take you kid to work day

sort of...

we'll call it that.

I even managed to get a training session in with her here. If the oldest was here I wouldn't have had to clear the afternoon, but now we're watching kid shows on Hulu. Well i should clarify, I'm listening to them while trying to get all the calls returned and emails and scheduling... the management stuff that can't wait till monday...

I didn't ride but I enabled a ride. So we'll call it a wash. Going to hit the road tomorrow morning for a nice long cruise to CT and back. So having a rest day isn't the worst thing in the world. There - talked about taking a rest day.

Something unique happened to me on the way home. First time ever. A bloody nose on the bike. I've had a few spontaneous gushers these last few days. And well Boom. Here I am sniffin to keep the blood from flowing out of my nose. No tissues, nothing soft or absorbant in the bag. Well i had a balaclava but I wasn't going to try and stuff that up my nose. Got to the point that sniffing stopped working and the flow started in earnest. Had to stop and just tilt my head back and wait it out. Sucked. Too a while to stop. I did have a peice of paper in the bag and i crumpled and squished it up and made something to shove in there to get home from that point. Not so much fun. There was at least clean snow to clean up with where i stopped to wait it out.

The events last night (being woken up 4-5 times by a feverish daughter) changed the dymanic of the morning. And well the adroit appreciated it. While she was sleeping this morning I got it washed up. No more salty crust on it.

Riding home last night i got thinking about the bikes I own and how they handle. ANd I'm lucky I guess. The QPro has always been an extension of myself. Stable and amazing to ride. The paramount is a beast to handle with the crappy fork i stuck in there after the original crown broke (Richard Schwinn admitted to me that the fork crown that year was not the strongest they've ever used). The bike works but it is slow and not itself. The Croll is wicked flexy and the steering is sloppy and has to be forced. The TCX is much more like the QPro, intuitively the bike goes where I want. It doesn't help me go that much faster but it sure is nice when you aren't fighting the bike.

we'll see if i can hang tomorrow not riding the bike with 740 gram tires...

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