“If they’d focus on actually training, rather than planning, monitoring, evaluating and tweaking their training, something fantastic might happen.”
This pretty well summarizes all we ever needed to know about training for endurance sport :-).
In all fairness some of us train 30+ hours in season, then allow the “planning, monitoring, evaluating and tweaking” to consume the hours we spend at the office in front of the computer trying to get the exhaustion induced ADD under control and get some work done.
There have been some real gems on this site. My favorite quote is LarryCalifornia with "why is it no bike manufacturer ever says ‘rides like aluminium’.
That’s what my good buddy would call, “an ounce of truth”.
There’s an expression in strength-training that goes something like, “everything works as long as it gets done”. (i.e., everything = different training plans/styles)
Is jhendric the same guy that rode his bike in circles inside his basement for 4-6 hours a coupla years ago?
LOL…
This from the guy that started the Zero Armswing Running Technique thread.
and recently said this about bike fit…
I need a frame in size 53 or less that has no more that 100 mm of head tube, with zero spacers, -10 degree rise stem, otherwise my already open sail like position gets even higher. Right now on my P3SL with 90 mm head tube, there is only 110 mm between the bottom of my aerobar extensions and front wheel. I could go to 110 mm head tube with -17 stem (ie level to the ground), but that would be it. If you give me a 120 mm head tube, I am way way high. I guess I could use a 30 degree rise stem and flip it upside down on a taller head tube
Plus I remember (sort of anyway) a run in Lake Placid when I was starting to bonk and the eyes were rolling into the back of my head. You tried to start a conversion about running cadence…That was lights out for me…couldn’t run any longer. 
Trevor, you got me. No talk about focusing on output numbers, just improving technique (ie your bike set up is the starting point for good form, as is your upper body in running ???)…at least that is my justification.
Maybe I need to go home and calibrate my TACX trainer…hang on, it has no calibration. I’ll work on the “lose 5 kilos part”, just for you :-).
“If they’d focus on actually training, rather than planning, monitoring, evaluating and tweaking their training, something fantastic might happen.”
But then, how would we know our seats were too high?
Dev, I agree with you. Classic and elegantly simple advice. It’s got my vote.
“Is jhendric the same guy that rode his bike in circles inside his basement for 4-6 hours a coupla years ago?”
God no.
“But then, how would we know our seats were too high?”
Assume it is until you hear otherwise.
It was a joke. Someone posted a long time ago that they were going crazy riding indoors after a 6 hour session. someone advised to “stop riding in circles, hook up to a trainer and enjoy some movies”. I must have really thought that was funny at the time, b/c that’s a really stupid thing to remember for two years.
Here you go again…
If you have a big chain wrap of **50x27 **and a small chain wrap of 34x12 you are gonna need a long cage derailleur for sure. Not that you would use big to big and small to small, but even if you went big to second big and small to second small, you’ll likely need the LC.
One of the reasons I actually went with 48/34 is cause I found that with the **50/34 **I was often on the borderline of having to chose between big to second big or small to second small. I hate that. With a **48 **I can run a much better chain line 95% of the time and just stay in the large ring for rollers or flats, and drop to the “small to large” combos for big climbing.
Personally I’d rather go 48/34 or 50/36. 50/34 just has way too little overlap between rings.
Personally I like Kus’s; put it in the 55 (even if you’re going up Whiteface Mtn) and lock out the lefthand shifter method.
In all fairness some of us train 30+ hours in season, then allow the “planning, monitoring, evaluating and tweaking” to consume the hours we spend at the office in front of the computer trying to get the exhaustion induced ADD under control and get some work done.
So what you are saying is that it’s your brain that is the problem?
30 hours per week? Too much.