I need some naptime whenever I bike more than about twenty minutes,
preferably almost as long a nap as I spend riding. This is yet
another problem to face when spending much time each day biking. How
does Lance do it?
Not only do I feel tired after riding for a while without napping, but
in effect, the neurons are much more available after the nap.
E.g., I feel smarter, but only after the nap.
neurogenisis………lol………you are soooooo funny, cus after reading your really really long neurogenisis blog, i need a nap too lol lol. But it was interesting, and i did understand some of it, and what i didnt understand i will look up. I think you are saying something that i think too. I have found that some skills i have lost, but they arent really lost. Sometimes, it’s more like my brain and body forget how do do something that it’s always known how to do. So at that point most people would say, ok, the skill is gone. But what i will do is retrain myself to do it, and then the skill becomes automatic again. It’s like when a child is learning to walk it is really hard to learn, and they have to think about how to do it, but then it becomes automatic, and they dont have to think about how to do it any more. I think with hd, it’s not a skill we lose, but the automaticv memory of how to do something, those brain cells die off, but, if you retrain yourself how to do it, just like learning to walk again, teaching yourself how to do it again creates a new automatic memory for that skill, and soon it becomes automatic again lol lol boy i’m blabbing lol i better stop
Comment by Barb — May 27, 2007 @ 3:25 am
hmmmm…..just a thought, i wonder if something like creatine, or vit c, or potassium pills might help your recovery after exercising, just seems you shouldn’t have to have such a hard recovery, just an idea…smile
Comment by Barb — June 2, 2007 @ 5:51 pm
after reading your really really long neurogenisis blog, i need a nap too lol
That’s because I’m such a boring writer….
Interesting comments!
The way I’ve come to think of skill is not just whether or not I have it, but to what extent I have it – how well I can do it, how often I make mistakes, etc.. But that misses the dimension you bring up, the question of how good I used to be, vital because, like you, I get old skills back much faster.
I wonder if there comes a point where the degradation is so bad that the skill is almost as hard to learn as if you’d never done it.
The creatine could well help, but I’m in a study that appears to have staying away from it as a term. As for the other stuff…it appears that I need the sort of varied stuff that a GOOD hydration drink has. Just today I picked up some bikers’ goop at my local bike store; I’ll see how it goes. That could get around the problems of having to drink quarts of Gatorade to recover. But none of them have the meat. Probably not the fat, either.
Comment by biker — June 4, 2007 @ 1:38 am
Is this gonna Kill You? No i Dont Think so !
Comment by black_mamba — October 17, 2007 @ 7:41 pm
Give me an old cool bicycle, and I’ll ride around the city for days.
Comment by Retro Bicycles — October 23, 2007 @ 1:53 pm