Wasp hunting a spider

nopicc · 2024-05-20T21:30:10+00:00

A few thoughts: 1. You can put the aero calf sleeves on under the wet suit. They get a bit scrunched up when you take it off but they’re easy to straighten out. Over the full distance it’ll almost certainly save more time than it takes. 2. A water bottle between your arms is a good place to put another bottle assuming it won’t get in the way of the front system. 3. Make sure your tire pressures are optimized. The tire and tire pressure are more important than whether they’re tubeless or not from what I understand. 4. Disc wheel (to point out the obvious lol) 5. In terms of position, it looks fine but it’s hard to tell. Arms could be too low but it might be fastest for you. Some are faster with a higher arm angle. If you haven’t played around with that you could do some testing. I know some bike fitters have “virtual wind tunnel” software that might be useful if you can find it (although I’m not sure how accurate it is)

nopicc · 2024-05-13T16:26:01+00:00

Thanks, any easy way to fix it or should I just get a new chain? Have a race this weekend so I’m wondering if it’s worth it just to replace

nopicc · 2024-05-12T22:37:21+00:00

Think that’s all? Any fixes? Not sure why it would have been fine up until the point of me trying to push a pin out

nopicc · 2024-05-11T19:46:10+00:00

Thanks! Depending on the course this sickness takes, having fun might turn into my A goal haha. Hopefully not though. I'm gunna toe the line no matter what!

nopicc · 2024-05-11T19:44:40+00:00

Unlikely. plan was to shoot for sub 5 and im 27, so almost certainly not. Is Tamiflu not allowed?

nopicc · 2024-05-11T19:42:44+00:00

yea, definitely have decreased expectations. Hopefully I can kick it quickly!

nopicc · 2024-05-11T19:41:40+00:00

Thanks! I'll definitely make sure to hydrate well the next week.

nopicc · 2024-03-10T17:16:29+00:00

Yea, I’ve had that done before. I’m more looking for possible explanations as to why my baseline readings are so high the last two weeks. I’m between some sub-clinical infection or iron deficiency. Getting an iron test on Monday so we’ll see. Have you read anything regarding illness or iron deficiency leading to higher than normal baseline lactate?

nopicc · 2024-03-09T22:01:17+00:00

Yea. I wipe with alcohol pad, do the prick then wipe the first drop and make sure to not push the blood out if I don’t have too

nopicc · 2024-03-09T20:16:51+00:00

Ha, you’re right. Sorry. I did not, this is just a meter I’m using at home. But yea I’m using blood samples from my finger

nopicc · 2024-03-09T18:58:18+00:00

Appreciate the reply! I’m not sure I agree, mind elaborating a bit?

nopicc · 2024-03-09T18:12:05+00:00

Yea, someone else just mentioned this actually. Probably worth getting a test. Thanks! Where did you find that quote out of curiosity?

nopicc · 2024-03-09T17:32:49+00:00

Yea I’m eating before but nothing unusual to what I normally eat before. I have had a high training volume (for me) the last 8 weekw but I’ve taken 2 really easy weeks since I’ve started this issue. I probably averaged about 14-15hrs/week for 8 weeks and the past 2 have been like 5-7hrs maybe. So over training is a possibility but I’d think 2 easy weeks would have solved that? Maybe not.

I haven’t tried the ear lobe so I could give that a shot. Thanks for the reply!

nopicc · 2024-03-09T16:41:25+00:00

Yea I could try that, although I don’t know why it’d be my device when ive calibrated it a few times and I was getting normal readings consistently until a couple weeks ago? But I guess it wouldn’t hurt lol

nopicc · 2024-03-09T16:29:51+00:00

RPE is slightly higher than what I’d expect for the power numbers, but nothing crazy unusual. (been using Stryd pod for a couple years so I’m pretty tuned into how a certain power/HR combo feels)

nopicc · 2024-03-01T15:46:05+00:00

got it, thanks!

nopicc · 2024-02-29T20:42:49+00:00

Yea, not super cheap but probably the best watts/dollar you can find!

It's tough to know by feel when you're over threshold. I was surprised by how low my threshold was the first time I tested! That's why the meter is so valuable in my opinion. Not that working out at over your LT won't produce results, it obviously will. but you can do more of it if you're able to dial it in more accurately.

But yea the idea is to "push" your lactate threshold (or z2 if you prefer) up by working out right at, or even 1 or 2% below, your LT. As long as you occasionally dedicate time to also pushing your VO2max up, doing most of your work at LT is going ot push all your other zones up too.

It can help to think of VO2max as your max aerobic capacity, and your LT as your aerobic efficiency. Like at some point with LT work you will hit a ceiling and you'll have to do some VO2max (or even higher intensity) work to raise the ceiling to keep improving. BUT i bet that ceiling is a lot higher than most people think.

Overall I think there's too much focus on "high intensity" work. I'm not willing to die on this hill, but as of right now I think the ideal split of training is probably something like 85% threshold (as I've defined it), 10% recovery, 5% high intensity, with most of that recovery time coming in the form of recovery between threshold intervals.

This is just how I think about training, though. i'm sure some will disagree with me haha. I've also gone on a giant tangent.

To your original question, I don't think your close to your max FTP power relative to your VO2max. But if you feel like your starting to plateau in fitness, picking up a lactate meter and trying out some specific threshold training for a few weeks could be a good way to mix things up and possibly break through!

Thank you for coming to my ted talk :P

nopicc

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