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  1. Fat Boab
    A greeting of "How you doing?!" is not a....greeting.
  2. Fat Boab
    Ask this lot who they sell kit to? http://www.lifemax.co.za/metabolic-measurement-systems
  3. Fat Boab
    And how much to support both?
  4. Fat Boab
    Maybe this has been addressed previously. Can anyone comment on how a Crossfit program impacted on their cycling performance?
  5. Fat Boab
    I'm not trying to turn this into a pissing contest. Just wanted to show a favourite photo of mine from back in the day, inspired by the previous photos. At the end of an Olympic (I think) decathlon 1500m, with his opponents collapsed on the track, Daley Thompson stayed on his feet. With a gold round his neck of course. Iconic......
  6. Fat Boab
    ....sounds like life to me.
  7. Fat Boab
    If you'd made it a bottle of whisky, instead of whiskey, the bike would have been yours!
  8. Fat Boab
    A pretty impressive venture. Quite visionary.
  9. Fat Boab
    A question from a roadie - are all of those ramps, both with scaffolding and otherwise, put up specifically for this event? Presumably there aren't left up for the year? Looks like a serious bit of work getting the route built...
  10. Fat Boab
    Don't feed us such gems, especially on a Monday morning!
  11. Fat Boab
    Pretty much where I was going. If I think on the bike, if I knew I was going to lose my Garmin, at some point, I'd want a couple of time-distance markers in my head, written on my hand or wherever, and a elapsed time 'normal' watch. Those who have gone before, are far better informed than me whether the distance markers are loud and proud?
  12. Fat Boab
    I'm ignorant of these watches and what 'madness' is required to run the Comrades....so BikeHub qualified to offer an opinion then! What's the bare min pacing info required if one of these fancy watches dies? Race time? Something else?
  13. Fat Boab
    Lots of cycle lanes in NZ?
  14. Fat Boab
    Not for me, I'd be out of breath anyway......
  15. Fat Boab
    Time travel device in Back to the Future? I'm alluding, in a comical manner, to your contribution to a 3 1/2 year old thread. BTW, welcome to BikeHub!
  16. Fat Boab
    Interesting. But did the DeLorean break down?
  17. Fat Boab
    A real thinking cap today, I see.....
  18. Fat Boab
    Makes you wonder if the pro-cyclists, with their 'radio ear pieces' are not dropping some tunes as well......
  19. Fat Boab
    https://www.bikehub.co.za/classifieds/246147-every-bike-needs-a-bell-spurcycle-bicycle-bell/ My finder's fee is.....refer to above!
  20. Fat Boab
    ....a new definition of Comrades' widow/er!
  21. Fat Boab
    ....future roadie, time-triallist judging by the chainwheel!
  22. Fat Boab
    He's definitely punted such a physiological approach in cycling, or at least other commentators' approaches (I don't remember him doing his own analysis, but age is dulling....em, what's it called?.....RECALL!) If I find time, I'll scratch around and share...
  23. Fat Boab
    100% agreed. I think it will point to what these okes are physiologically, and psychologically, capable of. Infact I wonder if treadmill 'marathons' have been done to create controllable environmental conditions for investigation?
  24. Fat Boab
    Thanks for this. I beg to differ though, Prof Tucker isn't being very scientific at all, or at least not in the way I inquired about. Analysis of pacing data, although important, is all about 'output'. I'd like to believe that the required physiological engine with all the biomechanical gait efficiencies etc, ie inputs, must be assessable. Allied with best-of-breed values gleaned from lab trials, must point to what the upper limits of human performance is, with assumptions obviously. Maybe I read about this somewhere, but now think it's my idea! (It's Friday after all...)
  25. Fat Boab
    Sounds like a great opportunity for the shoe manufacturers to garner PR. But what about the exercise Prof's approach.....$30M budget! So with regard to the too- or not scientific enough references, I wonder what's known about the required physiological performance of an athlete to run at sub-2 hr pace? (I know sweet FA about running), but if you look at the capabilities of the predictions for the cycling 1-hr record attempts, the required power, for example, can be closely predicted. That can be inter-related to what a cyclist can do on a watt-bike for instance, and predictions adjusted, or training gaps attacked etc. The same can be done via oxygen demand etc. Is this the case for running, particularly on a semi-controlled course, and ignoring the influence of weather etc??
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