Wednesday, June 3, 2015
You guys are going to get bored of the Great Calorie Model discussion soon enough so I'll just throw out a few more things for today. Specifically to start I will link this to @fidodie:
http://home.trainingpeaks.com/blog/article/how-accurate-is-that-calorie-reading
Second, not sure why this hit me the other day, but there are 2 ways to look at the calories listed on the back of something you eat:
1. Look at calories per serving, eat accordingly.
2. Look at calories per serving & servings per bag & calculate how much this will cost if you lose control and eat the whole bag. Then eat the whole bag. Paging @davidcarson48.
Finally, I was saying this to @Dominique last night. If I take a "day off" and eat what the app tells me to eat to stay even, or say I go even 500 calories over budget, the scale will add 1-2 pounds. In theory this is impossible because a pound is 3500 calories. But time after time when I go over on the daily budget I get drilled on the scale the next day. There apparently is little-to-no correlation between what you eat 1 day and the scale the next day. I'm trying to embrace this more but it's hard to accept.
@fidodie you also bring up some interesting points about nutrition mining internally as well as recovery calories. I have thought about the former before (no conclusions there) as well as the latter. I think the latter is true a bit more with weight-lifting as you tear the muscle fibers constantly. Not sure you have as much of that going on in biking.
So back to biking. @UtahJoe has thrown down the gauntlet and says that "in my dreams" will I ever produce 300w on a 2 hour ride. I will accept this challenge and make it happen. I went out today and knocked out 273 (Garmin) on my ride for 1:45:
https://www.strava.com/activities/317505469
No rain. Saw a bluebird. Saw an oriole. Both birds are firsts of the year & both are 2 of my favorite birds. I also pulled a 20.7 on the loop which is a first of the year being up over 20 in a ride. All in all a good ride today. Coming back, coming into form. Slowly but surely. Lamington Road closed so I had to lollipop the ride instead of making it a loop. Utah thinks he is reverse psychology-ing me into working hard but I know what he's up to. I'm like Roman Maroni when he says, "Okey! You and the rest of your bastages can gamble, but don't try no fargin trick, otherwise you wind up with your bells in a sling." Utah's bells, b-line for that sling.
I have decided not to name the RIP9 officially until I actually get it. But suggestions are still always welcome. On that note, this weather sucks the past 2 days and mountain biking in any form is probably mostly off the table until Friday. I may go to Round Valley on Friday (note: maybe not, if CR is good to ride). I'm up to 20 hours of work the first 2 days of the week so I'm setting up my weekly end-game well right now.
Rain plus sun means that I'll need to cut the grass soon.
You guys are going to get bored of the Great Calorie Model discussion soon enough so I'll just throw out a few more things for today. Specifically to start I will link this to @fidodie:
http://home.trainingpeaks.com/blog/article/how-accurate-is-that-calorie-reading
Second, not sure why this hit me the other day, but there are 2 ways to look at the calories listed on the back of something you eat:
1. Look at calories per serving, eat accordingly.
2. Look at calories per serving & servings per bag & calculate how much this will cost if you lose control and eat the whole bag. Then eat the whole bag. Paging @davidcarson48.
Finally, I was saying this to @Dominique last night. If I take a "day off" and eat what the app tells me to eat to stay even, or say I go even 500 calories over budget, the scale will add 1-2 pounds. In theory this is impossible because a pound is 3500 calories. But time after time when I go over on the daily budget I get drilled on the scale the next day. There apparently is little-to-no correlation between what you eat 1 day and the scale the next day. I'm trying to embrace this more but it's hard to accept.
@fidodie you also bring up some interesting points about nutrition mining internally as well as recovery calories. I have thought about the former before (no conclusions there) as well as the latter. I think the latter is true a bit more with weight-lifting as you tear the muscle fibers constantly. Not sure you have as much of that going on in biking.
So back to biking. @UtahJoe has thrown down the gauntlet and says that "in my dreams" will I ever produce 300w on a 2 hour ride. I will accept this challenge and make it happen. I went out today and knocked out 273 (Garmin) on my ride for 1:45:
https://www.strava.com/activities/317505469
No rain. Saw a bluebird. Saw an oriole. Both birds are firsts of the year & both are 2 of my favorite birds. I also pulled a 20.7 on the loop which is a first of the year being up over 20 in a ride. All in all a good ride today. Coming back, coming into form. Slowly but surely. Lamington Road closed so I had to lollipop the ride instead of making it a loop. Utah thinks he is reverse psychology-ing me into working hard but I know what he's up to. I'm like Roman Maroni when he says, "Okey! You and the rest of your bastages can gamble, but don't try no fargin trick, otherwise you wind up with your bells in a sling." Utah's bells, b-line for that sling.
I have decided not to name the RIP9 officially until I actually get it. But suggestions are still always welcome. On that note, this weather sucks the past 2 days and mountain biking in any form is probably mostly off the table until Friday. I may go to Round Valley on Friday (note: maybe not, if CR is good to ride). I'm up to 20 hours of work the first 2 days of the week so I'm setting up my weekly end-game well right now.
Rain plus sun means that I'll need to cut the grass soon.
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