Fitness 2013

[MadImmortalMan]

I'm also having problems getting enough calories. My waist is still getting smaller, but I've seen no appreciable muscle mass increase for a while even though I'm still lifting. My weights continue to get heavier though. I think I just need to pack in a bunch of steaks or something. The thing is, I just don't have the appetite. I sat down for Easter dinner last night, had a handful of asparagus and a small piece of ham and didn't want any more. I literally cannot eat any meal in a restaurant and finish it.

[PDH]

Rode the 20 mile round trip twice - Saturday and today.  This time of the year it is cold, windy, and conditions change.  Still, it felt good to be able to do about 14 mph over a distance today.  A few more weeks of this and I will add the 2.5 mile climb that comes right at the 10 mile turnaround.

[mongers]

Rode the 20 mile round trip twice - Saturday and today.  This time of the year it is cold, windy, and conditions change.  Still, it felt good to be able to do about 14 mph over a distance today.  A few more weeks of this and I will add the 2.5 mile climb that comes right at the 10 mile turnaround.

Given your neck of the woods, that isn't a 2.5 miles of climb up ?

Funnily enough didn't do much yesterday when it was sunny.  But today popped down the valley, against a headwind, to visit a friend, we were going to take some photos at the sea, but abandoned the idea as it was rather overcast. 
So after a chat, I got out and there was still a bit of early evening light left, so I thought I'll go down to the sea front, ended up cycling all the way along the prom to Sandbanks(home to multi-millionaires) then up too Poole, from there along an old railway line to nr Wimborne in Dorset, then along a fast main road, till I cut off for the last 5-6 miles cross county to home, just needed my lights for the last 800 yards, so these late evenings can only get better.

Ended up doing 60+kms on my single speed, which I hadn't intended on doing, don't feel too bad considering I haven't done something like that in 5 months.

[Ideologue]

Sixty kilometers a second?  That's pretty good.

[mongers]

Sixty kilometers a second?  That's pretty good.

No, that's how quickly you life goes if you spend it moping about on the internet.   

[Ideologue]

I'm not moping.  I made the world a better place today.

Nothing that appears to redound to me in a material or measurable way, but whatever.

[PDH]

Given your neck of the woods, that isn't a 2.5 miles of climb up ?

Yeah, the 25 mile round trip has after the 10 mile marker a 2.5 uphill (for about 1100 feet total elevation change), but the 2.5 down really doesn't count as part of the workout

[mongers]

Given your neck of the woods, that isn't a 2.5 miles of climb up ?

Yeah, the 25 mile round trip has after the 10 mile marker a 2.5 uphill (for about 1100 feet total elevation change), but the 2.5 down really doesn't count as part of the workout

Yeah, but I bet it's fun.   

In comparison this evenings route started about 26ft above sea level, decended to around 5-6ft absl, may have touch 60ft near the harbour, before attaining the dizzy heights of about 80ft in the railway cutting on the way home. 

OK so those altitudes figures are plucked out of my arse, but you get the drift, no mountains, no hills over 1,000 ft for around 90 miles. 

[PDH]

If I get the road bike, I plan to do the 80 mile trip that crosses the Snowy Range to Saratoga.  Start at 7200 feet, ride up to 10,800 feet at the highway summit, then down to 6800 feet for the finish.

After a night at a hotel, it is back over the next day.

[mongers]

If I get the road bike, I plan to do the 80 mile trip that crosses the Snowy Range to Saratoga.  Start at 7200 feet, ride up to 10,800 feet at the highway summit, then down to 6800 feet for the finish.

After a night at a hotel, it is back over the next day.

  envy.

Can people breath at those altitudes ?

[Jaron]

Americans can.

[mongers]

Not doing at lot the moment. 

[Ideologue]

I walked a couple of miles today.  They were out of cookies at Subway, so for the first time, may actually eat my RDA of protein today.  Look, I have a budget, and there are trade-offs.

[Maladict]

Joined a gym on Friday, took the bike out for the first time yesterday. All is not lost yet.

[Eddie Teach]

Americans can.

I have enough trouble breathing at sea level.