LCI application submitted

[topaz]

Just sent off my completed evaluation exam for the LCI seminar the weekend after next.  It wasn't long -- 50 multiple choice, 25 true/false, and 10 short answer -- but cripes, some of them were hard.  At least one question ("what is the most reliable guide for monitoring your level of power output when bicycling on level ground in still air?") appeared to have no prior art anywhere in our class literature -- or, as far as I can tell, on Da Intarwebz.  Moreover, I am convinced that the question about how to change a flat tire has no correct answer, and was planted strictly to guarantee that no one can achieve a perfect score on this test.

Anyway.  Now I have to start practicing parking-lot drills.  They're also going to assign me something to present in class, in order to evaluate my teaching ability.

Public presentation.  Now that's something that reaches down and invokes cold, clammy fear in my lizard brain.  But hey, that's what this is all about, right?  Right?

Comments

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

The available answers were something like: (a) your velocity; (b) how hard you're breathing; (c) your cadence; (d) your level of perspiration.

None of them really made sense to me based on what I understand about the definition of "power" (work divided by time) and how you'd measure it on a cycle, so I took a guess.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's awful. Given those answers, I'd guess (a), but that question is fired.

[harimad.livejournal.com]

The answer I thought of before seeing the possibilities was "your legs." Based on what I know about running - wherein a runner who can self-monitor generally ends up with a constant heart rate - I'd guess (b).

I read the question, but not the possible answers - to Cruiser who *immediately* popped out with "Your cadence." In the tone of voice that indicates its the only possible answer and who could possibly think otherwise. I, on the other hand, stared at him as if he'd grown another head.

Cuz that was freaky.