Concussion / Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
Recovering from a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) AKA concussion, a personal experience report..
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2023-05-21 Metformin Inhibits Mitochondrial Adaptations To Aerobic Exercise Training In Older Adults
2023-02-09 AI Cannot and Can Never be Trusted; Humanity Stands at the Edge of a Precipice
2023-02-02 ChatGPT: Self Defense Firearm, Self-Defense for Women
2023-01-24 Long COVID / Thyroid Disease, etc: Remission, My Energy Returns...
2023-01-24 Can extreme exercise damage the heart? With Dr Benjamin Levine
2022-12-06 Dr. Brad Schoenfeld: Resistance Training for Time Efficiency, Body Composition & Maximum Hypertrophy
2021-12-19 A Breakthrough Training Day, Followed by an ER Visit for Chest Pain
2021-10-27 Sebastian Rushworth MD: “Is intense exercise bad for your heart?” (a critique)
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2020-04-10 Evicted from Alabama Hills: Security Theater Brought to Bear on Health
2015-12-17 Off Topic: Keeping the Pounds Off + Fat Loss, Muscle Mass, Bone Density, Training, BMI, DEXA
2015-02-16 Apple Watch for Sports — What About ANT?
2012-07-02 Retina Display for Graphs and Similar
Recovering from a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) AKA concussion, a personal experience report..
The most challenging cycling road race in the USA?.
Some great and not so great miles..
Proper fits means higher power, greater endurance and comfort, and lower risk of injury..
Tips on how to eat and recover when training and racing..
Nutrition and training tips (used with permission)..
Focusing on bike weight alone is often not the most cost effective way to cut weight..
Learn how much muscle, fat and bone density you have to as to target training..
Tips on avoiding problems..
Analysis of various workouts..
A pinnacle of road bike strength, comfort and power transfer..
Tips on using a power meter for training and racing and events..
The watt meter used by the pros..
Versatile left-side crank power / watt meter for road, mountain, BMX, track bikes..
Tubular / sew-up and Clincher Tires, tire sealant, etc..
A versatile high-performance ride for mixed off and on road pleasure..
Biking related items for fun or safety or performance..
2023-05-21 Metformin Inhibits Mitochondrial Adaptations To Aerobic Exercise Training In Older Adults
2023-02-09 AI Cannot and Can Never be Trusted; Humanity Stands at the Edge of a Precipice
2023-02-02 ChatGPT: Self Defense Firearm, Self-Defense for Women
2023-01-24 Long COVID / Thyroid Disease, etc: Remission, My Energy Returns...
2023-01-24 Can extreme exercise damage the heart? With Dr Benjamin Levine
2022-12-06 Dr. Brad Schoenfeld: Resistance Training for Time Efficiency, Body Composition & Maximum Hypertrophy
2021-12-19 A Breakthrough Training Day, Followed by an ER Visit for Chest Pain
2021-10-27 Sebastian Rushworth MD: “Is intense exercise bad for your heart?” (a critique)
2021-07-13 Are Latent Viruses Causing Long Covid-19 Symptoms? Patient Groups Push for Testing
2021-04-19 Long Haul COVID: a Very Long Haul, with Similarities to Brain Injuries in mTBI/Concussion
2020-09-07 RED PILL Yourself on Sun Exposure vs Skin Cancer Melanoma, Sunlight and Ultraviolet and Vitamin D
2020-04-10 Evicted from Alabama Hills: Security Theater Brought to Bear on Health
2019-07-04 My Strongest Ride Yet in 2019
2019-03-18 Commentary on Sodium Supplementation during Prolonged Exercise
2019-03-18 Sodium and Electrolyte Losses During Prolonged Exertion — an Experiment
2019-03-14 Sodium and Electrolyte Losses During Prolonged Exertion
2019-02-12 Resting Heart Rate — Bradycardia
2019-02-01 Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS)
2019-01-21 Followup Early Season 3+ Hour Workout
2019-01-19 Promising Early Season ~3 Hour Workout
2018-07-06 Counting Up My Double Centuries and Double Centuries in 2018
2018-07-05 RAAM Team Bemer Sets Two World Records using Bemer Vascular Therapy
2018-06-14 Recovering from Extreme Efforts
2018-03-12 Counting Up My Double Centuries
2018-03-12 2018 Double Century #2: Joshua Tree Double Century in Twenty Nine Palms, CA
2018-02-28 Thoughts on Recent Training, What I’ve Learned and What Remains to Learn
2018-02-24 2018 Double Century #1: Camino Real Double Century in Irvine, CA
2018-02-12 Last Hard and Long Workout Before Camino Real Double Coming Saturday
2018-02-11 54 Mile Recovery Ride following 49-mile Recovery Ride following 82 Mile Hard Workout
2018-02-09 Glycogen Storage in the Human Body: 1g Glycogen Requires 3g Water
2018-02-09 Progress on Shedding Body Fat, Thoughts on Winning
2018-02-09 49 Mile Recovery Ride Following 82 Mile Hard Workout
2018-02-08 My Most Incredible Ride In Years
2018-02-08 Brain fires nerves fire muscles: my Peripheral Neuropathy Damage Finally Healed After 3 Years?
2018-02-05 Stanford Medicine: Weight flux alters molecular profile
2018-02-04 Double Century Schedule for 2018
2018-02-02 Is it Possible to Lose 4 Pounds of Body Fat in 7 Days?
2018-01-27 A Recovery Ride After a Hard Workout or 'How to Burn Off a Pound of Fat in One Day'
2018-01-26 Awesome Workout, So Early in the Season
2018-01-25 How is Drafting in a Paceline Different from an Electric Motor?
2018-01-20 Body says “GO”, so Aggressively Pushing up Fitness and Body Fat Down for 2018
2018-01-01 Double Century Schedule for 2018
2017-01-05 Wearables for Cycling: Something Good Will Surely Evolve, but as for Now...
2016-12-23 Preparing for Cycling 2017 — Squats and Lat Pulldowns
2016-11-07 Winter Weight
2016-09-24 Heart Damage from Excessive Endurance Training?
2016-07-25 How is Drafting in a Paceline Different from an Electric Motor?
2016-07-02 Alta Alpina 8-Pass Challenge: Severe Muscle Cramps Immobilize and Debilitate—Finished 7 of 8 Passes
2016-06-18 Next Up, the Toughest Double Century of all: Alta Alpina 8-Pass Challenge
2016-06-17 Dropping Body Fat After Fall/Winter Gains: Success!
2016-05-28 How is Drafting in a Paceline Different from an Electric Motor?
2016-05-05 2012 In Perspective: My Strongest Year, Will I Ever Get 'There' Again?
2016-01-26 Dropping Body Fat After Fall/Winter Gains
2016-01-01 Ibex Woolies 3 Hoody: Outstanding for Cold Weather Cycling
2015-12-19 Science News: “Upending daily rhythm triggers fat cell growth”
2015-12-17 Keeping the Pounds Off + Fat Loss, Muscle Mass, Bone Density, Training, BMI, DEXA
2015-11-08 Sleep Affects Many Aspects of Physiology
2015-11-08 Blood exerts a powerful influence on the brain
2015-11-08 Why Every GPS Overestimates Distance Traveled
2015-08-03 Everest Challenge 2015: Not Happening as far as I can tell
2015-05-25 Lactate Threshold Training: 10X Repeats on upper Pave Alpine Rd
2015-05-20 Shimano Di2 DuraAce and Ultegra — Weights and Why and Which to Use
2015-05-12 2015 Central Coast Double
2015-05-12 2015 Devil Mountain Double: Fuel Right or Be Slow and Cold
2015-05-03 Severe Safety Hazard at the Hwy 92 Bike Overpass
2015-04-11 Training Overload and Impaired Power Output
2015-04-10 Training: Repeats with Consistent Power, Heart Rate, Time
2015-04-05 Another Peripheral Neuropathy Victim from Flagyl (Metronidazole)
2015-04-05 4+ Years of Road Cycling
2015-04-04 Anaerobic Climbing Training: 3 Ascents of Old La Honda (negative intervals), a Week Later
2015-04-03 External Iliac Artery Endofibrosis and Leg Pain in Cyclists
2015-03-29 Analyzing Power Meter Accuracy: Time vs Weight and Watts
2015-03-29 Starting the Anaerobic Climbing Training: 3 Ascents of Old La Honda (negative intervals)
2015-03-29 Calibrating for Distance and Speed Accuracy (Tire Circumference), 700 X 22C vs 700 X 25C
2015-03-22 Three Double Centuries, a Week Apart
2015-02-22 Aggressive Start to 2015: Two March Double Centuries Planned, Maybe 3
2015-02-21 Fitness Pre-test for a Double Century
2015-02-21 How to lose ~1 Pound of Body Fat in a Single Day
2015-02-19 Extensive Endurance Workouts: Three Examples
2015-02-18 Custom Orthotic Foot bed for Cyclists at 3DBikeFit: Fixing the Power Transfer Kinetic Chain
2015-02-18 Training and Fitness: Why and How to Track Morning Resting Heart Rate (MRHR)
2015-02-10 To Clot or Not to Clot: Aging Athletes and Blood Clot Prevention vs Injury/Crash
2015-02-10 Science News: “Signs of sleep debt found in the blood”
2015-02-10 Recovering from Donating Blood? Mitigating, and perhaps a Really Bad Idea for Competing Athletes
2015-01-20 NYT: “A Prescription for Youth”
2015-01-18 The Joy of 50 Years: Neuropathy, Gut Ache, Gallbladder Polyps
2014-12-04 Dientamoeba Redux
2014-11-22 A Chance Meeting While Riding Leads to Major Improvement on Bike Fit for One Rider
2014-11-05 Bloating/Fatigue Issue from Last Spring: Apparently Infection After All (Dientamoeba)
2014-10-19 Riding Strong
2014-10-03 Everest Challenge 2014: Ugly Weather, Minor Illness Leads to DNF
2014-09-17 Off to Everest Challenge 2014: September 26/27
2014-09-13 A Lunatic Narrowly Misses a Large Group of Cyclists on Old La Honda (Unprompted Road Rage)
2014-09-13 Nine Ascents of Old La Honda
2014-09-06 Eight Ascents of Old La Honda (again, a week later)
2014-08-30 Eight Ascents of Old La Honda
2014-08-03 Glycogen Releases Water, Delaying Dehydration
2014-08-03 Analysis of Six Ascents of Old La Honda
2014-07-25 Truck Runs Me Off the Road on Old La Honda, Autobahn VR Damage
2014-07-25 Strong Again
2014-07-12 Back Training Again, Recovered From Illness — well, not so fast: Contaminated Turkish Apricots?
2014-05-20 The Fatigue Clears, At Least for a Day
2014-05-18 Power Meter Shows Weakness Clearly
2014-05-16 Right Maxillary Sinusitus the Cause of Fatigue?
2014-05-03 Bloating/Fatigue: Diet or Infection?
2014-04-17 Younger Skin Through Exercise?
2014-04-13 Training with a Power Meter
2014-04-13 Spring Training: 4X Ascents over Distance
2014-04-06 Analyzing 2014 Training Weight Loss Efforts: Calories, Weight, Body Fat
2014-04-05 Spring Training the Lactate Threshold (repeats on Old La Honda Road)
2014-03-24 Solvang Spring Double Century — Results
2014-03-20 Death Ride or Everest Challenge Not Hard Enough? Try the ’Four Horsemen of the Solstice’
2014-03-16 To Draft or Not to Draft: What Does it Accomplish?
2014-03-10 SRM DuraAce 9000 Power Meter (11 speed)
2014-03-09 Saddle Position and Tilt for Power and Comfort
2014-03-09 First Long/Hard Ride in Preparation for Double Century
2014-03-09 Accepted into ‘Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse’ Double++ Century
2014-02-23 How Fat Loss Actually Goes in Practice
2014-02-21 The 'Breakout Day'
2014-02-19 Discipline of Getting the Fat Down for Optimal Power-to-Weight
2014-02-14 Lightweight Autobahn VR 8-Spoke Carbon Fiber Front Wheel
2014-02-14 FOR SALE: ZIPP 404 with DuraAce Cassette
2014-02-08 Rides in 2014 to Prepare for the 2014 Everest Challenge
2014-01-25 Summer Day in January
2014-01-21 Recovery and Sleep Patterns
2014-01-19 Three Strong Days on Little Sleep and Champagne Fueling
2014-01-17 Winter Drought Makes for July Riding in January
2014-01-07 Eating Nuts May Extend Lifespan
2014-01-01 Base Training and Getting the Fat Down
2013-12-30 Everest Challenge 2014: September 26/27
2013-12-27 Winter Training
2013-11-24 Base Training Time, Updates To This Site
2013-08-10 8 Ascents of Old La Honda Road: Can I Handle the Everest Challenge?
2013-08-07 Training Back to Normal
2013-08-07 Eat More, Lose More Weight?
2013-08-04 Minor training Setbacks
2013-07-26 New Personal Best on Tunitas Creek — How Can That Be?!
2013-07-21 Training Progress
2013-07-15 Tracking the Caloric Deficit — First Week
2013-07-12 Tracking the Caloric Deficit
2013-07-11 The Body Fat Game
2013-07-08 Back in The Game
2013-06-04 The Left Knee Remains a “Project”: Little Progress, but some Insights and Advice
2013-05-11 The Left Knee Persists in Griping
2013-05-09 A Brief Update: Shoulder, Training, etc
2013-03-31 Sometimes Good Surprises Happen
2013-03-28 Training Restarts as the Virus Retreats
2013-03-18 Back on the Bike — And Back Off
2013-02-03 Knee Problem — The Psychology
2013-01-21 My Plans for Training (Cycling) in 2013
2012-09-03 Acclimatizing to Altitude
2012-07-22 Fitness Gains — Fat Down, Power Up, Personal Best Times Beaten
2012-07-15 Tracking Body Weight for Training Insights
2012-05-07 Aggressive Weight (fat) Loss: Getting Down to Race Weight
2012-04-24 Nanopollutants Harm Vessel Health
2012-03-14 Power Output During the Death Valley Double Century — Possible Explanations
2012-02-14 Training Based on Functional Threshold Power (FTP), Using a Power Meter
2012-02-08 Training for 2012 Everest Challenge — Double Centuries
2012-01-31 Recovery and Training Nutrition Products I Use Every Day
2012-01-31 After Such Big Gains, How to Train in 2012?
2012-01-06 Cross-Training for Road Cyclists
2011-12-31 Riding Statistics for 2011: 1.04 Million Vertical Feet and 10,434 Miles
2011-12-18 2011: Over a Million Vertical Feet
2011-12-10 Hard Pack Dry Trails Here in the San Francisco Bay Area, Cross Training
2011-12-09 Closing in on 1 Million Vertical For 2011
2011-11-28 Cycling Tips: How I Train (in brief)
2011-11-26 Less Than 100,000 feet to Climb
2011-11-24 My 2011 Cycling Accomplishments
2011-11-17 On Track for 1 Million Vertical Feet
2011-10-30 Weight Up, Power Up Still = New Personal Best on Old La Honda Road
2011-10-07 Recovery and Late Season Strength
2011-09-12 Backing Off Training Can Bump Up Performance by Allowing Recovery
2011-09-05 Cross-training For Improved Strength and Fitness, and to Avoid Boredom: Road and MTB
2011-09-02 Ruminations on Weight (Fat) Loss, Muscle Gain, Fitness, Recovery
2011-08-28 Riding Statistics
2011-08-28 Reader Suggests Cross Training for Breaking Through Weight Loss Resistance
2011-08-22 Power, Heart Rate, Fueling, Recovery For a 5-Hour Training Ride
2011-08-17 A Whisker Away from a Personal All-Time Best on Old La Honda Road
2011-07-15 Everest Challenge— Weight Down, Fitness is There, Two Months to Go
2011-06-29 Everest Challenge 2-Day Stage Race With 29,000 Feet of Climbing, Sept 24/25, 2011
2011-06-27 Training Using Repeated Climbs In One Workout Session
2011-06-19 Stats This Year
2011-06-04 The Body Weight “Set Point”
2011-05-29 Just About Over an Unpleasant Respiratory Infection— Thoughts on Training
2011-05-21 Maximize Climbing Speed by Lowering Body Fat — Body Weight Set Point Breakthrough
2011-05-13 Training Weight Loss Tips
2011-05-12 How Much Fat/Muscle Change Can Occur in 42 Days of Intensive Training?
2011-05-11 The Body Weight “Set Point”
2011-04-29 Mt Hamilton Challenge — Personal Test of 4 Months of Training
2011-04-26 Thoughts on Power to Weight, and Cycling Comfort, Perceived Effort
2011-04-23 Stats This Year
2011-04-14 How I’m Shedding the Body Fat: 202 => 185 Pounds in 103 days
2011-04-01 Using a DEXA Scan To Form Realistic Training Goals
2011-04-01 Training Progress For Everest Challenge 2-Day Stage Race
2011-03-25 Gauging Training Levels Years Later from Prior Year Training Records
2011-03-14 Training In Hot Conditions, Heart Rate Monitors and Max Heart Rate
2011-03-07 New Personal Yearly Best — How Odd?
2011-03-07 New Articles on Stretching, Hard Workouts
2011-02-27 Training and Recovery and Illness
2011-02-26 Computing Calories with SRM Power Meter
2011-02-10 Training progress for the Everest Challenge