Comments on: Perfectly Good Excuses

By: Loes

Loes — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 16:05:58 +0000

I can never convince myself with excuses, although I try to say to myself that I already train enough and can afford some rest, but I’ll always feel lazy and guilty. It even troubles me to take rest days when I’ve trained too much and can hardly get my cranks around. Bad weather does always work as a good excuse though.

By: Unknown

Unknown — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 14:55:26 +0000

Your boss (still not caring, but still asking): Blah, blah, blah, where’s your bike?You (smirking. again.): I did a little overtraining in the bedroom last night if you know know what I mean. Heh. Heh.Your boss (disgusted): Don’t ever say that again.

By: Unknown

Unknown — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 11:28:27 +0000

It’s in Friel’s Cyclists Training Bible too, toward the end in the chapter on periodization. History may not repeat itself, but Joe Friel certainly does.

By: Unknown

Unknown — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 10:03:36 +0000

I am incapable of overtraining, for the simple reason that I dont do any. I have a 10K in two weeks. Total training mile since the last 10K – 0.This approach also has the benefit of never being at risk of a training injury.

By: Fat Cyclist

Fat Cyclist — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 06:23:33 +0000

dug, rocky – here’s an interesting quote, from Joe Friel’s article "Are You Really Overtrained?":"Less than one-tenth of one percent of the general population is capable of attaining such a feat."The article is worth reading. You’ll find it at:http://www.ultrafit.com/library/Other/Overtraining.docWhat’s (furthermore) interesting is that while i remember this quote from a recent (sometime this year) VeloNews, the article i found — by the same author — with the quote i remember was in this 1999 article for Inside Triathlon. Which probably means that Inside Inc is recycling articles; betcha they had a hole to fill in that issue. What’s the most interesting thing of all, though, is that you both called me on the carpet the one time in my life that i actually had data to back up my claim. thank you.

By: Unknown

Unknown — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 04:24:30 +0000

Gee Mr. Science…tell us more! I think you might have confused your "fake news" with the real world that is your blog (?) with that little "overtraining" schtick.

By: Bryn

Bryn — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 02:50:01 +0000

Hey Fatty, long time no speak. If you check my space, it’ll say why i haven’t been able to post a comment every day as i said i would. The reason been i maoved house and dont have the net connected yet. So at the moment, im at my girlfriends place using her net just to keep u posted on why i haven’t been able to uphold my word to comment on every one of your posts. Seems like your just going to have to wait a week til you get to hear my great comments again. In the meantime your just gonna have to save your best post material til im back and able to make great comments. Have a nice week fatty!

By: Unknown

Unknown — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 02:26:35 +0000

Love the snowpeople and the snowfa is brilliant, as are their engaging smiles! I think the cake excuse is probably the best one offered yet. Only make it your Best Cake in the World. People would immediately cease to care whether you EVER rode in to work. But then you would NEED to ride in to work to work it off.Hugs,MuMo

By: TIMOTHY

TIMOTHY — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 00:57:41 +0000

Ok, I did a ride yesterday morning when it was a (relatively) balmy 32 degrees (F) and the streets were only covered in packed snow and ice – but I admit that I wimped out on riding to work yesterday because at 2 p.m. (when I go in to work…) the wind shifted around to the north and temperature nose dived about 30 degrees in under an hour, and it started to snow. Today the forecast high was -2, with 15mph winds. In Montana you get a lot of good, legitimate, weather-related excuses.

By: Jim Carson

Jim Carson — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 22:30:18 +0000

The flip side is if you do take a day off, like I did on Friday, my weekly "recycle all the laundry in the office" day, you’ll get endless indirect ribbing from coworkers about being too wimpy to ride through a little white snow, yet questioning the "sanity" of biking home in the same the day before. Adding to your list:1. Snow plow/street sweeper chunked all of the snow into hard globules onto the side of the road where I’d normally bike. [Which they did, but it mostly melted off by yesterday];2. Forgot to recharge my bike light(s), had an early/late meeting; [it helps if you have the charger in your office.]3. Spilled breakfast all over my (polypro, wool) outfit [assumes they don't understand "wicking"]