Felt really slow and lethargic today after not getting a decent amount of sleep the last two nights due to the little one... Maybe 3-4 hours unbroken sleep maximum each night. He's good and 'sleeps' for 4-5 hours at a time but damn is he noisy... Mumbling and random half shouts-half cries scattered throughout the night. The other half seems to sleep through the majority, but they wake me up. He's quite good at waking at 5.15-5:30am, which isn't too bad normally (with my work alarm going off at 6:05) but when it's been broken sleep before then I really don't wake feeling 'rested'!
Also really slack tire as I got to work, hopefully just low on air and one of the speed bumps taxed it rather than a slow puncture. Will see at lunchtime!
Still planning on Zwifting later, my tuesday night race schedule is the only weekly ride structure I've been able to get into outside of commuting, riding other days has been far more sporadic.
Let's just say there was a little bit of inconsistency in being fair with regard to not taking extra sleep at the expense of other teammates rest
Hahaha brutal! It was 'only' 24h? I'd probably have done the same as you and not slept... Or an hour long cat nap in the middle! You carried them anyway!
I'm jumping the gun really, the technology is still in an embryonic phase for something like cycling. I'm a manufacturing engineer and my old firm made a complete mountain bike frame using the technique out of a Titanium alloy. They actually "printed" it using one of their own machines.
It's probably a few years away yet, but I'm sure it will be used on smaller parts like stems, seat posts and crank arms first.
All good info and really interesting, all of the current 3D printing techniques could all find homes in various bicycle manufacturing techniques, but strangely as an industry much of the innovation in manufacture tends to be done by the smaller ones in the field rather than the larger ones who tend to stick to their tried and tested techniques.
Was cold tonight - brrrrrr
Was colder in the morning! Real windchill making things feel much cooler than ambient suggests. This morning was totally different - wet roads and although the wind was stronger it wasn't anywhere near as cool.
Quality over quantity
(guilty as charged...)
Haha tell me about it! To be fair the racing I'm doing is giving me some needed quality. With training plans I tended to avoid them and just do base riding around really not achieving anything. Riding around smashing people is 'fun' but didn't really do anything! With racing I have found myself riding my commute a little more reserved, without it I was nailing it all the time. Not very productive due to the short length and the lack of warm up/cool down just meaning I was accumulating fatigue rather than really progressing myself.
Potentially looking at selling my bike. Is £450 reasonable for a White Planet X Pro Carbon Ultegra? Purchased in 2015 and only done 600 miles on it. I have someone who is interested.
It's a couple of years old, regardless of the condition the question has to be based on what you paid for it and how much you feel comfortable with it leaving for. There's no point doing the guy a deal if in springtime you want to ride it again and have to buy another one...!
I'm a full convert to running lights all the time on my bike now. Maybe it is all in my head but I'm sure I get passed wider and pulled out on less when I'm running front and rear flashers during the day. To that end I've backed my first ever Kickstarter campaign and gone for a set of the new See Sense lights. My current ones should see me through to next summer and I hope to get them some time in July.
/signed
I run a flashing rear light 99% year round even in bright sunshine. These gloomy days (last month/6 weeks) that's combined with a flashing front too. Exposure Trace & TraceR ftw! 80/100 lumen flash & 10+ day burntime!
