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Welcome back. I too have been tempted by the VIRB. I already have one of the first-gen VIRB cameras and I love it. I keep thinking I may pick up one of the new Ultras and relegate the existing one to "tailgunner" duty since Garmin makes it so easy to slave two cameras together. Some VIRB vids from last racing season:…

All my kids are grown and gone, but I'm another with a full time desk job. Donuts are my Kryptonite, yet my coworkers insist on bringing them. I'm here all the time, multiple times per day. Add me if you wish!

As both @pedermj2002 and @columbus2015 said, I'm not sure about this one. Particularly the whole "increase brightness as the speed falls" thing. On the one hand, any light (or anything else) that potentially increases driver visibility is a plus. And even if the driver sees the light and doesn't understand what it's…

I can see why you'd say that if you're lumping analysis in with training. I guess it's just a different mindset from mine. I don't think of TR as a data collection or analysis tool, simply a training and trainer control tool. I collect every ride, indoors or out, via my Garmin Edge 820, data goes into Garmin Connect and…

I guess it depends on how you look at it. For me, yes, I'm paying for plans with TrainerRoad but I have a wide variety of plans and workouts I can mix and match as my needs change or if I just want something different. With TrainingPeaks, you have what you've bought. You want more, you have to buy more. Plus many of the…

The biggest value of TrainerRoad is the training plans. Yes, you can get workouts and such from TrainingPeaks but the last time I looked the plans were mostly things you have to pay for. The thing you have to understand is that the workouts don't exist in a vacuum. You can do workouts and you'll probably see improvements,…

As a umm... hair-growth-challenged individual, this is a constant problem for me. Not so much the sweaty helmet, but just sweat dripping in my eyes and sunglasses. Frankly, I still haven't found a good solution. On the trainer, I keep a stack of cheap, goofy-looking 1970s Wilson tennis-style headbands. I generally get…

Indoor ride or outdoor? If outdoor, road or offroad? I ask becuase, in truth, both aren't much more than guesses. That said, if it was an outdoor road ride and your height and weight are set close to correct in Strava, the Strava estimate is probably closer. Strava bases calorie esimates on power, either reported (if you…

This is pretty close to how I do things, which is why I suggested Wahoo Fitness app in my earlier post. I think at this point in time a phone is a pale imitation of a dedicated bike computer, but if you're going to use a phone I think the Wahoo app does a better job of imitating an on-bike computer than the strava app, and…

If it were me, I'd probably use the Wahoo Fitness app. Haven't used Endomondo in many years but the Strava app isn't great as a bike computer. Wahoo Fitness has the benefits of being configurable, flexible, connecting to basically any sensor(s), and when the ride is done you have a selection of different platforms you can…

38 in the mornings. Typically mid 40s sitting at my desk. Max observed HR (on the bike) is 178.

Garmin Connect is same as it is here: ntnunk

As @Tacklewasher and @AnvilHead say, it's irrelevant unless you're an endurance athlete of some sort. Just burn those cals. Those zones are a marketing corruption of cardio training zones endurance athletes use to train for specific types of endurance, speed, etc.

This is exactly it. Beautifully said. You can't worry about others, you gotta do you and just let them do them. Having said that, I understand where you're coming from. My fitness journey started as a 5'9", 235 lb guy stuffing himself into lycra and climbing on a bicycle. No matter how scary, take the first steps. Pretty…

Only if it's an unintended, i.e. unplanned, rest day. My training schedule is usually planned weeks in advance, including rest days and recovery weeks. If it's a planned rest day I just enjoy it. If it's an unplanned rest day, like yesterday where my workout time got taken up by things outside my control, it bugs the crap…

That's pretty cool. I always assumed a car since there's clearly sections in one or two of the vids I have where the road was blocked to vehicular traffic and the video "cut" to another section.

In defense of my (indefensible) position, I can only say that the Vortex was commandeered by the wife when I tripped across my Neo at a price I simply couldn't refuse (seriously, it was discounted something like 64% because the box was a little scuffed up). I ended up with the Kurt because that's the trainer she was using…

I know, I know. This is why we can't have nice things, right?

Always be yourself. Unless you can be Batman. Then be Batman.

Some new furniture for the Pain Cave. As the proud owner of three trainers (Tacx Neo, Tacx Vortex, Kurt Kinetic Road Machine) and now two sets of rollers (Kurt Z-Rollers and these new Galaxia rollers) I'm starting to think I might have an indoor cycling equipment addiction...

Sorry everyone, I think I broke it.

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This was taken by my wife during a Cyclocross race last last year. This race was absolutely brutal due to the large amounts of loose, deep sand we had to deal with every lap. The pic was taken as I was shouldering my bike at the start of a long, sandy run-up. Every time I see it I'm reminded how hard that race was, that…

I love it when @TheBigYin starts breaking out the equations! Yes, I am in fact a nerd. There's a few other good reasons for doing this as well. First, low cadence, high force work is hard on your knees. You're transferring a bunch of force though joints that are already susceptible to damage. And if you're like most of us…

Ahhh. This makes more sense. First, jogging will normally result in a higher HR than cycling. Most people who run and cycle actually have two different max HR and zone breakouts for the two different activities. It makes sense when you think about it: when you cycle you aren't normally supporting your own body weight,…

Problems with the sync API (application programming interface) for MFP, basically the "pipeline" that moves data from other apps like Garmin, FitBit, etc. into/out of MFP are fairly common. Since your devices are syncing to Fitbit but not MFP, that's most likely the problem. The fix is to just be patient. They'll get it…

HR not coming up could be a cooling thing. Are you using a fan? I've heard of people having trouble getting HR up indoors, including from my old coach who said he always struggled to get his HR up indoors. I've never had this problem personally and everyone and their uncle has a solution for it, including (but not limited…

I eagerly read this review as well. What with having the new MTB and riding it a lot more, I've made the decision to put a power meter on it. I mostly just want it for tracking Kj and TSS though, not for actually doing structured work or anything. As such, I don't really want to spend a ton of money on it. The bad news is…

Love the hair

Great progress!