Jason
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ParticipantI posted before though! I asked advice on how to commute in from Arlington and got very good responses. That was back in February I think though, I have been commuting 4 days a week since. BTW, I find one day to rest the legs in the middle of the week very productive, even if my commute is only 4 miles each way (but up hill the whole way home it seems).
ParticipantI found also that I can’t keep up in the DL or Squat when I am biking. Before biking to work, I could hit the DL and squat hard, doing DL reps with 280lbs and squatting with 270 for sets of 10 at a bodyweight of 180. Not stellar, but not so bad for the geeky kid in the front. When I started biking in to work, the extra hip movement taxing my system kept me from any squat/DL work for 4 months until I acclimated. Only a few weeks ago I was able to start adding back the major movement. My gym at work has a Trap bar, so I have been working parallel deadlifts with that, not a DL replacement, but more ergonmic for me than the squat. I also felt deflated when I wasnt lifting, so glad to be back at it.
ParticipantSorry to be blunt: Nobody likes panniers and backpacks. Nobody. But eating healthy (and cheaper) is worth it. Your body and your wallet will thank you. Plus you will know what is actually in your food, a big plus. So suck it up, and strap on a rack and pannier. Once you go through a month of adjustment, you will wonder how you were buying all those lunches.
Participant@dasgeh 26791 wrote:
So you’re the one on the trail naked with gels stuck all over your quads?
Not just on my quads!
DAMNIT, now I have to take a different route…
ParticipantClothing is overrated anyway. Eating is not.
Participant@KelOnWheels 26672 wrote:
Your bike is too light
haha, I ASSURE you its not too light! Pannier, rack, and 175lb me.
ParticipantToday I had an ELITE biker almost run into me head first because he was pedaling hard in his spandex while fiddling with his ipod (and yes the white earbuds were in). This was right near the Holland Carrilian next to the Iwo Jima. I belled him then said ELITE!
Participant@KelOnWheels 26667 wrote:
At the Starbucks, and the Starbucks, and the Starbucks, and the Starbucks?
EXACTLY. But I am crazy, I still can’t understand how in neighborhoods in DC that used to be dangerous and have crack houses, you see mothers with those huge baby carriages now! Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over. The flip flop wearers need to be put down!
ParticipantI dont like to follow directions, live in Arlington Courthouse, hate the superficial people in the arlington area for the most part, liked it better when it was weirder. I do like the fact that its an easy 4 miles to work. I listen to music most people hate, and like giving dirty looks to men who wear brown flip flops.
ParticipantStrange, my calves havent grown at all since I started commuting in 4 days a week, and its been since March. Maybe too many squats so the biking isnt stimulating them enough?
Participant@pfunkallstar 26543 wrote:
I need one of his Tron skinsuits so as to appear sufficiently Elite.
Yeah, I can’t seem to seem the last word in your post, the one right before the period.
ParticipantDear Tourist:
You yelled at me saying “WE CAN SEE YOU ALREADY” noting my hi-viz shirt and blinkey lights. Good thing you and your hordes didnt want to bother giving even two feet of space for me and the biker in front of me. I suppose you were just too busy admiring my hi-vis bike accoutramont to do anything about it. I responded “Awesome, maybe your group can move out of the way next time” as your several kids veered all over the very wide mall sidewalks across from the whitehouse. I am sorry, but you about twenty seconds to decide to yell your profanity at me. I was already a block away. Sorry we didnt have a chance to dance!
ParticipantELITE!!!
Mario “best kit ever” Cipollini by mia*moore, on FlickrParticipant@krazygl00 26311 wrote:
Remember the “Multi” part of “Multi Use Path”. People use it for strolling, walking, running, teaching the kids to ride, leisure riding and yes, fast road-riding. No one has a moral claim greater than anyone elses; just because roadies are seen as elitist doesn’t mean they don’t have the right to use a MUP for race-training or just posing at being fast.
Now of course they have to do it safely, but it very well may be that the roadies definition of a safe pass and a leisure cyclist’s definition could be very different.
Not to be argumentative, but wouldnt it be more appropriate for a more well seasoned roadie to devolve down to the reaction speed of a commuter or liesure rider than expect a less seasoned rider to somehow come up to the speeds a seasoned roadie moving at high speed would expect. This isnt the tour de MVT is it?
Participant@dasgeh 26272 wrote:
I’ve noticed that an increasing number of cyclists are calling passes when they’re next to me. I do think this is less helpful than not calling at all, because there have been times when I’m enjoying the scenery (and my slow commute), and the random, unexpected shoot/loud ding directly in my ear startles me. Luckily, I’ve had room to jump a little, but I can see it ending badly.
I don’t think a mirror helps much of the time. Imagine a common scenerio (speeds made up): I ride around 12 MPH. I am coming up on a ped going 3 MPH. I slow down to around 8 MPH, closing the gap to the ped. I look back to see if anyone’s coming. All clear, or so I think. I look ahead again to see if anyone is coming towards me. As I pull out, someone going 15 MPH, nearly twice as fast as me, approaches me. Why didn’t I see them when I looked? A curve, a tree, whatever and the gap in speed. The approaching cyclist should have called the pass when they saw me, and slowed. Unfortunately, that often doesn’t happen. Ugh.
Exactly what I am getting at. And I offer that the loud pass/bell in your ear just as they are passing, is more dangerous than if they just made their high speed pass unannounced. Its more like they are delivering a token pass, so they can say to themselves that they called it, when really, a token pass follows the letter of the law rather than the spirit, so to speak.
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