hello... can we find a good title here?

nope...

The interval was indeed 306 avg watts for the duration of the section. Duration was a paltry 10 minutes tho. Musta have hosed my legs more than i realized. On the way home the other half wasn't back from rehearsal yet so we headed south down to the market. Picked up some corn and burger makings and headed back up home. part of the way back i was wondering why the hell 200 watts was hurting so much. WTF? Hello, engine room? WTF is going on down there? No response. Surge to 250... drift back to 150... DAMNIT

Oh...

Well... right. My body doesn't like long rides in the afternoon/evening without preparation. Damnit. Fuel on empty. Go juice gone. Muscles only firing on fat burning power... and that is fahking sissy watts... shoot.

And i remember. Recalling that i generally like the morning rides much better because i'm awake, rested, not tired from the day, and fueled.

So the TTs and what not, will require special focus to eat enough fuel to fire on afterburners for the 20 minutes or so AFTER the tempo warm up ride out there.

Anyway. Mellow ride in sort of. Legs not feeling the same jump as yesterday. And some how Floyd Landis, with a couple shots of JD and some Amstel managed to recover from a late stage bonk to come back and win the tour. Uh huh. Right. I believe it. Sure i do. Yeah. And like it matters. I haven't checked yet. Not really wanting to, afraid of what i might find in the headlines of the cycling "pages" have more people been arrested? Has the Tour been canceled? is Pro Cycling over and done with as we know it?

Change the subject.

Go over and read something positive. Kent's got a nice little feel good story. (credit the bike commuting listserver here at work for the link, no Kent's blog is not on my daily click through).

Public Service announcement:
How NOT to lock you bike.

Do yourself a service and be sure to read the new and improved (still yellow) DC page. Entertaining stuff i tell ya. Entertaining.

Oh and ya know, way to make sure everyone else comes clean. Riis does and he's getting fucking HAMMERED. Reamed in the pooper by pretty much every cycling organization from the Tour to his national whatever it was called. Way to go guys, lets ensure we get the truth from everyone else by being gentle on Riis. Oh wait. THEY DON'T WANT TO KNOW. THEY DON'T WANT THE TRUTH. It is seriously making me all pissed and bitter and shit. He cheated. He didn't get caught. Meaning the people who were supposed to catch the cheating SUCK and should be to blame for his cheating. right? Or well, equally to blame. Ah fahk it... enough to make ya grumpy

Oh and speaking of grumpy... motherfahkin bike path self centered fahk wads...

Narry an acknowledgement nor an alert when overtaking and passing a fellow cyclist. Yeah dipshit i saw you behind me but you too so fucking long to get to me i figured you would wait till i was done passing that jogging lady to go around me and the trailer. Fucking MORON! A friend of mine saw a co-worker all bandaged and Fucked up and asked what happened (B-more area) his co-worker said someone passed him and cut him off on the bike path... he hit the pavement so hard he didn't wake up till he was in the hospital. Fortunately just minor shit.

Riding in i passed a handful of folks. And i get this feeling sometimes i'm like a big Aussie Road Train. Hauling ass (compared to the cyclists who have to ride bowlegged cause their gut is too big) and being wicked deliberate about movement and all that. It takes me longer to slow down than those suckers and well... man i dunno, i be wicked damn defensive and sumbitches who attempt to pass w/o warning or what not? And unless you pass me doing way more than 20 i'm gonna catch your sorry inconsiderate self centered assbagself and politely tell you not to fucking do that again. MANNERS. What has happened to the manners around here?

Sheesh. Go read Strangelife's Dos and Don'ts again.

Well... No Fahking racing for this weekend or next weekend... kinda makes me kinda grumpy... but... sokay... i'm trying to be positive and call this my "off season"

Positive. Gotta be Fahking positive (no i'm not sure why i'm not consistently using either Fahk or the other spelling)... oh well...

maybe i should have a Language warning in here... Nah...

screw it...

120 days till world cup his Providence (assuming the promoters don't fahk it up)
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