I Realized I Have A Problem

[Razors Edge ★]

...when I thought about the fact that I spent 18 minutes watching a guy ride a bike up some random hill.  Crazy.  I love his various video, but I might have some un-diagnosed psychological issues 

Tom

[Square Wheels]

17mph up a 7% hill with a heart rate of 160.  Yeah, not a chance I can do that.

[Razors Edge ★]

1 minute ago, Square Wheels said:

17mph up a 7% hill with a heart rate of 160.  Yeah, not a chance I can do that.

I was riding up a 7% hill on Sunday at 10mph and dropping.  I cannot imagine doing his sort of pace, but watching his power numbers, you can see how he does it (but now how he is able to generate that power).

I actually was mesmerized

Tom

[Randomguy]

2 minutes ago, Square Wheels said:

17mph up a 7% hill with a heart rate of 160.  Yeah, not a chance I can do that.

Wow, that is sick and twisted.  I could do maybe 12 mph up a grade like that with a 160 heart rate if I was in fantastic shape. 

[donkpow]

That's an 18 minute video! I'm not looking at that.

[bikeman564™]

I'm very impressed w/ his speed at those grades

[Square Wheels]

2 hours ago, Razors Edge said:

I cannot imagine doing his sort of pace, but watching his power numbers, you can see how he does it (but now how he is able to generate that power).

I did my hill ride last weekend.  I am not bragging, and I am not strong.  On some of the harder hills, I was doing around 400 for the hill.  They were usually really steep, but really short.  I can only maintain 400 for 3 or 4 minutes.

[Razors Edge ★]

9 minutes ago, Square Wheels said:

I did my hill ride last weekend.  I am not bragging, and I am not strong.  On some of the harder hills, I was doing around 400 for the hill.  They were usually really steep, but really short.  I can only maintain 400 for 3 or 4 minutes.

Probably better than me   Three to four minutes at 400 watts would be nice.  He is also lighter than me, so his power-weight is much more impressive than that 400+ shows.  It is easy to see why he does well on climbs. Of course, he doesn't always set the KOM, so there are more than a few folks like him out there.

Tom

[Square Wheels]

On 4/24/2018 at 1:05 PM, Razors Edge said:

Probably better than me   Three to four minutes at 400 watts would be nice. 

OK, today I felt just OK on the hill ride.  One of the short but really steep hill I tried to pay attention to the numbers.  It was 1 minute at 350ish watts.  I could have held that for 3 to 4 minutes, but the hill ended.  I could not have done 400.