Interesting Video On How Endurance Riders Can Do What They Do

This helps explain how I can ride the way I do.

 

I keep thinking about trying this, one of these days. Not sure if I will. Lost a little bit of shine when the pandemic hit and everyone was doing it.

 

I haven’t watched it, but I assume it’s an infomercial for Tailwind.

 

Nothing to do with nutrition.

 

A cocktail for success is good! Haste of impending disability seasoned with ganja works for me.

Honestly...sitting on a seat on the ground is a mindless vacation however you slice it. There's nothing actually hard about riding a bike hard unless you've lived a sheltered life.

 

When I'm hurting, but not necessarily thinking about how much it hurts, the pain keeps me from thinking things like "I love pain!", and so on. I do joking say out loud to others, "Hurts so good!", as I pass by though, especially when they say something uplifting like "Wow, that's gotta be hard to do.".

 

This kid did it on a 38 lb bike. https://www.pinkbike.com/news/reade...-rides-10119-vertical-meters-in-24-hours.html https://www.pinkbike.com/news/reade...-rides-10119-vertical-meters-in-24-hours.html

...and then there was this kid that did 55,000 meters (180K feet) in one month. If you pick a month with 31 days, you only have to average 5800+ feet per day.
https://www.pinkbike.com/news/reade...o-climb-55000-vertical-meters-in-a-month.html

 

Hah! OK. Well, that means I've led a sheltered life. Which, I guess is true. Thanks for the compliment!

 

You can take your body to failure as well as anyone. It's not about what's "hard," it's about what's hard for the individual. Failure thresholds vary. So I do think (read: know for me) there's a limit to this mental-defeat riff. Generally I agree with the commonly-held belief that we can do far more than we believe. But as athletes we are not general. Most of us, at some point, explore the reaches of our fitness. Like you've done. You found some non-mental limitations. I've found some, too. Sheltered here means you havent't tried with everything you have.

 

Tried what? A lap around Lake Tahoe?

I've been injured enough to qualify as having exceeded my limits. I've been stopped dead in my tracks trying to push beyond my physical limits as well. I don't really like the feeling of either of these options, so I don't test those boundaries often. I guess that makes me pedestrian rather than super awesome! Oh well, I still have fun!

 

Just got a chance to watch it. Interesting stuff, and a quality post .

Though I tend to shy away from books that fall into the self help/motivation spectrum, David Goggins' book Can't Hurt Me is a pretty fascinating and raw look into that very idea - that we can do so much more than we tell ourselves we can. He would train well past the point of being productive from a physical standpoint, just to train his mind to push beyond what his body said it could it do.

 

You do what you like and want, as you should. How close one pushes to the edge of fitness isn't good, bad, pedestrian or awesome. It's just what it is, personal affinity. If a rider was trying to ride faster and farther than others, she could lament the limitations. You and I are not doing that, so why would we care? We both ride for fun, and we have our own ways of getting there.

 

Hey - we agree on something!!!!

 

100%

 

This episode is literally what got me started on the path I am on in life:

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/episodes/91709-limits

 

@Sidewalk , it has been in the back of my head for a long time as well. Maybe we could go at it together for motivation.