enofisenough: SHUT UP BODY I sincerely wish this technique had worked for me at the Tour de Gruene.  It worked better last Saturday when the temperature dropped dramatically on the Flagpole ride.
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enofisenough:

SHUT UP BODY

I sincerely wish this technique had worked for me at the Tour de Gruene.  It worked better last Saturday when the temperature dropped dramatically on the Flagpole ride.

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Source: enofisenough

[…] the idea of the ‘gift-that-girls-don’t-have’ is likely to be a key part of what’s keeping them from pursuing those careers [in math and science]

Carol Dweck in Girls and Math: Busting the Stereotype

Some interesting commentary in the article. I can say, from my perspective as a women in a STEM field, that I have asked myself the question of whether I would affirm a stereotype if I were to chose a different path for myself after having completed advanced degrees in engineering. 

Source: mindshift.kqed.org

Once during an Etape my wife and I climbed the Aubisque and the crowd lining the road to cheer for the husbands or brothers or friends became frenzied at seeing a woman pass so many men and began closing in on us, scrambling at us and screaming, ‘Salut, femme! Allez, madame! Courage [drawn out and pronounced in two distinct syllables, cour-ahge]! Femme! Allez Femme! Bon something something femme!’

Bill Strickland

I love the idea of riding along some day and having spectators cheer like that. Also, it sounds like a new catchphrase for our women’s cycling team.

Source: bicycling.com

From the way I reacted to watching this, you would think I haven’t matured in the slightest in the past decade. I think I need a LOTR marathon over the Christmas holiday.

Double Chocolate Fudge Cookies

I need these. And if I don’t, I’m sure my labmates would not complain.

Undoubtedly epic. I simultaneously want to try this and don’t want to be anywhere near it.

cranktastic:

Ow.

numerator:

THIS IS AWESOME.

Source: numerator

And this not two days after I’d bought my first Speedplays! If this doesn’t encourage me to maintain them, I don’t know what will. Glad you made it back in one piece, Janeen! cranktastic: So, this happened. Uh huh. Yep. I’m so powerful, I break pedals, yo!* Last day of the Strava/Rapha Turkey Takeoff challenge so I had to do another Nyack ride. Which means I did 262.8 miles over 4 days. But boy did I complain about the pain. “My legs hurt. My ass is sore.” blah blah. Then I remembered I used to do this every day towing a 40lb trailer last year. I probably complained more then, but still… Anyway, the right speedplay pedal has been acting up, and yesterday I took a good look at it. Wiggled it. I moved in and out. A lot of horizontal play, as though trying to get off the spindle and go join the circus.  “You probably shouldn’t ride on that,” I said to myself. “That could break on a climb and you could really hurt the body.” But what to ride if I couldn’t ride Baby? Precious is still at the bike shop and I had to burn those 2,070 calories today.  “Eh, I can probably squeak one more ride out of them. Right? Right.” Turns out, that was right. Sort of. On the way back from Nyack, at about mile 41, I climbed the hill just after the State Line and right near the top I noticed something really weird going on. A strange noise, then some loosness. I slowed as it leveled out and looked down. Moved my right foot a smidge and then, whoopsie off the pedal came. Completely detached from the spindle.  A random stranger behind me said as he passed by:  “Your pedal is on your foot.” Like that is something I hadn’t noticed Wai dropped back to see why I’d stopped. “Did it come off?” “Yeah.” Two minutes prior I had told him I was trying to keep my foot pulled in so the pedal was on the thickest part of the spindle. And what do you know, there we now were standing there, looking at it. Detached and pointless.  We determined it could go back to give me balance and somewhere to rest my foot. And if I thought I was in pain before from all this riding, it was about to get worse. And that’s how my most fabulous 8 mile left leg pedal drill to get to the bike shop began. It was ok, considering. I had to really focus to keep the right pedal on the spindle and could occasionally put a little pressure on when climbing small climbs. My left leg was a bit ansty about stuff. But the best part was Wai. Wai essentially towed me those 8 miles, letting me sit in his draft and freewheel/left leg turn/freewheel/left leg turn etc. We maintained a decent 15mph and got there in pretty good time. It got pretty tiring after a while - and my left quad is now kinda grumpy while my right calf got pretty tight holding that pedal on - but we soldiered on and I hope he understands why I didn’t take a pull. Haha.  Finally made it home and was overjoyed to find a half bottle of Ronnybrook chocolate milk in my fridge. So it wasn’t all bad news. :) * This is a joke btw. I know this happened because of lack of maintenance. Judge away, as usual. 
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And this not two days after I’d bought my first Speedplays! If this doesn’t encourage me to maintain them, I don’t know what will. Glad you made it back in one piece, Janeen!

cranktastic:

So, this happened. Uh huh. Yep. I’m so powerful, I break pedals, yo!*

Last day of the Strava/Rapha Turkey Takeoff challenge so I had to do another Nyack ride. Which means I did 262.8 miles over 4 days. But boy did I complain about the pain.

“My legs hurt. My ass is sore.” blah blah. Then I remembered I used to do this every day towing a 40lb trailer last year. I probably complained more then, but still…

Anyway, the right speedplay pedal has been acting up, and yesterday I took a good look at it. Wiggled it. I moved in and out. A lot of horizontal play, as though trying to get off the spindle and go join the circus. 

“You probably shouldn’t ride on that,” I said to myself. “That could break on a climb and you could really hurt the body.” But what to ride if I couldn’t ride Baby? Precious is still at the bike shop and I had to burn those 2,070 calories today. 

“Eh, I can probably squeak one more ride out of them. Right? Right.”

Turns out, that was right. Sort of. On the way back from Nyack, at about mile 41, I climbed the hill just after the State Line and right near the top I noticed something really weird going on. A strange noise, then some loosness. I slowed as it leveled out and looked down. Moved my right foot a smidge and then, whoopsie off the pedal came. Completely detached from the spindle. 

A random stranger behind me said as he passed by: 

“Your pedal is on your foot.”

Like that is something I hadn’t noticed

Wai dropped back to see why I’d stopped.

“Did it come off?”

“Yeah.”

Two minutes prior I had told him I was trying to keep my foot pulled in so the pedal was on the thickest part of the spindle. And what do you know, there we now were standing there, looking at it. Detached and pointless. 

We determined it could go back to give me balance and somewhere to rest my foot. And if I thought I was in pain before from all this riding, it was about to get worse.

And that’s how my most fabulous 8 mile left leg pedal drill to get to the bike shop began.

It was ok, considering. I had to really focus to keep the right pedal on the spindle and could occasionally put a little pressure on when climbing small climbs. My left leg was a bit ansty about stuff. But the best part was Wai.

Wai essentially towed me those 8 miles, letting me sit in his draft and freewheel/left leg turn/freewheel/left leg turn etc. We maintained a decent 15mph and got there in pretty good time. It got pretty tiring after a while - and my left quad is now kinda grumpy while my right calf got pretty tight holding that pedal on - but we soldiered on and I hope he understands why I didn’t take a pull. Haha. 

Finally made it home and was overjoyed to find a half bottle of Ronnybrook chocolate milk in my fridge. So it wasn’t all bad news. :)

* This is a joke btw. I know this happened because of lack of maintenance. Judge away, as usual. 

Source: cranktastic

Hipsters on fixies on wish they could compare to this.

My desire to own a mountain bike just increased 500%.

cranktastic:

The seasonal change stuff in this is fantastic. 

awesomewheelie:

Where is this?  I want to go to there.

andirishwhiskey:

xjohnnylovesmeganx:

Life cycles - Seasons

RESPECT

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CAN MORE FUN BE HAD?

Source: youtube.com