Interested to know what other people are doing in their strength training Personally, I’m using most of my gym sessions from an overall health perspective, and for longevity in my very physical job. For me, the last few years I’ve been struggling with the bike. Even though I’ve continued riding Ultras, it’s the only thing that kept me riding. I like to train heavy at least two times a week and one session with accessories. Heavy squats are at as full a depth that I can reach, with destroyed knees from 20 plus years of motocross. Cheers for any feedback

We had some discussions about gear ratios the other day and I wanted to know what you guys are running? If you can briefly mention whether it’s a road/gravel/mtb, type of terrain, if you are racing and so on. Just to give a little bit of context. Eg. If somebody lives on the flats and races crits then a 1 x road groupset makes perfect sense for them but I don’t want somebody living in the mountains to think that they should copy your setup 😆 For me I built a road bike up with Shimano 52 x 36 front chainring but using a 10 x 36 sram casette (works fine but wouldn’t race it). Living in girona so I’ve a big gear for the fast downhills but a pretty easy one for long, hard climbs too. If I was racing I’d want a 54 front chainring but not racing these days. Also thinking of selling my road bike and buying a gravel frame with a 46 chainring and getting the sram Xplr 10x46 and swap in and out a set of road and gravel wheels. Road would be my priority so it would be a slightly bigger gear for the gravel riding but I think it would be fine. Was thinking of getting a set of 47-50mm tyres for the gravel wheels. Again I’m not currently racing so for the time being it could be a fine option. A slow, durable tyre would be fine - couldn’t be bothered with a set of fast tyres that punctures all the time and using tonnes of plugs. Those new recyclable vittoria tyres are cool but no idea what they are like - would rather go for vittorias to support EF with caoimhe but open to suggestions on all this 🙏 I’d like to start creating more posts where everybody can jump in and add their thoughts and opinions. Would be cool to see more people getting involved in these discussions!

Race schedule for men and women (and the broadcast list for those watching in USA). We’re in the process of getting a spreadsheet made so you can enter your pick easily for each stage of a specific race. Basically the rules are simple: Stage races you pick one person for each stage (CANNOT repeat picks, no Pog every summit finish ok). 1st - 25pts 2nd - 24pts ——————— 25th - 1pt 26th and on - 0pts We’ll be mostly using the honor system because I feel like we should only be responsible for our own score. Also, I think it would be fun to track the 10 classics from Strade-Bianche to LBL cumulatively, let us know your thoughts on this. I think it’ll mix things up since you’ll have to pick smartly! If you have any comments, questions, things to add, etc feel free to message me, message @Mary H , or just comment here!

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Since the start of this year I've been really focusing on not wasting time/days. The days can slip past us too easily with the abundance of doom scrolling we all have to resist. I found myself in years past wondering did I get the most out of this year, what happened to it? I saw a reel of someone talking about how each year should have one yearly defining event it (Unbound for me this year), 6 mini adventures - things you need to plan out otherwise they just pass you by (Camping trip with the kids - Fishing trip father - other significant races etc), and then a new quarterly habit. I have to say it has been really satisfying having started this little project, and seeing what I have coming up. As well as months that I could probably do more in. It's also surprising how many things I have had to turn down already this year because of other commitments. I wanted to share with this group the printable one page calendar I had AI help me make. As well as the method I used to fill it in. I took those little 2 inch sticky note pads, about 4 different colors, cut the sticky top off trimmed it to cover the length of days that the event/activity is and wrote the details on that. I hope this helps you all maximize your year, and have confidence that you are making the most out of it. Cheers