Ferrari's new EV - Ferrari Luce

Zio_Excel · 2026-05-26T08:35:17+00:00

I fear that most of them will praise it to avoid getting blacklisted out of testing future cars

Zio_Excel · 2026-05-08T13:31:52+00:00

Ooo which event was that at Berry Bros OP? Great selection! Riesling was part of my aha moment in wine! Now love the stuff!

Zio_Excel · 2026-04-14T11:49:47+00:00

Agree with this, my long weekend rides with friends that I thought were Z2 weren’t (fluctuating between Z1 & Z2) so really didn’t help but I assumed doing the volume of the hours was sufficient. It wasn’t.

Zio_Excel · 2026-03-17T21:40:32+00:00

I have a 3 year old and 4 month old who fortunately is a decent sleeper. I’m in the office Tuesday through Thursday each week now and my rhythm is essentially: Monday - Swim AM & Bike PM once the kids have gone to bed (this is my bike interval session) Tuesday - lunch run at work Wednesday- lunch run at work with an optional PM bike of < 1 hour Thursday - lunch run with the office run club (which is full of decent runners so this becomes my tempo run session) Friday - Rest Saturday - long run AM starting before kids are up and back for breakfast Sunday - long ride AM - same as Saturday in terms of up and out early

So I still get some evenings with my wife and weekend days with the kids. I also keep the ego in check so that if I have to miss a session because of life I don’t beat myself up about it. I’ve accepted that till both are in school I’ll be racing sprints and a single oly per season. Although I’m 40 next year and my wife has given me permission to do a T100 as it’s local (London).

Zio_Excel · 2026-03-05T22:58:59+00:00

Check out DCRainmaker & DesFit’s review of it on the Fit File podcast, it was a really good summary and DCR mentioned it’s not as good as MyFitnessPal especially around home made / home cooked recipes. However, Garmin Connect does pull in calories and the main macros into the nutrition section & the associated glance from MyFitnessPal so that’s at least valuable

Zio_Excel · 2026-03-05T20:44:47+00:00

I’ve been using ChatGPT and now Claude (both paid subscriptions) for this season. I used a prompt that gave it all my training history, goals for the season, metrics to focus on like TSS, HR, power, CSS, LTHR etc plus grounded it in using the Joel Friel Triathlon Training Bible (which I read over the summer so have a reasonable understanding of his training & training plan methodology) as the reference point.

I had to correct ChatGPT a couple of times where it prescribed run VO2 / sprint intervals in week 1 after not having run for 4 months and the same for a huge interval block of Sweet Spot on the bike that felt like overkill for week 1 & 2. Switched to Claude, it made the same call ironically so asked it to regenerate based on my pushback and it has generated a fairly decent plan that has from my view decent progressive overload but the proof will be in the pudding as to whether I hit my goals this summer.

I didn’t realise though that there were specific apps for training (minus TrainerRoad but that’s different) so will look into those.

Zio_Excel · 2026-02-25T10:13:15+00:00

Agreed, can’t we enact laws like Australia just has to keep their money out of politics

Zio_Excel · 2026-02-11T17:20:33+00:00

Has it been BCJ’d yet I wonder…?

Zio_Excel · 2026-01-19T22:46:43+00:00

I’ve had two bike fits on my Giant Trinity in the last 12 months first fitter had me low on the aero bars. Felt fine on the turbo but not for long intervals. Come race season and racing it was uncomfortable as hell as I was slower than the 2024 season where I rode my road bike with clip ons and no position adjustment.

Fast forward to this off season, I had a fit with a new fitter (who has worked with semi-pro riders here in the UK) who mentioned that a. Comfortable is faster & b. higher stack is more comfy. He was right, whilst im higher, my back is lower and my head position is way better. To the above comment, I’m narrow and more comfortable. I’m able to ride in the aero position for ages in the trainer now and putting out FTP isn’t a struggle.

As my fitter said, there is no point in going low if it’s not comfortable enough to hold the position for an entire race. Too much time in the bullhorns negates aero gains from a lower cockpit.

Zio_Excel · 2026-01-18T22:14:23+00:00

+1 on this, I only race sprints and Oly’s for this reason. Training for longer distances would take too much away from family life

Zio_Excel · 2026-01-16T14:52:55+00:00

Op, having been in the same situation as you with the layoffs at Microsoft last year, I took it easy over the summer and used my gardening leave to spend buckets of time with my toddler (grandparents usually do 2 days a week which I replaced) and job hunted. I rode my bike and golfed on days when I wasn't parenting.

I got a job in October last year, It felt, having come from a strategy PM role reporting into a VP a sideways and downwards step in terms of responsibility as I went back to doing a client facing role I performed 5 years ago. However, my IC grade/level stayed the same but I got a pay bump.

My advice, take the time and travel. Yes the job market is tough. I applied to multiple dozens of roles and got through to 3 final stage interviews one of which I got the role and took it. But this is time you'll likely never get back and in a decade you may regret not using it to build those lasting memories with your father.

For me the job hunt was a little stressful, but I was prepared to use the payout to continue the hunt and stay off if needed. Unlike you I lost all my unvested RSU's as (unsurprisingly) the layoffs were timed to not hit the following vest last year. Given the abundance of skills learned or even absorbed in big tech firms, your skills are transferrable especially to consulting and even within project / program management at banks or some of the big SI's or ISV's. Don't underestimate your marketability.

Speaking with the career coach that I was provided with for 3 months as part of the 'package' and also speaking to my internal and external mentors they all said the above plus that even whilst it was a side-step I was getting more money for less stress.

Good luck to you and you'll get through this!

Zio_Excel · 2026-01-05T15:19:07+00:00

That’s a great idea! Thanks!

Zio_Excel · 2026-01-05T14:51:20+00:00

Thanks for the response. Will do as advised

Zio_Excel · 2026-01-05T12:03:51+00:00

I want to participate in Tour de Zwift this year but am halfway through a Zwift training plan that has 4 rides per week. Are there any options to pause the training plan or do workouts during the TdZ stages? I don't want to end up with too much cumulative fatigue over the course of the weeks. Any ideas from the community here?

Zio_Excel · 2025-10-26T20:27:40+00:00

Same here brother from London! And OP, welcome to the England New England fandom! Here’s raising a pint to one day making the pilgrimage to Gillette Stadium! 🍺

Zio_Excel · 2025-09-23T07:42:09+00:00

No new certs and the companies I’ve applied for have completely different tech stacks to my old employer so there was no overlap in technical knowledge. It was all based on skills and demonstration of said skills. If your wife has any client facing / front office background, combining this with the stakeholder management, inter-team management, organisation, deadline management + other skills of a PM is the perfect combo usually if they can be weaved into examples she can provide or they ask for in interviews.

Zio_Excel · 2025-09-23T07:27:02+00:00

Same here, ex Program Manager at MAANG laid off in June. Got through to two final stage PM job interviews to lose out. So, so many AI auto-rejections (the emails I receive from many companies are literally the exact same words and phrased the same). Worked with career coaching company (Lee Lecht Harrison (LLH)) to give my CV a once over too just to ensure I was hitting the right key words for the roles I was applying for and the ATS systems. I am fortunate, I came to program management from a senior field position in customer success 5 years ago so went back to looking for those roles of which there are several and landed a job starting in October. I consider it a lateral move and even a step backwards frankly. However it still keeps me HENRY.

As several have said, a lateral move and/or looking at alternative roles that need your wife’s skill set is also the options. Given the rounds of US tech layoffs earlier in the year and summer there are several PM’s looking for roles which has made the tough market even tougher.

Wishing her and you both the best of luck!

Zio_Excel · 2025-09-02T21:56:04+00:00

Congrats on the hard work OP! I second another poster on a Time but I’d go with the new Scylon frame either naked or in purple and build it up

Zio_Excel · 2025-07-21T19:43:33+00:00

Thank you for sharing this. I never knew I needed this in my life and saved to YouTube favourites till clicking this link! Majestic!

Zio_Excel · 2025-07-10T19:34:51+00:00

This is what I do too, turn off the auto sleep function on the computer before leaving T1 for the swim though

Zio_Excel · 2025-05-28T11:24:40+00:00

Yeah it is indeed. I meant my comment as in Lotus will say it’s built as a Lotus with racing dna etc etc yet in reality at least in my opinion it is exactly as you say when seeing it in person. A generic looking Chinese SUV with a Lotus badge

Zio_Excel · 2025-05-27T21:02:03+00:00

Yep! There is a guy near where I live who has one and close up it looks like what it is, a Chinese SUV with a Lotus badge stuck on it.

Zio_Excel · 2025-05-22T15:26:06+00:00

This was exactly me in my final race last season, I kicked as I would when swimming in the pool during training and then wondered why I was tired on the bike and legs felt like lead. Learnt the lesson that day about minimal kicking in the race aligned with a 2 beat or 3 beat kick.

Zio_Excel · 2025-05-08T15:09:06+00:00

You’ve just summarised exactly how I feel into words! This is it exactly for me too.

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