks, I may take my own yet but I’ll message you if not?
Thanks for getting in touch

I learned today that a while ago Ed Hood from veloveritas and pezcyclingnews has suffered a serious stroke and most likely wont be writing again. There’s a fundraiser and pez are linking some of his best stories. I used to really enjoy his six day stories when he was runner for morkov and partners https://pezcyclingnews.com/features/ed-needs-our-help/

Ah cool, I should have watched his full video! Thanks. I hope he doesn’t give up the Mtb and gravel too, enjoyed the mix last year. Nice tribute to his old pal Rab as well doing Mtb and having fun

I don’t really get why Cam Mason moved from trinity who seem to have good PR, great bikes, let him race gravel, Mtb and cross and have the option to do road at a high level, and he’s gone to teamred 777 who seem to only do cross and Steven’s don’t seem to make a full sus xc bike. Presumably £££

Not really as he was mostly top 20 and rode for trinity previously, did some gravel and Mtb last year too. Don’t know why he’s kicked on so well this year

Just found these as stocking fillers for the kids but also clearly ordered a few for myself. Get some mint sauce on your bike

Yes! I have similar Swedish army surplus mitts with a weird liner like an old oven glove. In minus 15 my hands got sweaty

My winter bike is my summer bike. Anyone who rides a bike without guards in summer hasn’t lived near Manchester for long.
Near chain, cassette and break pads each spring, maybe new tyres, and it’s now a summer bike.
Last time I took the guards off to race it we had flooding the next week

to add to the trainer road plan thoughts, after 4 weeks and now doing 10mins sweetspotx4 with 15 sec rest the power target is fine! I can do a bit over the power but at this time of year in the cold it’s plenty. Still struggle with the outdoor workouts but that’s a work in progress learning to pace and find the right loops

That’s a banger

Actually scratch that, I don’t think it’ll be quite big enough. Nice frame though

Interested in the frame with bits

Potentially interested and I have the missing bits already on my hardtail. What travel is it and how does it ride? I’m after a trail/ peaks long day out bike

This is an absolute steal for a classic bike, great for pump tracks, race cruisers category at your local bmx and hit the dirt jumps. Mega price

Does anyone live or know anyone who lives in Denmark near Billund? We’re going for a week family holiday in June but it’s also 2 weeks before a half Ironman, so ideally I’d like to do 2-3 road rides and would be happy to cross someone’s palm with gold or beer in return for loan of a bike tor a few days. Local hire places only do town bikes
Thanks

Maybe that’s the issue as I also hate faf de clerk even when he played for and solo carried my much loved sale sharks. I also don’t really like my kids who are short.
I’m I sizeist?

I also irrationally dislike iserbyt, a combination of small, overconfidence, and dated Puck Moonen

Any race recommendations for next year? I’m uninspired by my original plans!
Can’t really do roc wales as it doesn’t work with family plans, lakesman seems nice but clashes with a swim run with my wife, outlaw I’ve heard the roads are dreadful surface but looks nice.
A scenic swim, decent road surfaces and either a fast run or a nice trail type run. Olympic or 70.3 distance. Thanks

Ah good thinking. I’ll look this week and see if he has a Kazakh phrasebook with him

Ooh interesting. I did think it was interesting that he was wearing a really old team sky rucksack last week whilst watching our kids do bmx. Wonder where he’s off to

I’m still finding similar to this, but today doing sweet spot 4x8 mins with 90 sec rest I realised maybe my heart rate isn’t climbing over 140bpm because I’m not doing any more than 190 watts. If this was sufferfest zwift or similar the workout might have some 10-20 sec sprints thrown in which would spike the hr.
After 3 weeks of regular sweet spot on the turbo I’d say the combined load is adding up (plus running, swimming and gym) but I still am incapable of managing to execute the outdoor workouts effectively!

Thanks both, that makes sense

Anyone able to confirm how these fit? Can’t see a fitting bolt in the usual places, do you maybe remove the lever first?

I agree with @dbr that I wouldn’t want the first session to be too hard, I wouldn’t do any more, and certainly would want it to get harder.
@hippy I’ve done a few but it’s a fair point, you can’t always trust a ramp test and I will probably do a power test outdoors soon to help calibrate, then redo the ramp halfway through this block. Motivation was low, I hadn’t used this testing format before, I’d had covid, I knew I wasn’t fit etc.. so my result wasn’t my peak