The cuff on my jeans was still wet from the morning ride in when i got home at 5:30...
megA's back... well the server/page is at least...
Henry sent out an email with some vids to the NEcyclocross email list...
The run-up was short, but extremely steep.
Lap 4 VIDEO (clips 9a-9h), the first 4 riders are also shown in slow
motion [50%]:
http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2105721418
Henry
Guess who is featured in clip 9g?
compare her to some of the earlier ones... a damn fine form, quick steps... instead of the slogging big oompf oompf ones of a few girls... But man can you say that bike is HUGE... i won't throw back to a recent comment but i think KL may be better with a 650c wheel (no i will NOT call them 26... its a road/cross bike and its a 650 not some arbitrary measure of inches - okay its not arbitrary but anyway).
At least today i got lunch packed - but... left the coffee sitting in the kitchen... meaning no wonderful coffee, and for a second i freaked "I HAVE TO GO OUT?" nope i have a stash of Folgers left over from the previous occupant of my seat. Yes its shitty coffee, and yes i've learned my lesson, over dosing the amount (beyond 3 heaping coffee scoops) just makes the coffee taste worse... not that it tastes good now, but it at least drinkable... drinkable even black.
Which kinda tips into the next thought - (that previous transition would get an 'F' unless there was good justification for switching concepts, and i do, shock)... Shock in that it sets up some freaky stuff in a second. But That freaky stuff is set up by this: The coffee depot's owner (i don't have a link to the place, but its in Warren) has a philosophy. Its about the world economy and the environment.
It goes along the lines of this: if everyone bought sustainable free trade fair wage coffee that would be enough to save the world. My little bro said that's his ideal... and well its somewhat a damn fine good one. Coffee is by far one of the most important commodities in the US, it generates billions of dollars for companies like Dunkin Donuts, Starbucks... you name it... If everyone would only buy the good stuff... the world would be fine... maybe... its a nice thought and potentially an accurate one...
Which sort of ties in with the start of KL's bit up now... But the freakiest tie in... is... the compost...
why?
well last night i was reading Slug Bread and Beheaded Thistles... And lamenting my composting attempt back in michigan...
Compost takes a long time to get mellowed, esp from raw stuff... and lots of myths and conflicting science is out there. Is hot better? Is cold better? Is turning it better or counter productive? How best to deal with it?
I grew up with a massive compost pile, every ounce of anything out of the kitchen went into that pile... no leaves or grassclippings though... that compost was incredible, it still is 20 years later. I have great memories digging through the brittle eggshels and rinds to find dozens and dozens of worms to take down to Long Lake or Horseshoe lake to go fishing with my dad... It was amazing...
My dad had a pile in MD when he moved of grass clippings, he'd stick the kitchen waste in there but that pile was different. Wicked hot... and not really the best... too much grass. It never really decomposed very fast, and it never sustained worms...
Horse/cow and other vegetarian farm animal poop is great, but its pretty much already composted... no need to do much with it other than set it on top of the garden, or plant in it...
That book, i like alot... good stuff in it... easy to just read a part... i typically just open it up at random and start reading...
And this coffee takes HORRIBLE... (but in the true spirit of the three Rs - shit there's another freaky connection... Reduce Reuse Recycle - gonna pop in my Jack Johnson Curious George sound track now thank you very much).... BUT in the spirit of the 3rs i'm gonna drink it... why? cause its made and it'd be more of a waste to toss it. Right?
This whole living in an apartment thing is killin me... no control on the planting aroudn the place... the water in the basement (it was freaking flooded last night)...
oh the water in the basement... the wonderful landlord has the most jurry rigged ass backwards sump thing in there... And when it floods... he SWEEPS the water towards the sump square... The sump pump is the long type... and rather than pumping out through the proper sized 1 1/2 pipe... its choked down to a garden hose... FREAKING BRILLIANT.... And so rather than get a wet dry shop vac and spend 20 minutes sucking the water up in the 80% of the basement that is below the level of the sump 'drain' he sweeps it... with a 8" broom... I DON'T GET IT... *shrug* i am happy to report that the water level didnt result in the Rolf's filling up with water this time... that's nice... although i have to change the rear tube to get the 48mm valve in there so i can actually pump it up... and would have to dissasemble them anyway...
Oh and it ain't so bad with the flat and all - that tube in the rear had been in there so long that even with Conti Tube and Tire powder in there, the tube was stuck to the tire, AND the valve took about 150 psi to just break open, even if the tube was only around 60 psi...
So i get upstairs from seeing the flood... and i'm in a grumpy mood, for a few reasons i best keep to myself i think... and my bro calls... and well my sis is coming out for Tanglewood all summer, and this whole sharing family visits is tough... sure we both get to see who ever comes out but everyone who comes out feels the need to split time... and that causes untold amounts of stress for both me and my bro... well this was a killer last night - i finally told him look, we'll talk about it in the morning cause i'm in NO FREAKING mood. Maybe i'll get the whole reasons out and maybe it'll make me feel better... anyway we chatted this AM and its all worked out... i think...
That and i'm totally wiped out... i really hope it rains this afternoon/evening so that i can bag the TT and head to the team meeting with a clear mind... on the other side - i am so damn tired that it would be stupid to go ride it anyway... other than i need a mental break a bit longer than the ride to daycare gives me...
Oh... fer farks sake i'm babblin on... I left the P-mount in the 50x23 for the whole commute today... and for the 1 mile or so on the BLVD heading down to Lloyd i spun as fast as i could... okay not as fast but i kept it smooth and at a signifiantly higher than normal cadence... 110-120 i'd guess... That and i realized that my Sidi Genius3s and my Answer commuter flats have the cleat placed in different fucking places in the sole... Me... mr. concious of bike fit... has it all messed the hell up... not sure which to change now... move the commuter's forward or the sidi's back or a little of both... i'm kinda thinkin based on a few things the latter... My sidi's i think are a bit too far forward, and based on the longish rides and the foot numbness in the Answers that the cleats are a bit too far back...
anyway... the spinning was good... we'll see if i can focus on that, or maybe just try and hit Wells or 'Grit or maybe even the 'Tuc and see about this leg speed...
I'll finally stop for now... before i keep ramblin
peace yall,
G-out
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