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From: Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
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Subject: Re: Mileage and Climbing
Date: 5 Jan 2025 11:54:57 GMT
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zen cycle <funkmasterxx@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/4/2025 4:36 AM, Roger Merriman wrote:
>> cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed Jan 1 10:07:51 2025 zen cycle  wrote:
>>>> On 12/31/2024 4:25 PM, Tom Kunich proved once again that I live rent
>>>> free in his head:
>>>> 
>>>>> Flunky has gotten in less
>>>>> than 1,000 miles
>>>> 
>>>> You might have gotten more mileage in if you would stop obsessing about me.
>>>> 
>>>> But to reply to yet another of your lies:
>>>> 
>>>> https://www.strava.com/athletes/16053273
>>>> 2024
>>>> Distance	2,847.1 mi
>>>> Elev Gain	160,297 ft
>>>> 
>>>> I'm not all that concerned about mileage. Strava shows an overall
>>>> average speed for the year of 17.2 MPH. Considering that about 25% of
>>>> those miles were on the mountain bike with average speeds about 10MPH,
>>>> I'm exceptionally happy with an overall average of over 17.
>>>> 
>>>>> and Krygowski what? 500? Liebermann got in 6 miles which
>>>>> wasn't bad considering his physical condition. Juhn  talked about the old
>>>>> days when he used to ride a bicycle.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I can remember bsck when the only people on the group were riders. But
>>>>> after Jobst published what he thought was my address, half of the group
>>>>> left and never came back. Part of that was that his publishing my mother's
>>>>> address was just the last straw since most of the group didn't like the
>>>>> group being largely about Jobst. What we need is Flunky telling us all
>>>>> about Jobst when he wasn't here while Jobst was posting and leading rides.
>>>> 
>>>> What we actually need is for you to stop obsessing over me.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I don't obsess over lying cowards, I just call them what they are. You
>>> did not avarage 17 mph on a garmin and you did not do several 200 o9ne
>>> day rides, you are simpoly lying. Your milage is far too low to put you
>>> in shape for the bullshit you're claiming. Pro racers cannot do what
>>> you're claiming. You put your Garmin in your car and drove those miles. I
>>> came back from a ride in a car on the freeway and the Garmin said 25 mph
>>> average. Give us more of your bullshit.
>>> 
>> He didn’t say he did 200 mile rides, but that he averaged 17mph which seems
>> to tally with a very brief snoop at his Strava account with 23mph TT and so
>> on.
>> 
>> Ie he did what he claimed to do!
>> 
>> Roger Merriman
>> 
> 
> Roger, tommy invents whatever narrative necessary to assuage his 
> low-self-esteem. The fact that he has the data literally at his 
> fingertips and somehow extrapolates that it shows 200 mile rides (which 
> it doesn't) is proof enough of that.
> 
> He's right about one thing though, a professional rider couldn't match 
> the performances on my Strava account. They'd be embarrassed to post 
> anything that slow.
> 
Reminds me of one of the TT’s Bradley Wiggins attended his 5min man had a
rear camera who he went past like he was on a Motorbike!

Or likewise seeing national races race up the Blorange, a hill local to
where I grew up in wales, which the roadies have slightly misused the name
of the Tumble to mean the hill and so on, but the speeds that Milk
race/tour of Britain come up particularly the last open section is quite
breathtaking!

https://www.strava.com/segments/12315655

It’s not quite 3 miles long or in double digits grades, I personally find
it a dull climb, and much more enjoyable down. The old main road up to
Brynmawr (rather different world to the American one!) is much more
interesting and beautiful even.

Roger Merriman