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I also backed out of a 10k because I felt too tired to race, went out with the cycling club instead and found it absolutely harrowing in the cold rain, wished I was running instead.

Running is the best way to enjoy being outside in bad weather IMO.

I have my first trail race next weekend

Dibs the seatpost please

What's the trick to browning cubes of lean beef coated with flour? I was using a cast iron stewing pot. It was on a medium heat at first, plenty of oil and space for the meat, shook the pan regularly to minimise sticking, but it wasn't really browning, and I worried it was just drying out. I raised the heat and before I knew it there was a blackened layer on the bottom and I had to rescue the meat and wash the pan out.

I suspect I should have stuck with a medium heat, and just carried on. Maybe the meat was too moist to start with.

I'm getting the hang of croissants now. I tried a method with far more resting time including an overnight rest before shaping. My shaping still needs some work, but I'm happy with the texture.

PMed about the shoes

Yeah they taste great. Slightly bready croissants are no bad thing in themselves.

I don't think the butter was melting during the folding, but the dough probably spent too long hanging around while I was shaping the croissants, then the final prove ran a bit over time. Thanks for the tip I'll try and keep it colder next time.

frangipane filled

I made some croissants. I think I may have folded the dough one too many times. Any tips on achieving a bit more separation between the layers?

Dibs on the Arione

Thanks @rhb, @alialias.

Now I'm interested to hear @nefarious's race report

I hope you're OK for next week then

I got 19:38, 8th - I'm very happy with that especially seeing as it's a hilly course, far more hilly than I expected. It was good to run with other people for a change. This time I started too far back and didn't know where I was in the field at any point. Next time I will start at the front and decide who to follow. I think I will also know better how to pace myself within a lap (it's a three lap course with basically no flat).

I'll have to try it on a flat course (not so simple around here). I'm also thinking about trying a short offroad event in early December.

I'm doing my first Parkrun since 2010. I only actually did it once back then. My time was 20:30. My fastest 5k since I started again this September is... 20:30. I hope to beat that tomorrow with people to chase.

TV documentaries over-using the historical present tense: "When the printing press is invented, everything changes". Producers get interview subjects to us it whenever they can to make their stories seem more immediate, but it's so unnatural that people often mess it up and slide into past tense within a single sentence: "When I see smoke coming out of the engines, I started to shout..."

I have been thinking about the Ribble CGR steel or alu. Among all the other usual things I want it for winter road riding. My head has been turned by the Niner RLT 9 Steel. Would it be daft to spend much more than the Ribble on that? Is there going to an advantage beside the looks, particularly for using as a road bike? It has a press fit bottom bracket, probably a point against it.

Yep they're lovely, I knew them as 'quarkkeulchen' sold on the street in Germany. Polish quark (twarog) has a slightly chunky texture though. The smooth, German-style one is what I get.

I love quark with a diced pear, a couple of chopped dates or figs, and a few pecans roughly broken. Quark is very satisfying. The sourness/chalkiness is easily balanced with a bit of fruit.

I've never really stuffed myself with unsalted nuts. Salted is another thing entirely in my experience

Cheers that's interesting. The most noticeable thing in the data is that towards the end of my run, after 50 mins, there was no more proper recovery, no matter how much I slowed down.

I have turned off all heart rate and pace alerts for next time, and will just follow the timer.

I'm pretty confused by the data from my interval training. It was also hard to follow the instructions from my watch as I was doing it.

My top heart rate was 192. If I add 10, then my moderately hard 10k at 173 average would be 86% of max heart rate, can that be right?

I'm really happy to have a GPS watch now (Amazfit Stratos, though the music function is crap), meaning I can ditch the annoying phone belt, which always came out of place. Similarly, I'm happy to have switched to tight merino base layer tops (thanks for recommendations on here), which have solved the problems with my nipples, no tape required.

I'm about to try intervals for the first time, and possibly try to figure out my max heart rate. The watch currently thinks I'm running an entire 10k in the anaerobic zone (173 average), I think because the real max value hasn't been automatically dialed in yet, or else it's just a very inaccurate meter, and my heart rate is actually much lower.

Which torque wrench should I get? I've never used one before

That looks like a good idea, thanks.

What's the best way to stop this rattling against the seat tube?

I was thinking of drilling two holes and then tying it on. Is there a better way?

My current (first) road bike came with 50-34 / 11-34. I did use that extremely low gear when first attempting steeper hills, now it feels unusably spinny. On my new one I'm getting 52-36 / 11-28. The new lowest should be a bit lower than the current third lowest (34/26)

I was thinking that's a very middle of the road gearing, but it seems like bike manufacturers are going a bit lower than that now. I guess that goes to show that a stock Canyon is not hip hop

I have 6800 shifters, unused, PM me