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Am on 300k with only two days available to ride. Should be doable if i can be arsed.

Feeling a bit mashed today having done 90k on the 23rd too. But i'm actually getting some quality miles in, not just loads of junky pointlessness, so all good.

I am determined, just don't like cold! Went out on Tuesday and just had a junk session as i got too cold. Don't want to waste hours on end like that again really.

haha you prick. i seem to remember you wanting me to suggest how you could become one of us fragile mountain men not all that long ago?

unfortunately at the minute i just feel like a fat, unfit nodder. would love to reach the highs of malnourished climbing freak again.

After that cold and shitty experience yesterday I'm not sure i can bring myself to going out in the cold again tomorrow. Really was a session of junk yesterday and am sort of thinking some quality indoors would be better.... but... turbo...

Thanks for the feedback @skinny

Was well dressed (felt like i had all my cycling wardrobe on!) but i feel cold all the time anyway so i still ended up chilly. Definitely didn't eat enough, ad drank fuck all. Knew i wasn't drinking enough but you just totally stop wanting to do it when it's cold.... Not thirsty and the idea of putting a cold drink down your throat doesn't appeal!

Will continue the increased intensity and volume quest. Am seeking solace in the fact that the days are about to start lengthening and i've started to find sufferfest videos to be quite good. And doing one of them is basically xxx minutes of turning yourself inside out. Thus good intensity - i previously could only face fairly steady chugging indoors.

I know it's not all about your CTL, but mine is on a mega-plateau and has been for ages.

Don't really understand how i can start ramping it more at the moment... have upped the intensity in the last weeks, tend to do this each week

1-2 x high intensity turbo (intervals)
1 easy recovery turbo
2 x outdoors - 90-1ookm (steady)
1 x total rest
1 x gym / S&C
But am trying to up the distance of the outdoor rides a bit each week to build volume.

Is proving difficult to up the volume though, there's something about me and winter that just doesn't get on.

Today i went out in the proper cold for the first time in a while and my legs just totally failed to co-operate. Admittedly I was pretty tired (the day before a scheduled rest day), but i felt like the cold just sapped all my energy

Possibly a little extreme for what I'm thinking, but the principle makes sense!

@TTM @andyp @hippy
If i try to train 'hard' in the morning i'm always caffeinated and fuelled first. Seems like my body clock has just totally shifted to working in the mid-late afternoon rather than any time before i've got two meals inside me.

Problem i've been having though is that a lot of the time i think my head may be failing before my legs, which does make me feel like it's a mental thing. I've not been doing massive miles recently, am just feeling a bit directionless and ticking over. I don't feel totally mashed all the time like i would if i had been overrtarining.

Would be nice to have a little pause and re-set before starting again proper perhaps. i love the 'idea' of training and am not lacking the motivation, i just seem to be losing the fire as soon as training starts, like my head is sick of the battle to push on.

Am gonna try at least 3-4 days off as much to regain a bit of mental steel i think. and it will put a bit of a full stop on the constant dwindling that i am feeling now.

I keep on starting a workout in the morning and then bailing as soon as it gets tough. Then going back for a different session after work coz I'm pissed off about the morning. I used to be fine training early morning.

Any ideas what may be the craic? The mojo is up and down and has been for weeks. Trained hard and did a lot of riding in summer and not really had a break.

Is my body starting to tell me to calm the f down? Struggling to bring myself to take time off, feel guilty about the idea - stupid.

my macbook and my phone used to auto sync messages and photos and whatnot - i.e. a pic on my phone would sync to the laptop an vice versa

How do i fix it? I can't remember how i set it up in the first place and so am a bit lost!

Have had a very little spin on a wattbike.
Feels good but very noisy. Sounds like you've got a helicopter in your garage.

i'm after something cheap really isn't wko4 quite a few ££? and it doesn't give the training plans either? or is that wrong. i owe you an email about mountains etc, pm me your email address?

does anyone use 'Today's plan'? https://www.todaysplan.com.au/

I've signed up for a free trial. It's basically the same as training peaks but the main difference is you get cheaper training plans and they're more dynamic, like you can change the number of hours you have to train, can move workouts around, choose plans based on target events etc.

I've followed one workout and uploaded one ride so far. It;s not as clean and easy to use as Training Peaks, although that may just be coz I'm not used to it yet. The main appeal for me is access to a cheap and relatively tailored training plan.

Interested to hear if anyone else it using it and their thoughts / feedback

That's the best new show on telly in the past few years IMO

i've been eyeing these up. do they work with touch screens? phone, garmin etc?

Are there any deep winter gloves that are touchscreen compatible? I've got a garmin and it's a nightmare to use with big heavy gloves when you want to slide between screens

@skinny, somewhere between oxford and tring. around lunchtime.

Two of us, I was in an orange jacket and black gilet.

My first comment would be not to take it all too seriously and getting too sciencey. If you're going on a mates trip with Benj and co there's no point ruining your life (aka cutting beer) for it. You're a strong and fit rider. You just need to adapt that to the unique demands of riding uphill for a long time.

Will get back to you with some better comments when i have a bit more time

This may be a silly question but I ain't no great british bake off contender.....

I make a lot of my ow energy bars based on using mashed bananas, peanut butter and honey to bind oats. (Basically mash all of those ingredients up and then bake them, rather than typical flapjack recipes that rely on loads of melted butter and sugar etc).

I want to make a mocha variant, and was wondering how best to incorporate the coffee? Should i brew up some really strong espresso and add it to the mix, or could i just add finely ground coffee direct to the mix, thus keeping it dryer? I'm a little concerned that adding liquid espresso may prevent it all from binding together given i rely on sticky peanut butter and banana etc for the bonding agent...

Thanks for the above. The exposure would be my ideal choice but ££££

Should probably have said I don't want to go over £100 if possible, or so you not get the brightness for cheaper?

About to start commuting since recently moving out of london and will be riding in on unlit roads. So i need a pretty hefty front light that will actually help me see things rather than just drawing attention to myself. How many lumens will i need roughly? and any reccos please?

my first realistic chance of doing it this year as less family nonsense to do. reckon i'm gonna go down a strategy of 4 or 5 mid sized rides. no epic slogs and no pointless 20k tootles. Would love to get a few hours in on xmas morning but can't see it happening.

Yoghurt = melty mess

I have two tickets for session two (tomorrow) if anyone is interested.

Will do £40 for the pair, but must be collected from Traflagar Square tomorrow

Email me if you fancy it
jim_cotton85@hotmail.co.uk

The shares are registered in Kensington but the various bank accounts are in Forest Hill i believe