Quest for a Cure

by | Mar 28, 2017 | Cycling, Personal

As of early February, after successfully completing the Tour of Sufferlandria, 2017, I felt compelled to train and ride a Sufferlandrian Knighthood DO (not an attempt). This involves riding 10 back-to-back video workouts (with no more than 10 minutes break in between...

2015 By the Numbers

by | Jan 1, 2016 | Cycling, Personal

This year I was able to ride a personal best 4271 miles, including 1032 miles on the trainer and 565 commuter miles. That brings the total for my Altamira 2.7 (Phoenix) to 3854 miles (since August 30, 2014) and 1583 trainer miles (of 3245 miles total) on the Altamira...

Lame KICKR

by | Mar 5, 2015 | Cycling, Personal

The KICKR locked up on Monday, Feb. 16, after seven workouts (approximately five hours) from the time I purchased it on Feb. 3. Tech support at Wahoo told me the next morning (Tuesday) that it was a faulty speed sensor in the Top Cap, and that they would ship me a...

Winter Cycling on the Wahoo KICKR

by | Mar 5, 2015 | Cycling, Personal

I started training on the Wahoo Kickr  yesterday, February 3, 2015, and immediately discovered that I’ve been training to inaccurate power predictions using the TrainerRoad calculations for the Performance Travel Trac Comp Mag+ trainer (TR’s estimates for the Comp...