a teammate of mine got divorced because he was training too much. like that is specifically the reason. his son at the time was 3 and he was riding 15-20 hours a week. four hour trainer rides.
i guess it works, he got signed to ascent cycling (from ontario area). he’s the oldest rider on their elite team by like 10 years which i find funny.
not the life prioritization i’ve chosen for myself but he seems happy?
he also jumped in a cross race this year and crashed into a bench and broke his fork and frame. i hope he sticks to the road. he is very bad at cyclocross.
i dont know that this is a great way to source your happiness. i think it tends to be a way to cope more than a way to be happy. also sucks that his kid is going to miss out on having a dad because dad chose training over spending time with family.
it’s ok to wait to do exercise all the time, but he chose to have a kid and now he’s fucking it up.
oh he is absolutely fucking it up, there is no question about that. if the only person that mattered in the world was himself, i’d say he’s probably happy? or he thinks he is? sadly that’s not how life works.
I’ve been running a 2-bolt style set I converted myself to xpedo tii pedal bodies. The only downside is the need to carve the shoe a bit to clear the electronics housing.
It appears they went back to the drawing board, so to speak, on these in contrast to the SPD ones which were their original design plus an adapter to fit Shimano pedal bodies that made the a factor extra wide and the bearings extra small.
All my dealings with Favero have been superb. Parts are always reasonably priced and if you email them they might send you parts free of charge regardless of warranty.
What’s the app people are using to build routes these days? Getting back into planning things out more, and it’s been 5-ish years since I seriously looked.
I’m using a Wahoo Element Bolt v1, the original black & white one, with the iOS apps.
I’m currently trying out Komoot. It seems to work without jumping through too many hoops, but I figure I’d try out other things before I spend money.
(Edit: to clarify - I plan on my Macbook, then transfer to the phone/GPS unit. Good planning on an iPad is a bonus, in case I tour, but not essential.)
I prefer planning on a computer than on a phone for the sake of screen real-estate, so I don’t have a great sense of the mobile UIs and their quirks. My go-to is RideWithGPS. I like that it has both Google and OpenStreetMaps and the routing algorithms are slightly different depending on which basemap is active. Komoot seems to be more popular in Europe than the US, but I’m not sure why, and I haven’t played with it much. Strava has gotten pretty good for route planning and has the advantage of their heat map data.
Ridewithgps is what I (still) use — their free level is not at all fancy (part of rusa’s slow murder of their permanents program required paid-level rwgps features) but it still works for my use case of cuesheets on paper (and presumably for uploading gps tracks to a handheld)
I also use RideWithGPS, however most of the euros use Komoot and it has some nice routing options (i.e. you can pick if you’re road, gravel, or mtbing).
I assume both Komoot and RWGPS should integrate with Wahoo to make for easy wireless transfer of routes.
