SLACKER!

Yeah call me something unique, or at least truthful. But slacking I have not been unless you are referring to training because I've done absolutely nothing. Well riding to work easily yesterday and Monday, today I put the screws down and got a solid threshold paced commute. So yeah, I guess it has turned into more of a rest week than I planned. Sunday night I watched that football game thinking maybe the Steelers would come back and win and I'd be rewarded for staying up late, but nope. They lost. Monday somehow I found myself watching the last two innings of the baseball game. First baseball I've watched all year and it was the last two innings of the season. Timing is everything. I'd be lying if I said I didn't want the Rangers to come back in the bottom of the ninth to win it and push the series on. I dislike the National League, I've never lived anywhere that actually has a NL team. Seattle, Michigan, New England. Sleep? Yeah what about it.

I've been thinking about those training races I dismissed with such conviction this year. Writing them off as doing no good, too short. Yeah well I'm an idiot. Not that yall didn't already know that much. Seems I may have made it to MRC last year, although I'm digging through the archives (lots of good shit in there - i should recycle some of it) and it seems I spent most of September underneath that silly passat doing the head gasket. Hmm. Might have to work on getting to a training race series next year. Maybe that's what I am missing this year. Hell who knows what I'm missing this year. Chipper's coaching thing has me thinking quite a bit. But then yeah maybe I'm uncoachable, but maybe not. Done dwelling on it now.

Looking forward to two days at NoHo, can't wait.

Then comes Plymouth. The Elites are grumbling about the lack of prize money, or I should say the paying out cash for a non-elite category but only handing out medals for the elites. Not the most popular move by a promoter. I'll wager it'll give Putney a big bump. And I've been considering it but the 45 min drive to Plymouth vs the 2hr and 45 min drive to Putney is the final factor. Well no. A friend is coming into town to race next weekend. He's been talking about coming up to NE to race cross with me one weekend for the last 5 years. We race CX together in Michigan as Bs and well, he's making the trip for Plymouth. Not the best representation of what we have to offer for courses but hey, it isn't about the course, it is about who you line up with no? The race is made by who you are racing against.

The courses make it fun or hard or both. But when it comes right down to it, cyclocross is damn fun. I might have to see about finding a second trainer for him to borrow to warm up, maybe one of the 45+ or gals will have one we can use on race day. He's got a flight out on Sunday and the whole drive time to Putney before a flight all for a CX race is pretty insane, sticking with the close race and the extra time to chill and have a couple beverages post race.

Well we'll see if the season is coming around this weekend I guess. I am going to try and ramp up the intensity to go into the weekend pretty hot (meaning about lukewarm compared to the rest of the field). It looks like with no school for the kids on Thursday next week I might even make it out to hit the corner cycle race promoting trifecta. Someone's gotta pay Bold and Hines salary I guess.

It's getting darker out there and colder, Finally.

Although, honestly, i'd really rather it stayed nice and warm during the week, getting cold and shitty on the weekends. The weather has a snowflake for mid-day Saturday here. Weather could be exciting at NoHo.

I should suit up for the ride home, last dry ride of the week it looks like. No trainer intervals in the back yard, guess I'll make it work on the way to work for the intensity.

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