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Aquaplaning edition

> Current and upcoming road races

08.05 - 31.05 Giro d'Italia 2.UWT
10.05 - 14.05 Baku-Khankendi Azerbaijan Cycling race 2.1
13.05 Navarra Women's Elite Classic 1.Pro
13.05 - 17.05 Flèche du Sud 2.1
13.05 - 17.05 Tour de Hongrie 2.Pro
14.05 Lotto Circuit de Wallonie 1.1 ME
15.05 - 17.05 Itzulia Women 2.WWT
16.05 Tour du Finistère Pays de Quimper 1.1
16.05 Simac Omloop der Kempen Ladies 1.1 WE
17.05 Rund um Köln 1.1
17.05 Boucles de l'Aulne - Châteaulin 1.1
19.05 Classique Dunkerque / Grand prix des Hauts de France 1.Pro
19.05 Durango Durango Emakumeen Saria 1.1 WE
20.05 - 24.05 4 Jours de Dunkerque / Grand Prix des Hauts de France 2.Pro
21.05 - 24.05 Vuelta a Burgos Feminas 2.WWT
22.05 Veenendaal - Veenendaal 1.1 WE
22.05 - 24.05 Grande Prémio Internacional Beiras e Serra da Estrela 2.1
23.05 Veenendaal-Veenendaal 1.1
24.05 Grand Prix Criquielion 1.1
24.05 Antwerp Port Epic Ladies 1.Pro
25.05 Antwerp Port Epic / Sels Trophy 1.1
25.05 GP Mazda Schelkens 1.1 WE
28.05 - 31.05 Boucles de la Mayenne - Crédit Mutuel 2.Pro
29.05 - 31.05 Bretagne Ladies Tour 2.1
30.05 - 07.06 Giro d'Italia Women 2.WWT

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 >>/85508/
I believe this depends on the person.
I know people who pack 3 weeks of vacations full of activities and are more tired afterwards, than before they departed on vacation.
And I know people who fly 3 hours to lay on a beach and come back having done literally nothing.

Personally I don't go on vacation. Too much hassle and I don't like hassle. But I'm in the countryside with a large backyard so there's that.





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I like booking cheap last minutes to somewhere in Europe.
Just a week and a half unplanned taking in the sights and culture but nothing forced, a day at the beach if the mind wants it.
The happiest I've been was after a long hard working summer I just booked a trip to croatia 2 days before leaving. Was never so relaxed


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Same, but no countryside with backyard.
Can't be sharted to travel, where, why would I not sleep in me own bed among me own stuff.
If I had a countryside home with a backyard, small orchard, another small patch of a unkempt, wild garden and a view?
Pshh, not going anywhere ever.







No. 85577 [Preview] [Reply]
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Traveling is not for everyone but this is a braindead and soulless take. You can travel without simply purchasing a manufactured experience and it is quite depressing to be so dismissive of something that can be joyful, refreshing, educational, life-affirming, challenge, etc depending on what you do.













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I wouldn't mind if you could teleport me in the morning and back before sleep. I'd like to hear some late evening Tokyo but a fair bit from the city center. I'd like to live somewhere really cold for extended period of time.
But I don't like traveling, simple as, the process and the nuisance and the zero sum game of extremely familiar vs. unfamiliar which I mostly know what to expect from but just in different flavor makes me face sink. 
For the joyful, refreshing and educational, I can rely on myself to generate more than enough of it, that's what happens when you tame and rewire probable high functioning autism plus experience of an only child from a ghost family.



























































































































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> Eulalio embarks on a heroic defense of the pink jersey, fueled by the Colbrelli juice of 2021
> Even so, Vingegaard slowly but surely chips away at his lead, dropping him easily in the mountains
> Eulalio keeps fighting, keeps dieseling, and somehow clings on to the lead by a handful of seconds before stage 20
> Piancavallo gets Jonas'd
> Eulalio wins the Giro
God, I would LAUGH







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> "My legs were not hurting at all. I dropped myself because my heart rate was 190+ for 20 mins and I thought i was going to die. It was terrible. And it surprised me a lot. I don't know what it could be. I didn't even have leg pain, it was just the pulse.”
> “I don't know if the body will turn it around or not. And I am really thankful to Ben Turner otherwise I would lose minutes. Let's hope the body turns it around in the next days.”

























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We 14 public holiday's, not that I care much about line going up, but it is plenty.
Besides for me, and my bong employer? I get all their "bank holidays" as well. Technically I should be at work but practically no one is around and no one checks.
Next stop, 25th of May.
















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Yay, I got a podium in the 20km ITT. The other guys were on proper TT bikes and the former Finnish champion Vlad MAKOGON rode this in 24:30, but I was only 2:10 behind on my road bike, so hopefully in a few years I can challenge him. Power was about 20W lower than I had hoped for, I blame not doing any kind of warmup and dogshit rainy weather (I got there ~50min before the start but then I had problems with my front brake piston being stuck so I ended up removing my brake pads to be able to ride, then change of clothes, then 5min of warmup before riding). But it was fun, will be doing more of this and hopefully I'll improve


















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> get bored on bike
> wiggle too much
> heel gets into back wheel
> already trashed shoe gets trashed even more
> wheel is all wobbly and 8 shaped
Luckily no spoke was broken, it's all a 1 minute adjoostment but for a moment I felt like my foot is going to get cut off and I will do a superman over the bar.









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alternatively do what rusbert did, get a VPN and watch it on European state television that happens to show a cycling race. of course it will be in a funny language, but world tour except for vuelta is pretty much covered and Belgian tv has the mudraces.






























































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> Christophe Laporte was a member of the intended eight-man squad that, with team leader Jonas Vingegaard, will make a bid for the overall victory in the 2026 Tour de France this coming summer. The 33-year-old Frenchman suffered a tear in his quadriceps (muscle in the upper leg) in a fall and will consequently miss the Tour de l’Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and the 2026 Tour de France. This was reported by Visma | Lease a Bike.

lol how many of their riders chute out of competition now


















































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The only reason I can think of is that they signed up so send their most useless shitters with Schiffer as captain but then changed the plans because Brennan had a bad spring and they want to farm easy wins for him.
It looks so pathetic though they are literally the only team over conti rank meanwhile actual racing is happening in Hungary.









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> Vingegaard 1.4
> Pellizzari 6.5
> Gall 17
> Ciccone 23
> Hindley 34
> Eetvelt 34
> Kussen 34
> Rubio 34
> Martin 41
> Arensman 51
> Romo 51
> Zana 51
> Poels 51
> West 67
> Storer 67
> Mas Nicolau 67
> Bernal Gomez 67
> Pinarello 67



























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It's just szarvas. Like the town where this etappe started.
The -félék means kind/like, so szarvasfélék = "deerkind" means belong to the group of species that generally called deer. Since they are quite a few deer species. Like dámszarvas, gímszarvas, rénszarvas = reindeer
Fun fact, the name szarvas is a step-in for a taboo word, it means "antlered one". Deer was considered a holy animal, a totem, in ancient Hungarian folklore and saying the original name of the animal was taboo, so they used the description of it. Same with wolf.






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> Gusts of wind up to 60 kilometers per hour. And that on top of today's stage was already grueling in itself.

> The Giro peloton has to tackle the brutal Blockhaus (13.6 kilometers at an average of 8.4%) in the final part of the stage, and a strong wind has been blowing at the top of the mountain all night and morning. Although the wind is blowing diagonally from behind, because there is little shelter on the Blockhaus, the riders could well be significantly hampered by it.

yep it's time


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A note on the holyness of the deer. The town Szarvas (where this etappe started) is at the geographical center of the Carpathian Basin.

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Yes. It is likely a quite ancient word, from a region where a certain type of deer lived.



























































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My understanding is that there is little you can do to change L/R balance as long as the fit is good and you're not grossly deficient in strength/mobility work. I got a fit once and had the L/R measured it was almost dead even

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I've been here (there) longer than you young man.








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what he's saying is that your imbalance may or may not vary a lot depending on the effort. Like you have 47/53 at one point, 45/55 at another point and 49/51 sometime else
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of course it matters, if you have a powermeter you want to use it for pacing and fluctuations ruin that big time, if you don't want to use it for pacing then why would you have a powermeter in the first place. There's a huge difference of riding at 97% of ftp and riding at 105% of ftp just like there's a huge difference between doing a 4 hour ride at around like 62% of ftp (easy z2) and 71% of ftp (upper z2). You want your 230w to really be 230w and not just show 230w but really be 250w




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Personally I had the experience that inside I wasn't able to hit the same numbers as outside, until I started comparing and realised the numbers didn't line up. Turns out I was getting anywhere between 0-50 extra watts off an imbalance that I at first only had circumstantial evidence for. Getting true power from pedals was the fix.
Won't apply to everyone, but it can. And it almost certainly won't be consistent. The imbalance can change from day to day, during a ride e.g. if you readjust your position, depending on how much power you're doing, etc.
I would say getting a single-sided could be a good choice if you follow it up by comparing numbers with an good indoor trainer, and if it turns out you're off and you care, sell it on and get something that gives you true power (spider or pedals). And if you don't care, I'd question why you are getting a power meter in the first place.






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Different training philosophies I guess. I like to see a number for power. I know that there is some amount of variation in that number based on how much I slept, ate, time of day, stress level, fatigue, weather, meter margin of error. I set target zones for efforts within a small range anyways. If I'm doing a 4 hour ride I will be able to tell if I'm riding easy or upper Z2 by feel anyways. I understand why some want the granularity but I personally do not. But I don't even wear a heart rate strap because my perspective is that I can tell you when my heart rate is higher than normal or whatever. Again there's a lot of ways to approach training. For me I find a single-sided power meter is good enough to set zones for intervals. I think its quite reductive to say that if you don't care about L/R numbers you are wasting your time getting any powermeter. 

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Its worth noting that 400 to 405 is the margin of error of the Assiomas so I don't think thats a good argument for tracking L/R imbalance.




















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> POTENTIALLY more accurate meter
> adjust based on displayed number
vs
> 300w feels harder today
> back off a bit, training effect is the same

> balance changes with effort
Maybe, maybe not. Can you effect it? Maybe, maybe not. Can you try to keep a smooth stroke at all times, listen to your body, do single-leg strength work on the side? Yes.

All these numbers are just trying to approximate and triangulate the physiological event of pedaling a bicycle and you have to decide whether you want be at the exact address or just get in the neighborhood.







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All I'm saying is that a single-sided meter is accurate and consistent enough for me to ballpark training (minor adjustments based on feel, because I can't always trust myself only on feel) and get a better effect than having no power, but I don't think its a given that you have to track double-sided power. If I had Assiomas I'd use them but I don't.












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I'm supposed to have a second date tomorrow but I don't really feel strongly about it to put it kindly, and I could potentially have my first outdoor ride in nice weather in the afternoon. I think i'm going to have cancel.



























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I think if you wanted to watch every race as a US viewer it would cost over $50 a month or something ridiculous - and you'd still miss plenty of races. Max is the only stream service I pay for, and that gets you a lot of races, I use someone else's Peacock and I feel like that's plenty to be able to watch without hassle on my TV. Otherwise I watch on my desktop. 

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I will never forgive Flo sports for taking NCAA XC/T&F championships which used to be free to stream and paywalling them with lower quality video.




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not my favorite beer and also on the expensive side, but I appreciate that the breweries in the eastern part of Switzerland are still independent and not Dutch, Danish nor American owned. I prefer nearby Schützengarten.



























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I've worked at 2 and the mentality kind sucks in the industry. Lots of hours for not that much pay and dated equipment.
But in the USA they are much more modern if I remember well. 
Used to be a big fan of firestone walker and their sours years ago but I think they went a bit big and I haven't really kept up with anything the last 5 years













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Streaming sports is just a humiliation ritual these days. Like to stream all the NFL games with the different services for special games is like over $100 a month. I pay for MLBtv because my team is out of my local network but they've been bought by ESPN and will almost certainly get more expensive or worse or both next season.











































































































































































































































































































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He says he's never been able to restrict himself when writing even though all his teachers told him to. I wouldn't mind if he would only proofread it but it's always full of typos, missing words and over usage of the same phrases. In the age of AI he really has no excuse to not run his novels through an LLM to catch his spelling mistakes.



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I kinda smashed it in the unclassed category with Eulálio and Scaroni (Morgado will surely follow in their steps soon), but I'm never recovering from the Vine-Buitrago combo. O'Connor-Ciccone was probably the play.




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Probably not a good look if I admit to already be thinking about the Tour goomble, but I'm very curious about prices this year.

Pogi is probably staying at 32 as more than that makes it almost impossible to build a team. Jonas either stays at 24 or drops to 22. Seixas is the big mystery, I'm guessing 18. Then Lipo 16, Del Toro 14, Almeida (if he goes) 12, Ayuso 12, Pidcock 12 (might be unclassed), Jorgenson 10 and Onley 10 (probably a climber). Remco should be a 14 pts unclassed rider, but he'll somehow be a 16 all-rounder.


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0 chance Lipo and especially Onley have those prices. Almeida was 16 last year, and while you might argue his price was a bit nerfed due to being a domestique, he had had an insane season pre-Tour. I'd buy Lipo 18 if Seixas wasn't in the race.

And no shot Remco goes up in price after last year's Tour and this season's climbing performances.

Seixas 20 is possible.







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Thoughts from the Blockhaus:
Vingo fraud
Seixas will be second in the La Tour, 4 minutes  ahead of Vingo
Gall could be a good rider if he just learned to actually ride instead of just climb like an autist
Eulalio soulful
Love watching Sepp shred the peloton like the old days





























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