PauloBarnesi

Isn’t a pulse meter merely a Heart rate monitor? You can use a HRM or a watt meter, both with a zonal system.

He failed a test in France for a non banned substance that much is true. Just look at those performances, a strong big time trialler didn’t struggle in the mountains anymore... In a time when everyone was doing it, its hard to believe he wasn’t involved.

Every bit counts. Most cyclists spend vast amounts of cash on lighter wheels, etc, when the maximum weight loss is always going to be on the body. I ve lost 5kg or so in the last year and its enormously helpful for Alpine climbs. Of course the alternative is to be a strong but heavier cyclist and take aload of drugs; look at Indurain, Riis and Ullrich...

One of the best stages I have ever seen. Epic stuff. Nearly as good as the one in 88

Obviously losing any weight will help a great deal, you are trying to improve watts/kg which is harder than simply watts. You also learn what kind of hills suit you based on your style. I prefer steady long climbs at 6% +, short ones at 15% I can’t bear.

And a fantastic stage yesterday of the Giro yesterday.

Oh and the only way to really climb hills is to climb hills; try and find a decent hill and do it as an interval session. Sign up to Strava and have an idea how fast you are going and what your cadence is. You can’t ever get over how hard they are, you just find that you are getting faster and faster.

I ve just realised that footballers greatest all rounder might include someone who has also gone into football administration as well?

The general idea is to stay seated and find a gear that you can turn with a relatively high cadence (70 or so). The problem is when the gradient gets too steep, for you maintain the high cadence. Then you can move down to lower gear and again maintain a relatively high cadence or get out of the saddle, which will use different muscles. Most people can only stay out of the saddle for a relatively short time, so it will only be useful for bursts. Eventually if the gradient becomes too steep you run out of gears and then simply have to try and keep pedalling and try to avoid stalling where you simply can’t go on. The worse thing is to underestimate a hill and try and use a too higher a gear (outer chain ring) and then as you lose speed and cadence, you fear changing gears as you can easily lose the chain, etc. Its better to look a fool and be using a low gear and pedalling like mad, rather than looking a fool in a high gear and coming off your bike.

Yep 90 is a good benchmark.

Just because you don’t win the domestic league doesn’t mean you aren’t a major club. Liverpool haven’t won it for how many years? 26 or so, are they not a major club?

Probably a better way of comparing managers and players is giving various weighting to achievements. That Ancelotti has won the Champions League with a big club with an expensively put together squad, is hardly a surprise? The Cryuff was a success at a major club as manager? In the end we might that footballers greatest player/manager is someone quite unexpected...

The second Rotherham goal was a cracker by Alex Revell

I don’t think he’s got the skill set to be successful in the lower leagues, I think unfortunately for him he will drop out of the football league fairly soon.

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What would be more useful a power meter or an electronic group set? I would take the power meter, but I ve never ridden an electronic group set. I suspect in the next couple of years we will see a 105 electronic group set which will really reduce the price.

Treadmills aren't real running. Sorry, just my opinion. I use them while at the gym as it's nice to show off but they can't replace running forwards. A treadmill moves the ground for you, you don't have to push yourself forwards. All you have to do is pull your legs forward again. This isn't trying to belittle what you've done. 10k is a long way even on a treadmill so if you can do it there, you can do it outside or on a track. Do yourself a favour, use the treadmill sparingly, get out on the roads and you'll improve in no time They are when you do a V02 max test!

I thought people were talking about Electronic Dura ace!

If you do cycling power meter will tell you a lot more than heart rate monitor, they just cost a lot more and for the average cyclist its an indulgence. The full Di2 costs a fortune; you must be rich!

I was gonna try some homemade stuff too to see if that helps and even considering taking marmite sarnies for IM Germany to help with salt and to give something different. Do you have a time in mind for the Marmotte? Not really; I am having a recce of the Alps at the beginning of June to see what my form is. I am trying to get my Watts/kg up to around 3.75. I am fine on short climbs, but haven’t ridden anything long since Ventoux last summer. I ve seen the gold for my age is just over nine hours, which would be good, which is possible if I descend well and then get in a good group between mountains. Just be good to set a benchmark and then have another go with more training next year; Impressive Park Run BTW! Don’t look at it, listen to it

If you go up, then being the lightest you possibly can is the best. The turbo trainer is good for doing intervals; but you need something to measure your effort; a heart rate monitor is the cheapest option. You then can do a test to find out what your maximum heart rate is, and then have zones, where you can measure effort. If you have a laptop you can view whilst you are on the trainer, you can use a system like trainer road www.trainerroad.com which has lots of different work outs and plans.

I have that, and forgotten that it was a pretty good album. Better than Revenge or Freebass. But how hard would that be? And definitely better than Peter Hook & the Light (ft. Rowetta) doing Atmosphere...

Adam McGurk scores the winner for Burton in the playoffs semi against Southend

To be honest I tried a new approach last week; homemade oat bars (with peanut butter & banana), some gels and some clif energy shot bloks. Set my watch to beep every 10 minutes to take on fluid (750ml/hr), and then every 20 took on some food. I rode for over 7 hours, and at the end took on some caffeine. Didn’t lose that much weight and felt fine. Refuelling is clearly somewhere a lot of people don’t do so well, its practise that makes perfect. I find the body yearns for different tastes during exercise; too much sweet and you vomit. Anyway I did a sub 20 minute park run today. Very happy with that.

Interesting. Out of all the managers he hired, I though Houllier was the only one who shook things up and attempted to change our style to play better football. Massive risk, though, given his health problems. Yes but all this caused was a rift in the squad and led to a series of very poor performances. It was only when we resorted back to the MON style of play that we got the results and shot up the table after Houllier got ill. I think he could of relegated us that season if we had continued with Houllier's ways. BJ10 is right and Lerner never seems to learn from his mistakes. Well that was partly because (some of) the players were used to having everything their way under O'Neill. Houllier tried to do the right thing by banning Dunne, Collins and the others from drinking during season and making them be more professional. The fact that they responded like spoiled brats refusing to perform and acting up i blame solely on the players. The fact that soo many brittish players are unprofessional is a huge problem and something almost every foreign manager tries to change when the come here Yep because none of those foreign managers do anything mad like Paul of Canio...