Getting old

Another sign of getting old is putting a higher screen on your single
cylinder motorbike. I only know this because I've fitted one this
afternoon to try and stop the wind buffeting.

I know it's a sign of getting old because I discovered that keeping
the speed above 80mph did the trick yet I've still gone for the higher
screen.

 

When did that happen?

 

1985?

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Krusty

'03 Tiger 955i
'02 MV Senna (for sale) '96 Tiger (for sale)
'79 Fantic Hiro 250 (for sale) '81 Corvette (for sale)

 

Heh. This past week I have mostly been starting the long and arduous process
of retuning from fat bastard, back to fit cyclist. **** me, but it does get
harder as you put a few years on. Just bimbling (well sweating, slavering,
semi delirious, actually) between 10 and 15 miles a day this week.

 

I cycle every day between 7-10 kms. Hasn't made any difference to the
gut. Still 82 kgs and a 38" waist.

 

That is a strange shape!

 

Relax, I've done it to 3 former bikes in 5 years.

 

Cycling only has an affect on your weight if you do distance. And by
distance I mean 50km plus at a steady pace. You should be able to
hold a conversation comfortably with a riding partner.

Short distances are only any good for power training, and then you
should be doing it at your anaerobic threshold.

 

Just imagine what would happen if you didn't cycle...

 

<waves>

 

Crickey how tall is yous?

I is 34" and 95 kg.....

and dropping!

Hj

 

My dog is taller than that, with or without droppings.

 

Indeed. I'm moving up to a mixture of 40k and 20k rides next week. Once my
arse has stopped feeling like I've been buggered by a donkey.
Then week by week, move back up to my old 100k training routes.

 

Pah - lightweight

 

Well, yes, I was assuming a calorie balance.

Endurance cycling burns fat for energy because the body works steadily
below the anaerobic threshold.

Fast cycling above your anaerobic threshold doesn't because the body
doesn't have time to convert the fat so relies on carbohydrate already
present for energy. Admittedly, you can't keep this up for very long
but the principle applies.

 

37" and 110kg here.

Weight increasing but waist dropping for me. Which is nice.

 

I'm relatively fit from the ski season, although only judged byt the
SkiClub as a 7/10 (where 10 would be able to do an IronMan before
breakfast) and have started cycling to work occasionally. Last year I
just couldn't really manage it, as it's 26km each way, with several
hills and about 1/3rd of it non-tarmac tracks, so I just wasn't fit
enough to be able to get fit, IYSWIM.

Now I'm pleased to find that I've been able to do so without
problems[1]. Only averaging ~20kph at the moment, but I'm happy enough
with that. Twelve years back I was regularly commuting MK-Bedford via
Cranfield (hyoooge hills both ways), and my normal average was around
19mph == 30kph. Best time was around 55minutes, 22.5mph. Not sure I'll
ever get back to that level, but here's hoping.


[1] Except my bum. The flesh on my 'sit-bones' get very painfully
swollen. I'm hoping I'll get used to it again soon.

 

So basically, I just make myself hungry? Hence I eat more and put on
weight.

 

I'm probably bumping along at an atrocious 3/10 by that sort of
reckoning then, I reckon.

Over recent years I've stopped measuring the metrics so intently.

I used to ride down to Champ's place for the weekend, to work on the
Team-UKRM bike. Bridgnorth to Cheltenham 60 miles, half hilly, half flat in
3 hours. In 2007 I commuted ~8500miles on the road.

After years of using all the gadgets, I know just by feel what sort of work
rates and speeds/cadences I'm using. It's quite liberating, I've found, not
having displays and bleeps constantly nagging you.

Yeah, I'm suffering atm.

 

Can you use BBC iPlayer where you are? There was a jolly interesting
prog on t'other night - 10 things you need to know about slimming or
something like that.

--
Krusty

'03 Tiger 955i
'02 MV Senna (for sale) '96 Tiger (for sale)
'79 Fantic Hiro 250 (for sale) '81 Corvette (for sale)