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This Sunday Mike and I headed to Piru, a bit north of the LA area, for our first cycling race: a 20k Time Trial. I needed to do another FTP test, so this seemed like a good way to do it. Dark and early we packed up the bikes and headed out, only forgetting the…
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Yesterday’s schedule called for a 15mi time trial test on the tri bike. I knew of a loop that I thought would be great for it, and that I pass on the way to work, so I headed out there. It’s a 4 mi loop that is basically flat and has a single stop sign…
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As we got the bikes out of the car to race this weekend, Mike’s PT computer fell off his bike. It was in the bike mount cradle well, but that whole cradle fell off the part that is zip-tied to the bike. He snapped it back on, and we thought nothing of it. Then in…
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So one of my favorite rides includes a stretch along a dam (flat and wide bike trail). Unfortunately something (perhaps in it) turns out to be one of the only places in about 100 miles of us where PT often loses reception at least for a bit, as Rich of Wheelbuilder let Mike and I…
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For now I’m just riding with the PT and seeing what I see. While riding the PT is pretty easy to use — the buttons are easy to press in gloves, and once you get used to how they scroll through screens it becomes pretty easy to see the information you wanted to see. It…
Continue reading PowerTap — using it and uploading to computer
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Santa came early and dropped off PowerTap SL 2.4 wheels (the wireless version) for Mike and me! A number of people have expressed interest in our learning process with them, so I’m going to blog our progress of getting up to speed and learning to make the most out of them in our training. We…
Continue reading PowerTap night 1 & day 1 — the setup & the first ride