tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20180844012370169292008-09-27T15:07:20.059-07:00Random exploits and nuggets!kraignoreply@blogger.comBlogger144125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-65768701937929155222008-09-25T10:44:00.000-07:002008-09-25T10:45:23.793-07:00

Keepin' it real with some italian schwoopy tubes. Stiff yet compliant? ;-)

kraignoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-74724757691841185462008-09-25T10:39:00.000-07:002008-09-25T10:40:35.404-07:00

Perusing the aisles at interbike, and this caught my eye.Off-roading on a unicycle. Why not?!

kraignoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-70842005560485437732008-09-23T20:16:00.000-07:002008-09-23T20:22:58.056-07:00

Did a nice trainer spin of 20 minutes or so of actual pedaling yesterday evening ;-) to loosen things up a bit... ...and then proceeded to rip off a pretty standard lunch hour vo2 ride today, so it seems as if not too much damage was done by the longest run of my life on Sunday! More importantly, my knees are staying pretty healthy. In the past (and even as little as 6-8 wks ago!), I've had

kraignoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-19020716236720819782008-09-21T14:49:00.001-07:002008-09-21T16:44:39.868-07:00

I wonder how big a "mark" this half mary @8:30 ish pace will leave... Yeah, i've been doin' some runnin' lately in order to mix it up a bit. Guess I'll find out tomorrow just how much damage I did with this one! ;-) ps- I've taken off the blog comment moderation, as it seems like my "stalker", the infamous Andrew Coggan, PhD has taken a hiatus! LOL! ;-)that being said, let's hear your tips for

kraignoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-57467355903773058292008-08-31T19:45:00.000-07:002008-08-31T19:55:36.109-07:00

90 odd laps to go and el cajon's jimmie johnson's been skoolin' the field pretty good!Pit strategy comin' into play - this will get interesting real quick!

kraignoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-86786616256851344182008-08-31T16:06:00.000-07:002008-08-31T16:41:50.758-07:00

kraignoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-82540901446274725922008-08-24T20:12:00.000-07:002008-08-24T20:18:58.973-07:00

I haven't had much to say lately... Went on vaction for a bit to vist family in Portland, and watched a lot of the olympics! Can't say I was a big fan of how NBC handled the whole deal, but hey, I lived through the 80's/90's and how CBS handled the Tour. I reckon it will all work out! Anyway, all I can say about the olympics is that I'm real proud of Sarah and Andy and how they represented

kraignoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-43699886939901825192008-08-03T15:27:00.000-07:002008-08-03T15:48:48.276-07:00

So, last weekend, my 10-ish year old panasonic 27" CRT tv died (does that seem like a short life for a TV to anybody else)... Now, I don't watch as much tv as I used to - crap, back in my youth, I can remember coming home from school and watching loads and loads of TV - it might start with the Phil Donaghue show, or Star Blazers, battlestar gallactica, and end with the Late Show with David

kraignoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-91713063026430987492008-07-30T21:47:00.001-07:002008-07-30T22:05:51.228-07:00

... and then I dug these up on youtube from the 1987 TdF: yeah, when you need supplemental oxygen, and can't stand up on our own, well, I reckon that means you laid down a maximal effort. Something to think about when comparing race efforts to training efforts, and the definition of "maximal" vs "kinda hard". Those tours, and the CBS weekly coverage in the late 80's, hooked me on the sport

kraignoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-10208485388481798032008-07-27T19:53:00.000-07:002008-07-27T19:56:39.260-07:00

...according to the SuperComputer? the race depicted by the histogram data in the top row here (2008 M35+ San Marcos Grand Prix): or the bottom row (2006 cat 3 San Marcos Grand Prix)?? Same scales for both, so no weirdness there! :-)

kraignoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-14999677038943748632008-07-23T22:33:00.001-07:002008-07-23T22:52:16.727-07:00

It's been a long time since I've fired up the ol' TRIMPS software. alas, the results for 2008 to date are the same as the last time I did this exercise(this plot was created by allowing the TRIMPS model to vary all 6 model parameters to best fit my performance data): The wiggly lines contain little to no practically usable information, it seems. I reckon there's quite a bit of truth in what

kraignoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-46333173541077457332008-07-15T21:52:00.000-07:002008-07-15T22:02:29.372-07:00

...bonus points for those that can decipher the 3-d histograms below (they are the same plot, just from different perspectives)! ooooh - look at the pretty colors! :-) I haven't fired up this matlab script in awhile, but when I do, I find that it's a pretty descriptive way to discover the "gold" in my srm files. From the looks of it, it seems that I can do about 13+ minutes @ 6+W/kg in

kraignoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-59113441849364516542008-07-12T17:09:00.001-07:002008-07-12T17:19:06.603-07:00

...since he's not there... here he is guaranteeing more victories for Contador in the future: and on whether or not he'll be watching the tour this year: Here's what Levi did yesterday morning, when all his euro-dawg buds were throwin' down in letour: cascade classic TT d'oh! he would have put 10 minutes on me! Nice to see lots of familiar names on that TT result sheet - BTR folks and

kraignoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-46659194009188734842008-07-05T20:30:00.001-07:002008-07-05T20:41:18.370-07:00

A couple of quick shots of three tires hanging from my garage door opener track. Lots of folks talk about tires being supple, and how this "supple-ness" can be a good indicator of tires with low rolling resistance. Based on this supple-ness deal, which one of the tires above, would have the _worst_ rolling resistance? Well, I dorked around in the garage this morning with my new toy (an IR,

kraignoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-24496829311229081322008-07-03T16:00:00.000-07:002008-07-05T20:28:41.288-07:00

I woke up last Saturday thinking I'd go for a nice stroll up Couser Canyon and have a relaxing afternoon of rest prior to toein' the line at the Manhattan Beach Grand Prix on Sunday. Well, I did give it a go up the Couser climb (this is where I do all my 20 mp type efforts) in the morning and began to enjoy the afternoon. As I was checkin' things out on socalcycling.com, I remember that the

kraignoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-76643335216195001072008-06-26T21:09:00.000-07:002008-06-26T23:27:31.067-07:00

I took a couple weeks off there, eh??? Anyway, here's the highlights... I was big time into golf when I was a youngster - I can remember watching Curtis Strange rip it up at the US Open back to back (just like the Lakers did in the 80's, and as mentioned in the R-rated, Red Hot Chili Peppers Song clip below): My passion for the unseen intricacies of competitive golf is why I jumped at the

kraignoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-62105393764772831072008-06-11T21:23:00.000-07:002008-06-11T21:41:28.175-07:00

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/12/sports/othersports/12brown.html?_r=1&oref=slogin where were the congressional hearings about cycling in the 80's and 90's, or even today? The Clemens and Bonds thing was interesting... Now, horses have the limelight in the USA? Wow. I'm under-impressed -> further confirmation that cycling is a fringe deal here in the states. I won't complain about the

kraignoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-59648855219610207962008-06-08T18:35:00.000-07:002008-06-08T20:09:13.576-07:00

Big sports day for me today! Brought back lots of old skool memories of my youth sports experiences... Started out with some Euro 2008 action where Croatia took on Austria, and Croatia scored early on a penalty shot in the opening minutes of the match. Great coverage I was watching - pretty funny to hear the announcers chattin' about "dumping" an opponent - the description the color guy gave

kraignoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-79959432741045703882008-06-04T21:07:00.000-07:002008-06-04T22:08:49.353-07:00

I've made a pretty conscious effort this year to make a move towards a more positive mental energy state... Yeah, all the numbers/smart guys out there will scoff at this - but hey, that's cool, I can respect that perspective. Often times, though (I'm human, right?), it becomes difficult to ignore all the "forum" threads that get forwarded to me by friends of the BTR cause. Recently, I was

kraignoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-82656230148278917262008-05-27T23:00:00.000-07:002008-05-27T23:03:59.422-07:00

This past holiday weekend was front loaded! Big day on Saturday, as I finally got to see Vicente Fernandez live in Concert. I totally dig the mariachi scene and if you are into that sort of thing - Vicente (Chente) is the man!his son, Vicente Jr., opened the show promptly at 8PM and sang with the Mariachi for about half an hour. Then Vicente came on stage and lit it up for nearly three hours of

kraignoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-5249160363717759282008-05-25T09:27:00.000-07:002008-05-25T09:27:05.755-07:00

Cool Steve Hed interview over on Road magazine's site that I just ran across: http://roadmagazine.net/road_home/road/interviews/hed08/hed08.html

kraignoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-24365664375156724452008-05-13T21:04:00.000-07:002008-05-13T21:39:40.199-07:00

I spent a bit of time in Germany last summer: and I want to convince myself that I remember that "Der Kinder" in German is something like: "the children"... I'm not totally sure why "Der Kinder" popped into my head when I received a semi-spam related email from Amazon today about their "Kindle" product - but I'll pull no punches and admit that "Der Kinder" did. Cool slowmo of a Kindle being

kraignoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-60662493164166283402008-05-06T20:17:00.000-07:002008-05-06T20:52:28.875-07:00

..is 20/20. Well, I planned to get a couple of hard efforts in last weekend to put the final touches on my preparation for the Masters Road Champs here in Socal this coming Saturday. It all started probably 6 years ago, maybe... That's when I got tired of getting my ass handed to me in the Pro 1,2 races - and I thought the only way I wouldn't get my ass handed to me was to recreate the mega

kraignoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-60905953197106181292008-05-03T09:01:00.000-07:002008-05-03T09:08:27.287-07:00

Well, I got a swift kick in the rear a week or so ago by a BTR/kdublog reader asking what's up with the whole stripped down series... That wasn't the first time I'd heard that! :-) I finally got the next installment done -> Fill! Heres the first installment in the series: http://www.biketechreview.com/performance/stripped_down.htm and the latest: http://www.biketechreview.com/performance/

kraignoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018084401237016929.post-31373348911492661972008-05-01T22:36:00.000-07:002008-05-01T22:50:05.056-07:00

I've been doing the sporting good product thing for a little over a decade now (a couple years in the bike biz, and the rest where I currently am in the golf biz), and I still get pumped when the team I am on launches a new product: http://www.taylormadegolf.com/campaigns/burnerbloodline/content/microsite/ When new product ships, it's a crazy mix of nerves and pride for the team - it's an

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