Conditioning/Getting in shape

iLiad said:

I love the metric system. This is where the REAL benefit comes in. It sounds so much cooler to say,
I rode a 100K this weekend, then 60 miles. ;-) (forgive any calculation error!)

Grin, you've latched onto my secret. While out riding, the numbers click over faster so you
feel like you're accomplishing more.

Quoted message said:

If that isn't one reason why the we should try harder in the US to adopt it, then I don't know
what is ;-)

But when you go to sell your car, what sounds better for mileage, 159,000 k or 98,000 miles?

Grin . . .

Bent Pedals <[email hidden]> wrote:
: On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 07:59:07 GMT, "L.A." <[email hidden]> wrote:

:>I have a book recommendation for you: The Complete Book of Long-Distance Cycling, "Build the
:>Strength, Skills and Confidence to Ride as Far as You Want", Published by Bicycling Magazine.
:>Edited by Edmund Burke and Ed Pavelka. $20 at Borders. A really good investment.

: Recieved an e-mail from Chapters today, saying my order had been shipped. Thanks for the
: recommendation . . .

: Grin, not that I'm going to follow the programs to the letter, but it'll make for good
: guidance.

The point of the book is not giving programs, but rather teaching on a number of principles and
applicable knowledge (not to mention puffing a few products). I think they only roughly sketch a
handful of programmes.

Any training program would have to be adapted to the individual athlete anyway.

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Bent Pedals <[email hidden]> wrote:
: On 15 Oct 2003 13:32:14 GMT, [email hidden] wrote:

:>What's so special about white tennis socks, I never got it? They make the fit of my Shimano R97's
:>perfect :-)

: Grin. Sorry Risto.

: Way way back in my younger years, during high-school, it was considered "poor fashion" to
: wear whites socks in any place except the gym. We used to tease the guilty party to no end.
: It's strange how childhood stupidity shapes ones adult years. I've never worn white socks
: since . . . even when I played tennis. grin.

: No offense meant . . . just a chuckle back to the old days.

Well, FWIW: Arnie Baker discusses some race tactics/tricks in his book Smart Cycling, for winning an
upright race. One of the strategies he lists is "the clod": acting like a jerk (within limits of
safety), such as going all over the road and swaying your bike side to side as you pedal. He
mentions some clothing to make the image perfect, and adds white tennis socks to the list.

There was also some longish thread was it rec.bicycles.misc about a scoring system for cyclists,
based on which CAT they are in, what kind of bike they ride, what they wear, and lots of other
things, and I think they gave lotsa minus points for white tennis socks.

Personally I see lots of white tennis/sports socks in the stores, they seem to make ok and cheap,
thick socks. Though I never used them while playing tennis either :-)

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