isaac 🚵🏼

bicycles and building sustainable software that works for people — dayenu. he/they || queer/🏳️‍🌈

[isaac 🚵🏼 @_isaacspar]

@inaki_delaparra your (unofficial?) endorsement/mention of the glacier towels in a recentish blog post piqued my interest enough to snag a couple and after a week camping/mtb in Crested Butte — what magic. Thanks for the _cool_ tip!

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

https://t.co/hXE5lXLpFT

[isaac 🚵🏼 @_isaacspar]

TdS is really letting the UCI do what it does best. Nitpicking over the shit that doesn’t matter, while life-and-death matters are allowed to slide by. 🙄

[Benji Naesen @BenjiNaesen]

This vile criminal has been brought to justice.

[isaac 🚵🏼 @_isaacspar]

@inaki_delaparra @Hybridathlete I’ve found that of the things non-(endurance)-athlete types find really astonishing is how much of a chore eating can become

[isaac 🚵🏼 @_isaacspar]

@runliftrunlift I’m the ~running~ (_walking_) joke at work for my treadmill desk habit. “Why aren’t you walking today?!?”, “How many steps do you do?!” (I do love the confusion when I answered the last one with “dunno, not a stat I care about, but I can tell you my lactate markers…”

[isaac 🚵🏼 @_isaacspar]

@heysatya_ Treadmill for your desk. Will let you accumulate very easy miles to build your aerobic base, and start adding (small) impact to improve durability in your joints. Makes all of @HankFrank’s spot-on advice that much easier.

[isaac 🚵🏼 @_isaacspar]

@Alan_Couzens I really need to follow through and join y’all there!

[isaac 🚵🏼 @_isaacspar]

Learning how (and when) to rest is the hardest thing. It’s “easy” to push - you feel like you’re making progress, even if it’s marginal at best.

This is a statement that transcends athletics (but is also very true for athletics)

[Alan Couzens @Alan_Couzens]

I'm a little bitter as well.

As Lydiard said (& proved!)...

"Champions are everywhere. You just need to train them right."

Training them right really isn't that hard.

It largely comes down to meeting the athlete where they currently are, and giving them the time & space to grow. Not pushing them. Actually, holding them back. Or, again in the words of the great one...

Train. Don't strain.

[isaac 🚵🏼 @_isaacspar]

@MedBonnevie This is cool. I’ve been playing with the day-to-day side of the coaching process; integrating the qualitative aspects of rise+life+etc with the quantitative results, and modifying the plan from there. A version of your step 5. Would love to chat more if you’re open to it

[trish @TrisH0x2A]

wise words from the best systems engineer I've worked with:

"two things that make code actually maintainable:

1. reduce the layers a reader has to trace
2. reduce the state a reader has to hold in their head"

applies to every codebase. always.

[isaac 🚵🏼 @_isaacspar]

@Alan_Couzens …now time to go prick my finger to validate <2mmol and validate my target pace a few weeks out from 18hrs of Fruita 😌

[isaac 🚵🏼 @_isaacspar]

@Alan_Couzens Unsurprisingly, 12-15 years later, the best example of that view burned out hard and neither trains (formally or informally) nor races any more.

[isaac 🚵🏼 @_isaacspar]

@Alan_Couzens I have imagined historically I’m pretty well connected to my body, but adding lactate to the measuring suite this year has been *fascinating* for calibrating feeling. Thank you for the indirect push to do it.

[isaac 🚵🏼 @_isaacspar]

@Alan_Couzens I’m _really_ looking forward to this one.

[isaac 🚵🏼 @_isaacspar]

@Alan_Couzens @inaki_delaparra As someone deeply interested in the math/science of training but not formally trained in any of it: what is banister tau? (I’m sure it’s nothing to do with warhammer which dominated the results of my quick google)

[isaac 🚵🏼 @_isaacspar]

@Alan_Couzens It’s interesting you suggest “less focused work” as walking option — tbqh the walking pad lets me do *more* focused work more effectively, but that may also be my adhd brain at work. Typing and walking takes a bit of coordination practice, but it’s an entirely attainable skill.

[isaac 🚵🏼 @_isaacspar]

@Alan_Couzens Adding the walking pad has been an absolute life changer for me. Not good at standing still. Good for my attention, and good for my z0/1. I finish out the day materially happier than without it. Plus: more flexibility to do bike-specific work on the bike!

[isaac 🚵🏼 @_isaacspar]

Might be late to this party but thank god Ineos moved to black shorts. Still an ugly kit, but much better than it was before…

[isaac 🚵🏼 @_isaacspar]

@Alan_Couzens Track my history for sure. I do get funky values out of my strap when riding though; sometimes it’ll drop a solid 30bpm with no clear cause (and fit remains tight). Gives me slight pause to its accuracy, but I’m going to experiment with electrode gel to try and improve contacts.