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Ooooh, the climb is on Rouvy (one of the virtual cycling platforms - Rouvy uses rendered real-world routes instead of a made-up virtual world). I'll be able to practice the climb on there. Neat!

Damn

I did not stop :handshake: (i asked the question that way because anyone can walk a bike up a hill, especially if they allow themselves breaks, lol.)

I asked Claude whether climbing Madonna del Ghisallo was feasible for an untrained cyclist weighing 200lbs (I didn't wanna ask ChatGPT cause it knows I did it) https://claude.ai/share/25fff65d-dc68-4d71-8f01-da50346230c9

I wonder how Grok is doing with its Imagine thing.

Trunk is the belly, love handles, etc.

I have numbers from when I was 189lbs 3 years ago. Visceral fat was good/lower than average:

This super-wide-angle footage doesn't do it justice, the mountains are very much in your face at that point. They looked fake.

Fair assessment. If I lost the extra 30-35lbs of blubber I'd probably be a competitive amateur. The weight is holding me back big time. I'm carrying two extra bikes on my body.

Short clip from the end of the Madonna del Ghisallo climb (look at the sign on the left). This is a 10% gradient which is what most of the climb is, with some stretches of 13-15%. You can see the climb profile on my bike computer, sort of. Red means pain. I'm basically going at slow-jog pace...

Yeah I bet Barcelona is amazing too, it's on my bucket list as well.

We just came home - JL instantly out on Gladiator on the TV.

Yeah 75% of the nouns have the same root, it's quite easy. There aren't any weird alien sounds to make with your mouth either.

Pretty sure I would love living in Milan for a few years. It checks all the boxes for me - relaxed pace, looks like a reasonable COL for a large urban center, massive amounts of eye candy, super strong cycling & motorcycling culture, amazing food and wine, etc. Milan is the shit.

Afraid not. Reason #21 to go back

Milan was quite cheap, if you ignore the awful EUR>CAD conversion rate. . Central Rome is one giant tourist trap with crazy prices.

Did you see his reply? My review touched him. Matty successfully gays it up once again 🥳 :gaymelive:

I felt more of a connection with Italy than I did with France, and I actually visited the Normandy village that my first QC ancestor came from. France hates visitors. Italy seems to love them. I wanna go back for like 20 different reasons. It is an absurd country.

Double post bullshit We flew right next to the big impact crater in QC. JL was unimpressed. I like this stuff.