Good numbers mate, maybe we'll both be 4w/kg buddies at some point
Left work an hour early with the boss to to do a zwift race.
I can replicate 300w for 20 minutes quite a few times but getting into 320w+ seems impossible. I'll need to do some big blocks of threshold work.
Zwift racing and TTT's will give you that threshold work quite 'easily'! But think I'm certainly a way off 4w/kg. To be fair at the moment with all the trainer issues and general life stuff getting in the way of my other riding the TTT being a constant means I'm just trying to keep consistent efforts/results/numbers on it.
If I can somehow balance 3.5w/kg I'll be more than happy as at my current weight (77kg) that's 270W. As soon as I'm getting more other riding in, my weight should creep down (to be honest I'm 78kg the last few weeks), so maintaining that power with more base miles and more fatigue is the current aim. There's a 3R Endurance Race series starting on saturdays, as I've struggled to find the 2-3 hours the last few weekends for the 100km rides, maybe that one is the logical replacement - shorter 'endurance' but harder riding. Need to extend myself over the 1 hour marker.
Managed my 25th ascent of the Alpe earlier. All about those achievement badges!
Kudos! Don't think I'm even in double figures!
Fan set up is key, I had mine pointing at my legs earlier and was cooking a bit. Ideally would love one either side at torso level.
My front mini (
Honeywell HT900) works quite well directed at legs/torso but not quite enough cooling for chest. It's a great little size, so sits right up front below my screen. I generally start it on my legs then as needed tilt up to my chest. This time of year (cold garage) I generally don't have the others on.
I have a larger pedestal off to one side directed at my face/chest when things get warmer. Less intense and bigger area than the honeywell so cools all of me. My back is generally where I'm damp/soaked, but that aids the cooling (this time of year), but have to watch getting very cold very quickly afterwards. In my garage it was 3 degrees, I put a heater on 1.5 hours before riding and got it upto 5 degrees. Kept heater on for 3/4 of the TDZ stage I did yesterday evening and when I'd finished temperatures where up to 8.5 degrees. Warm enough not to be in thermals!
In the summer I have a really intense massive pedestal fan I offset at the rear mostly pointed at my back to dry me out and assist the cooling there to stop me overheating. Try not to have 'conflicting' airflows to get the most from them all. But I am quite lucky to have a large enough space to achieve this.
Smart plug(s) ?
I discovered them a few weeks back. Kinda funny they've changed marketing to athletics etc now.
HAha yeah I recall reading about those Vacmasters on a thread someone posted a link to here. Great to see a company like that adapt to what must be a very new/unknown and large market for them. Now do they do one with an on/off heat or thermostat...
I've also realised this morning, why my 40 miler was perhaps so hard. Checking the route I did, the gradient wasn't all that bad, but it was gravel and I did it on a road bike with road wheels. Apparently the rolling resistance would have been about double. Not a huge thing perhaps, but might explain why it felt so tough?
Yes. Gravel kills speed quite significantly, but it does impact lighter riders more than heavier (they carry less momentum), but a continual route on gravel really does sap things. That's why the 'Jungle circuit' is so tough and worth switching bikes for.
Tron bike finally unlocked!
Congrats! Orange wheels are the best!
Annoyingly missed the 3r race at just after 9 after jumping on my bike and finding the gears were awful. Derailleur hitting the flywheel and nothing indexed. Could not figure it out so chucked a different cassette on (12 25 out 11 28 in) and was pretty much sorted straight away. Very odd.
Not seated on dropout or had kicked out with QR not tight enough? I have to be quite careful clamping in my Flux as the 'natural' position the bike wants to sit is 3-4mm or so higher one side than the other. Have to reverse straddle it, sit on the top tube and chest on the saddle to weight it while clamping.
Found & 'fixed' another issue with my Flux which was causing some belt slippage. Bolt through the lower pivot part of the tension arm had moved, so tension on belt was 1 sided. Annoying but there's no way to fix it in position. If it keeps doing it may have to figure out how to drill and pin it with a washer and clip or such. Not really sure why it's not held in some way (other than it moving out enough to catch the flywheel which stops it moving any further).
Backed up this morning with TDZ Stage 2 longer with 284W for 47mins! opposite of this morning, I had no idea where anyone was on the road as it was so busy! and i was busy trying to change the CX on the TV when it all went a bit mental. Came through in 4th in the end. Think I'll be feeling it tomorrow.
Some massive numbers both of those rides mate, supreme work! After my repair above I jumped on and rode... But I should have calibrated first! Power readings quite high - thought I was on a bit of a flier and only a TDZ stage so just continued. False FTP boost to 299W :lol:
https://www.strava.com/activities/4788363188
To be fair the times & power up the Legsnapper are about normal for me, just much of the other work sat at 4.0w/kg driving the little group onwards are the false/garbage bits...!
Roady, updated to windows 10, I didn’t realise you could still update for free from Windows 7, it’s not quite a fresh install but it did a load of updates including drivers so fingers crossed! Will ride later on this week.
Yeah, if you're a little bit vague with the 'truth'. They extended it for people with disabilities still get a free upgrade. Then I think later relaxed things even further so people who had a genuine Retail licence could. Don't think OEM's work without some of the Accessibility stuff though? But I do think once you 'upgrade' your licence number is then valid to be used with a blank/base install without having to go the base Win7 OS install first?
There's A W10 download page, when accessed from a W10 install you can download the media (to USB). I don't recall if that makes a bootable image, seem to think it doesn't but could be wrong. But think that download tool (which downloads the ISO) can be set to download the DVD ISO's so you could burn them... If you have an old SATA DVD drive to plug into the Gigabyte board
@SoliD could be the easiest.
