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2015-06-15 5:56 AM
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I actually did have a good coach for the IM but had to stop using him for now. I dropped a lot of money up to and including the IM so I'm backing off and that was something that had to go.


Understood. But you need a power meter :-)


That kind of talk can land a man in trouble.


Explain it this way

"If I don't have a PM I will have to train 24hours a week. With a PM I only need to train 20 because it's so much more efficient. That's 4 more hours I can spend with you. I am buying this PM so I can be with you".

How can she deny that logic ?






2015-06-15 7:22 AM
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Subject: RE: Humbling First Full IM
Originally posted by marcag

Originally posted by 3mar

Originally posted by marcag

Originally posted by 3mar
I actually did have a good coach for the IM but had to stop using him for now. I dropped a lot of money up to and including the IM so I'm backing off and that was something that had to go.


Understood. But you need a power meter :-)


That kind of talk can land a man in trouble.


Explain it this way

"If I don't have a PM I will have to train 24hours a week. With a PM I only need to train 20 because it's so much more efficient. That's 4 more hours I can spend with you. I am buying this PM so I can be with you".

How can she deny that logic ?







Somehow I don't think that would work. Anyway, lately every time I buy myself something, I have to buy her something too. My carbon wheelset cost me a new dining room set. Every time I buy anything small, she gets a new pair of wildly colorful compression socks at $40 a pop (she's a runner). Or new shoes, etc. So I have to double the price of anything I buy. I'm assuming that a PM would cost me a brand new Garmin for the wife. This is how people end up homeless.
2015-06-15 7:48 AM
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Considering how long you've been in the sport, that is an amazing finish. I am hoping for sub 13 hour mark for IMAZ (much easier course) with about 6 months of training after just a couple shorter IM's and Olys.
2015-06-15 9:13 AM
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I know from above that you're not in the budget to drop $$$ now or anytime soon, but if your circumstances do change in the future, and you do want a bike solution to hills that actually feels and trains just like real hills, the Wahoo Kickr does excellent hillclimb simulations. It's different from a fluid trainer, in that while you can train 400+watts on a fluid trainer if you're strong enough, you'll still require a fast cadence since fluid trainers mimic flat roads. 

 

On the Kickr, it'll really pump on the resistance on the pedals if you set it to mimic up to 15% hills, such that you will be indeed granny gearing your bike and still be at <60 cadence on the steepest of the climbs while throwing down 350+ watts. I did almost all my bike training on a Kickr with simulated hillclimbs for 6 months over the winter, and was pleasantly surprised to see zero problems in tackling very hilly local climbs, and some of these hills had 21% inclines - it felt exactly like the hill simulations on the Kickr.

 

 

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