I was slow today - coupled with riding with a teammate who was not also on a cross bike made for a demoralizing ride... that Ridley Excaliber is a wicked fast machine... and light - my Croll is heavy, slow, and heavy...
And i was tired, wait - still am tired...
had a good ride - fortunately the wind wasn't nearly as bad as it was last week. And i only generated 2000 kJ on the ride this morning. 3 hours and something total...
Lookin at the mileage totals i've only got about 1300-1400 total miles on the bike, nearly all of that with the trailer...
Today my body was on strike. It wanted to rest. It wanted sunday back as a rest day. It wanted to stop at every breakfast joint to sit down and drink coffee and eat piles of eggs potatoes sausage bacon and toast... i would be ticking along up hill - workin hard - holding a good rhythm and then like a wet bar of soap shooting across the shower off flew big M. Everytime he did that it was like he would unplug me... like the cord powering me was connected to his bike and he'd take off and i'd come un-fucking-glued... Last week he claims he was struggling to stay with me on his cross bike... now - hell he made it up tower hill road minutes faster than me... bike + shitty day = GeWilli slow as hell...
But...
It didn't snow down here. I left work just as the heaviest rain swept through Providence, so i was riding in windy drizzle instead of a blinding rainstorm on the way home. The precipitation stopped long before i left the house this morning, and the roads, while wet, were not impassible. We finally saw a dusting of snow as we tooled around West Wrentham road on the down hill heading north after passing the top of Towerhill road.
I need to remember to turn the suck knob down i think... That or maybe just start getting some sleep.
Probably a bit of both...
Gonna be off the bike tomorrow, sat and sunday... and i think it can't be soon enough. That and as long as i limit myself to just eating food at brunch on sunday i'll be doing great...
well - yal have fun now 'hear?
-G
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