hills! woohoo!
I have just recently re-discovered that, although it sounds masochistic, riding up hills on my bike many times in a row as fast as I can is incredibly good for me! Sure, it hurts, and I can barely push my bike up those last few metres at times, but the next time I go out it will be a little tiny bit easier, and other hills during the course of a normal ride seem so much easier and faster!
I've known about this technique for years, but I periodically forget about the beneficial effects that it has...I'll do hills for a couple weeks, get faster, and then just kinda stop doing them, as though I were satisfied with my new speed. But what I didn't think of before is that as it gets easier to climb the hill more times, I should gradually shift to harder and harder gears, while maintaining the same cadence. That way, when it comes to race time, I will be able to either fly up hills in a nice high gear as though it were nothing, or spin really quickly without getting tired. The hill workouts should also help me recover much more quickly from the BURNINATING of my legs!
ah, Burninating...good ol' Trogdor. If you haven't tried it out yet, it is a perfect way to waste tons of time mindlessly while at work, as long as your supervisor doesn't walk in on you singing while you play. Go here, TROGDOR!!! and you will CONTROL the glee of the satanic peasant stomping thatch roof burninating DRAGON! What fun, although seemingly written by a five year old, or a bored programmer with the maturity of a five year old.
On another note, Thanksgiving dinner turned out really yummy in the end, despite the s'gobbling (a lame attempt at a pun on the word squabbling). I didn't gorge myself as I usually do, which was nice for a change, and there is TONS of turkey left for sandwiches next week. We decided to compare the nasty butter-injected to the nice natural normal dead turkeys. The normal one was MUCH better. They must only use the somewhat tougher turkeys for the butterball in an attempt to mask the hideously tough and tasteless quality of the turkey. (alright, it wasn't THAT bad, but the normal one was noticeably more tasty and tender, with identical cooking conditions and basting techniques etc.)
Ok, that's all for today. Hope you have been somewhat entertained.
I've known about this technique for years, but I periodically forget about the beneficial effects that it has...I'll do hills for a couple weeks, get faster, and then just kinda stop doing them, as though I were satisfied with my new speed. But what I didn't think of before is that as it gets easier to climb the hill more times, I should gradually shift to harder and harder gears, while maintaining the same cadence. That way, when it comes to race time, I will be able to either fly up hills in a nice high gear as though it were nothing, or spin really quickly without getting tired. The hill workouts should also help me recover much more quickly from the BURNINATING of my legs!
ah, Burninating...good ol' Trogdor. If you haven't tried it out yet, it is a perfect way to waste tons of time mindlessly while at work, as long as your supervisor doesn't walk in on you singing while you play. Go here, TROGDOR!!! and you will CONTROL the glee of the satanic peasant stomping thatch roof burninating DRAGON! What fun, although seemingly written by a five year old, or a bored programmer with the maturity of a five year old.
On another note, Thanksgiving dinner turned out really yummy in the end, despite the s'gobbling (a lame attempt at a pun on the word squabbling). I didn't gorge myself as I usually do, which was nice for a change, and there is TONS of turkey left for sandwiches next week. We decided to compare the nasty butter-injected to the nice natural normal dead turkeys. The normal one was MUCH better. They must only use the somewhat tougher turkeys for the butterball in an attempt to mask the hideously tough and tasteless quality of the turkey. (alright, it wasn't THAT bad, but the normal one was noticeably more tasty and tender, with identical cooking conditions and basting techniques etc.)
Ok, that's all for today. Hope you have been somewhat entertained.
posted by a bike rider in the big smoke at 6:05 p.m.
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