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by seabass-labrax 705 days ago
> to an endless loop of 'Lucifer' by Alan Parsons Project

Since this is tapes we're talking about, I'm curious: was this a literally endless loop? Battery life permitting, naturally.

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Hm. I don't know exactly anymore. I 'mastered' that from vinyl, about 8 minutes long, onto a chrome-something cassette, 30 minutes per side. And the walkman had something like 'autochange', so it could play the other side without you having to turn the cassette. That lasted for up to 4 hours at full blast, I think.

During those 4 hours, that blasted me up to 75kph on flat grounds without headwinds for maybe two minutes, otherwise sustained performance anything between 55kph to 65kph for one hour, depending on fitness, weather, traffic, whatever.

Interestingly the cadence of my pedaling in highest gear never matched, except for the few very percussive sequences, maybe.

Maybe I just liked the thought of riding like HIM >:>

I know this sounds unlikely, but I unknowingly did so called 'interval training', as I later found out. That's how I got that fast.