Doping prick
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It also told me I was phillipe Gilbert but I knew you couldnāt resist the valverde bat-signal
Also a doping prick
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what does this mean
Yesterday I think
Sufferfest test*
(Iām going really blind and autocorrect is basically ruining my life, I canāt see what I write. 
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is that the 4DP one?
wouldnāt mind a go at that one, reckon iām much better at V02max than steady state stuff so might be interesting
Yeah it was. i was surprised how good it was actually.
It told me my VO2 is a bag of shite 
look at all the guff it gives you:
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very nice colours
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I liked this test, but Iām a trainerroad wanker now.
Penge has got full into fucking Zwift racing. The chap I rode PBP with is obsessed with it and itās weirdly making me really sad?
obvs itās great that people are having a nice time and I know Iām being a stupid idiot 
did my fastest ever ride last night. trainerroad really is paying off.
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so mrs āi hate the turboā is finally coming roundā¦
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Iāve come around! Canāt imagine how much better using a smart one would be, but I am quite happy with the dumbo one at the moment. Donāt tell Mike but I am secretly hoping it breaks so we can replace with a shiny new one (as long as there are stocks, ofc). Iāve even got a fan arriving today!
You can also really see it on Stravaās fancy fitness graph:
NB. I guess I should note that lots of rides pre-lockdown were commutes which were really slow and without HR. Binning them off and concentrating on shorter rides has just been 
but no fucking idea what this is gonna do to my endurance once this is all over?
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Guys i sorted out my front derailleur!!!
this is the greatest day of my life.
Itās been giving me jip for about a year!
Followed literally every instruction manual, youtube guide, forum post in the entire world trying to get it to work properly again.
(it was basically being really shit with upshifting to big ring, and if i could bodge it to work, it made horrible noises and every now and again would just chuck the chain off outboard and cause all sorts of swearing).
But today i fixed it! some english bloke in a garage uploaded a new video with what seems like the worst front derailleur setup method ever, but it worked! I love him.
absolutely delighted, how was your day?
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Excellent work. I hate bike maintenance and gears in particular, so Iām well jealous of your skillz 
Today I did the mass ā25 laps of the Volcanoā challenge organised by Zwift Insider. 65 butt-numbing miles, but I did it in less than 3 hours thanks to the near constant drafting off the crowds. It was surprisingly good fun given the repetition - probably a thousand people or more joined in - but Iām not going back to that friggin volcano again for a long time 
Newb over here. Used to manage 30 mile or so ridesā¦ Have never been a long distance cycler, more part time, but this bussssiness is seeing me get back in the (brompton) (already sorry) saddle.
I hope bromptons arenāt banned in this thread. Donāt know the etiquette.
Anyone got any tips on building up stamina in legs for hills? Is it justā¦ Do a lot of them 
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yep. fraid so.
if you wanted to get serious about it you could pick a hill nearby and time yourself, then try and beat your time whenever you ride up it. but thereās nothing really special about training for hills, other than more cycling
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Yeah thatās kinda what I did earlierā¦ Nice easy incline with great pay off if done in a circuit. Five minutes slog up hill, two minutes wheeeeee downhill. Repeat ad infinitum.
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