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Just get a Big Green Egg or Primo and be done with it

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banning powermeters would have no effect at all. any rider worth his salt will have a very keen understanding of his threshold. I train with a pm. In a road race you don't even look at the data. When the hammer drops you can't worry if you are in the wrong zone you just have to hang on. Exactly, th...

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Orica filed a protest re Adam Yates and apparently the race jury has given him the 7 seconds lead he had over the peloton when he crashed due to the flame rouge landing on him, so he now has the white jersey :thumbup: That's very good news though I fear he's going to really suffer the after effects...

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Orica filed a protest re Adam Yates and apparently the race jury has given him the 7 seconds lead he had over the peloton when he crashed due to the flame rouge landing on him, so he now has the white jersey

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Baghdad in 86 & 87 during the Iran/Iraq war

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Oldies, reach for the tissues and the hand cream.. I give you true engineering.. http://www.shipsnostalgia.com/guides/William_Doxford_and_Sons#The_Manufacturing_Process Mind boggling. http://www.shipsnostalgia.com/guides/images/d/da/Shrink1.jpg Many of the photos from the Doxford plant remind me of...

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Ben Swift has his ride from Sunday up on Strava, including power data: http://www.strava.com/activities/360352420 737W for 4 minutes to get the KOM on Ranmore Common Road :shock: Edit: Doesn't say "estimated" for power data but the values for Box Hill are dodgy - 50W average?! - so take the above w...

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Great ride Seez, was looking at your Strava file yesterday, your NP is impressive. Thanks for the pointer, just done a little digging after you posted this and found that Tejvan (one of the top amateur TTers over here) knocked out a 100 mile TT in 3:34 (28 mph) at 262W: http://cyclinguphill.com/100...

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How did you get on yesterday Duke? Tim, did you watch the pros go up Box? Good day out thanks, finished in about 5 hours 45 with an unscheduled stop at Coombe Lane having jumped my riding partners in Kingston and them not noticing. How did you get on? Turning it into a rugby related post - rode up ...

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Seez wrote:Spyglass, what's your club? A club mate of mine has just moved to Houston (pretty sure it's Houston). Pretty handy road racer, almost got to cat 2 in his first full season

SWCC - South West Cycling Club. We have an FB page, tell him to leave a message on there.

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the NP calculation doesn't let the freewheeling parts cancel out the hard bits. This depends on how you setup your Garmin, if you select "Include Zeros" under power meter settings, then you get a lower but more accurate Normalized Power. This is how you should have it setup, unfortunately the Garmi...

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[quote="Xupi What's Normalized Power? those kind of of rides are excellent to acquire rythms, I was chatting with the racers on Sunday and they argue that it is an excellent training for them. Cut/Paste from Training Peaks: Normalized Power (NP) To account for this variability, TrainingPeaks uses a ...

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Rode yesterday with a bunch around the Pays Basque , we were around 20, ages from early 30's to early 60's. I did not know them all but I would say after talking to almost all, 5 or 6 were involved in road-racing , one was a thriathlete doing competition and the others, mostly the olders chaps, are...

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Well, I did the SDW ride yesterday. Hardest thing I've ever done. Just seemed to go on forever - the miles on the Garmin just ticked by so slowly, and very few of them seemed to come easily. Constant hard work with draggy surfaces, gates, stones, bumps, sketchy descents etc etc. Nothing unusual her...

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I was watching France TV when they had the "Sky debate". It's interesting because France TV have always been very cautious on the doping allegations even during the worst years of the EPO and Armstrong eras. They used to solely focus on the race and not comment on the surprising performances of som...

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This morning I rode my first TT this year where I haven't day-dreamed and lost my focus and thus intensity. 22:28 for 10 miles, 20s away from my PB which was on this course last year, so getting back to form finally. I had some caffeine gum to chew during the warm up to improve my focus but forgot ...

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That is excellent mate, well done. Are you going to wear the jersey for a year or frame it straight away? Are you going to get a TT bike? Can't believe I haven't made such a pilgrimage before, it was so cheap and easy. Even without a big race being there, the roads in the Ardennes are worth the tri...

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Good effort Spyglass, sorry I missed that on Strava - will have a look later and do the necessary kudos-wise! Last big SDW training ride for me on Sunday just gone, this was a 130-odd mile group road ride down to Dymchurch on the Kent coast and back. Perfect conditions, hardly any wind, mostly flat...

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great time for a 25 well done Well done Spyglass, how did that compare to the winning team? Or did you win?! We won Cat 4 - USA Cycling splits you into Cat 1 to 5, you start as a 5 and upgrade from there. So I'm now the Texas State Team Time Trial Champion for 2015! Got my medal and State Champion ...

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guy smiley wrote:
Hats off, man. Hats off.

Very jealous, one day I'll make the pilgrimage to do some of the legendary rides in France

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I'm looking forward to seeing how the Yates brothers get on, OGE will give them a free reign in the mountains and it wouldn't surprise me if they were in contention for some of the mountain top finishes.

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ukjim wrote:great time for a 25 well done

Thanks, the ride data is on Strava if you're a member of the illustrious Planet Rugby Cycling Club

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We did 54.28 at yesterday's TTT which was good enough for first place in our category. Course was L shaped, 10 miles South then turned East for 2 1/2, turnaround and go back. It was 85 deg F, high humidity and 8 mph wind from South. We went too hard on the first leg into the wind, screwed up the tur...

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That mate of mine posted the name of the tour he's just completed... http://centcolschallenge.com/routes/southern_alps NEW for 2015 : riding from 6 to 16 june. This event is harder than the CCC Corsica, but less tough than the Pyrenees or the Cantabrico. CCC Southern Alps : A totally NEW route for ...

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Mine is covered by work but for wife and 3 kids it runs to about $380 a month, and none of them have been able to explain to me why they never seem to have their phones on when I call or text. This is my kids to a T, the only way I can get their attention is to go on the Verizon app on my phone and...

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Last 4up I rode was in September. I was badly off form by then and had to do the kids football coaching beforehand, then rush over to the HQ while eating. When I got there, my teammates (one of whom has three sub-20 10s and a sub-50 25 this year) were just finishing off their hour on the turbo and ...

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Last 4up I rode was in September. I was badly off form by then and had to do the kids football coaching beforehand, then rush over to the HQ while eating. When I got there, my teammates (one of whom has three sub-20 10s and a sub-50 25 this year) were just finishing off their hour on the turbo and ...

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I'm doing a 40k four man team time trial this weekend, I've borrowed a TT bike, which however I adjust it, is an instrument of torture. I'm replacing a guy on a settled team that did just over 54 minutes on the same course last year, they are targeting under 54 mins this year, so no pressure..... I...

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I'm doing a 40k four man team time trial this weekend, I've borrowed a TT bike, which however I adjust it, is an instrument of torture. I'm replacing a guy on a settled team that did just over 54 minutes on the same course last year, they are targeting under 54 mins this year, so no pressure..... I...

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I'm doing a 40k four man team time trial this weekend, I've borrowed a TT bike, which however I adjust it, is an instrument of torture. I'm replacing a guy on a settled team that did just over 54 minutes on the same course last year, they are targeting under 54 mins this year, so no pressure..... I...

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I'm doing a 40k four man team time trial this weekend, I've borrowed a TT bike, which however I adjust it, is an instrument of torture. I'm replacing a guy on a settled team that did just over 54 minutes on the same course last year, they are targeting under 54 mins this year, so no pressure..... In...

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Upto 20 lanes in places, with each direction made up of: Feeder/access road - 3 lanes Main freeway - 5 lanes HOV (2+) people in car - 2 lanes Houston has no City zoning and very limited city planning. Infrastructure such as roads, etc. tends to follow private development, which causes plenty of prob...

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What most of these lists fail to take in to account is your income, generally speaking you will enjoy living more in most (civilized) places if you have a good income. Clearly that's a life choice as some people's priorities are different, but most folks I've met place a higher priority on that. So...

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What most of these lists fail to take in to account is your income, generally speaking you will enjoy living more in most (civilized) places if you have a good income. Clearly that's a life choice as some people's priorities are different, but most folks I've met place a higher priority on that. So...

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In the US we have both Global Entry and TSA Pre-Check, which is basically a detailed screening/background check for frequent flyers. Once you've been accepted/approved, your boarding pass automatically carries the logo and you go through a separate security line, don't have to remove your; laptop/sh...

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What most of these lists fail to take in to account is your income, generally speaking you will enjoy living more in most (civilized) places if you have a good income. Clearly that's a life choice as some people's priorities are different, but most folks I've met place a higher priority on that. So ...

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If you're going to use Vipbox or other streaming sites, install a pop up blocker otherwise you will have loads of ads to close, some of them very frustrating. Alternatively, install the Hola add-on for Chrome or Firefox and watch BBC One live on iPlayer. Have the stream up now in Georgia, TV qualit...

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[Argus - how are you getting a stream in Florida, a UK VPN?[/quote]

on http://www.vipbox.sx/rugby[/quote]

Thanks Argus. When I go to the website I get lots of popup, ads, etc. Do I have to register and download their software/app or can I just stream when the broadcast starts?

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argus wrote:Friday afternnon in the office

32 inche monitor

work done

what can go wrong?

how about a webinar from 1pm - 4pm EST
in the conference room

with 5 other people

Argus - how are you getting a stream in Florida, a UK VPN?

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fisgard792 wrote:[

nice, favorite city and area, used to work in bellevue

Microsoft?

I'll be working in Issaquah, so we're looking to live in the Bellevue/Kirkland/Redmond/Issaquah area. Great place to live apart from the weather....

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