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This is great advice-- and theoretically, it should work with the REST of my recovery, the process of reassembling my personal and professional life, which is going very well, but January and February, I'll have a lot of work to do. For intervals, I think hills are the best, even if they are...

115 Average Watts on the 4.1 mile loop, beat my post-ICU record by a full 6 watts. I'm also within 20 seconds of my fastest time for this run (though for that ride in June, I put out 130.) @stompandgo was right. All the capacity is still there. I can do this-- meet or beat my previous...

Welcome to the forum! (And welcome Ava.) My main bike (my fourth) is a Canyon Grizl: ON CF 7, a 55nm gravel bike, though I also have a 40nm Motobecane Ultra eMTB). I've also had two conversions that failed, one a Marin with a TSDZ2B which cracked-- hey, it was an experimental build, we knew...

Yes, sorry if that wasn't clear! The first segment, I climbed about 1,000 feet total, with 200 feet of descent mixed in. The second segment, I returned exactly the way I'd came, so the numbers were reversed-- a lot of coasting. But returning, I did try to pedal as hard (when I was pedaling...

Okay, so I peaked at 109 Average Watts about a week ago; recently, I've been back in the 90s, but my distances and elevation have increased quite a bit. I was doing 3.5 to 4.1 mile rides with 360 to 410 feet of vertical when I first broke 100 watts. Now, I'm doing 7.5 to 9.5 miles with 1,000...

Almost always ride alone, but really enjoy riding with a local colleague & friend when our schedules permit, known him 15 years, always a great time. I do, or did, on two or three occasions ride to some pretty remote spots 10-15 miles from my house alone, places where the first three our four...

Up to 87 watts AP on 10/23, but then 92 today, but it's been a weird week-- I also gained a lot of weight, two or three pounds just this week. I have regained roughly 15 pounds, with about five more to go to be back to my previous weight. One thing I did this time was to hit 'finish trip' a...

I think Average Watts (Power) is about right given my circumstances. I'm using the metric that is called "Average Power" on the Bosch Flow app, and it's listed in watts. I'm not racing, but yes-- on my fitness rides, I usually never stop and have few low-intensity intervals. The longest are...

Well, it beats duck tape! That is terrible! I have very mixed feelings about events like these.

So guys, is "Average Watts" the best single metric for tracking the amount of effort I'm putting into each ride? It seems like it probably is-- this factors in terrain, for example, how much assistance I'm using, but not how long I'm using it, is that right? Ride #4 Post Catastrophe -- shorter...

Yeah, I know! It's one of those traumatic associations where unrelated events get bonded. When I was on the younger side of four years old-- maybe I was three-- I had a terrible interlude where I became terrified of ceiling fans. It was completely debilitating; in the early '60s, there were...

I am at that point where I still -- just barely -- benefit from a hospital bed, but I'm also -- just barely -- able to ride. I did kind of prank my wife. When she came home, as expected, she asked, "What is the bike doing there?" My answer: "She was hungry, I'm feeding her." At which point...

I am now feeling your pain on this in a way I wasn't before. The Grizl Large fits me like a glove, though since my medical catastrophe, for the first time I feel like the bars are too low. (And yes, on the large Grizl, the standover is acceptable, but just barely.) The Grizl will take some...

Second ride post catastrophe. Three miles this time (increased from 2.6), 282 feet of vertical (instead of 80 something), 73 watts (increased from 59) and 20 minutes (increased from 17.) Did not use turbo, about 55% motor off completely. I can now walk three miles in a day (in three or four...

My Honda CRX-- with chains-- was a snowmobile. I once drove right off the road and into a snowbank when I thought a gap in the piles of snow by the side of the road was a driveway. I just put it in reverse and drove out. With all season radials, it had no problem when Google Maps sent me up a...

A very American phenomenon, I think, perhaps? Collecting is weird; I try to avoid the conspicuous consumption stereotype, but I still collect guitars and affordable wristwatches-- even if I use most of them, it's still a guilty pleasure, not something I'm proud of. There are exceptions-- times...

You never know, right? Before the tariffs, I bought a lot of Chinese wristwatches-- including some chronographs with ST19 mechanical movements. These are widely reviled among snobby horologists (I hang out with the 'affordables' crew!) and spoken of as 'disposable.' They cost between...

What I feared was the usual stuff-- screaming out the name of a woman who was not my wife, etc. No white light, no partner, no dog. Later, when I was on lots of Dilaudid, I did have delusional dreams where I would sneak home and walk the dogs, yes-- and I also rode the Grizl in a delusional...

I think you are on the right track with this. And thank you for your kind thoughts. Means a lot. Dang, I feel pretty good this morning, I have to say! A little gut pain and pain around the incision the first half hour I was awake. Now almost normal. That's encouraging. The state of...

Kinda. What the surgeon said was, "A lot of guys who actually survive long enough to be released after what happened to you die about 10 days later because they won't push through the exhaustion. Or, they just do the minimum for PT because let's face it, it's really uncomfortable. You are...