Bike geek bullseye
by Charles Seegel @ The long road to IronmanI now have a large bullseye on my back, or more acurately, on the back wheel of my bike. After struggling to make it up yet another steep climb last week and realizing that even the climbs that I can do, I do at a super low cadence, I decided to chuck my pride and regear my bike. I can hear the snickering of the bike geeks already, but the bottom line is that cadence equals efficiency and my cadence is too low on a lot of the climbs that I train on. Plus, anything that helps me get up nasty grade in May is a good thing :-) When I have my Wildflower 1/2 IM medal around my neck, it won't matter what gear I was in.
I have gone from a 12-27 to a 12-32 rear cassette. That equates to an almost 20% decrease in gearing in my climbing gear! That is huge!!! I really want to challenge Hicks now and see if I can make it.
I do of course realize that I wouldn't need the new cassette if I just dropped 20 lbs of body weight but that doesn't happen overnight and will still take several weeks to achieve, but the cassette is on now.
I have gone from a 12-27 to a 12-32 rear cassette. That equates to an almost 20% decrease in gearing in my climbing gear! That is huge!!! I really want to challenge Hicks now and see if I can make it.
I do of course realize that I wouldn't need the new cassette if I just dropped 20 lbs of body weight but that doesn't happen overnight and will still take several weeks to achieve, but the cassette is on now.
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Bike geek bullseye
by Charles @ The long road to Ironman
I now have a large bullseye on my back, or more acurately, on the back wheel of my bike. After struggling to make it up yet another steep climb last week and realizing that even the climbs that I can do, I do at a super low cadence, I decided to chuck my pride and regear my bike. I can hear the snickering of the bike geeks already, but the bottom line is that cadence equals efficiency and my cadence is too low on a lot of the climbs that I train on. Plus, anything that helps me get up nasty grade in May is a good thing :-) When I have my Wildflower 1/2 IM medal around my neck, it won't matter what gear I was in.
I have gone from a 12-27 to a 12-32 rear cassette. That equates to an almost 20% decrease in gearing in my climbing gear! That is huge!!! I really want to challenge Hicks now and see if I can make it.
I do of course realize that I wouldn't need the new cassette if I just dropped 20 lbs of body weight but that doesn't happen overnight and will still take several weeks to achieve, but the cassette is on now.
I have gone from a 12-27 to a 12-32 rear cassette. That equates to an almost 20% decrease in gearing in my climbing gear! That is huge!!! I really want to challenge Hicks now and see if I can make it.
I do of course realize that I wouldn't need the new cassette if I just dropped 20 lbs of body weight but that doesn't happen overnight and will still take several weeks to achieve, but the cassette is on now.