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Alright Angie, you should know better, details on the bike, frame brand, components, etc....:)

Yes, definitely my bad. I didn't read his full other post and when I did I saw the photos. And definitely looking forward to sessions at lovey and SES this year. Gonna get my lovey 4 paks in 2 weeks. Planning on riiding with you guys once a month, winter park the other weekends.

Maybe I'm being paranoid, but is AR back in the house and posting? Not pointing fingers but there's a post here that has me thinking....

WOW...I think that is the first E-Peen joke I have seen on this site. Nice.

http://skiloveland.com/ticketsandpasses/shows.aspx

http://www.wired.com/playbook/2010/08/surfing-sensors/ Maybe he should work on a scientific protocol to determine the performance effects/differences between pedaling and plates on snowboards. :D

Boardski, My apologies if my comment came across as judgmental, it wasn't, just not for me, maybe others. That type of experimentation never held any interest for me hence the poor attempt at a comedic response. I thought the smiley face would have indicated my attempt at humor.

hmm okay, I think I'll take a pass on the Timothy Leary school of Snowboarding....:)

Update: Frontier will maintain their route to Aspen http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_15808032

You have peaked my interest, specifics please. I'm curious about this from an educational standpoint, not to actually try, so what you are referring to?

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/62297/title/Muscles_remember_past_glory Interesting little article about a recent study where they learned that your muscles retain the memory of their former fitness level. Now I'm curious if they will try and figure out how to transfer that dna that retains the information to another individual so that they can benefit from the donator's efforts? And would you consider that cheating?

I strongly second this. I bought a pair of the bindings last season, and I actually found myself loosening the binding setting to where I was sliding in with a solid connection but not squeezing. So much better.

I had a pair of those back in the day, loved them. But at that price I would want Phil Mahre's autograph on it. The photo of the base looks good though.

The devils in the details!

Boy, there is alot of stuff you could be doing, but I'm not quite sure what your training plan is and the type of environment your riding (flats, rolling terrain, etc). Are you doing any extended interval work above your anaerobic threshold? Are you using a power meter and training by wattage? If you want to go faster you need to build into your workout some periods of work where you are going harder than normal, recovering at a slower than normal pace, then going harder than normal, lather rinse repeat. Slowly build that up over time. You can base your effort on your perceived exertion, but if you have a power meter to measure your wattage and record it, and preferably a heart rate monitor too to measure your recovery between intervals, your better off because you can see your improvements over time. There are plenty of sites with suggested interval programs that you can google. Just don't overdo it, less is more. One or two interval sessions a week with enough post ride recovery is plenty. Also 30km is approx 18mph and 40km is approx 24mph, that's a big jump in speed at least over an extended distance. One of the metrics for a cyclist who wants to imorove his time trialing is being able to do a flat 40km time trial under an hour.

I think that there was a study published around two years ago on comparative injuries. Can't find it now, but I recall that one of the findings was that the majority of snowboard injuries happen during the first season and drastically reduce afterwards, and that skiing was less in the beginning but slowly raised up and stayed the same year to year.

:lol: Kind of implied it with the Donek reference.

I have a 2007 Donek Axxess 172cm and a pair of TD2 SI's I'd consider parting with if you are so desperate to spend money. Send me an email if your interested.

uhh...are you looking for something in particular?

+1 on that.

So you found the wine, chocolate, and girl talk appealing? :rolleyes:

What no video of him snowboarding with all that stuff on? I'm curious as to how much all that gear would interfere with technique.

Say a prayer that there was/is no ballet event in snowboarding....that was like the equivalent of polyester for skiing. :)

Today was....AWESOME! That is by far the best conditions I have encountered at Loveland. Great conditions to learn on. I got to witness the locust horde of hardbooters that is the LCI devour and destroy the groomed runs one by one leaving a rutted nightmare in their wake. If for some reason I don't run into you guys again soon have a great summer!

Sunday for me.