Barend de Arend

Rode one on Monday. Very keen on this as well.

At the back of the peloton the door was wide open. People were getting dropped out of the peloton chasing Jungle Bob. Bora and Jumbo guys did their work, and then dropped off. If they were chasing slowly you wouldn't see that. Peloton was down to 32 riders. 69 riders finished.

Jainism? Buddhism? There were vegetarians 2500 years ago.

It could be argued that food storage (grains and salted meat) are why we were more successful than the other apes. It could also be argued that diet adapted to circumstance (exercise, and environment.) More exercise needed more protein, and a diet in the arctic likely contains much more fat than a diet in the tropics. It's very likely that we have gene expressions that activate under harsh conditions and change our dietary requirements. "Harsh" could be starvation, extreme temperature, or just exercising 40 hours a week. So what does the average couch potato in a moderate climate (or heated / cooled house) need? That's what most of the research tries to answer.

rear wheel looks full of yellow stickers. mavic neutral wheel?

WADA has drawn a second line: the TUE line. Substances that you're allowed to take, but must ask permission for. You agree to this line too. That line says that there are valid reasons to take certain medications. When your well being requires the drug, and you can justify that, you're allowed to take the drug. One such reason is diabetes. If you can prove you have diabetes, you are allowed to take insulin. If you don't have diabetes, you're not allowed to take insulin. I don't feel right telling a diabetic: if you want to ride your bike, you must stop with your insulin injections. I think a diabetic should be allowed to live his life, and it's great that medical science now allows for that. (there are actually two TUE lines: acute and chronic)

I'm trying to illustrate that there are illnesses that need treatmentthe point of any treatment is to bring you back to normal (not supernormal) -- or as normal as possible. You should be able to live a normal life.the sport has rules for treating illnesses (TUEs)

Devil's advocate: If you need medicine, should you just sit on the couch and watch TV? Wait, you're not allowed the watch TV, because the medication you're on are eye drops. Where do you draw the line? When are you allowed to live a life?

If the meds were right, can the doc sue for bringing his name in disrepute? If the meds were right, and did not contain a banned substance? If the meds were right, contained a banned substance, but the cyclist was correctly informed?

If I saw all the evidence, there's a chance I'd believe it. The stocktake sheet for one. We'll never see all the evidence, though. The appeals board might see all the evidence, but now you're opening up: - doctor patient confidentiality - doctor malpractice problems - name smearing, libel, etc. My guess is any good lawyer would prevent all the evidence from coming out, so we'd get a "he said, she said..." scenario. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof... Note that if the doc did provide the wrong meds, the cyclist is lucky: he wasn't allergic to the wrong medsthe wrong meds didn't make him sickerthe wrong meds weren't neutralthe wrong meds, by chance, still cured his ailment (how often is this true ???)the wrong meds were banned

I'm assuming a field medic, doc or pharmacy would have a stock list and do a stock take. This seems to be a common practice. It should be possible to check if this doc did a stock take. So if the meds were wrong, the doc would know a few days later that the wrong meds got provided to someone. If the stock-take is any good you would be able to narrow it down to just a few patients since you can check which med you've got one too much of. Ethical docs would try to track it or notify patients for side-effects. Non-ethical docs would imply a whole big can of worms.

Because they're medics first, and race medics second. If you fall and break your leg, do you want the painkillers, or don't you?

Checking is easy Obtaining a TUE if it's warranted is not so easy.

Most top-level pro cycling teams will have a doctor that is very familiar with drugs that are likely to receive a TUE, and work with the UCI and/or WADA in obtaining a short-term TUE for an emergency. Most GPs are not aware. The process isn't easy for a normal GP or a normal guy in the street. If "race medic" means a ER24 or other paramedic, then they might not know. However, they should know the drugs prescribed, and should inform the patient of the drugs provided. At the very least to check for allergies.

Time to update your settings, or calibrate your power meter.

A good course has multiple places

Started in B, 2h39. No seeding due to some medical problems last year. Most of the way I wasn't in the red. I did help pull (because I wasn't in the red) 61kg, quarq power meter. avg. power: 177 watts, NP: 206 avg hr: 152 avg cadence: 87 max power: 795 (no breaks, no sprint) max hr: 170 max cadence: 124 max 20min: 213 watts. Interestingly this was probably the race I was the least stressed in (mentally) in a long time.

It changes the "feel" on your skin -- the amount of UV light received. We're 2km up, and that's 2km less of "thick" atmosphere. More importantly, we're close to the equator, and that's more direct sunlight, so the sunlight travels less through the atmosphere, and there's more UV. The sky should also be lighter here, less blue, due to less rayleigh scattering. I've got no idea what the actual % difference is.

Entry delivery as opposed to pickup You used to offer this. Or just let me print a number -- especially if there isn't a goody bag anyway. The MTB route split short/long in more than one place. In at least one of those places there were marshalls shouting something like "short left, long right." Despite their best efforts, it caused minor confusion. Coloured arrows, or a big sign would've helped. If you can't add technical terrain, lemme know, so I can try a cross bike.

As per usual, it depends Usually <30 seconds if it's a double paceline. If it's a single -- think team-time-trial --, the stronger rider(s) sit a little bit longer. This allows the weaker riders to recover more, and keeps more riders in play. In a double paceline the rider next to you could be weaker, so don't interrupt the flow. If it's windy, the difference between work and rest will be amplified, so the time spent in front changes. If they're teammates you can tell them to slow a bit. If they're opponents never, ever tell them the pace is too hot. If you're just starting, you'll have a tendency to feel hero, and stay in front too long. Don't do this. If you need a break, rather stay at the back and skip a few pulls than interrupting the speed or the flow. Don't skip every pull, or everyone will skip every pull. Try and chew a bar or drink at the back, not the front. And now you're ready to learn about swapping the rotation direction when the wind direction changes (or you go around a corner, and therefore the wind changes), and whether you should gutter in a cross-head or cross-tail wind.

Good ride, as always. Thanks for having a decent amount of marshalls, for having a longer elite and vets race, and for adding a mtb event. Also thanks for getting it right on mixing long and short routes (both races), without a real problem. It's when you don't experience any problems, that you often don't realise how difficult it is to get it that far.

I'm a very happy customer of Peach on the 1st. I can highly recommend the intermediate class to build a lot of knowledge and gain a little bit more confidence in both your equipment and yourself. Peach, it was fun!

Various wrist-based monitors have various problems during exercise. One of them is that the watch bounces around if you swing your arms, and then it will underread. The iwatch is pretty bad according to dcrainmaker, and fitbit is being sued for this. http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2016/02/apple-watch-review.html http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/6/10724270/fitbit-lawsuit-charge-hr-surge-incomplete-heart-rate-tracking

Watch or handcuffs? It could be interesting if everyone returned their watch. Since Disco changed the rules, I assume this is possible. Then Disco will have a storeroom with a few thousand watches that no-one uses that they have to pay for. I don't think it's going to happen, but I'd pay to watch it happen.

It's mostly chicory.