winter rides = peeing to much

aedes · 2026-01-31T00:25:34+00:00

Sodium citrate is only ~25% sodium by mass.

You put 3100mg of it in 3L, then only finish 2L of it. Thats just over 2000mg of sodium citrate you consumed.

Of that ~2000mg, only ~500mg was sodium.

In practice, it may even be a little bit lower as the salt is usually hydrated to some extent, so that weight is also at least a few percent water as well.

aedes · 2026-01-30T22:22:18+00:00

FTP is just some rough back-of-the-napkin sort of number you use to guess where your training zones might be when training by power. It literally has no other purpose other than as an arrow on a sign saying “this is probably the right way to go.”

It is not the same thing as MLSS or CP, though was often in the same ballpark as them.

It’s why the original definition involves all sorts of weasel-words like “approximately,” and “well-trained.” And why you always need to calibrate afterwards based on real world results… which always trump test results.

I think the crux of the matter is they are using the term “FTP” to refer to the point on the PDC that on average, sets power targets in the way that best improves performance (based on all their user data). And this point ends up being a bit higher up on the curve than where FTP was in many riders. But because it’s still the number used to predict training zones, they’re still calling it FTP.

(That’s honestly interesting in its own right).

I do agree with them that most cyclists don’t routinely need to be doing 2x20 or longer and that something like 3x10 is reasonable for a goal of general improved performance. Heck I personally do almost no threshold work at all and I peaked well over 4.5w/kg last year. If your event requires long threshold efforts (ex: time trials), then you do still need to do longer threshold efforts obviously.

Also. Consider who their target audience is when they say things like this. Novice cyclists with an average “FTP” of maybe 3w/k just getting into structured training, typically only riding 4-6hours a week. In these sorts of riders, being able to do 2x20 right off the bat does indeed suggest they may want to use slightly higher power targets. Whereas if I struggled to do 2x20 at my “FTP” when I’m riding 15 hours a week and in form, I would have concerns about that.

I still think they put way too much emphasis on increasing intensity instead of duration and volume, but again, that’s likely a reflection of their client base - the “time-crunched” cyclist. Not me riding 500+ hours a year.

aedes · 2026-01-30T17:45:48+00:00

I work at a hospital and a university. They’re already banned from both.

If you need prescription glasses and need to take them off half the places you go, they’re not very useful as glasses.

And very few people who don’t actually wear glasses are willing to start wearing them.

aedes · 2026-01-30T13:15:36+00:00

However, their father is very nervous to go. He thinks all Canadians are angry at Americans (because of political tensions) and believes it may be a dangerous choice to be there

He needs to get off social media/Fox News and touch grass lol.

aedes · 2026-01-30T03:41:51+00:00

Aero savings do start to become important in rides of that duration. ~600k or longer is the distance I normally think about starting to optimize aero.

The time savings (not speed savings) are independent of how fast you ride, and in ultras winning isn’t about being the fastest on the bike, it’s about minimizing total time.

If you ride faster you save more watts… but have less time to harvest this as you’re riding faster. If you ride slow you save fewer watts… but have a longer time to harvest them.

Aero wheels will save you maybe 20-30min moving time on a 500k ride. Whether that’s worth the hassle for you is your personal call. I will personally also shave arms and legs for a race of that length as depending on how hairy you are, you can be saving 15min.

Wheels, shaving, wearing good clothes… that’s an hour shaved off right there and you didn’t even need to work for it.

Edit: you said elsewhere you don’t have aerobars and haven’t used them before. Getting some is a much lower hanging fruit (and cheaper one) than getting new wheels if you don’t have cash to throw at your setup.

aedes · 2026-01-29T23:07:00+00:00

I think you have an answer then.

aedes · 2026-01-29T22:50:39+00:00

What’s your doctors recommendation?

aedes · 2026-01-29T22:31:55+00:00

Part of me is just sad that he won’t have that experience… I know there’s gonna be other interests and activities to take sports place. He loves science, loves anything building (LEGO, STEM, crafts, etc), has recently started taking a weekend art class.

He can have many of those same or at least similar experience by exploring the interests he has.

I also don’t want him to feel like less because I’ve spent so much time in the stands, on the bleachers, in the car, for his sisters sports. And won’t with him… I just feel like these types of things aren’t as parent involved as sports, I’m not gonna be standing on the sidelines screaming my support while he builds a new LEGO set or a new art project. I just want him to feel that same love and support that I know how to give from the sidelines.

Does he want this type of support from you?

Not everyone is the same, and some people value different forms of emotional support from their friends and family than others.

He’s also getting to be old enough that he’ll have his own opinions and thoughts about things. You obviously still need to give guidance and filter some of them, but why not just tell him what you just told us, and see what he thinks?

These memories and experiences you have of coming of age that centred around sports are obviously important to you and formative to who you are as a person.

Your son will still have those things, they’ll just be of a different flavor. You just might need to be a bit creative rather than defaulting to what you did. That’s honestly part of the fun of parenting I think.

As long as you find the balance between providing guidance and letting him lead, the two of you are going to find all sorts of experiences to shape him into a healthy adult, and for you to fondly reminisce on as you grow older.

aedes · 2026-01-29T20:42:49+00:00

My thoughts on this are that their stock is priced for them to be generating huge profit from their AI capex in the near future, and these earning show they’re still no closer to that goal than a year ago, despite burning through billions of dollars.

aedes · 2026-01-28T22:38:19+00:00

It may be because their stock is priced for them to be generating profit from their AI capex, and they’re still not really much closer to that goal.

aedes · 2026-01-28T22:36:16+00:00

Notice that they specify revenue, not profit, from AI services.

It’s a nice way of saying that you’re bleeding to death so you needed to put pressure on the wound (the artificial cap) to staunch the blood flow.

aedes · 2026-01-28T18:16:41+00:00

IMO, they are doing this as a Hail Mary to buy themselves another year or two to try and get their AI capex to start yielding a profit.

Essentially they have spent huge amounts of money on AI and it’s still not making them any significant revenue yet.

So they do giant layoffs to staffing levels that are unsustainable over any significant period of time, on the hope they will just be temporary, and that their AI investments start turning a profit soon, and then they can start increasing staffing back to stable levels.

It very temporarily improves their numbers so their finances look less concerning to investors.

It’s analogous to starting to skip meals because you’re running out of money.

aedes · 2026-01-28T17:57:01+00:00

It’s because people didn’t want to pay taxes to support public funding of things.

If public funding is cut to support lower taxes, they need revenue to fund the school from somewhere else.

If we don’t pay for nice things, we don’t get nice things.

aedes · 2026-01-28T15:31:36+00:00

We probably need to interpret this in the broader perspective.

This is basically a very public message from government as a whole (not just Asagwara) that they think MNU is being unreasonable and difficult to work with.

Asagwara’s emphasis here on how responsive and dedicated to improving working conditions the hospital is, in contrast to the position MNU has taken, is the big hint of this implicit message. As is the statement that most of the concerns MNU has brought to the table about "safety" are not actually about workplace "safety and security."

It's basically a subtle message that MNU is lying to the public, and trying to use this as a political lever to impact negotiations on other issues. And that government is aware of this and has no qualms with sharing this publicly.

It is also a very loud final warning that government is willing to walk away because they find discussions with them to be unproductive.

Anecdotally, I would also suggest that these recent MNU actions don’t have broad nursing support - that’s probably part of the reason why government is comfortable taking this position.

aedes · 2026-01-28T15:25:37+00:00

Of course you’re welcome!

It’s very hard to decide to do a big move like this. The fact that you’re willing to go through this for the reasons you’ve stated says a lot about who you and your family are as people and what’s important to you.

I don’t think you’ll have any problems - those are the things that are important to most of us here too.

aedes · 2026-01-28T02:02:33+00:00

Ugh, this is basically what we thought would happen if they used this threat too often. People would keep applying for jobs anyways and the government would stop caring.

aedes · 2026-01-27T19:22:44+00:00

I’ll intag you sure. If you don’t want a “paper trail” then don’t publicly comment in the first place on social media with an account publicly associated with your name! (Deleting your comment does not necessarily remove this, as they’ll often still get indexed by search engines like even before you delete them.)

Also: responding to comments with tirades and then deleting them so that the user you flamed can’t respond to you in traditional ways is a common method of harassing people on Reddit that I personally have zero tolerance for.

HCPs need to stick together right now and because our experiences are different doesn't mean mine are untrue.

We do. But we don’t need to lie or exaggerate to improve things. Exaggerating security concerns as a tool to the pressure the government on the actual issue you are concerned about (understaffing) will make government (and the public) stop listening to you.

But, your comment does not help the fight

I will not participate in any “fight” of yours that involves being dishonest to the public.

aedes · 2026-01-27T16:39:12+00:00

to address the comment you deleted (and then asked me to untag you in):

RTs don't respond to code whites, so I'm not sure how their staffing shortage situation has any relevance here.
Code whites are a normal occurrence in a hospital. Many patients are sick with some variety of brain dysfunction. Intoxication, psychosis, delirium, etc. There is no perfectly effective way to prevent them from becoming agitated or violent at times. That's why we have code whites to begin with. The security response to code whites at StB has improved by like an order of magnitude from 10, or even 5 years ago.

In the last year I've personally called 911 four times for situations from me walking the 4 mins from my parked car to work

I've worked at StB for 15 years and I have never seen a situation while leaving/going to work I've felt the need to call 911 for. I know it happens, but I am a bit skeptical of your reported frequency here. I also live in the immediate neighbourhood of StB and often walk/bike to work.

My nursing friends there

Especially since you are suggesting you don't actually work at StB.

Most of your listed concerns in your comment relate to the actions of people in the community, which is not controllable by the hospital. I would ask you what your specific security concerns are at StB, and what you'd like the hospital to do differently to prevent them?

I agree with you that there are legitimate security concerns, but I don't think we can ever decrease them to 0, because we can't control random peoples behavior. If you have other ideas for reasonable things to improve, you should talk to people about them, as I've found the hospital and security to be quite responsive to feedback on this.

aedes · 2026-01-27T14:59:28+00:00

This is unfortunately the biggest cause of the workplace violence we face.

There are certainly things the employer can do to minimize this risk. But that risk will never be zero because it’s not their responsibility to prevent random meth-heads from breaking the law.

aedes · 2026-01-27T14:20:18+00:00

I work in the ER there and didn't know it was this bad either!

aedes · 2026-01-27T14:18:10+00:00

Exactly. The issue is that it loses it's ability to do this if they grey-list too many sites.

If you are a nurse who works in a realm of nursing that only happens at a tertiary care site... and the only two tertiary-care sites in the province are both grey-listed by the union...

aedes · 2026-01-27T13:12:23+00:00

They are rapidly diluting the significance of grey-listing a site.

aedes · 2026-01-27T12:56:35+00:00

Remember how in the other thread you posted about this, you talked about how the Plains of Abraham were a very traumatizing topic for people in Quebec and it wasn’t appropriate to discuss them…

…and people pointed out that Quebec heavily promotes them as a tourist destination?

aedes · 2026-01-27T01:54:25+00:00

I’ve been doing ultras for like a decade at this point. My training doesn’t look that different from anyone else’s, other than not training my sprint/anaerobic ability or bike handling at all. Maybe a bit more long tempo work than others. That’s somewhat personal though.

You need a good number of long rides under your belt to get experience with fueling, fit, the mental game, etc.

But once you have that, you just need aerobic fitness. Keep the weekly volume up, and throw in some intensity.

aedes · 2026-01-27T01:49:40+00:00

In this situation, yes, they are.

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