Suffering

It seems my achillies heal is the heat. I find it much easier for some reason to push and suffer longer and more intensely when my body isn't over heating... and maybe that's why i like cross so much...

Rode in sans trailer. Felt pretty good. Got the legs good and worked up. Day off yesterday and then this morning's ride at a high intensity should fool them into thinking that's normal going into the weekend. No slow riding.

Another nice benefit of switching to the Pmount is that it only has a 50tooth front chainring. Means no pussyfooting along in the 39 anymore. every hill has to be attacked in the 50-23 (25 and the der is rubbing the spokes, yes, simple 1/4 turn on the limit screw - haven't done that yet)... and spinning along in the 50-14 this morning i was freaking over heating. I like not having feedback. It means i don't know if this good strong ride i did this morning actually was. I think it was, the perceived effort was there, i was coughing up junk, slobbering at the mouth from breathing hard and any time i eased up i got out of the saddle and kicked my ass. But i don't know what the HR or the Watts or cadence or speed or nutting was. Nary even an idea of how many hours i've been on the bike since Gloucester. We'll see what this weekend is like. I hope the form swings back to Dayville, leaving the trainwreck of NoHo (performance wise) derailed for the rest of the season. Made the choice not to race with Cturd, Zank and that effing Mt biker ColinR, and stepped up to the 35+ A gang. I raced a few events there last year. More or less got my ass kicked but hey - if ya don't line up ya never know where you stand. Really looking forward to it esp making the long road trip up to Putney. That and it seems almost luxurious to have a start time around Noon!

If ya catch me early on i'll have some nice tasty breads and maybe cookies to share with the racers. And with luck, RFLCS, will formally announce their intentions after the weekend. And no RFLCS is not 'really fahking lame cahk suckas' although unless we are careful it could wind up as such. Hopefully Czar Zank will keep that from hapn'n.

smile at someone, do something unexpectedly nice for a random person today. Okay?
Peace,
G