Thanks, hadn’t thought of them.
What crankset is the P2M on, 24mm axle?
Do what suits you - I see fevers as an indication of infection (although it can be the body mistakenly responding to a virus) and a good Time To See The Doctor.
Personally I try to eat whatever, but if struggling just water and/or soup.
Mrs FP is a firm believer in it and my resistance is low. Today I’ve had a bowl of porridge, spaghetti Bol with very little spaghetti, a banana, bowl of homemade chicken soup and now she’s downstairs making me a cup of red Korean ginseng and milk.
I’ve already revised my Newport marathon plans, going for sub 5.30 now. 
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Well you’re not starving, which was my concern!
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Not starving?
Sounds like he must put weight on every time he has the flu!
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Luckily I only seem to get it once a year. Mrs FP is out most of today, so I have a fighting chance. 
Apparently I’ve lost 600gms since last week!
Leider nicht, it’s a 3D+ (30mm).
Ok taa. I’ve got a 3D+ on my TT bike but have to run super thin bearings to get it in the BSA shell. It works fine but I’d want a 24mm for my road bike so I could just use standard bearings. It’s got a Powertap hub at the minute so I’ll survive.
I’m in exactly the same position as you. It was fine when I had a BSA30 adapter on a threaded frame (Argon E-112), but as you say, it’s sub-optimal on press-fit BBs which my Trek SC has. To compound matters with my stupidity, I bought another 3D+ to go in it when I moved to the Assiomas. For some reason the 30mm Rotor chainsets are much cheaper on eBay 
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I bought some cheap Chinese BSA30 bearings when I got the P2M, just to make sure it would work OK. They squeaked like I’d got a hamster in there and lasted 5 minutes. The Rotor ones are over £50 so I tried some Raceface ones for about £25/30 and they’ve been fine.
My road bike is BSA too but I’d like to stick to full sized bearings in that as it gets more use, on more demanding routes, and I don’t think any of the BSA30s are as good as standard ones.
I’ve used the Rotor & Hope 4130 (press fit) BBs. The steel ones are way better than the ceramic for longevity. Not much to choose between the Rotor & Hope steel ones. Never paid £50 for a steel set though.
I’m only talking about the slimline BSA30 ones to put a 30mm axle in a BSA threaded bottom bracket. The Rotor ones seem to have come down a bit since I was looking, about £40 now at the usual discounted places but I couldn’t find them for less than £50 @2 years ago.
Ah right. Yes about 50 quid when I got it. Ended-up flogging it on fleabay for £30 iirc. It was still butter smooth after 12 months use.
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Felt incredibly lethargic all weekend, and in my new mode of listening to my body rather than powering through and making myself sick, I actually took the weekend off except for a real easy hour on the bike.
On Monday I flew to the US, got checked into the hotel and then straight out for a run. Very, very cold (average of zero during my run, but it is -6 this morning), but powered out a half marathon at 1:30 pace, strong negative split (last 7 miles at about 6:35 pace). Then a 1.5 mile cool down jog. This morning was back on the treadmill for an easy hour, and tonight I hope to get another hour in.
Aim this week is to crack out 55 miles before the weekend, then chill at home with the family. I have Pilgrim Challenge the first weekend in Feb, so next week will be lighter as I lead up to that. It is a training race for me. No time target, just a nice way to get a 70 mile week under the belt 16 weeks out from Edinburgh Marathon.
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… so you felt ill all weekend and thought the best way to recover would be a sub 90 HM in sub zero conditions! !
(good going though!)
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Rest day🙃
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Tour de Zwift Stage 3 at 9pm tonight… trouble with this TdZ nonsense is that I am doing 3 one hour bike intervals a week
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Yeah I can’t be bothered this year. The stage times rarely work out for me
I did Stage 3 short today, stage 2 long on Sunday. It’s great for a tempo ride.
Will try to carve out enough time for the long version on Stage 4.
…and back to 100CTL again.
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