I read this and thought " this is how I have ridden and trained for years." I ride 4 days a week, HIIT training with weights the other three and stretch daily. I like his pre-sleep routine so I will give it ago. I don't race and have no interest in racing but maintaining and improving cycling fitness does interest me.
I started riding only 3 days a week when it got too dark in the morning to make it to the trail and back before work started. I really notice the difference in how much effort I can put in to the rides I do. My only issue is when I'm learning new trails that are difficult, I need more consecutive days in the saddle to nail the difficult features. With only 3 days in a row, I find the first day I'm not as sharp and making a bunch of mistakes. But overall, it's much better to be doing this than what I used to.
T(he)y are busy traipsing all over the countryside, yoinking any low hanging fruit KOM's they can find, in Bumfuck, Nowheresville.
New bike.
Wasn't creaking before I put the new bars in. I only swapped the bars, not the stem
Still...for me it is usually the first culprit for mysterious creaks.
Not a bad idea, I just did a straight swap. I'm in COVID iso this week so a good opportunity to do some maintenance
Thats an option if I can't sort it
You just wait until you finally get down to discovering the creak is coming from either inside the pedals or between the cassette and your hub...
What's a Wendy?
She is looking at that option too. Armidale seems to be copping the rain today, but shouldn't be too bad. Wendy's don't cope with the cold very well though, which is why they scarper north each winter, for warmer climbing.
Nerang sounds like the go. I will tell her to assume the tunnel vision pose, and get the fuck out of Gladystan.
Dugongs are typically pretty wet, no?
Nothing worse than a dried out Dugong.
