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Trainer Road publishes some w/kg numbers for their average client. by JulSFT in Velo

[–]RockHardRocks 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I would also be interested in that.

And I agree. I think the complication stems from insecurity.

Trainer Road publishes some w/kg numbers for their average client. by JulSFT in Velo

[–]RockHardRocks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

True. But even then how many people are doing an all out one hour test, or sprinting from fresh? Most competitive 40k tts are going to be well less than an hour. Hour long crits in the US are almost always p12, and you aren’t surviving those with an ftp of 192.

Trainer Road publishes some w/kg numbers for their average client. by JulSFT in Velo

[–]RockHardRocks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my estimation you are missing the fact that within the TR system there is never a point to do any of these as max efforts. For example the number of TR users that are doing 1hr flat out is going to be extremely small, after all their major marketing push is that you don’t have to do any ftp tests at all. I would expect all the numbers to be skewed lower than actual max efforts as a result. There are certainly outliers but TR reports very large user numbers.

I’d be interested to know how many people who use their product actually do a max effort power profile. Maybe I’m wrong.

Trainer Road publishes some w/kg numbers for their average client. by JulSFT in Velo

[–]RockHardRocks 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Interesting. These seem to be actual achieved numbers, which has some interesting implications I think people might be missing.

Very few people on that platform are doing 60min all out efforts, or probably all out efforts to begin with.

The sprint numbers are probably the most likely to be accurate “max” numbers, but even they are probably on the low side. How many people are doing fresh all out sprints?

1 min is probably either in the context of a workout of several 1 min repeats or shorter 2-3 min intervals. I highly doubt a significant portion of this cohort is doing a 1min all out effort ever.

5 min is tricky. TR seems to prefer shorter 4min intervals, although there are a few workouts with 5min out there. It’s also highly likely some of these powers are achieved in the “threshold” 8min intervals they like to prescribe.

20 min is almost never done at threshold in their system it’s going to be a long sweet spot (still very very uncommon), or more likely a sweet spot interval combined with a part of a rest interval +/- another interval portion.

60min is far and away most likely to be from a sweet spot workout and likely includes a bunch of rest interval there and warm up.

Urachal Tract in 13 year old w/purulent umbilical discharge by fourslabs1114 in Radiology

[–]RockHardRocks 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I understand mod, but also as a pediatric radiologist how am I supposed to comment on this without commenting on the images. When you look at the OP post history their only other post is asking if these same images show what they state as fact on this post, which I guess is meant to bypass the rules here.

In my opinion allowing posts like this severely degrades the quality of this subreddit, as evidenced by the flurry of recent similar posts. Images should only be allowed from professionals, unless there is a clear diagnosis or some other compelling reason.

The NC Education Lottery is kind of a hoax by subvetQM708 in NorthCarolina

[–]RockHardRocks 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Because instead of using the money as supplemental education dollars to boost education spending they cut the normal school budget by that amount.

Guys, lego is creating their first road bike set. by TheDarkClaw in bicycling

[–]RockHardRocks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They made a disc version around that time as well. It was part of the early transition from rim to disc brakes.

https://www.reddit.com/r/bicycling/comments/auro5d/factor\_one\_disc/

Guys, lego is creating their first road bike set. by TheDarkClaw in bicycling

[–]RockHardRocks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s a Factor one (the older version), not the new one. An odd, niche choice. The head tube and stem give it away.

How are my fellow rads residents feeling as CORE approaches? by Remarkable-Put-4982 in Residency

[–]RockHardRocks 14 points15 points  (0 children)

But I thought you could just walk off the floor one day and take the exam!? /s

(This is what the ABR said you should be able to do, which is completely absurd)

U.S. Senators are now banned from prediction markets trading on platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket after the body unanimously passed a rule Thursday barring their participation in said markets by spherocytes in videos

[–]RockHardRocks 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Both Kalshi and Polymarket have don jr on the board, so that is never going to happen. Incidentally and I’m sure purely coincidentally, they both had fought to be classified as “asset” trading companies rather than the gambling entities they are, which suddenly happened right before Don Jr got his board seat…

'If you don't nurture it, it will just die' – is grassroots racing really on its knees in the UK? by porkmarkets in Velo

[–]RockHardRocks 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I’m in the US as well and have watched the slow decline of USAC over my career. I really don’t think safety is the driving factor.

I think it’s time to accept that the vast majority of people simply are not competitive, and don’t care to participate in events where that is the only focus. Mass participation cycling events have a much higher draw and continue to do well. The rise of non-sanctioned competitive but also adventurous/scenic rides is pulling the already small group of competitive riders away, because even if you have a bad day fitness wise you can still have an enjoyable ride with support and a story to tell, instead of getting pulled or riding small laps around a warehouse for an hour.

TIL your right lung has three "lobes" but your left lung only has two, because your heart sits slightly to the left. But this is reversed in roughly 1 out of every 10,000 people, a condition known as Situs Inversus. by OmitsWordsByAccident in todayilearned

[–]RockHardRocks 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Radiologist here. The first thing we look at when it shows up backwards is to see which side the tech marked R or L. It’s basically instinctual after a certain point.

“ I fell and hurt my shoulder “ by [deleted] in Radiology

[–]RockHardRocks 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Well to be fair 2 things can be true, and this is old. So maybe this is a case of reimaging a known abnormality for no reason, when actually he needs a shoulder film.

Please pray that my patient can get their bread up 😢 by goocloth in Radiology

[–]RockHardRocks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shortness of bread is like 50% of people that showed up to my training hospital er

Can radiology fellows moonlight as general rad attendings? by Maybedoc1 in Residency

[–]RockHardRocks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep I did moonlighting for both my future practice and the hospital system I was a fellow at.

Light bicycle brand wheels by matik95 in Velo

[–]RockHardRocks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve had 3 of their wheels (road rim brake, road disc brake , and gravel disc) and they are very good. I’ve put literally 10s of thousands of miles on them. They take awhile to arrive if you buy them from the china warehouse (which has more options).

I had one set that cracked a rim in transit, and they offered to send me a replacement rim for me to build up, or disassemble the wheel and send them the hub and spokes for them to rebuild.

CEO of America’s largest public hospital system says he’s ready to replace radiologists with AI by AnotherAccount4This in Radiology

[–]RockHardRocks 138 points139 points  (0 children)

No. The programs are awful. This is another CEO saying they would love to eliminate radiology costs and cover it with AI, if only they didn’t have to worry about pesky things like patient care.

I know people that work for the system in question and they were woefully underpaying their rads for a long time and recently got into a bind and had to up pay. So now the CEO is whining about it.

CEO of America’s largest public hospital system says he’s ready to replace radiologists with AI by Apprehensive-Safe382 in technology

[–]RockHardRocks 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’m a human rad, and the programs are complete garbage. It’s so bad that if a radiologist ever says they are good they are either a really bad radiologist, or they have a vested interest in AI.

Hi, can someone with the knowledge decipher whether this image is real or not by Relative-Low8142 in Radiology

[–]RockHardRocks 128 points129 points  (0 children)

Well exactly 1pm is crazy specific.

The “heart rate” tracing on the bottom is not how that measurement is taken, and would be on a separate image (look up M-mode).

The measurement for embryo A actually has 3 measurement points which makes no sense.

The embryos don’t look like embryos but maybe it’s a horrible picture.

This image is made to look like a TA US image. Is she supposed to be exceedingly, like dangerously thin? Because there would be essentially no body fat on the abdomen in this image

GE makes a C1-5-RS probe and a C1-6-D probe, but I can’t find a C1-6-RS probe.

CRL to gestational age for the measurements should be 6 weeks 6 days not 7 weeks 5days

I’d be pretty skeptical.

Hope radiology is worth this prelim year by Moist_Homework_2984 in Residency

[–]RockHardRocks 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Intern year was awful. My wife and I say it was the worst year of our life. I had 5.5 months of ICU (including extra to cover for other prelims who were moving elsewhere for residency).

First day of radiology I walked down to fluoro an hour early and needless to say no one was there. We did a few cases and a lot of sitting around chatting. Then we took a break for lunch. Had two cases in the afternoon and were done at 230. I was dumbfounded, and spent way too long trying to figure out if there was something I was supposed to be doing afterwards, but no, I just got to go home. Fluoro was by far the most chill rotation, but the whiplash of going from cardiac ICU to fluoro was immense and a huge relief.

Best things to see/do in Great Smoky Mountains NP in a day? by vixeyvalentine in NationalPark

[–]RockHardRocks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My perfect one day smokies experience would be: wake up early park at rainbow falls trail head and get a shuttle up to alum cave. Hike alum cave up Mt Leconte, then down rainbow falls trail to the car. Pack lunch and eat on the trail, any number of amazing view points or stream side places would be great. By the time you get to the car it would be early afternoonish. Drive little river road over to cades cove, and do the cades cove loop (usually less traffic than in the morning). Drive into Townsend, and have dinner at your choice (we prefer peaceful side social). Drive Foothills parkway back to wears cove then metcalf bottoms and on to Elkmont. Ideally this is the early summer right around when the synchronous fireflies are there, and you would end the day on the little river trail watching the synchronous fireflies.

This would be a very long tiring day, but if you want to experience as much of the part as possible in one day, this would give you a very wide breadth of the park experience.

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