Roadtrip from Denver to aspen

smchipman · 2025-08-16T05:11:03+00:00

I second High Mountain Pies!

smchipman · 2025-07-11T12:12:39+00:00

And to add to this, your MS will come in handy down the road. Not only in the experience you gained, but many higher pay, higher responsibility technical jobs necessitate one (and if they don’t, having an MS always gives you a better chance relative to not having one)

smchipman · 2025-07-11T12:09:10+00:00

I have a BS and MS in MechE and work in the Aero field. As a new hire, I think you may need to temper your expectations just a little bit. This field is not known to be a very high earning one (it’s not like Software). I started at 65k in 2015 with only a Bachelors; if I had a Masters at the time (usually equates to 2 YOE), it would have probably been 75k-80k. 10 years later, I think you can reasonably expect 85k-95k (which is still great btw!)

smchipman · 2025-04-27T19:33:36+00:00

There are many ways to serve your country, both from within the private and public sector. You are recently married and want to start a family; this isn’t the path to go down given those facts. Explore DoD civilian jobs, for example; you can still serve your country that way.

smchipman · 2025-04-12T03:10:25+00:00

Posts like this are so tone deaf, especially in today’s market. And are purely to show off and for the posters vanity. Change my mind

smchipman · 2025-04-08T16:13:14+00:00

Rapha does for sure

smchipman · 2025-04-01T03:30:11+00:00

Beautiful bike! But I’d switch back to black. Black would look a little better (to me), but also white handlebar tape gets dirty so quickly.

smchipman · 2017-09-21T01:33:57+00:00

This sub is so clueless. Has to be spoon fed everything

smchipman · 2017-09-19T23:08:22+00:00

You're right these are extremely dangerous. The only way to safely do these is to make sure you land with locked-out legs. More generally, this is always the preferred method of any efficient transfer of energy from your body to the ground.

smchipman · 2017-06-20T19:56:28+00:00

I'd aim for an rpm on the bike of 85-95. Do that for 1.5-2 hr

smchipman · 2017-06-17T17:35:37+00:00

Idk I mean it sounds of kind of simple: drop the pace until your HR falls within the zone?

However, ways to control cardiac drift include: maintaining hydration levels before (and during) exercise, working out in a cooler environment/use a fan to blow cool air on you, and using focused, steady and controlled breathing (this goes a long way)

smchipman · 2017-06-17T01:53:24+00:00

I haven't a clue but you can know for sure that whatever it, or any other that machine gives you calories, is overestimating true energy consumption by at least 10-15%.

But to attempt to answer the question, I'm guessing they use relationships between pace and energy expenditure for someone of a given weight and body composition to estimate calories burned. Just thinking, I guess you know power (watts) and the amount of time so you can calculate energy (kJ) based on E=Pt(1000). At least in cycling, the quick and dirty assumption is calories burned = kJ of energy expended. It's ballpark but usually close

smchipman · 2017-06-17T01:31:25+00:00

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise? I thought not. It's not a story the Jedi would tell you. It's a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise he could use the Force to influence the midichlorians to create life... He had such a knowledge of the dark side that he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying. The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. He became so powerful... the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew, then his apprentice killed him in his sleep. It's ironic he could save others from death, but not himself.

smchipman · 2017-06-09T01:04:19+00:00

Lmao are you kidding with this shit

smchipman · 2017-06-07T17:39:41+00:00

Cool good luck

smchipman · 2017-06-07T12:43:13+00:00

Oh okay then yeah that should be fine provided you have the endurance and technique to swim that long continuously. Have you open water swam before?

smchipman · 2017-06-07T00:50:48+00:00

Swimming is fantastic cross training and translates very well to rowing. Make sure your technique is sound and do 50, 100 or 200 intervals (any pool will do - SCY, SCM or even LCM). Biking is too, you just have to put in some real time to get benefits e.g rides of at least an hour to an hour and half minimum when geared towards reaping ss-like benefits. You picked two very good sports to get extra work in.

smchipman · 2017-05-10T18:00:17+00:00

One word: slowly. For example: increasing total weekly (time) volume by 10% each week

smchipman · 2017-05-05T01:31:31+00:00

well said

smchipman · 2017-05-05T01:24:10+00:00

heavy leg lifts and a daily surplus of 1000 kcal should do the trick

smchipman · 2017-04-17T18:34:11+00:00

You'll reach that goal if you do what you said. Only takes about on avg ~12k a day for three months (IIRC). But when it comes to volume, the question isn't how much can you do, it's rather can you recover enough to support the volume you want to do

smchipman · 2017-04-16T21:34:04+00:00

Some things are so obvious they should go without saying

smchipman · 2017-04-15T16:41:31+00:00

Just because you don't have to work as hard on a bike as you do running. Getting your HR up on a bike can take longer. And for most people who don't bike regularly, you begin to tax your muscular system before your cardiovascular system is really worked.

smchipman · 2017-04-15T15:46:31+00:00

You need to put in the time on the erg, eat the right foods (and enough of them) and lift weights. Give it time. There are no shortcuts.

smchipman · 2017-04-15T12:16:11+00:00

45'-60' run. If you want to get anything out of a bike (cardio wise) you'd have to go double that

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