I'm totally going to end up with both. It just depends which I get first. I do like the idea of seeing numbers on my wahoo but then I also like the idea of seeing some fancy wheels on my bike!
I'd say make the choice best on what your immediate aims are. PWM for training, or specifics like calorie burn, FTP's for training sessions outside. If you're more about the ride and not that serious then get wheels first. You'll like the look of the bike and enjoy the 'feeling' more to keep you riding and encourage you.
But don't expect either of them to make you a fantastic rider - they're just 2 tools with quite a bit of crossover in achieving that. One is more head, the other more heart.
I agreed with my partner I wont get a new bike until we buy our new house so that's at least 4 years away but that's definitely more of a want than a need.
Ouch. See if you can retract this! The cost of a bike in the grand schemes of house ownership is NOTHING. I ended up buying one when we actually where in the process of moving - but saving ~£800 off the list price of it was too good to miss. Paid easily 2X more than the cost of that bike in unforeseen fee's and waivers.
Bike barely 7% of the money we spent on the house move.
All the way out into the wind, coming home with the wind I felt great and was 3mph ave faster. Was it just the wind, or could it be I only had a bowl of porridge half an hour before riding, which is slow release energy? I think it's most likely the wind, but did make me wonder as my legs just didn't feel good for the first half to the point I even wondered about turning back about 10 miles in.
Defo the wind, especially being a taller and bigger guy it'll affect/impact you more. At the speeds you where travelling at I wouldn't consider the porridge 'bad' fuel. If anything perfect for that kind of ride - but it's all down to the HR zones you where in on just what kind of burn you achieved to know if it was enough to fuel you. As you seem to be counting and in a deficit to try and trim (?), it may not have given you enough reserves for those conditions. The way home with that wind was always going to feel good!
Calories is always something that I see as far too many people burning high numbers which in my mind can't be 'real' (or realistic). Hate to use yours as an example but here we are - call it 3 hours of riding and 2000 calories. Considering for half of that (talking rough figures here) Strava says you where in Z2 with another hour in Z3. That to me sounds crazy high burn for a Z2/3 ride?! Look at my ride yesterday with
not too dissimilar HR zones - yet my calorie burn being barely 2/3 of yours. Admittedly I was on Zwift so less 'outside influence' and only rode for 2 hours. But that is a massive difference in 'calories' really. That 7-800 calorie breakfast difference in 'burn' between us.
I didn't even eat anything before mine, nor drink anything more than a 750ml bottle of High5 hydration tabs (zero cal?!) while riding. Didn't feel empty afterwards so no extra calories consumed. But also don't 'expect' to for that kind of ride.
The
TTT I did on Thursday a different matter, but 1 hour at mostly Z4 at my utter limit, destroying myself riding with A's and strong B's (I'm a C). Utterly empty at the end. 1 hour and ~1000 calories. Massive difference physically and 'feel', yet only a few hundred cals difference in 'burn?! How right is that - I could easily have demolished an extra couple of breakfasts after that ride! I'd also eaten a massive curry ~1 hour before.
But yes, FTP alone seems an odd way to measure a riders ability. It's like every person that runs is judged on their 5k time, even the 100m sprinters.
That's totally it and probably why FTP itself is a poor measure and why really using it to 'compare' and compete against other is an utter failing. Nothing new really. FTP is a training tool and a judgement meant to be used personally to adjust/measure training rides/plans against and measure personal gains against. You only get better at riding hard for 20 minutes, by riding hard for 20 minutes.
I don't do 20 minute efforts very often, not even FTP tests anymore, because I'm always racing and TTT'ing. I've got significantly better at them, but I dare say to go and do an FTP test I would likely end up with a similar number to my last one when I was far weaker (247W). Before doing an FTP test and being able to 'trust' the result, I'd be doing more solid power efforts to get myself 'ready' to ride one. The reality is a more rounded testing like the 4DP would be far better for most of us - my 1m, 5m and 10min powers are probably significantly higher due to the types of efforts I'm riding.
BMI is used primarily when talking about people with weight issues. Anyone who isn't reasonably accurately represented by BMI is unlikely to be ignorant of their health
This is pretty much it. BMI generally for 'normal' people - those less active than us, probably carrying more fat than us, but also significantly less muscle. I'm 79kg now and it's telling me that's 26.3 and overweight. Suggested range being 55kg-75kg. I can get down to 75kg (kinda my summer weight), but anything towards 70kg is hard for me and when I did people said I 'looked unhealthy'. I felt it too, far less power. I'd be feeble at 55-60kg!
Lot of pish really. My thighs must be pure muscle IMO
Mine are not, but a running joke with a teammate is my thighs each measuring 24" the same as her waistline. If mine where pure muscle I'd be 100kg and called Chris Hoy.
I would imagine for a lot of people that don't exercise and generally live fairly sedentary lifestyles, if they're marked as obese they probably do need to do something about it.
Bang on.
Managed to bag some goodies off the bay today.
Shimano ULTEGRA R8000 2x11 Speed Shifters
Rear derailleur R8000 gs
Front derailleur R8000
All brand new, for £270. Seemed a bargain.
Great find and price!
Not sure if these are Goldilocks yet but 2.5 hours in the turbo abd my feet feel ok, my knees on the other hand.
They gotta be pretty close if you can do that in a new pair of shoes mate! Even now with my ~6 year old Sidi's they still feel as comfortable as slippers, but if I do them up a notch too tight and don't notice for 30+ mins I can be in agony or have a really sore/strained foot for an hour or two after...!
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