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  • Started 5 years ago by dessert rat
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  1. dessert rat
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    @toomanybikes - I only have his provisional route. He asked me not to share it has he was re-riding it last weekend and was going to make changes.

    it was basically this:

    https://flic.kr/p/2jGtuyc

    its a brutal 153km, with 1,750 of climbing. I reckon by chopping off the loop top right so following the river from east of Melrose and rejoining in Dryburgh saves 35km, and chopping the bottom left loop saves 13km and a big hill.

    Two biggest climbs are either side of Selkirk & in and out of Jedburgh.

    not for the faint hearted I would assume. want to do end of month, need wingman/person...........

    Posted 4 years ago #

  2. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    I'm not sure Herr Stitz realises quite how exceptionally strong he is.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  3. steveo
    Member

    he did a round the world cycle (on a single speed) so one would hope he just has an equally mental peer group in mind when he designs these routes!

    Posted 4 years ago #

  4. toomanybikes
    Member

    @Iain McR

    Cheers! All very far south of where we wound up, but useful for future inpsiration.

    Cycled South up the paved hill from Longyester, and the incline headwind combo totally cracked my mate's legs. I went and played around on the gravel at the top for about 20 minutes then we retreated back home. So we wound up doing basically no proper gravelling at all (turns out the 'gravel' Pencaitland railway path is probably smooth enough for slick 23mm tyres). Still, the wigglyness of the route down there meant it was a decent 80km ride all in.

    I would highly recommend the cake from The Bothy in East Saltoun though.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  5. Arellcat
    Moderator

    I'm not sure Herr Stitz realises quite how exceptionally strong he is.

    People who are very very good at things quite often forget just how good they are.

    In his instructional video, John Myung says of tapping, "I don't really do a whole lot…it's just a 16th note pattern with two 32nd notes", then proceeds to tap the hell out of his Tung 6-string at warp speed.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  6. chdot
    Admin

    “People who are very very good at things quite often forget just how good they are.“

    Which is understandable if slightly annoying.

    Main problem these days ls people who THINK THEY ARE very very good at things and, in reality, are not close to competent.

    Bigger problem is that too many people don’t notice - or don’t care.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  7. chdot
    Admin

    “turns out the 'gravel' Pencaitland railway path is probably smooth enough for slick 23mm tyres“

    You need a time machine!

    Posted 4 years ago #

  8. gkgk
    Member

    This thing of capable people under-estimating their own capabilities, and over-estimating capabilities of less-capable others (and vice versa) is the Dunning Kruger effect, easy name to remember due to the nice Dunning road and the no-doubt nice fizzy drink.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  9. chdot
    Admin

    “

    Without the self-awareness of metacognition, people cannot objectively evaluate their competence or incompetence.

    “

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect

    Posted 4 years ago #

  10. ejstubbs
    Member

    @arellcat: People who are very very good at things quite often forget just how good they are.

    In a related way, such people are often very bad at teaching whatever it is they are very very good at - at least at an entry level - because they have long ago lost any kind of mental reference of what it was like not to be able to do it at all.

    One of the more vaguely useful of the sadly almost ubiquitous management guru four-box models is the consciousness/competency model. A conscious competent is usually a better teacher/mentor than an unconscious competent because they know how they do it and can (hopefully) explain that to others. If you can just do it without really knowing how, it's difficult to teach someone else (a bit like my Dad trying to teach me how to wiggle my ears). An unconscious incompetent is a dangerous person to have around because they think they can do something that they can't, and often end up making a mess of it. At least a conscious incompetent knows that they can't do it (or thinks they can't) and therefore won't volunteer to try.

    Posted 4 years ago #

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