Seemingly trivial things that intrigue you
Comments
-
-
Sure, but it's almost instantaneous to determine they're a waste of time.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0 -
Meh when they call 4-5 times a day, like they used to, (between both phones), you eventually give it a go on the odd one.
0 -
A farmer not doing the image of farming much good there. I doubt if any of the livestock farmers I've known would condone running down a calf with a two-tonne vehicle. Can you imagine the outrage if they'd done the same with those rampaging horses? Oh, but it's just a calf...
0 -
-
-
Faced with the choice of agreeing with with the NFU or the RSPCA, what is one to do?
0 -
Why there were so many birds or prey around one small area when I walked the dogs just now? I regularly see a pair of buzzards and occasionally another buzzard that must have the adjacent patch. Less frequently I see a red kite, we seem to be on the edge of their territory here. Today I counted 8, mainly buzzards I think but at least one red kite, all over the same area and seemingly re-enacting the Battle Of Britain. There were some serious aerial dog fights going on with the kite seemingly the main target. My guess is that they are finally cutting the fields for hay and disturbing mice, voles etc. creating a nice feast but I'm still surprised so many have converged on the area which is semi-rural.
0 -
It intrigues me what The Telegraph is going to do next. It's just as nuts as the Tory Party.
0 -
Haven't seen 'Stop The Votes' yet. Give it time...
0 -
And so much for Europe and the EU not being a fixation of the loons after Brexit. Ho hum.
0 -
One's form and sensations on a bike will always baffle me.
I do seem to have noticed that knocking out even just one longer, high cadence, lower effort ride can really have a huge positive impact on how you feel and how you ride within a week or two afterwards.
The addition of doing a material amount of exercise from another sport continues to confound me. I am sort of pretty fit and sort of not on the bike, and I can't get my head around it.
In aggregate it is quite obviously noticeable that volume and quality of "training" or riding (in that order), has a massive and unmistakeable impact, otherwise what would be the point of training at all, but on the day-to-day variations? Baffled.
0 -
My hunch would be that it's like (trumpet) practice: the more you practise a widish range of skills at different intensities, the more consistency you get. Yes, you do increase the upper limits, albeit very marginally from month to month, but as soon as the practice regime slips, the variations in day-to-day form become more noticeable.
0 -
Sure, but even how it feels versus how you do is never the same either. Sensations vs performance are not especially correlated. It's so weird. Never has been.
0 -
I've never been one one to collect data on rides (other than basic ave MPHs until age-related decline and post-concussion syndrome made that depressing), and it's hard to collect objective data on my trumpet playing, so I can't really comment meaningfully on 'feeling' v. performance.
0 -
Yeah. I can see why all this data the pros have growing up makes them so much more effective trainers.
One's mental state and "sensation" is so loosely related to what you're actually doing that having data that cuts through all of that must be so useful.
Additionally, cycling is minimal on technique so that data is especially reflective of actual performance.
I collect it merely out of interest retrospectively. I like riding my bike and i'm curious enough to know how fast I can go/ not go etc. I also just like riding my bike really fast.
0 -
I must admit that when I was doing ave MPH and riding totally on feel to get the maximum MPH, I did sometimes get it really wrong, especially if the outwards leg was into a headwind, and I pushed too hard into the wind: if I get it right, I can do a decently fast diesel-like TT slog home. If I get it wrong... well, we've all been there, I'm sure.
0 -
Yeah. I reckon for about the first 3-4 years of riding I never properly emptied the tank out of fear of how to get home. Always held back, that little bit.
I eventually did a few rides where I got properly obliterated, no choice, and I did make it back home. That made a huge difference, mentally. Night and day after that. The confidence to really empty the tank made such a difference. Could have more fun but also the form came on so quickly too.
0 -
I often find myself dragging friends back the last 20 miles, whereas I've been letting them get ahead of me in the first couple of hours, not chasing them up hills or pushing on the flat. If I've got anything left in the tank, then those last 20 miles are when to empty it out.
0 -
There's two types of emptying the tank - what you just posted on the other thread, or properly bonking.
As you get older there is also the wild card of some part of your anatomy giving up the ghost unexpectedly, miles from home. Usually for me it's my back, but I've been pleasantly surprised by wrist injuries and knee injuries too.
0 -
Yeah the bonk is horrendous, but that's not about going as deep as you can.
Only bonked twice. Never again. Ever. Once was bad enough.
0 -
I've never bonked. I was going to say "as far as I know", but I think the riposte to that would be "You'd know if you had."
0 -
Can't disagree. I read it (for free) with morbid fascination.
0 -
Is he introducing a smile tax? I'm all for that, it wouldn't cost me a penny.
0 -
It really f*cks with your head. I got kinda scared and frightened, but yet weirdly alert because it was impossible to ride hard enough to get even barely out of breath. Wobbling all over the road. I remember eventually coming across a remote mountain equivalent of a cornershop and just eating my way through the shop, throwing money at the shopkeeper afterwards. After about 20 mins I was normal enough to apologise for my behaviour.
Before that I got the most incredibly dark emotion, like some sort of inner evil was leaking out of me. Awful.
I can't quite describe the sensation of eating after a bonk like that, other than it was like I could feel the sugar molecules coursing through my veins to the ends of my fingers as I ate.
0 -
Yeah, I know that a proper bonk is grim. I think I might have got close one time, wolfing down both an ice-cream and a pint of milk 10 miles from home, then limping home gently.
The worst I had (not bonking) was stopping to take a call about the delivery of a dustbin to my French house, and the driver was lost (apparently unable to follow GPS, read a map or road signs). I was at the end of longish ride in 35C on the main road drag into town, and at the end of the call I suddenly felt seconds from fainting, so lay down by the side of the road. A very fit (female) cyclist stopped and kindly asked if I was OK. Stupidly I said I was. Well, I was a couple of minutes later, at least fit enough to ride the 5km home.
0 -
Once took me 1 hour (and 2 full bidons) to cycle 10 kms of perfectly flat road at the end of a ride. That was dehydration though due to 45C, not bonking. Not recommended.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
-
I don't like it at all when it's so hot, and your water isn't cold, that no matter how much you drink you still feel dehydrated and have dry lips & mouth. Eurgh. Thankfully, I generally know where most of the many fountains are in my area, so frequent top-ups aren't a problem (I can easily drink a gallon on a ride when it's properly hot). But above a certain temperature, dry-mouth syndrome still seems to kick in.
0 -
Yes, we've all thought about drinking piss on a ride like that.
0
