March Madness

So it seems like we haven't really been posting a lot, mainly because as much as I love training, it's just not that exciting to write about. I think the last thing people ever want to hear is how much power I was using, it was insanely hard, blah blah blah.

We went to see the Sens game the other night, it was one of the best games I've seen, honestly it was pretty impressive. Hopefully the boys are on a little momentum wave and their game last night look really great, well the first two periods looked great. As I love most things from Ottawa, go Sens go! Don't ever count them out.

SRM. Hummm. Ok, so I still have my soul, but I had to sell pretty much everything in my basement to get it. Let me just say a couple things.

1- First rule of technology. The cost of a device is directly proportional to the difficulty of installation.

2-When ever you read instructions that say you will be up and running quickly, do not believe it.

3-Instructions which are translated from German to English will not be accurate.

Long story, I'll make it short. Anytime I get a new toy, like a new bike, new SRM, or anything, I have this consuming desire to assemble it right away. I just can't wait, I get too excited and just go to town as soon as I get it. For example, Pete Morse sent my new Louis Garneau Sonix 6.4 road bike to the Cyclery and Natasha was nice enough to pick it up straight away about an hour after it got off the truck. So as soon as super was done, like about 3minutes. We are riding LG's, full carbon, the bikes are really nice. We are really lucky to have OCCTO Professional Grade components, carbon bars, stem, seat post. This stuff is so nice! It's so incredibly light.

Back to the story. So the SRM, the only reason I didn't install it the night I got is because my birthday gift was the above mentioned Sens game. So woke up at 5 am to install it. Long story, the instructions say not to mount the power sensor a certain way. Turns out it really the only way it could be installed on this particular frame. So 4 no make that 5 hours later, I was almost about to throw a wrench through the wall, I had to take a deep breath , swallow my pride and have Steve P take a quick look at it. He spent about 3 maybe 4 minutes on it to figure out that it was the placement of the sensor (height) not the medial , lateral placement which was the problem. What is the moral of the story. Well most of the time when you are trying to solve a problem, the problem really is you are not fixing the right thing. Hmmmm...Think about that for a second before you want to start throwing wrenches at walls that really don't deserve it, they didn't write the instructions.

Good thing I can get use to staring at numbers on the SRM inside. Natasha said I would have probably already smucked myself into a parked car while looking at all the numbers. What is more confusing is that it has 3 buttons vs Power tap which has 2. That is a 50% increase. But as all great German engineering there are about 1 billion different measurements available at your finger tips. It still boggles my mind.

My life is so different now that I have an SRM. I am so much stronger! Haha no not really. But I can now tell you how hot it is in my basement cause some crazy German built in a thermostat in this teeny tiny device. It is 17 degrees in my basement...well it was 15 degrees then 2 hours later it was 17 degrees. If that is most interesting thing you read today I won't feel so bad about being such a loser. Can you tell there is no racing for me, no good stories, no huge intersections on the meaning of life, just boring tales of my new equipment and my caffeinated rantings of how I lose my mind when I can't figure something out.

Some of the Jet Fuel boys are in Taiwan doing The Tour de Taiwan. Daniele got 4th in the pack sprint in the first stage and Pete has been consistently placing top 20. A good sign of things to come.

First scheduled race is April 6th, Mosport in near Peterborough. I'm excited. Things are coming together nicely.

DSJ