Leg day. Bicep day. Left arse cheek day. Socks off day. Ffs 
Tis no different to lads in the gym picking stuff up only to put it back down again.
They’ll do what it takes to justify their fat holes and sedentary lifestyles
A trade-off for burritos and chicken fillet rolls that’s all it is.
I’d be laughing to myself when I see lads with programs. Ticking off doing 20 sit ups. I do everything in the visit takes me an hour 20 min and I leave shattered then in for a swim sauna jacuzzi. Lads with phones and not a bead of sweat on them sitting on beanch hunched over. Makes me Fucking sick been honest.
Not at all … the human (male) body is 25% muscle mass and it’s very important to use that muscle. The modern world has made that largely impossible to do on a daily basis so it’s important to work out. Especially if you are over 30.
Flogging yourself to death for 3 hrs is idiotic.
It’s very different. Picking up the heavy stuff is good for ya
@Locke or @flattythehurdler is this any good? The watts piece confuses me as I don’t really understand it
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Pretty poor but you don’t do it regularly so that explains it
Maybe knock cycling on the head
Thanks mate. Appreciate your advice
1000 metres of climbing is decent. On a flat stage of the tour de France a few years ago, one of the peloton averaged 110 Watts by staying in the middle of the bunch.
That’s a pretty decent effort all told. 
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Did you ever chance Al’alp d’ez? It’s serious business. I was up there a few days before the jungfrau marathon 2 year ago. Great climbing I envisgoned myself as Robert millar in 1987
I’ve done it a few times. Went to bourg d’oisans in May for a cycling holiday for a week about five times before it became the new golf. They say a decent club cyclist should get up in under an hour. 1:06 was my fastest.
Pantani held the record for years of 34 mins iirc, and that at the end of a mammoth stage with five climbs.
There are six or seven classic ascents easily gettable to out of bourg, croix de fer, telegraph, isoard, deux alpes, madeleine, col de morte, galibier, lauteret, and that just off the top of my head. One year in May, the high passes were all still closed with snow, another we cycled up deux alpes in 36 degrees, and the next day did the isoard in a blizzard and had to stop and beg some dustbin bags to wear. Have done the alpe in 40 degrees as part of the etape in iirc 2006. The tarmac was melting. Utter bedlam.
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PS I made a serious wedge backing sastres for the stage the year he won it. I’d just watched “overcoming” where he flew up it in training.
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Fascinating. Fagan will have a field day with it all the same
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Don’t worry about the watts, the main thing is to get around safe. 10:100 ratio to climbing is the norm in Ireland so you did more than that which is good. The average is fine for this time of year. Great distance too.
All in all a good spin.
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What do you mean by 10:100 ratio?
As long as it was 1987 mate.
I mostly envisage myself trying not to die.
I would say it’s decent enough for an early season spin. The average speed is a bit on the low side but there is a decent bit of climbing there. No idea how the watts work either. Have you got a heart monitor?
What I found when I did some back in the day, was that no matter how fit I was, or how much running I was doing, the first mile or two was always thoroughly unpleasant, but once you got going after that it was comfortable for a while before slowly getting harder and harder. How much running I was doing dictated how long I could run feeling comfortable. The first marathon I did, I think about 18 miles was my longest training run, as I foolishly thought that once I hit twenty it would be easy to tick it down in my head. I got to twenty ok, but then every mile became steadily worse than the one before. It felt absolutely dreadful, worse and worse right up until you see the line. Bleh.
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