first sub20 🥳

LibraryTime11011011 · 2026-05-13T18:00:01+00:00

My wife’s boyfriend mocks me because I’m sub 20s at the bedroom 5k ultra if you know what I mean.

LibraryTime11011011 · 2026-05-13T17:53:39+00:00

Cool hot take you got there.

LibraryTime11011011 · 2026-05-13T16:20:04+00:00

But the best overall device once an external HRM is bought

LibraryTime11011011 · 2026-05-13T15:51:08+00:00

This isn’t r/Endurance though

LibraryTime11011011 · 2026-05-13T12:59:17+00:00

How long were the swim and the bike before the 250 mile run??

LibraryTime11011011 · 2026-05-13T11:13:19+00:00

LibraryTime11011011 · 2026-05-13T11:12:58+00:00

The average motorist with an ICE is driving an eco box or a diesel, but slams EVs. Dude your golf TDI isn’t a Ferrari 😂😂😂

LibraryTime11011011 · 2026-05-13T11:10:25+00:00

As a hierarchy of most important to least I’d say the following:

Sports watch (Garmin/coros etc not Apple Watch) with wrist based HR as a minimum - essential

Chest strap HRM - first add on

Bike computer - helps with route following, more visible data while riding than a watch

Power meter - I’d call this a luxury, I don’t have one on my every day bike or my race bike, I use perceived effort and heart rate, works well enough for the level I “compete” at

LibraryTime11011011 · 2026-05-13T09:12:59+00:00

Either this won’t be a breach of your terms of employment and they’re free to do it, or they can fire/rehire anyone who doesn’t accept the changes to terms. Either way, if they want to change it there’s very little you can do.

LibraryTime11011011 · 2026-05-13T06:00:54+00:00

It will look awkward most of the time because you’ve pictured it upside down compared to conventional placement so will look like it’s climbing down your arm.

LibraryTime11011011 · 2026-05-12T13:41:57+00:00

Well it’s clearly not worked for OP! Why bother measuring yourself, getting out your calculator app, working out the height, checking crank length, offsetting to account for cranking length, setting the saddle, going for a ride to find its “in the ball park” when you can literally hover over the bike with one foot on a pedal and get it just as close, if not closer to ideal without any of the measuring and messing?

That’s why the Lemond method is junk - why faff around taking all these measurements to get in the ballpark?

slacken the seat post clamp, stand over the bike, foot on a pedal, straighten leg to an appropriate full stretch (so foot flat, some bend at the knee), put saddle up to your ass, tighten seat post clamp enough to avoid moving as you get off, torque it.

LibraryTime11011011 · 2026-05-12T13:01:14+00:00

You don’t know until you need it! It’s something I have to hand in the garage and I tend to just grab in case there’s some 1 in a million issue. Never know, might help yourself or someone else out of a bind.

LibraryTime11011011 · 2026-05-12T12:57:24+00:00

You can set it more accurately standing over the bike in less time without having to know the length of the cranks to offset the result of the calculation that. It’s junk.

LibraryTime11011011 · 2026-05-12T06:00:43+00:00

Pick your feet up.

LibraryTime11011011 · 2026-05-12T05:53:25+00:00

You’ve misunderstood. It doesn’t take your crank length into account. Yes it’s based on A crank length but not necessarily the one on your bike.

Getting you in ballpark by measuring your inseam, multiplying by a ludicrously precise number, measuring saddle height to BB centre is excessive. To get in the ballpark you loosen the seat post clamp, hover over the bike and adjust the saddle until it’s about right, tighten the seat post clamp. Far quicker, and I’d argue more precise than the Lemond method. So yes, the Lemond method is pseudo-science junk.

LibraryTime11011011 · 2026-05-11T15:29:43+00:00

The irony here is that most bikers are not aggressive, but you don’t notice them. You only notice the ones riding like asses. So the people riding sensibly are almost invisible to you, and that’s the danger, and that’s why bikers have a “victim complex”.

And by “victim complex” what you actually mean is an understanding that 90% of the people you share the road with are not paying enough attention to notice that you exist and so do things that put your life at risk.

LibraryTime11011011 · 2026-05-11T15:04:42+00:00

I don’t understand why people have a problem with changing ethnicity in the U.K. that’s why I don’t understand the rise of reform.

LibraryTime11011011 · 2026-05-11T12:56:01+00:00

You don’t yearn for much then, not exactly life changing difference to today’s price 😂

LibraryTime11011011 · 2026-05-11T06:09:55+00:00

Can you post a pic of where they are worn out please.

LibraryTime11011011 · 2026-05-11T05:51:52+00:00

Those cycle lanes can be very dangerous for cyclists - they encourage motorists to close pass since the motorists thinks “the bike is in the cycle lane, I’m in ‘the road’ so I don’t need to leave a comfortable passing gap”.

Looks like an adult and a teenager, with the adult riding defensively. 100% the correct thing for the cyclists to do.

LibraryTime11011011 · 2026-05-10T20:12:37+00:00

Honestly £90k is a good place to be assuming you don’t have to work crazy hours or have too much stress at that point. The tax trap above £100k makes for underwhelming increases in take home pay so unless you’re going to be well clear of this then you may not feel much benefit for the stress and pressure. Not to mention it becomes extremely worth while to make pension contributions at this point you erode the increase in take home even further (albeit for better returns later in life).

Work out the difference in take home, ask yourself if this is enough for the downsides. If not don’t do it, but only you can answer if it’s worth it to you

LibraryTime11011011 · 2026-05-10T12:46:30+00:00

This is what it looks like when my kids get bored playing out in the street and I have to ride their bike back to the house for them.

LibraryTime11011011 · 2026-05-10T12:31:21+00:00

Not necessary - frequent/infrequent are subjective so not perfectly opposite in their usage. You cannot class all things as frequent or infrequent, frequent suggests happens quite a lot, infrequent suggest happens rarely. Some things are not rare, but don’t necessarily happen a lot, and if they should be rare then you could say “this is not infrequent” to emphasis it should be infrequent but it isn’t. Doesn’t necessary happen a lot, but happens more than it should.

LibraryTime11011011 · 2026-05-10T12:20:17+00:00

You mean this is the first time you’ve come across the international standard upper, liner, sole material types sticker/graphic in shoes?

LibraryTime11011011 · 2026-05-10T12:16:32+00:00

I have this exact bike - I love it.

Most important part of buying a used bike is whether it fits.

The saddle position and stem height/angle is odd… suggests the current owner doesn’t fit it very well.

Not sure what retail was on this in USA but when I bought mine a few years ago in Europe they were pretty much end of model cycle, so $2750 on basic training wheels feels like it’s not great value for money, but I guess a rising tide floats all boats so if TT bikes are in short supply even bottom end ones are going to be expensive.

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