I am quite well known within a small circle of friends (ok, mainly just Simon) for spending rather a lot of money on cycling, and related bits and pieces. I put my hands up to this, as I can hardly deny it. 2 years ago I got my first bike and (eventually) all the clothing to go with it, as necessitated by this country's amazing weather. Then this time last year I started putting together my dream bike (aka hardcore bike p*rn). So THIS Spring I had figured I had bought all I could, had everything I need and that I could finally save a few pennies. But then I got a coach.
While I knew this would obviously cost in terms of his time, I had not accounted for needing more / replacement toys. I already had a turbo, but ideally now I needed one that measures power. I already had a heart rate monitor but now I needed one that would upload data from my spin classes (I did consider taking in my Edge 705 for this, but just felt that was too expensive an item to risk maybe losing in my gym, on my commute or whatever). While these things were not absolutely the-world-might-stop-spinning-otherwise vital, if you have read Simon's post on Excellence you will know that I believe if a job is worth doing then its worth doing properly. In my mind its silly to go to the cost of a coach for his valuable advice, and then ignore it when he says ideally you need some new things. But that's just me.
At this point I have to thank God for eBay. Both the new turbo and HRM were "nearly new" second hand items and they were (relatively speaking) bargains and I'm very pleased with them. Even better is that around this time a friend emailed me to say he had decided he needed a turbo and did I have one to sell! Outstanding.
So now I have everything I need. The new turbo doesn't upload to the PC sadly, but I am NOT spending the amount of money I would need to for that. I have the power numbers in front of me and I can write them down, that's good enough.
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