A lot of people will say that their tires are 28C.

What does the C mean?

“Didn’t have the legs” / “Legs didn’t show up on the bike”

Which can mean all sorts of things, I didn’t train enough, I trained too much, I tapered badly, I’m just not as fast as I like to think I am. But makes it sound like it was entirely out of your control and not your fault that your pesky legs went missing.

I really hate the phrase: “firing on all cylinders”.

When you want to sound original, like the 625 153 people that used the phrase before, you talk about someone “punching their ticket to Kona”.

The fancy version for 87 764 insiders is truncated to just “punching their ticket”.

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"FTP is a bit 2015, don't you think?" - Gustav Iden

How about the one virtually every pro used after having a great race last weekend;

"I havent done any speed work and still in the early build phase of my season".

If that really is the case, then stop what your schedule has you doing going forward, and just do more of the same. You likely get overtrained, stale, and sluggish on what you think you need to do, and race much fresher when you are pulling back, just saying....

Tempo and threshold training/workouts/pacing get thrown out a lot but seem to mean slightly or massively different things to each individual so both terms are near meaningless to me.

"The hay is in the barn"

/yawn

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“The body wasn’t feeling it”

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I love rim brake bikes!

"clean pair of heels"

".......they deserved to win!"

Anything spectators yell at you on the run.

"...the likes of (insert well-known athlete name)"

so basically the phrase used by all commentators ubiquitously during live event streams

Can we add maurten move to this list? 😂

this is it for me. there's so much sloppy use of terminology in 'sport science' that half the time i'm not sure anyone knows what anyone else is talking about. zones, thresholds, power, HR, vo2, etc etc. hell, just ask 10 different people what "tempo" means.

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thank you! where did this trend come from?

"he's got the likes of dave smith ahead of him on the bike."

no, he just has dave smith ahead of him on the bike.

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http://howtobeswiss.blogspot.ch/

"Dave Smith"

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"FTP is a bit 2015, don't you think?" - Gustav Iden

"Not the day I wanted..."

Listening to mtb riders talk about a trail OR person having “flow”. “Flow all day” with serene pictures of smooth banked corners.

OK, not much flow on some trails and some smooth trails with a crap rider still won’t have “flow”.

Cat 4:5 riders posting about “speed work” like they’re a freaking track sprinter but they don’t even have the aerobic base to even make the lead group to sprint for anything but a pack finish.

Group ride paces: “chill pace” means everyone is antsy as hell for a few miles till the first person puts in a dig. “A rides” that don’t even break 20mph because you have a dozen B riders in the group intent on taking 5min pulls.

Runners just “running tempo” at 190bpm and 6:00/mi. Or any endurance sport workout mislabeling by a whole two zones to try to look macho.

During the run coverage where they inevitably go into their shpeel about how if you want to know what it is like to run a marathon at this pace then just go out to your high school track and try and run a lap in under a minute…yep, totally the same thing.

On the day.

mislabeling by a whole two zones to try to look macho.


....LOVE THIS ONE!


my zone 2 starts where your zone 4 ends.... in a coma

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http://www.fitspeek.com the Fraser Valley's fitness, wellness, and endurance sports podcast

HTFU

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"timed it to absolute perfection"

I didn't realize there were degrees of perfection. Either something is perfect, or it's not.

I used to watch Mark Conover run on the track at Cal Poly SLO doing half miles and every lap was 68 seconds.