No, definitely doing it correctly .... drive side pedal was a bugger too, but thankfully that did come off as I didn't fancy buying all new kit for that. It's the left side that's not budging.
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No, definitely doing it correctly .... drive side pedal was a bugger too, but thankfully that did come off as I didn't fancy buying all new kit for that. It's the left side that's not budging.
When Atom sorted, I plan to give them a go in B ... that should put me in my place haha
So you've been regularly exercising for over 23 years than?
Out of interest: How are you managing gym and cycling? I do it too and it's becoming harder the more I try to cycle, obviously. Recently started doing leg days again - very difficult to weave those in without completely compromising your riding.
I tend to do gym one day, cycling the next ... roughly. If I do legs in gym it's usually low weight, high reps. I'm not trying to build leg bulk, but stronger legs would be nice. Plus I can hit muscles in the gym I don't hit as hard cycling (like glutes).
Off to gym later .... shoulders, back, arms day. Won't touch legs as I did a 2 hour ride yesterday so resting them up
So you've been regularly exercising for over 23 years than?
Out of interest: How are you managing gym and cycling? I do it too and it's becoming harder the more I try to cycle, obviously. Recently started doing leg days again - very difficult to weave those in without completely compromising your riding.
Running machine has been dragged around from home to home, spent most of its life mothballed
Regarding gym, I'm going to have to sacrifice some cycling intensity to do weights. Getting older I want to maintain and even build some extra muscle.
Like Martin suggested, doing weights on same high intensity day. I could easily do upper body directly after a race for instance. Legs would be less intensity.
bobinski
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Interesting- not doing so doesn’t seem to have adversely impacted your recovery and power at all. Query what would happen if you did.
bobinski
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A bit of serendipity re the right pedal. I left my old old damaged frame set outside the front today. Speedily taken away by someone. Attached to the crank was a speedplay pedal that I and 2 bike shops could not remove. I put it on years ago and probably over tightened it and after the frame was damaged it became my turbo frame. Sweat then did its thing. Stuck solid. Waste of a pedal. Lesson learnt. I screw all my pedals, even the power play pedals, by hand, touch of bio grease and slightest tighten with allen jet to ensure no movement. The power play pedals have been removed and attached perhaps 10 times without issue. ( touches wood😀)
Maybe - but I can't get my sprint power back to where it was. Could be coincidental or maybe not.
alex_cycles
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- Location
- Oxfordshire
Another 3hr Zwift ride. Snatched 1st on the run for the line
Well done. I snatched 42nd in Gold (B) on Chasing Roubaix this morning. It was 7 laps of Lutece Express. We did 5 laps the other way round for ZRL and that was hell. But at least there were no sprints this time. I lasted a bit over a minute in the front group, then found a bunch of mostly Cs to work with for the next hour and a quarter
The weather seems to be telling me it's time to focus a bit more on outdoor though
131 of 778 in Gold, but with some races later today, so that might slide down a bit (it did - to 139).
Doing these as some endurance training for outdoor.
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The weather seems to be telling me it's time to focus a bit more on outdoor though
Just one indoor ride for me this week - and 200 outdoor miles
I've just joined intervalICU. Lots of data points
How do I find W/bal ? Just getting my head around the plethora of data
You have to set your W' (available power) first in Settings>Power Settings
This is also where you can set a different indoor FTP if you want.
Then you can see your W' Bal in each activity
Legs
usually riding on Zwift...
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- Staffordshire
Check the training banter thread from a few weeks ago, @CXRAndy .
What value is entered Martin? Watts in Joules for what period in secs.
Eg 550W for 60 secs 33000 joules
