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still feel risk

but no thrill

on the bike

...

still feel out of place

but not embarrassed

in a crowd

...

malleability

that is

the chance of life

changing

on a tack

receding

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let’s do bikes

hundred 3 (yeah already ... desert ... shrugs)

sipping

it was in the fridge beer

let’s do happy

or

angry

or

indifferent

let’s write again

chat again

let’s rip sum legs off

crush sum skulls

let’s do 3 days in the woods

pinos altos

the high pines

...

let’s do roaddie

or roll dirt

or bot a zwift

froome dog it

like uh sir

Mo

chuckle

(scum)

(the chuckle)

(it was fuggin funny though)

(still scum)

...

what’s the clean generation even doing these days

?

do we know

?

JV

call me

miss you

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found cupboard-coke

standin for shop coffee

you know it’s bad

when you didn’t even put socks on to go to work

it’s not the virus that made me semi-non-essential

it’s that it showed me that I’m semi-non-essential

i do wonder how long

the pay will go

for semi-non-essential

...

these feet weren’t made for peddlin

but

peddlins what they’ll do

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So I asked my self: Self, is it possible to tune an extended range Critical Power Model to act like WKO4 ?

looks like a pretty good start from the training set.

hold up those numbers look funny what data did you use to train the model ?

this data:

wait so let me see that again…

ok

hmmm ok well what about the r^2 and residuals

r^2 of 1 but then what’s with the residuals not being perfect ?

probably because digitizing plots isn’t perfect… 

and its persumably not the same model

but Cog showed that FRC does not equal W’ and therefore needed a new term

same with FTP so this can’t possible by a Critical Power Class model can it?

a Critical Power class model can’t behave like something that isn’t a Critical Power class model?

sure is.

wait why are there two lines?

that’s for another time.

ok fine its a Critical Power class model, but but but that’s just the training set what if your exponentials interact with the Flux capacitor, remember the map is not the territory!

anybody can tune something to match a training set that doesn’t mean anything!

you can’t show anythig without a test set, do you have a test set!?

yup sure do r^2 better than 0.96 despite the restricted range. 

are you really using 15 years of Coggan’s personal PD data to make a point on your blog?

yeah a bit tacky I know but its what I had

wait did you somehow steal the WKO4 model already? 

nope just tuned a Critical Power class model to act like it. 

so then does it still screw up like WKO4 when dealing with submaximal data?

yup it sure does. suprisingly not as often as WKO4 did on Coggan’s data set but here’s one clear example were it does. 

so what do you do about that?

two options:

1. clean out the submaximal data and re-run it 

or 

2. use a brute force algorithm to rerun the model with an array of fixed CP values then select the best statistical fit (or range of fits) that doesn’t violate the model assumptions. 

ps Andy, yes I did block you on twitter. I can’t deal with the endless repetition of non-informative cliches. And its been a while since you taught me anything. I do apreciate some of the early stuff it was quite helpful but lately its gotten old. Cheers bud.

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the solo prayer

i like

that it’s dark

i like

that it’s cold

i like

that i hurt

i like

that there’s 12

hours

to go

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ima borrow a brief happiness

onna borrowed bike

borrowed shoes

a borrowed trail

.

ima steal a little smile

in the space between raindrops

inna t shirt

.

ima leave the sad

leave this

thing

people leaving this world

.

a break from condolence

from thank yous

from

exhaustion

.

ima take a minute

from saying

goodbye

.

east coast roots

n

rocks

n

drops

steeps

on flats

.

i’ll be back

sorrow can wait

.

ima roll deep Connecticut lines

cross streams

granite climbs

.

you used to read this blog

a little weird

i wonder

if you still do

.

goodbye Tato

goodbye grief

.

but

.

i’ll see

you soon

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life is uh run in between the rains

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So it takes over 7 years to catch an 8/10 suspicion index rider on an OOC EPO test

how long then to catch a 6/10

given the most tested ever 4/10

never glowed on a test

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american cycling fans

devoid of any frame of reference

desperate to feel shocked

by Lambie’s pursuit world record

...

fortunately

there’s a mustache involved

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reads about fox live valve

goes in the garage

gazes at the hardtail

like some

prescious religious artifact

...

the truth is

Icarus reached the sun

but

was lost in the despair

of having done so

...

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god bless this day

she put before us

god bless this life

she put behind us

god bless this death

the resources she frees

the blackest soil

the deepest flood

the grossest mutation

god bless this evolution

she put in us

the intellect necessary

to give her praise

slightly soft

slightly warm

a morning thought

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Pony at 24HOP ?

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so remember this thing 24 hrs enchanted forest rock of power coed duo ? so we go to do this my partner has to bale with a saddle sore after her third lap i’m like fuggit so i just roll solo remainder of the 24 technically it shoulda been a DNF the result apparently stands i get some third place pottery

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“Had a guy on a Walmart bike come in with a flat a while back. I almost hated to charge him to fix it because the $20 he spent on labor and a new tube was worth more than the bike…but such is life. I noticed the wheel was particularly heavy when I took it out, but just attributed it to the bike being shit. Unseated the tire and tried to pull the tube out…and my god, what is this? It’s almost solid… Dude had been filling the tube with goo for 5 years. Five fucking years. The tube itself weighed nearly 2 pounds and was essentially a smaller solid tire inside his actual tire. He said “I wonder if that’s why the bike is so slow””

— Tarck Bear.

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commit to crit 2019

can’t take it back now