wow

i thought that week might never end.

but well it is almost over and all ready to start again.

i finished the Bicycle Diaries this week finally. Reading snippets of it before falling asleep takes a while. A friend thought the book was interesting but very poorly written. I dunno, he writes just slightly more polished than I do and maybe that is the editors coming through. Jumping all over the place, weird tangents, stuff not bicycle related at all. Good book though. I think he's getting most of the mileage on the last chapter, one of the better ones. Really not saying much different than Richard Fries did over on his blog in a way.

Working hard not to get the virus that has my better half not feeling great.

we'll see what kind or riding happens this weekend. Doubles? We'll see. Today was 34 days in a row on the bike, while some days could be considered rest/active recovery, the number of active recovery days was far lower than in recent memory. Maybe not since riding with the trailer every day has it been at this level. And maybe that's not a bad thing.

I certainly have given some thought to Charge Pond. But i'm a cat 4 on the road and the couple guys from the team heading over are 3s, and while i might be able to finagle an upgrade based on riding for as long as I have and all that, it just doesn't seem right to do it w/o results. Cat 4 mostly because i just don't really race on the road and when I do i pick races that are as not well suited to my strengths (basically anything that goes up - my big ass ain't good at climbing comparatively). One of these years i'm going to give it a go and focus on getting that silly upgrade so I can join the ranks of lifer cat 3s.

And honestly powermeters and hrm and all that are pretty cool. But having been a slave to the data, honestly at my level, my goals, it isn't anything that can make a difference. I don't have the patience to do those FTs. No desire to. My weakest area is the mental side of things. Just actually being able to push myself as hard as I am capable of isn't easy in race situations unless there's something to compete for. I can race the next guy up the course in CX reasonably well, and if i make grounds and reel them in it helps, if they ride away from me i get mentally unhinged. But every race something clicks and one of these days I'll put something together.

Okay - gotta stop introspecting about races for a while. just ride the damn bike. let shit fall into place, have fun. enjoy it. find pleasure in the process, don't worry about winning and shit like that, leave that to the dudes who are wicked pro at it like JONNY fucking BOLD.

so to all yall at charge pond tomorrow - have fun, don't crash, don't be the idiot to cause a crash...

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