the eve of the valentines day nor'easter

Well it would seem I’m an idiot – that or my little yellow buddy is trying to fahk with my head.

Turns out pluggin the little guy into the lappy… well there’s a ride from the 13th (today) and a ride from 1/1/2003… whadda ya know… this morning’s data was there. Cool.

Some one asked about the torque values… esp being so high… I checked… on the power agent software… peak is less than 100… around 76… nothing spectacular…

I’ve checked and it would seem that the old link software puts the torque on the wrong side of the graph… legend wise…

Feeling pooped but that run tonight was great… hard ass work, but I was feeling so shitty and drained I needed to purge the demons. That and someone was chasing me, sort of. A fellow commuter… caught up when I “shut it down” hitting the riverside center… I guess I pulled away from them climbing up the initial rise there just before getting to the blinky brigade’s meeting point (parking lot)… that was the power tap’s power… holding 550… and holding it to the top… kept the cadence pretty well up there too… felt good. Here's the evening ride:


And I’m still getting used to the fact that the power agent software is all metric and crap… I looked at it and was like “avg speed 23?” no effin way… oh… km/hr not mph duh.

Maybe I’ll get used to the whole km thing on the bike finally…

Another thing, trying to get the display back yesterday morning I just did the restore default… turns out it is averaging everything rather heavy… not the instant feedback I was seeing before. I think maybe I’ll leave it like this for now… it supposed to help when doing TT efforts – hides the small peaks and valleys gives a more stable display… also takes a lot longer to get to zero (makes setting/checking calibration tough).

So I’m realizing I’ve not quite mastered this device… but it is cool. Without it I have a much harder time motivating the efforts… Also seeming to feel like my LT is around 160 for some reason. Max HR is kicking at 181… pretty on target for some mid thirties masters racer that’s bigger than most…

This storm. Could be a problem. If it really turns into the storm they expect. We’ll see… we’ll see… most likely it’ll be me, no trailer… but heck ya never know till the morning… could be freaking mellow and just with a dusting of snow… oh well.

Dats about it… still turning that 43,000 figure around in my head…

Got this crazy urge to do the whole preacher on the green thing…

My voice don’t need no loud speaker when I get in the project mode…

But then I don’t really need to be spending lunch preaching the evils of cars and what not to some impressionable college students here on the hill…

Oh…

Reading Colin’s stuff and Meg’s stuff – about riding in the snow… not to mention Jill’s. Man Jill is headed off on a wicked damn cool race this weekend – wishin her luck!
I miss that craziness… snow… and mt biking in the snow…

Hell I just miss mt biking flat out altogether I think… bodes well for a team mate (or for me specifically) in that he’s a mt biker first and plans to be doin a few mt races this summer and should be good incentive to hit a few races with him… if not get out and train/ride the trails… gotta say one of the most fun rides of the fall (outside cross) was hitting big blue with solopants and the little cutie that he dragged along on that sorrowful rigid trek…

Alright – little one wants to type “What are you doing?” in her lyrical inquisitive voice… if I stop typing she tries to push my fingers on the keys… hard enough right now to keep her from pushing them herself.

Peace out…
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