There's hope for us all

Chips Lovell · 05-02-2010 8:47am #1

Former Bicycling magazine journalist João Correia, who gave up racing at 21, dropped 60 pounds and now has a contract with the Cervelo Test Team at the age of 34:

Lumen · 05-02-2010 9:07am

Interview

Beasty · 05-02-2010 9:17am

el tonto wrote: »

There's hope for us all

You speak for yourself - Lumen and me are way over 34:)

Chips Lovell · 05-02-2010 9:20am

Beasty wrote: »

You speak for yourself - Lumen and me are way over 34:)

Lumen's been sandbagging about so much recently that I wouldn't be surprised if he's exaggerating his age.

Lumen · 05-02-2010 9:23am

Positive thought: he's living the dream, yay.

Negative thought: they've only employed him because none of the other riders have the requisite skills or motivation to twatter on endlessly about the unmatched aero performance, lateral stiffness and vertical compliance of the team bikes.

uberwolf · 05-02-2010 9:26am

this is remarkably like my training log :rolleyes:

fair play to him

ROK ON · 05-02-2010 9:30am

Best of luck to him. Love to read stuff luke that. On a similar vane Lucy Kellaway who writes for the FT recently wrote an article about how a 40something year old colleague gave up life as a hack to study medicine. The wonan has now graduated as a doctor in her early 50s.
The tenor if the article was even more interesting. On the basis that society is li ing longer we will need many careers as one career is unlikely to be fulfilling for 50years. Secondly we are ala more flexible than we think.

Great article. Fair play to him.

lukester · 05-02-2010 9:59am

I'm still waiting for the article about the 41 year old who was given a pro contract after a year of sportives and commuter racing.

ednwireland · 05-02-2010 10:00am

Beasty wrote: »

You speak for yourself - Lumen and me are way over 34:)

+1 those days are over - but i would like to drop 60 pounds (but people would think i was ill)

iregk · 05-02-2010 10:02am

Oh at 30 years of age there is still hope!!!

Beasty · 05-02-2010 10:10am

ednwireland wrote: »

+1 those days are over - but i would like to drop 60 pounds (but people would think i was ill)

60 lbs - a piece of cake (well several actually)

Mmmm cake - it's Friday, and the Garmin is showing 13,777 calories for the week. I think I need to treat myself to a secret centre* chocolate muffin this lunchtime

*

the centre is vanilla

AstraMonti · 05-02-2010 10:13am

Great interview, best of luck to the guy.

ednwireland · 05-02-2010 10:16am

Beasty wrote: »

60 lbs - a piece of cake (well several actually)

Mmmm cake - it's Friday, and the Garmin is showing 13,777 calories for the week. I think I need to treat myself to a secret centre* chocolate muffin this lunchtime

*
the centre is vanilla

just stop it will you !

mmm cake the cause and solution to most of lifes problems (or is that something else)

and i have to paint tommorrow can i get out on the bike on sunday this is the question.

bcmf · 05-02-2010 10:37am

Ah Jaysus. I fell in the first paragraph "...oven-fresh baguettes dabbed in oozy Camembert..."

Ryaner · 05-02-2010 2:29pm

el tonto wrote: »

Former Bicycling magazine journalist João Correia, who gave up racing at 21, dropped 60 pounds and now has a contract with the Cervelo Test Team at the age of 34:

From the article

A former professional cyclist who last raced at age 21, he left the sport for a desk job and, over a decade, ballooned toward the weight of two professional cyclists.

He had lost a lot more than 60lbs between the two pictures.

mloc123 · 05-02-2010 2:43pm

Beasty wrote: »

60 lbs - a piece of cake (well several actually)

Mmmm cake - it's Friday, and the Garmin is showing 13,777 calories for the week. I think I need to treat myself to a secret centre* chocolate muffin this lunchtime

*
the centre is vanilla

13,777 = about 20hours on the bike... by Friday?

c0rk3r · 05-02-2010 2:46pm

He sure was a fatty fat fat elasticated fat pants cyclist

I remember reading a story about a Canadian guy who cycled everywhere with his dog and trailer pitching tents at the side of the road. He somehow managed to get a pro contract. whatever happened to that guy ? I'm pretty sure i read the story here

niceonetom · 05-02-2010 2:52pm

You mean Svein Tuft (sp?). He's a pretty successful pro for Garmin.

Raam · 05-02-2010 2:52pm

Username-in-use wrote: »

He sure was a fatty fat fat elasticated fat pants cyclist

I remember reading a story about a Canadian guy who cycled everywhere with his dog and trailer pitching tents at the side of the road. He somehow managed to get a pro contract. whatever happened to that guy ? I'm pretty sure i read the story here

Svein Tuft, rides for Garmin

Chips Lovell · 05-02-2010 2:53pm

That's Tuft alright.

Lumen · 05-02-2010 2:53pm

mloc123 wrote: »

13,777 = about 20hours on the bike... by Friday?

I assume they're Garmin calories, which are much smaller than real calories.

@Beasty: according to the stats in your training log, you're burning around 800-850 calories/hr.

Beasty · 05-02-2010 2:53pm

mloc123 wrote: »

13,777 = about 20hours on the bike... by Friday?

I did say it's what the Garmin's showing:) (it's also showing around 7,000kj, which is probably a more accurate measure). So far only just under 11.5 hours since 6am on Monday (and I am knackered). The cake was nice though:)

Beasty · 05-02-2010 2:57pm

Lumen wrote: »

@Beasty: according to the stats in your training log, you're burning around 800-850 calories/hr.

That's around what I get when using the Polar

mloc123 · 05-02-2010 3:01pm

Are the 305/705 bad for calorie predictions? I use a 310xt and find it pretty good... figure is always about the same as fitday etc.. Hour on the turbo on tuesday including cruise intervals = 692cals. I am always quite sceptical tho'

Lumen · 05-02-2010 3:15pm

mloc123 wrote: »

Are the 305/705 bad for calorie predictions? I use a 310xt and find it pretty good... figure is always about the same as fitday etc.. Hour on the turbo on tuesday including cruise intervals = 692cals. I am always quite sceptical tho'

AFAIK the Polar and 310XT use an HR-based algorithm, whereas Edge 305 and 705 do not (they use speed, distance, weight etc).

edit: Apparently with the Edge units you can fudge it down by entering a weight around 50-60% of your actual weight.

sorry for continuing off-topic

Beasty · 05-02-2010 3:36pm

Lumen wrote: »

fudge

Mmmmm fudge - you never really went off-topic then:)

There's hope for us all

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