Mike, my new friend, came by as I Was preparing to Journey up the hill, he on his pure recumbent terratrike. Generous as he is, he gladly let me give it a try. Wow. Extremely enlightening. Not unlike conventional upright cycling, his pure recumbent makes it quite obvious to the body what it is supposed to do. The modified recumbent that is my vehicle does no such thing. Nor does it prevent it. And upright cycle aligns the body with the thrust of the pedals, straight down. The pure recumbent aligns the body directly with a pedals, about 70 degree recline. On tonight's voyage attempts were made with some success to achieve a similar reclining posture, scooting the rear end considerably forward on the seat, and learning to experience the mid back as the place that the thrust should act against out at roughly 60 degree angle. Also learned from the brief ride on that pure recumbent was how extraordinarily extraordinarily extraordinarily effortless it is to move it. And that encouraged an experiment on tonight's ride of establishing a power ratio so that James was moving himself plus about 40 lb instead of himself plus 250 lbs. As a consequence on tonight's ride James burned just under 1200 calories as opposed to the 14 or 1500 calories that he prefers. But much higher sustained output power was also observed, long stretches of 140, 150, as opposed to the 110 watts that has been seeb recently.
It seems like the really really really important lesson of tonight was that the place to be thrust from is the mid back reclining as much as possible, buttocks slid Way Forward, and the thrust should be along that recline to an air place at about 65 degrees. Laying down on the job has a place here.
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