tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5799289Wed, 07 May 2008 07:01:10 +0000http://www.wattagetraining.com/blog/greg/content.phpgregBlogger99125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5799289.post-5261129011501364116Wed, 07 May 2008 07:02:00 +00002008-05-07T01:01:11.032-06:00That about killed me... The ride to rmr was dead headwind, solo. Took 10 extra minutes. Ran to registration line, lined up to race. 45 hard minutes of racing. Not above my level, could actually race - move around, move forward and back at will... Felt good. 22 mins in felt something weird going on with left foot. Decided to not stand up (at all) and not to contest the final without knowinghttp://www.wattagetraining.com/blog/greg/2008/05/wow.phpgregtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5799289.post-5435456861194058028Sat, 03 May 2008 00:38:00 +00002008-05-02T18:38:12.485-06:00Test... Things didn't go as smoothly as the last post outlined. But functional again... see if this works. -ghttp://www.wattagetraining.com/blog/greg/2008/05/test-post-from-mac-dashboard-widget.phpgregtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5799289.post-4429413531073615789Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:17:00 +00002008-04-25T16:16:17.104-06:001) Connect to internet via the g network.2) Update mac and install bootcamp update3) Format hdd for vista partition4) Install/restore vista from full backup (fingers crossed on that one)5) Boot into windows.6) Strip backup of all apps I can install/replace with mac native versions.7) Boot into osx8) Install native apps9) Install parallels10) Test windows functionality11) Install time machine intohttp://www.wattagetraining.com/blog/greg/2008/04/so-here-is-plan.phpgregtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5799289.post-3086616359749195678Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:50:00 +00002008-04-24T12:29:27.255-06:00...so posting from the bb instead of not posting.Might get it today, might not?So yesterday I started a project for consistancy that I have been dearly lacking.Following a recent similar idea via slowtwitch I thought I would try to do 100 rides in 100 days. No days off. Easy days, but no completely off bike days.Got out before dark after dinner last night as day 1, ride1.Day 2, ride 2 looks to http://www.wattagetraining.com/blog/greg/2008/04/still-no-mbp.phpgregtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5799289.post-8599972333201991565Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:18:00 +00002008-04-03T15:17:35.397-06:00Yeah, I know, two posts in one day. Guess that's 'cause racin' has started.Well, looks like the weather is going to cooperate this week.We had sun and crisp, dry. Today's tt, sun and 50.Saturday's roubaix style race?See the forecast below ;)"A chance of rain and snow in the morning...then a slight chance of rain and snow showers in the afternoon. Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 50s. North http://www.wattagetraining.com/blog/greg/2008/04/looks-good.phpgregtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5799289.post-8569052605230067141Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:52:00 +00002008-04-03T07:51:38.064-06:00I thought I would post this here since in searching the web, it seems noone else has done this before. Migrate an existing installation of windows to a boot camp partition. Yup, I ordered a macbook pro. Should be here sometime next week or so. And I intend to migrate my existing vista ultimate pc to a partition on the mbp. Here is what I think is a process that will work: > Take full backuphttp://www.wattagetraining.com/blog/greg/2008/04/upcoming-project.phpgregtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5799289.post-1197913100451258627Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:26:00 +00002008-04-02T17:25:33.132-06:00Of racing (@ least for me). RMR last saturday. First mass start race for me in almost 2 years. Someone from Bountiful went down right in front of me about ten minutes in. Right up against the wall. He was on the ground, back to me, slowly sliding towards the wall and closing the gap. I sat there watching the gap close thinking "aw crap, two years off of road racing and 10mins back and I go http://www.wattagetraining.com/blog/greg/2008/04/first-week.phpgregtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5799289.post-5093046314609749295Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:35:00 +00002008-03-22T10:34:39.928-06:004 days in the sunshine in St. George.Yesterday the drive, then a quick 1:20 in the glorious 75d sunshine.Today a late start to miss the group ride, so probably a solo ride into Gunlock or Snow Canyon.Was going to bring the ss mtb, but the srm was acting up, so threw the winter bike on at the last second.My skin hasn't been so happy to see sunshine in a while.:)-ghttp://www.wattagetraining.com/blog/greg/2008/03/st-george.phpgregtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5799289.post-3321750239561366553Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:07:00 +00002008-03-19T13:07:01.246-06:00With code to kill sig line-ghttp://www.wattagetraining.com/blog/greg/2008/03/test-post.phpgregtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5799289.post-8952757600057227407Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:03:00 +00002008-01-18T17:04:19.771-07:00Headed to the sb training camp with the boys from TX.Late flight, early first ride tomorrow with not enough miles in my legs (did I mention I haven't ridden outdoors since christmas eve?).Should be fun.-ggreg steelewww.wattagetraining.comSent from my CrackBerry wireless handheld (please excuse typos)http://www.wattagetraining.com/blog/greg/2008/01/off-i-go.phpgregtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5799289.post-6743580973037060726Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:44:00 +00002008-01-10T01:44:49.114-07:00The boys from TX are going back and this time we are going for a week...   Here are 6 of the 7 rides:     -ghttp://www.wattagetraining.com/blog/greg/2008/01/ca-training-camp-again.phpgregtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5799289.post-6510492642566138378Mon, 31 Dec 2007 22:26:00 +00002007-12-31T15:26:58.065-07:00Not there yet for us. But to the three people reading this...   Happy New Year.  I hope you are successful in reaching your goals in '08.   -ghttp://www.wattagetraining.com/blog/greg/2007/12/happy-2008.phpgregtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5799289.post-8085272426663135097Fri, 28 Dec 2007 05:57:00 +00002007-12-27T22:57:07.740-07:00Every year i have laid out plans to do well at a big events...   This year is different.  I just wanna go fast.  And race.  last year i did about 6 tt's.  That's it. No road races.  No mtb xc races.  No cx races.   So this year KISS and just plan to race.  Periodic local weekday stuff.  Weekend races.  Some picked where i hope to well.  some just because i like them.  But just do it again.   The http://www.wattagetraining.com/blog/greg/2007/12/goals-and-2008.phpgregtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5799289.post-2273368387862618186Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:28:00 +00002007-12-21T00:28:19.857-07:00All's good in the wet and cold.  Too many days where the SRM says 25C (i.e. indoors).   Rode to the gate @ Millcreek as the snow is deep now (and time for some skating!). Felt good going up as now down under 195.  I added 10w to the FTP "estimate" and I say estimate as I haven't done any formal testing.  But then proceeded to do 4x10s @ 260w and they hurt suffeciently so I suspect that my http://www.wattagetraining.com/blog/greg/2007/12/climbing-into-snow.phpgregtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5799289.post-6173894038600817309Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:54:00 +00002007-12-14T09:54:08.325-07:00Just downloaded my t6 data (not really interested in HR, but have been tracking EPOC to see how it scales with power for no-power-able rides).   Now, if you read last nights post, you know I did 4x10 @ ftp ramp downs (starting @ the top of L4 and ramping to the bottom so the average is exactly FTP).   Something you notice not so much in the power file but becomes obvious in the HR trace only is http://www.wattagetraining.com/blog/greg/2007/12/cardiac-drift-or-why-use-power.phpgregtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5799289.post-1739373269025394959Fri, 14 Dec 2007 08:39:00 +00002007-12-14T01:41:50.894-07:00     BTW, yes I know the CSS is buggered on the blog and has a grey background when it is supposed to be white.  Will get to it.   Here is Thursday nights workout.  Need the LT work, didn't think I could start at the 2x20 or 1x40-60 yet.  So did ramps that start at top of L4 and ramp down to bottom...   Finished it and had more to give.   So, good start to structured training.   Here is the http://www.wattagetraining.com/blog/greg/2007/12/thursdays-workout.phpgregtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5799289.post-3778177784276750727Fri, 14 Dec 2007 06:17:00 +00002007-12-13T23:17:12.293-07:00How can I tell?  Laundry.  Tonight I loaded the past weeks worth of riding clothing into the washer and here is what it consists of:   7 pairs of bibs 7 pairs of socks 4 sweatbands 4 headbands 7 hand towels   Yeah.   So in a comment about the fat falling off (under 196 now) Dave mentioned that I have the tools to do it.  While the tool he mostly was referring to was the PMC (and I agree) I http://www.wattagetraining.com/blog/greg/2007/12/winter-riding-here-in-full-force.phpgregtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5799289.post-8753928892900511695Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:16:00 +00002007-12-06T10:16:52.048-07:00went well.  1.5hrs of SST on the CT.  Didn't want to get off early or not finish the laps I had programmed in (4x the central park course).  Which is a good start to the winter indoor game.  Outperformed the planned TSS.   I am addressing the supply side and the demand side at the same time right now.  My supply side is way down (as mentioned in the post about my MAP test).  And my demand side http://www.wattagetraining.com/blog/greg/2007/12/last-night.phpgregtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5799289.post-4649293774006513372Wed, 05 Dec 2007 06:51:00 +00002007-12-04T23:51:51.125-07:00Did the first MAP test in, well, I dunno how long it has been since I have done a personal ramp test.   I only do them for those who aren't used to testing (new athletes) or those who have "detrained" such as my own situation.   Well, the results aren't pretty and I know I could have done better:   Might have to redo in short order (after the weekend) and see if I just wussed out...     Guesshttp://www.wattagetraining.com/blog/greg/2007/12/well-that-wasn-pretty.phpgregtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5799289.post-3615519827345317321Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:32:00 +00002007-12-04T13:32:58.992-07:00Do not ride rollers and watch Dust to Glory at the same time... you will try and drive the trophy trucks from the handlebars, and you will fall off the rollers.   -ghttp://www.wattagetraining.com/blog/greg/2007/12/saftey-warning.phpgregtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5799289.post-1920281741405391815Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:45:00 +00002007-12-03T14:45:43.920-07:00So now it is December and with that the end of the UTCX season.  The first time in a long time the CX season has come and gone with a single race for myself.   Blame the granuloma for that one, but it seems to have resolved itself and this week I have ridden the rollers everyday since my last outdoor ride.  Including twice yesterday.   Ouch.   The Computrainer will be fixed tomorrow when the http://www.wattagetraining.com/blog/greg/2007/12/back-up-and-running-full-speed-ahead.phpgregtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5799289.post-2740261911998769432Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:39:00 +00002007-11-28T08:39:58.532-07:00Instead of calling me about my laptop within 24hrs like they said, they shipped it back to me. Should be here thursday (so much for promised overnight shipping both directions - it went ground to them and came back 2-day to me).Any takers on weither it last past the 12hrs the last "fix" lasted?Now with a real pc (kinda sucks coaching from a balackberry), I can get back to it and some of my http://www.wattagetraining.com/blog/greg/2007/11/so.phpgregtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5799289.post-6427453303678528520Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:51:00 +00002007-11-27T08:51:31.958-07:00Is no update. They promised (saturday) to call within 24hrs with an update and figure out what the hell is going on. I finally got a tech to say that they might be able to call this a lemon and issue a new machine (with my hdd I hope!!!), but that it has to come from a supervisor. So here's hoping a supervisor calls me today. Maybe they can just send me my hdd and some $$$ and I can go to thehttp://www.wattagetraining.com/blog/greg/2007/11/acer-update_27.phpgregtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5799289.post-3514712911571471732Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:52:00 +00002007-11-24T10:52:35.736-07:00Yup, sept 15th. That was the day I sent my laptop to acer in temple.Let's see, today is nov24th, so that makes monday going on 10 weeks.I call almost everyday now. Found out today that they ordered the motherboard on nov19th.Hmmm. Does that mean they ever received the second one and it showed up bad (again)?When are they going to cut their (and my) losses and call a lemon a lemon?-Ggreg http://www.wattagetraining.com/blog/greg/2007/11/915.phpgregtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5799289.post-1030483719916555195Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:31:00 +00002007-11-19T09:32:10.981-07:00So they have another motherboard and supposed to install today. Maybe by the end of the week I can have my pc back. Or maybe I will have a mac by then.I have had some complications that have kept me off the bike for several weeks. Tried to ride a couple times, but any attempt has been both painful and have had to keep it under l2.Hopefully more to follow...-ggreg http://www.wattagetraining.com/blog/greg/2007/11/acer-update.phpgreg