• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

What's your race training program?

Recently got a membership to the ymca and the kids and i swim all the time. I feel much better then i have in years and actually never even think about how much it wore me out until be leave lol. Just a thought for gym/running/biking haters
 
Steve... The 310XT is good and while not new probably still best bang for buck. I use mine for SUP racing, bicycle racing, low profile route recorder on the dirt bike, etc... Battery lasts a long time. Ant sometimes takes a long time to sense and upload data but just a nitpick compared to hard wired. I don't use a hrm anymore. As you stated once you know how you feel it's easier to go by that than stressing the HRM not reading or with a dying battery, not to mention having to wear a strap.
 
Huskynoobee said:
2. There's a big divide in those who swear by cardio and those who think it could kill you.
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In 2014, I wrote this post, which, apparently, was too long and therefore boring to be read. I tried to make the long story short, but I just wanted to say so many things I had found out... .
Anyhow, please have a look at this, at least: I linked this article, in which Alastair Seeley (we can consider him as a professional) said: "It is important to train to certain zones to be within 160, 170, 180 beats per minute. Train your heart to the particular zone you're going to be in when you're racing.".
That's the main reason for which I swear by cardio for motorcycles racing purposes: professional riders and trainers suggest it.

@ray_ray: I don't know whether you eventually got an heart-rate monitor, but, if you ever use one while riding, I hope you'll write here what you'll have got
 
NCSteve said:
Yeah, I used to monitor my heart rate closely, especially during the couple of years of competitive running and squash. Also did some pulse testing for food allergies and reactions to chemicals and other stimuli. All very helpful and interesting. After awhile I felt like I could sense my state closely enough to moderate my exertion accordingly and confirmed that.
I am planning to get a HR monitor again though out of curiosity, if nothing else. Checking out that Garmin 310xt.
I hardly ever work too hard any more, just hard enough I think. Only times I get carried away is on the bike and occasionally running in the woods, but not enough to croak or even fall out, just run out of steam.
If I do croak doing either of those at least I'll have a big smile on :thumbsup:
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Hear ya. Have an old friend up in Santa Cruz, CA - a retired Coastie (who happens to surf out amongst the Sharks mind you). He's always telling me (regarding my racing), "Ya know, old man, you aren't getting any younger!" At which point I always respond, "EXACTLY! That's why I gotta go faster!"

We're all gonna go at some point. But, we don't gotta go lying in our own swill in a hospital bed.
 
Here at work we have a small gym, @3mx7m, with a few machines, weight bench and one of those weight machines bolted to the wall. The stationary bike is an old Proteus, at this point it's pretty hi-maintenance, but still pretty good. 20-30 min on that gets the HR up there and gives lower half a good workout.
I finally fixed the electronics on the rowing machine and have been using it too. It's a Concepts2 and I agree it seems pretty close to the workout my shoulders and back gets while riding. Only issue I have with it is it's really boring after @ 20 min, because I can't wear my ear phones and listen to music.
That and reps with 10k dumbells and 40k on the weight machine has me feeling pretty good. Of course it's not as good as riding, but at least keeping my strength and endurance up.

:cheers:
 
My most recent addition to my workout regimen is to try and keep up with ajaxauto. If I could just relax and enjoy the ride it would be easier, but with the pucker factor of his terrain choices, it's quite a workout.

I'm generally trying to tell myself I can make that hill, or get up the rock face he just made look "Jarvis" easy. However if I could release the death grip on the bars I'd do much better.
 
That's a good way to improve. I wish I had some riding partners since I am riding solo 99% of the time.
 
I completely get that. Riding solo can be fun, but I find I keep deciding not to challenge myself too much because of it. After a few years off I was able to regain most of my old mojo but pushing it with A and pro class riders has really upped my game. That's one of the reasons I also started racing. It puts you in a situation where you have to get to the end and you know there will be someone to help if you break down or get hurt.
 
I just saw this Huskynoobee You did very well Most people I take do not make it as far as you did You made every hill and every rocky trail
You just got tired Your skill is there The more you ride the easier it gets I rode it today with the new Zip Ty Racing secret Suspenton set up on my Husky TE 300 OMG made it easy. Time to get ready for KOM Liking the new bike more everytime I ride it
Keep riding the first National is coming and you are gong 2 loops
 
For me my game went way up when I started reading electric meters which required me to walk 12-18 miles a day.... I noticed I could ride way longer.... that and riding is it for me....
 
I did 64 miles today...on my Harley. Thanks for the encouragement and mentoring ajaxauto. When I get back from the Blue Grass state I'll be doing some high altitude snowboard training, and then putting a top end on the WR to be ready for the season.
 
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