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  1. Original post
    Blair P. Houghton
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    Okay, Spin Class usually kicks my ass, but today's was a hummer.

    Heather, the instructor, played an interesting game that's
    akin to indian runs*:

    She broke the 24-bike room into 6 pursuit teams. While the
    other 20 people were doing a circuit (sprint for 2 minutes,
    upright running spin for 2 minutes, seated hill-climb for
    2 minutes, standing hill-climb power-surge for 2 minutes)
    the team that was "on" had to go through the same circuit
    in 2 minutes (30 seconds per skill), then got the next 2
    minutes to recover seated at race-pace while the next team
    took its turn breaking away.

    It got pretty wild. She was calling out the names every
    30 seconds and stoking people to get up, sit down, change
    resistance, etc. People were popping up and down and
    everyone was pounding as hard as I've ever seen a full
    class go. Totally steamed up the room. Super impressive
    piece of work by a trainer.

    Oh, and my team "won". Although, Heather picked the
    winner by closing her eyes and selecting one of her
    post-it notes with the team members at random...

    But hey. Free Buzz-Bar[tm] as a trophy. Almond-Date.
    Sounds tasty. I may frame it.

    --Blair
    "Maybe just the wrapper."

    * - a training techique using an echelon formation,
    sending the rearmost rider to the front at a sprint, then
    the next one, through the entire ride. Not like rotating
    the line, because only one bike is out of position at a
    time, and it moves forward rather than dropping to the
    rear after pulling.

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  2. Dane Jackson
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    Blair P. Houghton said:


    I've been thinking about spin-rooms with PowerTaps
    networked to displays so you can see your output and
    everyone else's on the front wall.

    But spin class isn't about competition. That'd just drive
    away the people who need it most. The closest it should
    get is what Heather did. Mock competition with no way to
    decide who's winning or losing.

    Bah!!!

    "Conan! What is best in life?"
    "To crush your enemies -- See them driven before you,
    and to hear the lamentation of their women!"

    Quoted message said:


    If the display was just on the bike, and accurate, it'd
    go a long way to calibrating your resistance.

    True, I suppose the varying resistances would make it hard anyway
    to have any kind of meaningful comparison.

    Though, if you added some cranks with a powertap...

    😉

    --
    Dane Jackson - z u v e m b i @ u n i x b i g o t s . o r g
    Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurantist drivel;
    Star Trek can turn your brains to puree of bat guano; and the greatest
    science fiction series of all time is Doctor Who! And I'll take you all
    on, one-by-one or all in a bunch to back it up!
    -- Harlan Ellison

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  3. Alex Colvin
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    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    But spin class isn't about competition. That'd just drive
    away the people who need it most. The closest it should
    get is what Heather did. Mock competition with no way to
    decide who's winning or losing.

    Quoted message said:

    Bah!!!

    Quoted message said:

    "Conan! What is best in life?"
    "To crush your enemies -- See them driven before you,
    and to hear the lamentation of their women!"

    ummm. that's a paraphrase of Genghis Khaan
    except that he also mentioned riding their horses.

    --
    mac the naïf

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  4. Neil Cherry
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    Dane Jackson said:
    Blair P. Houghton said:


    I've been thinking about spin-rooms with PowerTaps
    networked to displays so you can see your output and
    everyone else's on the front wall.

    But spin class isn't about competition. That'd just drive
    away the people who need it most. The closest it should
    get is what Heather did. Mock competition with no way to
    decide who's winning or losing.

    Bah!!!

    "Conan! What is best in life?"
    "To crush your enemies -- See them driven before you,
    and to hear the lamentation of their women!"

    Hey that's the motto of my rides! :-) Except that Gina tends to out
    last some of us so it's the guys who quietly lamemnt. ;-)

    Actually it should be worded:

    "To crush your enemies -- See them dropped behind you and the hear their
    lament slowly fade in the distance" :-) Now if I could only keep up
    with the real racers!

    --
    Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry [email hidden]
    http://home.comcast.net/~ncherry/ (Text only)
    http://hcs.sourceforge.net/ (HCS II)
    http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog

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  5. Zoot Katz
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    Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:59:15 -0600, <[email hidden]>,

    Neil Cherry said:

    Actually it should be worded:

    "To crush your enemies -- See them dropped behind you and the hear their
    lament slowly fade in the distance" :-) Now if I could only keep up
    with the real racers!

    Whatever happened to "slaughter them and their cattle, burn their
    farms, salt their fields, poison their wells, rape their women and
    sell their children into slavery." ?

    That's _real_ conquest like Normans and Vikings (my ancestors) knew!

    Realistically, it's not that different from what the US is doing in
    Iraq and various other places ( AC 130s, depleted uranium, napalm,
    thermobaric bombs, Agent Orange, cluster bombs, land mines, etc.)
    --
    zk

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  6. Dane Jackson
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    Zoot Katz said:

    Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:59:15 -0600, <[email hidden]>,

    Neil Cherry said:

    Actually it should be worded:

    "To crush your enemies -- See them dropped behind you and the hear their
    lament slowly fade in the distance" :-) Now if I could only keep up
    with the real racers!

    Whatever happened to "slaughter them and their cattle, burn their
    farms, salt their fields, poison their wells, rape their women and
    sell their children into slavery." ?

    Slaughter them and their cattle - check
    Burn the farms - check
    Salt - Well, salt is heavy. And honestly they only used to salt portions
    of the fields. Just enough to make their point really. Enough salt to
    serious impact the fertility of the land is bulky and not likely to
    just be sitting around in your saddlebags.

    Poison their wells - Usually only done in desert regions, has a lot of
    the same problems salting does.

    Rape - again an old standard - check
    Sell their children into slavery - outside of Africa and parts of Asia
    the slavery market is illegal. Which is great for prices, but makes it
    a pain to move the merchandise and what-not.

    Quoted message said:

    That's _real_ conquest like Normans and Vikings (my ancestors) knew!

    Ahhh, the bad^H^H^Hgood old days.

    --
    Dane Jackson - z u v e m b i @ u n i x b i g o t s . o r g
    The two most common things in the Universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
    -- Harlan Ellison

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  7. Blair P. Houghton
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    Neil Cherry said:
    Dane Jackson said:
    Blair P. Houghton said:


    I've been thinking about spin-rooms with PowerTaps
    networked to displays so you can see your output and
    everyone else's on the front wall.

    But spin class isn't about competition. That'd just drive
    away the people who need it most. The closest it should
    get is what Heather did. Mock competition with no way to
    decide who's winning or losing.

    Bah!!!

    "Conan! What is best in life?"
    "To crush your enemies -- See them driven before you,
    and to hear the lamentation of their women!"

    The problem is, many of them *are* women, and judging from
    the tone in their legs in the middle of a ride, they'll
    kick your ass before you can get the first heavily-accented
    syllable out of your mouth.

    Quoted message said:

    Hey that's the motto of my rides! :-)

    Mine is, "if I'm not dead, I'm not done."

    Quoted message said:

    Except that Gina tends to out
    last some of us so it's the guys who quietly lamemnt. ;-)

    Actually it should be worded:

    "To crush your enemies -- See them dropped behind you and the hear their
    lament slowly fade in the distance" :-) Now if I could only keep up
    with the real racers!

    "If you look around and you can't tell who's the fred, it's you."

    --Blair
    "Thumbs up."

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