got caught by...

fatigue this morning. Lucy woke me up rather confused, wondering why it took so much to get me out of bed so late this morning. Worn out.

This tandem thing plus the running and the long ride sunday and the working on the car/farm saturday... has caught up with me. Pooped.

Opted to skip the run today. I had a training session to give down at the remote facility and I'm not going to ride the tandem down the hill through this city, besides there isn't any good place to park it down there.

So I thought I might walk down and take the bus back. That was the plan. Get a little bit of a walk to move those muscles a bit.

Leaving this morning was not drama free, but by the time we go to where my daughter was going to spend the day her mood had changed 180° and it was great. I'm going to credit the bike ride, just because. She's still not much help and it is a major amount of watts to haul that beast up the little rises.

Wound up outside my door here and I went to pull out my ID to swipe the door open. Shit. Not there. Damn. I walk around through the big entrance - stuff the tandem in the elevator and head to my office. Maybe I left it on my desk in my haste to leave last night.

Nope.

Shit.

Get through a few things and the next thing i know I have not much time to get to the other location, which would be fine if i was riding. So I head out thinking, "I'll just take the shuttle." I get outside, run into Turdowski. I guess Dave Kellogg showed up at the Smack Down and with a few others really pushed the pace and made everyone hurt. And I start heading over to the shuttle stop. And realize.

They've gotten really strict about the rider policy. you HAVE to have an id now. I suppose i could have talked my way on the shuttle but I didn't want to wait around for one and started hoofing it.

Weather hadn't gotten to bad yet. humid but not so hot. The return trip up the hill sucked a bit. But, I got a good long bit of walking in to substitute for the missed run. equivalent? not quite, but I'll take it.

Firming up plans for kids cross camp on the 18th of august. target age 8-12 with some activities for the younger siblings who all happen to be ~5. drop me a note if you're interested... totally informal - parent needs to be present kind of stuff, just some parents getting together with kids - structured day but not anything formal call it a play-date more than anything else.

I guess i gotta get my ass in gear and get that Bontrager crossified.

$147 billion is a lot. It would be nice if people figured out how slim down and save this country some cash.

One thing - thinking about overweight and what not - Sunday i actually felt skinny on the bike. Just sort of an odd realization, maybe I am, maybe I am not much different but that mental feeling sort of clicked and felt good. I know there isn't less of me to haul around but I think maybe i've moved some of that mass below the waist line into the engine room.

We'll see. G'ster is staging with Crossresults points this year. I'm inside the 400s but still 2 points behind G-ride despite having him pop up as my NEW victim. Muahahahah. Yeah. Carl Crash Ring has the distinction of being the only one who is both a victim and a nemesis. But that is last year. There's bound to be some differences.

Just taking a wild guess, I don't think there's much of a chance in hell that I'll be finishing in front of Steve Lehmann much, unless he burns out and gets slow for CX season. Oh CX season - here it comes. faster than ever this year - and I think i'm behind the 8 ball again. At least I'm struggling to get the car running in August instead of september. hopefully it will start up and work just fine once the new bits are installed...

need to get that behind me - then turn to CX...

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