not much...

to say today - feeling fat - debating with a good approach aside from drinking coffee again... i think maybe i found something that worked today... we'll see...

another thing i've started doing lately - more than I have in the past, is ride almost always with Trial #3 or 4, ie fully loaded carb/electrolyte stuff in the water bottles.

gonna go with some water and on pack of emergenC in each one today for the ride... could be a mistake, but hopefully i can hang on to the group without the sugar water. yeah i know shouldn't be a problem, no reason to need extra fuel when riding this time of the day. But the last few weeks i've really over done it calorically on tuesdays. adding almost a whole extra lunch late in the afternoon, plus a bar and maybe a gel and the two full bottles of higher calorie drink mix. Too much. So no more ETOH based beverages, trail #3 and 4 are for races only.

yeah - there - that's the introspection navel gazing for the day...

Joe Biker has a great post up there. Couple that with Molly's Rant from a few days ago and you have, in a nutshell, how to act on your bike. Even when i'm "racing" someone who doesn't know they are, i'm ALWAYS careful around other path users... Never blasting past w/o making sure they know I'm coming and are aware... No last second "ON YOUR LEFT" as I come flying by 2x their speed (like i've seen many times in the past).

From P. Archer posted by K-man on his OBRA Thing: "Advice to New Riders" Sometimes I hear things that make me think even the masters could use a reminder of most of that now and again. no not all of them and probably not many of them... but if you show up with compression socks and some non-legal hoopty ride you should damn well better be able to recite that advice.

And I know i linked it earlier but it makes me laugh every time I see it. Thanks for posting that Molly.

Then of course there is the Rhode Island Smack Down tonight. Time to rock it hard core and don't quit till ya puke. and then suck it up and go at it again. Or something like that. It will be time to climb into the pain cave and make some mad watts soon.

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